The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-07-30 00:00:00

demanded the delivery of three fortresses of Norway as a guarantee, which was refused by the Prince, unlesi he previously consulted the Norwegian peo ple. The Plettipotetiiiaries are all of one mind ; and there is reason to fear that there will be imme diate hostilities with Sweden. " SIX Swedish 4,:ips of the line, and a number of transports, have passed the' Sound for the coasts of Norway which will be attacked by sea, if war break out. The foir Plenipotentiaries are expected to re. turn to Copenhagen in a week." • P' FRI — ii - 41; le RS. l'Anss, Jove 26.—The Chamber of Deputies•did suit meet yesterday. We are assured that the debates on the proposition relative to the liberty of the press have terminated in the Central Committee, and that the report will be made towards the end of the week. The two Journals which have constituted themselves the adversaries of the liberty of the press keep up their petty skirmishes ; put they have not spade any impression. The question is perfectly clear ; every one now admits that a censorship is not only incom patible with the right guaranteed to the French by the Constitution, of publishing their opinions, sub. ject to putisliment if they abuse that liberty ; but it is even avowed, that the system of the most rigorous censure wisuld not prevent a single offence. Our Legistatorti•wOUld, therefore, put themselves in a si tuation of guest responsibility,—that of making nts kater'y laws, incompatible with the principles of the Constitution. We have observed, that the arguments ;laud 1.1 support of the censorship are precisely the same with those that were urged for its establishment tinder the late Government. The' advocates for it strenuously maintain that the French, unenlightened by long experience, are incapable of enjoying the rights which are secured to them by the will of the 'King ; but few Frenchmen will be of this opinion. The censure of works, previous to publication, can be beneficial only to a very small number of indi- Viduals; that is to say, to the censors themselves. This 'Chorelier, Gomez Labrador, Councillor of State of his CattiOlic Majesty, and his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in France, and • to the Congress at Vienna, to the Editors of the Journal de Paris:— 44 ~.GIN T LI4 E E N ,-11 ) your Paper of yesterday you inserted an article, dated Munich, 16th inst., repre sewing 'that the harangues' of the Spanish Clergy titad occasioned the greatest disorders in the cities of Leon and Compostelht. You will readily bellettlj *tat I. have at Paris intelligence of a much more re:-1 Cent date, and above all more authentic than the Altrarian new S-writer who 'has furnished you with *he article in question. Allow me, therefore, to tell lou, that the disorders at Leon and Compostella tve,no more reality than the alarm occasioned by lhe-conduct and sentiments of General Mina, and II seditious proceedings announced for some time illestkdijferent parts .of Spain ; whilst, on the con • ..,siry,•Gent Mina is not less estimable for his loyalty • Wold-fashietterl frankness, than • worthy of admi -4111111111 fee hit military achievements ; and in spite of thit fibricatiiefeY false news, thews Is pat a more filet .country iu Ear* than Spain. Yes, Gentle. • erten, the most perfect tranquillity prevails in my na -: Ave land; the people there enjoy even a happiness epperior to that which any nation ever'experienced; for none ever succeeded in recovering its independ. thee and its Soverei;tl by such extraordinary effort; of courage, fidelity, and constancy. Convinced of this happy situation of my country, I have hitherto been silent respecting tboso reports of discontents which idle or evil-disposed persons take delight in propagating; and I should have done the same in re gard to your brother journalist at Munich, if, ,after having announced false intelligence, he bad not added en atrocious calumny against my august Sovereign, and ugaitist his Royal Highness the Infant boa Antonio. " I flattered myself, Gentlemen, that the times in which Journalists insulted nations and Sovereigns with imptinity, were long past, and what more ag- • gravated iosull can there be, than to attribute to the uncle of the ..King of Spain, a declaration which tkonld be on act of rebellion, and to ascribe to his Majesty a disease which would incapacitate him from feigning ? Oh • What • foundation has this miserable Yournaltst raised his imposture? And you, Gentle 'SON how could you think of inserting such an im putation in your Paper? The singularity of adopt. ing Spanish news from a Getinan Journal ought to have deterred you, had you even not reflected on the tnischievous consequences which your levity was likely to produce. All true Frenchmen have de- Vlored the war of perfidy and atrocity which their tyrant carried on for Okla.'s; they have deplored that war, not only as unjust, but as a medium which could not fail to mite to the highest pitch the animo shy and hared of two neighbouring nations, whose mutual interest it is-to maintain a good understanding ieith one wither. ". All that can tend to perpetuate this dispositioni•ought to be carefully avoided ; and nothing, in ity•Opinien, will contribute more to ex asperate my countrymen than the continuation of the system, which' most of the Journalists and other writers of •your nation have long and invariably pur sued. Every piece of false intelligence relative to Spain, every invective is a disservice rendered to jour own countrymen. 