The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-04-22 00:00:00

TIIE STATESMAN. ortmunications betnectt the kingdoms of Naples and s't liy. 64 Requesting that his Excellency Lord Castle reagh would honour him with a positive answer upon this subject, the Undersigned seizes this occasion to renew the assurances of his high consideration. (Stath..i) " The Doke of CAM POCH ItRO." IP * . Mr. Lovett, having been congratulated by some unknown Friends on his supposed liberation from Prison, in consequence of the late discussion 'in the House of Commons, begs leave to acquaint them that he has not Net been so fortunate as to obtain his liberty, but he hopes and trusts the day is not fair distant when it will be in his power to announce that desirable and long looked-for event. Newgnte, April 9', 131 b, In the Fifth Year of his Imprisonment. Arr. 1 Nails. Due Holland si 0 Got teuburgh 1 Lisboa] pimp. or STOCKS TOM Sent 3390; 9 per Lent. Red. 56j 6 9 per Cent. Cunt. 571 k 4. per Cents. 7lj 2 14 4 per Cent. Nur) 86j 6 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Long. Ann. 14} 5-16 India Bun& 10 12 p Exchequer 1111 h 6 8 p Oinnitan Cumuli for Acc. 57}} THE STATESMAN. LONDON: SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1815. At a late hour this forenoon we received the con tents of a Dutch Mail, and Frankfort and Brussels Papers to the 20th instant. A Flanders Mail also arrived last night. The extracts which we make from the Papers just received, and the contents of the French Journals, will give some ideas, but certaiuly very conflicting ones, of the motions and plans of the respective Powers, who are again harnessed in arms. The Dutch and German Journals represent the power and activity of the armaments about to be opposed to France, as of a nature and to an extent that cannot fail to overwhelm the French nation with instant destruction, if the demands of the Allies are not complied with ; whilst the French Papers do not hesitate to admit the great strength of their threat ening opponents, but speak in the languitge of proud defiance, to why let them come—they come like sa crifices in their trim." Whilst there prevails on the . pare of the Allies, and along the frontiers, an acti vity without parallel, the French are taking their defensive measures with equal promptitude. Mar eltal NaT has the chief command on the northern frontier. The Flanders Papers say the French force in that quarter is much inferior in number and equip ments, compared with the vast armies by whom they are to be opposed. The French troops covering the northern frontier, are not rated at more than 60,000, while we are given to understind:filitoftrCiSitTd: Berate force, which is ready to peiriblis trance from that quarter, is more Olson triplp o tthat: number. The French, intliss t reckon/ more coolly on the momentonti:Tullect of the invasion of their country, and en the nature 01 the materials whjch grime thearmies destined to act against them. Tf Itiocferlvill see from their observations and cal culations, the light in which Frenchmen view the dangers by which they are threatened : we will not say, for it enters nett into our wish that their state ments should prove true, that what they say regard ing the dissensions among the Allies, and the grounds for distrusting them on the score of sincerity and cordial co-operation, are entitled to implicit credit, be cause we think men would be mad to attempt the execution of such a project as the Allies seem to have planned, considering the altered state of France, had they the least reason tb suspect the ex istence of causes of failure among themselves. Yet it is a certain fact, that suspicions of this sort do ac tually exist in the minds of intelligent British Offi cers, which, if unfortunately realised, will have more lamentable effects than verifying the observa tions of the French writers. We ourselves have seen letters from Military Gentlemen in 13-.lgium, which contain more interesting information re lative to the state of the Allied military force than we would choose to lay before the Public. We cannot, however, refrain from saying, that they give too much reason to think that the Dutch in par ticular ara by no means expected to be warm in the defence of their newly-acquired territory, and that on the Belgians not the slightest reliance can be placed. The Confederate force in the Netherlands is not yet so imposing as has been represented in most of the public. Journals ; and no expectation is enter tained of the campaign being opened for some time to come. One of the letters which we hare seen ir of the 9th, from Lewssr, within fourteen miles of Mons, and states as follows:—" After some long and hur. tied marches, we are settled at this place at last, for some days. All our little army are collecting, but our forte is small—about 