The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-31 00:00:00

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To-day the public opinion is variable ;in some circles they talk of peace, in *the's ; of war; it is however certain, that late last night, Couriers %%ere dispatched to all the Commanders of our troops in Germany and Italy, with very important instrucs tines. It is pretended, that before General Andrenssi left Constantinople, an alliance was concluded be : tween the Porte and France. • I Piomursto, JAN. s.—The rocks of the Island of Elba are become inaccessible ; it seems to be the pre sent policy of its Sovereign to renounce all con nection with the Continent. A Decree of the Ma gistrates of Porto Ferrsjo orders that no foreign vessels shall approach the coasts of the islands with- French Papers to the .29th, and Brussels to the out being visited by Captains of the Port; that no fo alsme slate, arrived this forenoon. Paris Papers to raper shall land till he has declared the motives of the 2Sith also arrived late Lee night. Th e intelli- his visit, and obtained permission ; and no permission gene , derived from the Papers• nliieh came to bend shall be given for a louder stay than three days, with this forenoon begets a feeling of intmest which the out a special licence from the President of the Coun accounts we have lately been in the habit of receiving • cii of State. The intercourse of the English with from the Continent had failed to excite. The date the Island is less frequent. of the letters from Vienna reaches to the 17th, at I BaussELs, JAN. 28.—Great movements are at this which time Lord CeseseitrAett had received fresh moment taking place among the Prussian troops dispatches from his Government, and the bustle, long i which occupy the country situated between the anticipated,. was beginning to prevail. But still Meuse, the Rhine, and toe Moselle. Several regi •there was a veil of mystery clouding the business of ; menu of cuirassiers, and almost all the cavalry, have the Congress. Some were certain of peace, others ! received orders to repass the Rhine, and join in the as confidently ateicipated war; and certainly there; environs of Dusseldorf. Two regiments of cuiras are more appearances of war than of peace. In the l siers cantoned in the Candroz, arrived at Liege on consideration of this momentous point the intelii-i the 22d and 23d; they again left it on the 23d and Bence from Brussels will be deemed important. It isi2lth. The garrison of Verviers has also put itself iu stated from that city, under date of the 23d, that motion to proceed to the same destination. On the " England has notified to Congress her intention of other side, five battalions of Prussian infantry have transporting a most powerful British army to this just arrived from the p ‘ ovince of Luxemburgh to re country, and adding to it all her effective force in I place a similar number of battalions which have Hanover, should the Congress of Vienna continue I lately left the department of the Ourte, in order to its sittings much longer." return to the right bank of the Rhine. Private let- We find by letters from the same quarter, dated , ters assert, that the fate of all the countries situated the 28th, that great movements are taking place as far as the Rhine, is definitively fixed, and that the among the Prussian troops towards the Rhine and most important and agreeable communications, in this respect, for the Belgian provinces, may soon be ex the Moselle, ilia country claimed by or given up to Pruzsia ; end to the surprise of the people of Ham- pected. burgh, the Russian troops have again taken posses sion of that cite. The motive of all this is, doubt less, that Pruss,a, A% ith the help of Ruseia, means to catty her plans of territorial aggrandisement into execution by force, even to the frontier of France; and tile object of dispute, if dispute there be, is now changed to the provinces on the left bank of the Rhine, which may be a more difficul' point n settle, than either 'Saxony or Poland. France and B igium are undoubtedly much concerned in this extension a new formidable Power to the border of their ter ritory. TO CORR Ei PON nicri. Tl.c remaining part sJ Ttitotstir Tut t; gm Ws Letter has been tutavoidatly I sr t. ant of roues, but shall lie attend -1.4 to the Oral opootion:i3. I)re Mat tr. .. tlambargh .. France .. Holland Nlnlta ........ • ,WV '4IOCKS THIS DAT AT 0111 i O'CLOCK 'Pint 5:1 pa 1..1.1. Red. f. i ird : , l Ann. 1 !4 18 7 1 -16 3 r p pet lent, K.:chequer Ma, 3 6 p 4 p C.uts. SI thsaium 1 d 5 pei ('r&l, Nay) rill 'Clouse/. fur Acc. 65iaj 'I'P STATESIVLIN. LONDON: JANUAkY 31, IRIS. We attended yesterday to the declaration of SOULT in his wording of the charges against General EXCELMANS, that MURAT was the enemy of France ; and these charges having been embodied in an official form, have become the solemn act of the French Go vernovent. Munter, of course, cannot in silence pass over such an insulting attack. The degrad. ing manner in 'which he is studiously, as it would seem, called 64 JoAcnim Musur," shows evi dently the disposition of the Court of the Thoilleries; and no t:,;•sbt it will excite something, perhaps, more titan discussion. In fact, we already find that this unprincipled attempt to revive Lewes de Cachet has excited strong sensation of disgust throughout France, anti a feeling of pleasure seems to pervade the minds of every friend of rational liberty at seeing it so signally defeated. We cannot omit, in this , lace, to say, that the shameful assertion in the Times, that General FXCELM.tNS was guilty of breaking his parole in this country is entirely without fountlation. Gen. E. though not pre-eminently dis. titsguistted for military talents, is a man of a very re spectable character in private life. Ile was under great obligations to MURAT, from whom he held a valuable appointment, which he resigned, in order to return to the French service. It is asserted from Vienna that new and important discoveries have been made concerning the plan of the conspiracy in Italy. The Crowned Heads are trembling at the mention of the " eternal revolu tionists," as they style the defenders of popular right, and yet they themselves are revolutionizing as fast as they can. In the mean time BONA). IItTE appears to have no wish to intermeddle with Continental af fairs. The Island of Elt,a, by prohibitory Decrees, bus been rendered almost inaccessible to strangers. The following are from the French . Papers : VIENY 15.—An extract of the proposi tioes made to Prussia by Austria is circulated here. It conveys the sentiments of that Court as to Saxony in very strong terms, end considers the incorporation of that kingdom to Prussia as wounding the interests of Austria, and producing much dissatisfaction among the powers of Europe. It proposes to the King of Prussia to cogent himself anti the re-establishment of his lingdom in the same degree of power that he possessed in 1805. Offers to Prussia a part of Po. land, contenting a population of near one million and a half of souls ; the line of the \Verdi& for a frontier ; Dantzic with 80,000 souls ; Lower Lusa ; the Electoral circle as far as the Elbe ; the Circle of Thuringia, in all half a million of souls in Saxony; the provinces between the Meuse and the Moselle; the Dutchy of Westphalia, with its *dependences—in all about ten millions of subjects. The Prussian Note replies, that it is not the year 1805, but the year 1806, which ought to he considered as the Normal year—cc L' Annie IWortnale." Wise!) she possessed Blrentl► and lianuver, which she has as much right to consider her feud possession, as Austria can pos sibly have to the Venetian States. She insists much upon the loss she should su , taiti by any substitute for Saxony, as all the country affixed to her is barren and unceliirsted, wanting roads, fortresses, &c. &c. and adds the various reasons which she has so often repeated with so much pertinacity. However, in a - second Note it is understood that she was a little relaxed, and has offered to be contented with all Saxony reaching to the Elbe comprising Upper and Lower Lusatia, on condition that Anspach and Bareuth shall be restored to her, and that the For tress of Torgau shall be demolished, and half Bie l garrison of Meyance to be Prussian. FRANKFORT, J AN. V.—The principalities of Fulda and lianas have been definitively given to the King of Bavaria; the• Elector of Hesse will be in. demnified elsewhere. They are removing all the valuables and furniture from the Castle of Hansa to Cassel. I TEMKIN would crpwn her Empress of the West. sire to carry through thriLegislature. One of t Nor has it escaped the politician's metnory, that the subjects is said to be connected with her Rope present Archduke CONSTANTINE Ole supposed new netsl the Princess of WALES: the other is sew..., Viceroy of Poland), was so named in reference to the of with less ceremony; it is relative to the pri , ja m . d hope of seeing him one day in possession of Con- new Palace, and the alterations