46 I hope that yoawill be pleased to pnblfsh this contradiction in your Paper. " P. GOMEZ LABRADOR. t 4 Paris Jett 1;?, 1814." 114,toatn, JULY 14.—The re-establishment of the Supreme Council of the Indies has given us one Council more, and does not restore to us our colo nies. The insurrection of these remote countries has taken so serious a character, that we must hesi-* tate upon the name to give to their condnct. The province or kingdoms of Venezuela, Buenos Ayres, find several others of equal importance, have solemn ly proclaimed their separation from the Mother Country, and published a Constitution which secure ?their independence. This example cannot fail to extend to Lima, and even to Mexico, which we still retain. Such are the melancholy . results of our dissections, and that affecte d energy which all parties begin to make a mutual reproach. The pre sent Government has,not deemed it advisable to wee • with the opinions which have acquired consistency duiipg 'these late years. • • E ST i r rESM k N. --,----, - 1 - . - - We hope that the system of Ministers may havi a the Government is beldby the people ; If, such to abandon it ? happy result ; but when we cast our eyes upon t he i .. order w'as, hoiiiiiii," really conveyed to the the Princess of 11' finances, with the evils of every kind with .which we rat who was te,hetiii execoted it, in what termsna, her departure n;! are oppressed, we are compelled to fear for the fa. .;..........„,- fts our detettetion of a Government leapt in the e..timat lure. The provinces.of the North are disturbed. In ^ cal" issues chnunatills o( murder, anti Iron- coevel weighed the (Hill( Gastile some malcontents have, set fire to the cOU _ Tents to which the Monks and Nuns were preparing afterwards disavows'them.' The Spanish Journals ry -ant her ret urn ? Doe, to return. Others indulge in arbitrary excesses complain of the hostility of the British Press. In Jihe know; the weight of the British C ourt amonost against persons merely suspected of having favoured this they bestow high praise. To make war upon some of the Continental States, and theseeeral inetli. the Cortex. This capital is tranquil, but the cosi& of royalty, to interdict any means._ 44 t ! their' present Government is to make . war on the racy of family` affection amongst the `partak ers dente anti national character friendly to fetes . , and a : certain liberty, no long'r appear. . i principles of ferocious cruelty and odious despotism, . . 4 she may pod ure from officious enticipations sair attainment ? Is she alive to the a pi It has adopted—principles t the entire over- 1 ,_ Utltylw It is said that kit Order 'of the Ministii* of War, I, 'OK 'carried at the same time to Valencia, Gediz , and ' throw of which would conduce, not only to the hap- 1t,.... 'another provincial capital, invited a General Officer ! p i nfis . o csp a i n , but of the world. • , • ,' I r „ '.perhaps erroneous conjectures of tins • wa n Ai i _.;./1 to take the command of the troops, and depose from : • ---wm.- . the British Court.? Is she insensible to the ming; o f , 1 their functions Generals Elio, Villavicencio, and I We have received another set of French Papers' her best and surest protection, the lore 'Of ja l i ce . , 'O'Donnell, and have them shot upon the spot. The , . . .. , . r . this morning, of one day's later date, from which the . and the.'clemestic sympathies of the English' p eo p e - Court was consulted upon the execution of this met- this ;from amongst whom she proposes to withdrew? W e t lure, and we are assured that his Majesty has de- : following are extracts : ' clared that ho had no knowledge of it. his even, ,' Pants, JULY 47.—The Chamber of Peers sat i trust her Royal Highness will welt consider the se proposed to give a considerable sum to the 'person • yesterday, under the Presidency of the Chancellor. 