35,000: the Dutch are coming up, and when they do come, will only add to our numbers, without adding to our strength; perhaps do as at Fontenoy : the Belgians we cannot at Vienna, that the war is to be carried on metho dically ; not to act offensively fill they are all prepared and in line. It was determined,' at the same time, to form sieges, so that they may not have behind them a deeble or triple line of fortresses. It was also most positively determined in plan, not to give battle to the French commanded by the Ex rteoe, unless when double his strength in troops of every description, but especially in Infantry. The Duke of WELLINGTON has a plan of campaign of his own, for all the Allies, and for all tlAtiperttions in general, even for Italy. Ile reserve& it to himself, before his departure from 'Vienna, not, to communi cate this plan until all the Allied Armies were pre pared, and in position to commence hostilities. The grand head-quarters of the Allies will be at Frank fort on the Maine. Prince SCIIWARTiENEZIG is to have the command upon the Rhine : Commissaries and Counsellors of War are already upon the Rhine, and in the country on the right bank, t• collect pro visions and form magazines." The . accounts from Vienna, in the Papers we have received to-day, are of the Bth. intelligence bad been received there of the affair at Modena; and, as the phrase is, it escited a great rensation in the minds of the Austrians. The fact of tbi decisive proof of MURAT'S resentment, and of his wiecase, is not doubted. There are many other highly import. ant particulars communicateeby to-day's arrivals, which we cannot recapiialatis, The statemeat that Sir SIDNEY SmTTIs is expected . to commence naval operations immediately in the Scheldt, will not be considered the least interesting. BuussELs, APRIL 15.—Within a few days a con siderable number of troops from the interior of France have arrived upon the frontiers. The gar. rison of Donay, Lille, Manburge, and Valenciennes, have been reinforced ; the Test of the troops are cantoned in the villages between the tortresses.— Marshal Ney is expected back at Ulle Mete end of this month, to take the chief command of the French, force on that side. 'While the French are taking these defensive mea sures, there prevails along our frontiers en activity ithout parallel. Fresh troops daily' arrive there with large convoys of artillery and ammunition.-- Mons, Ton rnsy, and . lpres are already in a good state of defence, and , covered by numerous corps. Thel landing of English troops at attend still continues. The Prussians on the left wing continue to receive large reinforcements. The Prince of Orange is going to visit several points along the frontiers. The Army of Reserve under Prince Frederick is nearly com. pleted. The troops are animated with„ the best spirit. The celebrated Sir Sydney Smith has Dievron conferences with the Duke of Wellington`. IOW"- posed he will have a command upon the %Child; FROM THE LOWER RHINE, APRIL tipa4 troops which are to compose the Grata irMitsu reach in succession their destination, or spproich it The troops of the great army on the Upper Rhine, and those of Baden and Wirtemberg, are already at their post. The Bavarians are every where on the march ; and the Austrians, who enter ed Buret ia on the 28th ult., is approaching with all !peed. The Prussians whu are to join the army on the Lower Rhine are posing through Hesse; their ap pearance is admiral:oe, and it is impossible to form an idea of the enthusiasm which animates them.— Besides the Russian armies that come through Bohe mia, 18,000 of the Emperor Alextbder's guards were to land at Lubeck. The French troops are also advancing to their frontiers. Their number is small, compared to the vast force opposed to them. The French army, which is to cover the northern frontiers, and must doubtless be the most numerous, is stated by the French themselves, and therefore, in all likelihood, with much exaggeration, at 60,000 men, divided into two corps, one under Count Erlon, whose head-quarters arc at Lille, and the other under Gen. Heine, at Valenciennes. The Artillery is com manded by Gen. Tenet, and the Engineers by Gen. Haxo. The army opposed to this, between the Meese and the North Sea, is already 130,000 strong, and is re ceiving daily accessions of strength. lthuoLtsuaon, APRIL 10.—By a ship which ar rived yesterday at Flushing, (iota Nantes, we re ceive the news that the miseries of civil war are al ready felt in that city. On one side of the city the white flag was flying, and the tri-coloured Reg from the other, while the people murdered each other in the streets. The sailors are mostly on the side of the good citizens, but the soldiers all for Napoleon. DORSTEN, APRIL 12.—A1l the Prussian troops now at Wesel and the neighbourhood, 15,000 strong, cross the Rhine to-morrow, to proceed to their fur ther destination. BREMEN, APRIL 11.