in the Aletroe.e . ,, stantinople. which have been so long in agitation. Those ~ This calculation may be called idle reverie : but pretend to be in the secret affirm, that Reicher 1,„„i events much less probable have occurred in the me. Lin:arum. nor Mr. VANSITTART felt St rang mory of very young men : no one, unless he is pm. enough to propose measures which they had. every blind, will attempt to deny, that the partition of reason to believe would,' at least, meet with mist se. Saxony and Poland, the intrusion of Mutter and rious, if not successful, opposition. The We ntz . Butte Aeorre into the holy society of legitimate Mo- LESS have less apprehensions. Mr. \irk:Luster narchs, have left the seeds of discontent, which may POLE, since his reign over the mint, has laid in su c h produce most sanguinary wars; it is worse than a stock of bra s s, that his st.pply of that arti c l e i s nonsense to talk of (he settlement of Europe by the inexhaustible; and Lord WELLESLEY is proverbial f or Congress. This Assembly has totally unsettled it. *rivalling even his \elle Friend, Lord C.tsrtteetefi s And we defy it's best advocates to adduce one in• in that modest as: essence, for which s ome o f. our stance ib which its acts are calculated to produce b.-etliren of the sister Isle are so justly celebrated, satisfaction and tranquillity ! Is it to be found in How Mr. CAN Nien and the last-mentioned Nolo, Poland, on the point of being again subdivid- Lord will contrive to adjust their former little (lit. 'ed and left a prey to• the rapacious • craving of serences—how the memory of. the affair of hunoar the ravens of the North ? Is it in Saxony, where may be prevented from sometimes interrupting the a whole kingdom is deploring a beloved and perfect harmony so desirable to exist between Such regretted Monarch?—ls it in Norway, where the great men, remains yet to be seen. No admits., wretched means of starvation alone conquered a h o wever , is to be looked for to poor June brave and free people, whose necks are not yet fitted from all these scramblings for place and power —h e to the yoke ?—ls it in the petty Principalities off must pay, whoever is at the helm, and the greaten Germany, where there is one universe! complaint, Statesmait is he who, can rifle him best. Ministers, that the small States have been sacrificed to aggrandize however, will not hive quite the Led of roses which the overgrown great ones ?—ls it in Italy, that the was once talked et , sx,reiciswismemes i s return . I public mind has been tranquillized by a due atten- • leg from the scene of his giory,.tlie mighty Cong er . • lion to its wishes, and the imprescriptible rights of gation of Crowned heads at Vienne, end he h as rations and individuals ?—Look at the answer re- been there, so accustomed to the society of Emperors turned by the Emperoi of AUSTRIA to the Deputies . and Kin g s, that the En g lish House of Common s is in . of Parma, who transmitted to the Austrian Cabinet finitely too humble an assembly to be honoured with i a plan for establishing a representative and constitu- his presence. In the 66 Hospital of dignified I n . r dorm' Government. His Majesty cadged it . to be curables" to which he is to be translated, h e replied, " that representative Governments might :time be more at his ease. Indeed, the badger -11 be very suitable to greet nations which had mighty ~bag which it is possible his noble ears Wight b e interests to manage, but that the case was very dif assailed with, language which the refined society ferent with Parma, to which the elements of a re- he has lately kept, has totally unfitted him for, publican Government were ill adapted ; that the ex- r . would be by no means suited to that elegant taste As isting form of Government had been discussed and has acquired from his late residence of : the Conti. approved of by his Privy Council, and that; come- nent. Messrs. CANNING and WarAssr.tir Pose will quently, they ought to abide by it ; that it was ne. be better able to meet the storm ; the forswerwill, no cessary for nations to be convinced, that other I doubt, have reconree to his old sedative, 66 The nsc- Constitutions would not be adopted, in order that . more of the Great Man now no more ;" and (he latter they might not be left to dwell with complareecy : will, at once, stoutly refuse to answer all imparts. on the new ideas with which, for some years past, ! nent questions on the streugth of his brazen respia, esithasin,tic heads had disturbed the world." I sibility. It