1 things before she *ekes so dangerous a. ste p as to quit 1 who shall discover the authors of the sepposed i The Hereditary Prince 6f Orange is at Brussels. England. If she -should take this, stepi:insy.she en' me order. Whatever truth may be in ' these 'reports, : The male inhabitants of Brussels are much at. in other climes a happiness and l et t id in itigs:4, they are sufficient to spread distrust and distressing anxiety. . • . tacked to ; the Highlanders of Scotland, who have land have been denied her !, - . . I The English Journals make war upon us. They : for, some titne garrisoned that city. But, it is said, i make it upon our Ministry ; but the English do not that the female part, on hearing of their approach know, or perhaps tbby pretend not to know, that ing departure, have taken stepato delay it. • at the present moment a change of Minister, would , ; There is an Order from the •Wor Minister, pur jbe areal revolution in the State. - 'pitting to repair the financial-disorders of the late 1 Ilis Majesty continues to receiriiadresses of cos - In addition or preparatoay to the Ministerial sp. 'pointalents which we noticed yesterday, we have this ' day to present' the following : Lord •KEII6INCNON IS to be appointed a • Loql ot . the Admiralty, in the room of Mr. W. DUMbI,.. What situation thit Pittssr:Gentleinou is to have, we ;do not yet know. I; Lord GLENBURVIE, who resigns the Surveyorship s of Woods and Forests to Mr. Ilustirtso s , i s to h ive another thousand per ann. added to his existing pension. Mr. iusxrsson's present appointment has, it it said, an eye to the ChancellerAip of the Excheq u e r : Mr. CANNiNG was at the Levee on Thurcd a y, on his new appointment .and is, it is rumoured, to be I decorated with the red ribband. gratulation. ' , Administration, and to pay off the arrears dins ttt We expect every moment the news of a treaty of the army. . • peace with France. Catatonia has not been yet re r , i It is surmised that the Netherlands are dissatisfied , covered from that state of war and alarm in which it i with their severation from an integral part of France; has been ..these six years. The Couriers are not mADItio, JULY 16.—Though this capital bears respected there, and it is not yet prudentlci travel in -! a • tranquil appearance, it is owing to constraint, and that province. Notwithstanding all these considerations, which troubles are at hand. The .king wishes to be all could not escape the pehetration of our Ministers, powerful, but his pecuniary Gang-atlantic resources It appears that our political pretensions display no fail him, and there is no .prospect of anything satis weakness. It is in some measure habitual to us to factory to the Spanish nation.. speak pompously ; we have retained the language of the age of Charles V. and Philip 11. ; -and the mi raculous successes which we have obtained in the late war have not contributed to make us modest. You will see us at the Congress of Vienna, if it takes place. Unfortunately we base now no navy, and the mines of the Peninsula, relinquished since the discovery of those of Anierica, and even before that period, promise us no great resources ; but we rely much on the talents and firmness of our Pleni potentiaries. Lord.AseuDEEN goes to Vienna, to present the Order of the -Garter to the E mperor of AUSTRIA..--7 , Lord STEWART is to be permanent Ambassador at that Court; whilst-Lord CASTLEIIIII , OII assuages the Store weighty concerns of the Congress. The letters from Liverpool received yeste4A attention that about 3000 bags' of' cotton wool,a,gd been purchased on Wednesday in the market wed. • sauced prices, information having been receiveifrote Ghent that the American Commissioners thee hid acquainted Ministers at the. Court of Londe% pat It was in vain to appoint Deputises(' meet theay Whey •hati,fle atttrwitnt instructions to concludr'e_Aweite. jundet the liew 'circumstances of . t.arope. A Gesio... ;Dian, howitser f who left Ghent as late as Vednesday, positively, states that theßepublican Plenputentisries were .waiting anxiously for the appearance of the British Commissioners, and that thee( could be no. : foundation whatever for such a story. A person from Virginia has given us some part. culars Of the operations in the Chesapeake, during which atuber of blacks were withdrawn from the • States of reginia and Maryland. As the first the enterpriae';wse attended with 2,......lmccess t _fibo 4 der xi This day the PRINCE REGENT goes with the usual state to the House of Lords, to close the Session:Of Parliament, with a Speech from the Throne, which we shall insert if we can • procure it in time. This general tone Of the apeech will no doubt be one a high exultation. The transactions which have ter minated the most sanguinary and exhausting contest ever perhaps carried on in Europe, are themes of joy on which his Royal Highness may dilate, se-- owns of the responsive emotions of every heart. There are, howevery-other topics connected with the interests of the state, in speaking of which the Rs ' GMT must either ad* the language of regret, or incur the certainty of being quite singular in his ex,. Dressions. The ground