—The Senate has decreed, that no Frenchman, or any one who has resided in France, shall be allowed to remain at Bremen with. out a new passport, granted by the highest military outbority, and containing an exact description of the person, &c. duke Maximilian, of Este, from Modena, of the ad vance of the King of Naples into 'the Roman terri tory causes much speculation among the public. His army, it seems, consists of 50,000 men, with which he is advancing in five columns to Middle Italy. It appears that the mission of Capt Huddelka really re= fated to the Resolution of the Congress, which re quired that King Joachim should give up Naples, whereupon the King taking advantage of the present state of things, resolved to make a diversion in „fa vour of Bonaparte. He, however, previously an tiounced to the Austrian Ambassador, that if the Congress would definitively recognise him and guarantee his dominions 'to him, he would place 30,000 men at the disposal of Austria. While all this was passing in Italy, there was con cluded last week with the Neapolitan Ministers here, Raney, Compochiaro, and Cariati (who declared they bad extensive powers to make aDefinitiveTreaty), a new Treaty of Alliance, to which besides Austria almost all the European Powers acceded. With this Treaty it was that Count Neipperg went express last Saturday to Ancona. It will now be soon seen whether King Joachim will stop his march. The King of Wirtemberg has surpassed all expec . teflon by his energetic measures in collecting his army. I Last night the Princess Borghese (Pauline) passed through the sabot+. of Vienna with her mother, and M. and Madame . Bacchiochi (Elise), going to the fortress of Mungatach, on the frontiers of Hungary. They had a nemeroos suite, with eight carriages, and were not allowed. So pass the night, except in places where there was a good garrison. Among their suite is Marquis Lucchisini (the father); Gene. rat topi, and all the rest of Bonaparte's people who were found at Porto Ferrajo, are also conveyed to i Hungary. The Boundaty Treaty between Bavaria and tria is signed. Immediately after the Bavarian hoops received orders to proceed by forced marches to the Rhine. Bewt.rm, Arm. 9.—To-morrow is fixed for the King's departure from Vienna to vetorn to his capi tal; he wilt step only three days here, and then re- . pair to Frankfort, where the Emperor of Russia will arrive about the same time. This city alone has for., nished 8000 men to the Land wehr.' - A French spy , was taken here yesterday. He Niel tbs.pepers see. cealed in his boots, which were dc the Wiliest ieW portance. , . GHENT, Anus. 17.—Last Saturday night his Ma jesty Louis XVIII. received a Courier, who, it is af firmed, was the bearer of good news from France.— The Duke of Belluno has left Ghent upon a mission. French soldiers daily arrive along the whole line of our frontier, coming to place them selves, under the ate:ides-4 , of their lawful Monarch. CALOON4 . A.tatr. 15.:—The tote-de-pons at Man helm b putting In a formidable state of defence, just as it was some years ago : it will be protected by nu merous artillery. General Schaffer, who distinguished himself in i Spain, is appointed to the command of the troops of Baden. BRUSSELS, APRIL 18.—The Russian Courier, with Dispatches from the Emperor Alexander to our Go vernment, arrived here to-day. An interesting conversation took place in the House of Commons last night, on the subject of the Treaty of Alliance, concluded at Vienna on the 25th of March. In answer to a question by Mr. WHITOSEAD regarding its authenticity, Lord CAS. TLEREAGH admitted its general correctness, and stated, that it had not yet been ratified by this Go vernment, but that the PRINCE REGENT does intend to ratify it, and send it with a Declaration, expla. natory of one of the articles, back to Vienna. We suppose this was the business of the Cabinet Council, which was held yesterday, and ended in sending a Messenger to Vienna. This Treaty cer tainly pledges this country to all intents and pur poses to war. Now mark my Lord CASTLEREAGH'S honest speaking. As to the time of its arrival in this country, his Lordship acknowledged it was in his possession before the 7th of April, the day on which his Lordship moved the Address, pledging the House to strong precautionary measures, and when he like wise ;alarmed the 'loose that mar was not declared,. nor even resolved on, but that an alternative of peace still existed. How are we to reconcile such state ments ? Ministers, and the Public Offices, were in a con. siderable bustle yesterday morning, in consequence of Lord CASTLEREAGH having summoned a Cabinet Council at an hour's notice. The Members of the Cabinet were assembled at the Foreign Office by about two o'clock : they continued in deliberation till near five; and at their breaking up Mr. JOHN.. SON, the King's Messenger, was ordered to hold him self in readiness for a foreign journey. Transports are collecting at Falmouth, to proceed immediately for Lisbon, in order to` convey from thence to Ostend 10,000 Portuguese troops, part ef the army disciplined by Marshal Bsaesroao. The Earl of FIVE is still in Paris. The King of BAVARIA left Vienna to return to his dominions on the 7th instant. The HEREDITARY Paisca left the.same day, and Prince CMARLES of Bavaria left on the preceding day, and took the same rouse. A discovery of a rich vein of kad ore has recently been made at Bewbeer, in Devonshire; a consider- able quantity of the ore was used to mehd the high . raid before its value was known. trust, therefore Ido not count them: the Prussians I Muslims, APRIL 15.—Sir C. Stuart ha. had the are *ear us, heving 100,000 men in the neighbour- honour to present his Majesty his credentials, as hood of lureilburg. I Ambassador from the Prince Regent of England to We H'dim% here, that thetlan of the ensuing the King of the Netherlands. camps',jr ri clean Idd d nin the French VIENNA, APRIL 8.-I'4 Majesty the King of thaw in i acco nts * we 're yet seen.-- Bavaria left this city yesterday to return to his do- . They say, 4 , mina'. the Allies at a minions. • Council of Cog n'the 4 &fib of April ; The news brought here on Monday by the Arch- ; A - • mirommi To raz EDITOR or THE STATESNA.V. Sitt,—lf the calamities of war are again to be i n . flitted on the nations of the earth, by comman: in , , l the Sovereigns of Europe—it is the Sover e i gn 4 Europe and their respective Ministers ah o a l one ought to feel the terrible effects of a conteq into which they seem resolved to plunge the world, out any legitimate cause or plausible ocean, and for which they alone ought tohresponsible. They say the Emperor of Ftt INCE has brolon faith with them. So said the French of L ou , XVI. when he violated his oath. to them , _ and col responding with the Courts of Austria, Turin, drid, Berlin, and London, was endeavouring to e x . cite a civil war in his dominions, through the eg et ". of the Ley and Ecclesiastical Emigrants assembled at Coblente. The accusation was acknowledged by his partizans to be well founded, and - in justification of the breach of an oath solemnly given e to the nation, asserted* that he was not At liberty; but under re. straint, and his oath not bidding. This was the las. gouge of all the Crowned Heads of Europe, and of their emissaries at the time, in order to absolve the hipless King from the guilt of perjnry. The Em. perm. of FRANCE, however, stands on better groond than his predecessor—lce was` also tender restraint, when the 'defection of his confidential servants ; hurried him into an abdication, which evidently appears, from the official papers presented to Parliament, would never hate' taken place had he not been betrayed. Lord trrt.eseAou ac. knowledge. that the combined pe rts were not in situation to force him ; and that the country o ka y judge of the valour of the Allied Powers, and of the wisdom of the Allied Ceencik,it is necessity to remind it that their army, consisting of 140,000 at Paris— with Lord W ELIA prwron possessed of Boordesuz and Thoutouse with another army, which was also sus. tamed by the Austrians in his rear, did not dire to , force NAPOLEON to an unconditional •surrender ; on ' the contrary, they were compelled to.submit not only to a disgraceful compromise with the individual Whom they have had the insolence and infamy to pro. ClitiM an OUTLAW, but to the meanness elan un. &Mantling with him that the BOURBONS shotilanot ha forced upon the French nation. The question, there. fore, is, whether they would have attempted to have proceeded to Paris, unprotected by the foreign legions in the heart of France, and would the French hare suffered the discarded family to have profaned their terfitory, had they not been controlled and in. timidated by fore, troops in possession of their me. tropolis ? Louis XVIII.,wag forced on France, sod Frolics I tIS . a decided rfght . to expel him' if she thinka proper. NAIH,LMOM iwas constrained to a compromise, ' the conditions of which have been, violated, and be ist justified in resuming an empire to which tee. Frenc h. have most cordially welcomed him. The very fact, acknowledged in the official documents laid before pediment, that they, did' not dare to march! the Emperor of France, who had only 20,000,'s they had 140 1 000 within 40 miles of him in front, a considerableartsylsv'his rear, speaks vclumes common sense of mankind, and proclaims,in con( lion to their sanguinary libels, dignified with the of Proclamations, that he was the choice of the . Admitting, however, that the Treaty of Fontein. Wean has been