is to be hoped, however, that the raise When it is difficult to carry an extensive system of ! taxation into effect, something like the calling in of assistants, -under the name of representatives . , is Iheard.of; but when the arm of poner is judged all ; sufficient to effect its purpose, representation is dis. posed with, and the talk of its being a right of the people, is only the effusion of enthusiastic heads. — Is it in France that affairs have been satisfactorily settled, where we see daily discontent and open in , surrectinn showing itself in the most decided man ner ? Where is it then that the settlement of Europe has taken place, and how have the Allied Monarchs fulfilled their solemn declaration, that they were actuated by no selfish motives of aggrandisement, but that the liberation of Europe was their only ob ject? Can the Times, the Courier, or the Post, with all their unblushing effrontery, name a single act of BONAPARTE'S worse than the robberies and of Lord CASTLERCACH will, at least, produce one good, the discontinuance of the payment of the enormous subsidies which he generously stipulated that the Allies should receive from this country,, long as the Congress at Vienna continued assembled. If it is true, as is asserted, that every thing is ton. clotted, and that the Duke of WELLINCTON N guile there, to add his -by-the-bye, to the great arrange. meat, (a measure, by-the-bye, which we cannot comprehend, for Lord CACTLEREAGM surely did net want the addititinnal weight of the British Am bassador at Paris to confirm thoae acts to effect which:he was the recAttised and effirient Pleni potentiary)—if this k true, there can surely be no reason why we should not be relieved fforn the dreadful pressure which these subsidies create. The feasting and dancing is over. Jolts Bet& has pa tiently paid the bill, and as all the guests are going home, the expence of the entertainment mey Lou. petted to cease. Ministers themselves are iuterested in this, for the universal sense of the country is de. cidedly shown to be against the renewal of the In come Tax, that we do not think even Mr. WstAss. LEY PoLE will have brass enough to venture to pre. pose its re-establishment. And thus, therefore., with such heavy demands npon the public purse, 20 mil. lions to provide for the winding up of the Peninsula `accounts, 6d millions of unfunded Exchequer Bills, 14 millions for the extra-expence of the American war besides the ordinary expences of the year, amounting together to a fearful sum: no doubt Mi. sisters will be most anxious to get rid •f .se heavy a burthen as the Vienna payments mew Impose rsz them. The sum to be provided will be Rey groat, the means limited; and from all that eau be fore ! seen, they will have a most arduous task to execute. tyrannies we have mentioned ? We may in safety defy them ! We have mentioned that military preparations are going on in France with great activity. Austria is also arming and recruiting her finances in the most decided manner. The 50 per Cent. Tai on Income is rigidly enforced, and the conscription for 1815 As to the renewal of war (if it is to be renewed), I (consisting of 150,000 men) is ordered to be carried we have been long of o pinion, that its indica- I into effect forthwith. Russia has reinforced her army tions would first manifest themselves in Italy. Nor; by every possible means, even by BONAPARTE'S system do we see reason, in late events, to alterour opinion. lof incorporating foreigu with native troops, for the Austria stands pledged to MuaAT so support his i Saxon army is now consolidated with the rrussian, Crowu. England has indirectly given ber faith also land Russia is adopting the same system in Poland. in the same cause. France, under the BOURBONS, I Thus fur then is the peace of the Continent secured, of course, wishes to root out all the memory of the and so much have the liberating Sovereigns done for I By letters received yesterday from Jamaica, we great man, whose mighty efforts, at one time, shook suffering . Europe. Will the system of spoliation 1 learn that the force destined against New O i lcan. ; Europe to its centre. Menai' has, on his side,' never cease ? Is peace never again to be restored to I cons i st ing of about 10 4 000 troops, under General I Is EAN and Admiral Sir ALEX ANDER Cocitnyrt, spared no effort, to conciliate his subjects, and to : mankind ? We see no reason to hope for so desirable sailed from Negril Illy, in that island on the 2stiv ensure the attachment and fidelity of his troops, in lan event in any thing which ha s lately occurred lof November. The general run from thence to New possession of all the strong passes of Italy. At the !amongst these legatees of the entire system of Bo vr t. 1 Orleans scarcely ever exceeds a fortnight, so that the head of an army, formed under the eye of BONA. I PARTE, to subdue a hich, they et:dm:mile, and in the I whole might be expected to be before that city by PARTE, and looking forsrard,perhaps, to the hope of ' face of Europe, pledged themselves. I the 12th of December. ageiejighting under his banners; his magazines well -- ww ..