given up needlessly by our . N.gociator, oh the important and interesting subject of the Slave - Trade—the aniverta i expression of disap • probation by which this spiritless, and yet cruel, sur. redder has been foltowad—the duty imposed upon SteSernoraineffitWitp4•lo4l,4ml4-gaeafni ....io•-ef the hpaidth to recover et all hazards its honour, which* Leitteamettcsost -bat exposed to soch imminent danger, form alSoguther a subject of Royal commu. nication„ in whichithe tone of lamentation and ail. pleasure will alone be suitable or popular. The universal stagnation if our manufactures and com merce, and the difficulties with which they will have to contend against the less burdened industry of our Continental neighbours is 'another natural subject of condolement. It was expected by that part of the public which gives implicit credit to the representations of Ministers' and their adherents, that immediately on the return of peace England would reap the most important advantages from the long struggles in which she had been engaged. We were told, that whenever hostilities should 'cease, the commerce of the world would be ours—that the Continental States immersed in war, and fully occupied in its destructive avocations, were going backwards towards barbarity, and would be less than ever a match for us in the arts and employ ments of peace—that we alone should have to furnish, to the wants and the luxuries of all nations their op. propriate supplies—and that the whole wealth of the earth would flow in ton thousand streams into Our coffers. This was the prospect to which we were bid to look forwati, this was the consolation afforded Lis under the preasnre and privations to which we' were exposed during the war. Our enemies were ruink themselves fr and it requiied )thing Mr. Lerma. having been requested by some friends to explain the nature of the different Libels for which he has been so se verely punished, he begs leave to lay the following statement before the public : The first Prosecution was for publishing a statement of the riots in Piccadilly, at the time Sir FRANCIS BUILDS'Sr was com mittal to the Tower. This account was copied verborins from a Morning Paper, and foi which be was sentenced to One Year's Imprisonment. The second Prosecution was for publishing an Advertisement which had preview* appeared in two Manchester Papers, charging the Commissionen of Taxes ii Salford with Severity in the collection of theot i For this4fmce, he was sentenced to One Year's tesipvisdeonessii 7'h14,11 Manchester lEcHtert , were also prosecuted for elie Avis 0111*te, tid suffered jodg mem by default, but tar punisAasenf iseinfinded sw Mein The third Prosecution was kw publish* a Letter., charging the Commissioners of the Transport Board with micron:leo to wards the French Prisoners. This Lotter jid been ioadver testily inserted in the Sramireataw(pnd esfry concession was made, of a public and private oatnee. its the Board of Com- missioners. The sentence was Eighteen Months imprison went, to pay a fine of 5001., and - 1101 two sureties in the sum • of 5001. each, and himself to 10001. for the space of three years. The Term of his Imprisonment, for TIMES YEARS ands I HALF, expired on the e7th of May last. Newgitte, July 30, WIC • tbantitrettehibtsiorsi-arctve — cornitrifeentettt of the Q. fair, and in the whole upwards of 600, who hod reached Bermuda. But it is also true, that in thg, segue! there was some disappointment. frere'ear ar. tifice employed by the Americans. A large pot; ' • of militia in the neighbourhood blacked then ~ • and put on the Negro habit, when, proceeding shores, they hailed the British shipping, from w h number of boats, with their crews dismissed id hope of receiving a large stock of Negro tnaltne. tents. As soon es the sailors had landed, thesniliiit produced their arms, the men from the .shipping were made prisoners, and all the boats' were captured. —T Since 'this expedient was adopted by the Repaltii• cans, we 'believe that no 'further attempt has bri made to cairiy off thediMatisfied Slaves in those-pro vinces. ' _ Mr. SADLER, JUT). and Miss THOMPSON, who ac companied him in his aerial: eight, returned to town this day between one and two o'clock. They alighted*yesterday, after a voyage of '26 minutes, is perfect safety, at Coggeshall,, in Essex, a distance of 44 miles from town. , • -: • ~... _. The auperintendanee and inteMpt: regulation of St. James's Park is under the solb4reetion of Majoi BYE, who is indefatigable in his etteedance, early and late, for the arrangements 'to be made for the accommodation of the Public, and those who sub. scribe for their admission tickets, for the benefit of the widows and orphaps'of tbose,who have fallen. ia this war • so much t as 1001. has been offered by a wealthy, family, -for allying barrack, but which the Major refused, in favotir of a tavern