violates), was not the parson signed it under restraint and delusion, antis' plead the same excuse as Louis XVI ? and', should be cavilled at, in compliment to old It which, we well know, it is sometimes necessary repair or pull down, according to the state they in, it may be asked of those Regal Gentlemen their loyal adherents, what punishment should' Aided on those who complaisantly consider , selves legitimate Sovereigns, when they break Treaties they have piously signed in " THE N . OF TILE HOLY TRINITY," invoking preme Being to witness the fidelity of ments, which they are resolved to violate ever it suits their purpose ? What is the goose is sauce for the gander ; mare criminal in the Emperor NAP neunce Elba and resume dominion in it was_in the late King of Pausal& to 1795, after having pilfered us of a emu tidy ; or of the late Emperor of GRRMA. .0 - out of six millions, under the pretext which he raised under the guarantee of taro, leaving us his bondsmen to discharge both cipal and interest of the money he borrowed. Even the morality of that accommodating tleman, Lord CASTLEREAGH, must be shoe' such indecencies in Crowned Heads ; and I a , It would puzzle his Lordship's talent for equi , to palliate a deception for which any plebeian gent would have been sentenced to Botany Ba " ZounilA, what is become of the hatchet?" (as one of his Lordship's countrymen lately e; ed in Dublin) is a question which may well be when we recollect the numerous instances of delinquency, which have been suffered to pa: impunity, since the wholesome exercise of it in But if the French Emperor is criminal fur I preferred Prance to Elba, what are we to thi the incapacity of three Crowned Heads, and, least, as many dozen of Ambassadors Extraordim —Ministers and Plenipotentiaries, not having ' proper measures to so secure his Imperial Mi as to prevent his disturbing the repose of Furl. they call it—after having given him check-mate, they thought, but w Lich has proved in the settee have bven a novel kind of stale-mate, whi youngest of Ptitcr.toolel scholars, when that master of tactics was alive, would have blur! have committed. These mdit, to retrieve thei den of 1814,-would plunge us, after a short of twelve months, into blood again, without ti !minty, or even probability, of retrieving their and at the hazard of seeing 'their own Gofer subverted, bould they fail in the iniquitous at of forcing the Bourbons again upon the malign. say again ford;, for the W an Raga a most unexampled effrontery, and be 'Hittite of shame as of all decent respect for I who will assert that this unfortunate family did owe their restoration, not to the general voice French nation, but to the officious and injt;, zeal of the Combined Powers, availing them=e ' their combined armies being on the spot, and session of Paris, to reinstate a falien bro;!lrr his regal dipities.—lt was a foreign army i 1,31 1401.115 XVIII. on 410 e Throne of FIVICC-01 014. shotild•not he !km e question, there. oat' ttempted to hare Is ii by the foreign Jen mould the French has o have profaned indi .introoled and in. Dot niers of their me• t tve d on France, sud the him' if she t hide war to a compromise,' Boa Inlated, and b e iel PRI aback tise.French' prof The very fact, P. nents laid before a to march upon pro; ty 2Q,000, while send him in front, sted view ks rclumes to the and( contratlic• purp ird with the m a Coeg nice of the nation. g a te. utty of Fontain. ship the parson who a nd sion, entitled to ? and if this t to old House:, nes necessary to LI he state they are his I Gentlemen and , I ent should be in• y consider them- a; they break the Preto "THE NAME in tit nvoking the • • and I lity of e • to violate lat is as is to ) rane. . r ;—eiki Ithfsti [IIIPOL any oi is wii in Fein reside, ER to de r is wire; 44 consld • lib. St I ERMANI . au of oretezt of . os k non tt hirh tee of Great Bri• in %la charge both pria- pain is orrOweci. hi, with he: mmodating Gee- 4 3 ohni be shocked at 46 N ; and I am me int for equivoque y plebeian della-, • Botany Bay. Atktni !chet ?" Griot, How° lately excraire• Hulse, ay well be asked, Mo ms stances of Royal alarm ered to pass with cise of it in 1648. At urinal fur haring name •e we to think of oftil l Heads, and, td could rs Extraordinary count not having take ltne Imperial Majesty here se of Europe, ea hers checkmate, as Le in the sequel to Gs •mate, which the N n i f when that great he Kt have blushed to ems Iriete their bin-- a r d era short respite .ord • without the ce , not eying their error, ial us Irrn Gorermnrit .oa° iquitous atters:4 Ott pon the Fresh the man mostlls a elk, witkis The obj es t he far njesl it s pis sin r e s nle ; : ag f or e a l a ati c m tdi t , it h t i vand l ei l d , 16 0,1 cc rs iii n ! te ,ets bro; ilrr in ten • If e l army • MI t.ince—ttie V" re and ant it