— ' I The following has been transmitted to Mr. G.tie sir.el•of.l3arnstaple, Devon:— provided ; his country suf fi ciently productive to sup- The report of a change in the Administration ' is .. Dt4svoine-sireet, Jan. 45.1615. WI ply all his wants,without foreign assistance,—nodoubt still circulated with increased confidence. e ' 6 SIR,—In answer to your letter of the 23i1 lust. he will not shrink from a contest in which he will have yesterday mentioned what was understood to be a : wishing to be informed if the duty on Malt w ill b e continued lam directedly the CANCELLOR of the so many chalices of success. And none more power. part of the probable alterations. It is impossible , of ~, ' I VALCHEQUER to acqueint you, that [ iris tbeatiffmrtion that ful than the probability, that all Europe would be, course, that any thing cad of Ministers to propose a continuance o f *sty be positively known ;' but pal more or less, dragged into it. A war in Italy would from the respectability of our channel of communica- on the meeting of Parliame n t.-1 am &c...Slr e be the firebrand which would create an universal lion, we have little doubt but that something of the obedient servant, game. The BoyeaciNs would, no doubt, write" the kind is in agitation, although probably to no very 1 .. " TYICONNELt.." We . were greatly concerned . to observe, ti at , a beloved FIRDIN4ND of %min" reminding him of great extent, and certainly-of no' sort of consequence ' 1 hand-bill has been distributed nithin the last few dabs, addressed to jonrneymen mechanics, laboarerq, the Family Compact, which, by-the-bye, he does as to measures, at least as far as " the people" are con &c. earnestly dissuading them from signing the Pen. not seem to have forgotten ; and this youth, so ambi- cerned ; to them, it can be of very little moment Onus of honourable distinction, would, no doubt, join whether Lord LivEneooLis succeeded byLordCAsmt- tion against the Property Tax, on the ground of thcir with his namesake of Sicily, (another BOURDON), NEAGH ; whether Mr. CANNING receives 14,0001. a being exempt from its operations, a n d a t th e same against cc the enemies of the family ;" and the Holy year for p as si ng hi s ti me a t Li s b on , or as muc h f or time liable to the p ressure o f any new system o f tart . Inquisition would consecrate a banner, to which the 1 residing in Downing-street; whether Lord \\reuse- floe which may be ad opte d i n i ts stea d . Thi s at . unjustifiable, afte r th e f air and open discu%si o n n hi. d i tempt to seduce th e judgment of the vulgar, is quite POPE would add his never-failing benediction, of : LEY and M r . WELLESLEY Post are i n or o u t a course. Louis XVI 11. has already shown his dispo. 1 office, SO long-as the cbenge . is Merely of men, while hid' rcviously taken plie e at the Town Pali, a n d n w e l t it the pee- berate examinati sition, while probably the magnanimous ALEXANDER l as to measures every thing remains: in data quo. had been published ill the Newspapers for the 4146. would seize the happy moment for urging some of i Indeed, if rumour is to -be trusted, been pres ent at the Meeting. We have heard vl4 on of sisch of the public as had not addressed attribut ed . to difforent periwig who a a " his dormant ctuims" upon the PORTE. Europe plc" will have the worst of the . exchange , for it Lost ' known to be hostile to the Pctitior but we cannot tie has not forgotten the state-parade with which his, has been more than once hinted, that convinced that any matt of intelli ;lice and rei ecta. great prototype and predecessor, the Empress Ca- t LIVEISPOOL and . Mr. VANSITTART have objected TIIARINE, went with her whole Court to the Morea, to submit to Parliament certain measures which a bility would co.intonance such a proceacli P "" „ les. in the hope, that the conquests of ber darling ro. great Personage is supposed to have a very strong de- (Liverpool "Idrc i li scr i 1