keeper, for tits accommodation of the public.. • , A Circular Letter'hai been addressed, to all tEe r Offices antler Gevernmeet, directing that Monday next aakt is iatere as akd **, . , r.: in ca a t4 piape: e Airogtici poilieta;i4i LorerG - -- Arr. • Matti.' Due 1 Gattenharo 1 4 1.16b0n ....! . _ ' lATURDAT, 'JUL' w 11.14. Paris Papers have arrived ip the 27th inst. The most remarkable part of theirs *intents is a letter from the Spanish ATbassador st Paris to the Editor of a Paris Journal, in which hie Excellence takes great pains is, • the present In Europe, kilo. are • beesador opt' inn iiiilleved, *pie capable, ik disappointmfn , lice between enthuse or the proudest telligence - Lion to stated to , some Convents, preparil dignant —these just obj. whilst yet easiness a report .4004. atsd. ?'" disavowed Propriety Bar • Ist,, 7 . tick an Royal Higkesei+String tier t Gene- occurred to tiiiiiiilection of t m rcans that , in existing circumstances whiCh ihst tOr of it.banishment, at le mience;tiireigners? Has site wt )urnals that may impede or preve 46 1 / 4 4 V 3. "avot t r e . icultieg . - sins to persuade the world that Spain is, at 1, ruining themselves for ever, and it . required nothing I : W e 'i.4.:47 4 , 4o ; i i t i e - e • ed ---- a ,- x - ; -4- 9 -. - i - i - d - a -- y - 7 except iii , e4 - r 4 sent moment, one of the Most quiet countries '. but perseverance on our parte, • •pv the mighty "ft 1 10 ‘lse.f.wtiere the.,brottici, Of public . business liill . Dpe , and that all the viral ' of commotions , tverlastingfoundation of ouroviltiripeotnes . s. Ilow,littoti, e eioWs..‘ s i ea-tiei t if;r-er . . . a utterly void of foindattribe Surely the Am. these golden expeetakionsbetti'optsoatteci l ltfinki I Le" ItArtiLLE Lovelorn Gosieti is to be creale4 sr does not think to ex ' character of Ms figa that instead of going*iieitylvirdt In the arts and , a Vitcoant ; and Lord Bouskonorn an Earl. ..mi by this statement! la 7 iimertion as it is avocations of peace, - in manufacturing or agricul- ! The Duke and Duchess of . Ittcustol. co and Filll. i The m will shortly leave . tewn. for tel:ance., ;. d, the contempt of mankind mot fall upon a tural skill, our e n emie s hav e be en maki ng the mos t .. iiarqu ! is and. Marchionisi Of DONEGO Is. capable of enduring, withbut a struggle, ao. fatal rapid advances, that theyAreevertakerv; or ttitoji . , . expected in town io - a . . feyrditys . from their se st,111 : . A ppointment l —a people itiOoeible to the differ: ' - overtaken us ; and tiust f ilthey are still in thosere.: . , itween slavery and freedom , and regardless of 'meets our inferiors , their inferiority is more than I A gentleman viewing soma of-the strange builaings Ireland. le blessings which conatitepe tie most eager aim, compensated by the comparative lightness of thel‘orL the Canal, asked one of the workmen what Order 't. ? the man Innocenti . replied, proudest boast of evert lilted nation . The in. taxation, and the consequent cheapness of all the Ih he t eGium" were of • ' 1 Ice of the Madrid Pap* b i lisroter, in opposi.. necessaries of life. We find ourselves in the greatest 111 1 4 they were the posdive order of Mr. \ ASII. the Ambassidoes as : ;-111sterbances are danger of being totally excluded from that vast On Thursday, after the L ev e e . t h e 's ve dic poono MAX Mr. SIGLEM, and Mr. Jon', ' PARISIt. DePnL it / to prevail in tit OfSpafp, and'at Castile market ' on the Continent, where we had pleased frernilamburgit, .w ' ere iotetxliscod to the eatilcileY ;onvents„ to which the Mtinki and Niue w e re ourselves with the idea of being almost the only Lord .CASTLEREAeII ; they delleetetriheli-erodev: , 1 .. ing to return, had keen, pet .fire to by . the in. sellers. Instead of being every thing, we are likesatlols, and were most graciously received. . ~_ It people. ' These . - Wes of nerveless sloth 'ly to become nothing.-- Undoubtedly t h e R e ietr- -,Lord CocuitAxe passed the earliest part - or nu ~ . • • •-•. lite at Antisfield, near Ilaimilton, - the estate of hil e monuments of st' ! , superstition, are the Speech, if it cannot console us for this seisi**s. theisdra .&_ Aa r.. • objects of popular ' .) ', lis destroy Sheik, appointment, Will, at least, condole with us Inv. D " - s. ....__ A a yet untenanted, is a • . ...., Great utir der it. • t ... . ~ ! ihi ni iv il oa lz ie wwww ott i o sir ; iterr wss .-- c t urg h eti oa w ry iti o t ff a e ss n a u u e i r tin . a.4 le bad been excit • . „, tort that Generals . ..' t . efitikkilceireto 9 . of the lI,EGEwes speech or not, is of the s, . e bse . ....:Ferilekers'ell id Nimble life, and it appeared • ...1.: -I. j'Doitnetz, had iiwies • . :' .14 - and or. est .to-the riatitiO we mean the reported' .: ; .. .•'-' _de 1 3 10041ifiix Nid been'ioiited by th e d"A'"' er .' 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