The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-14 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN: producing the Treaty was stated to exist in its ra. cation not having been exchanged. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER a, there was not the slightest wish on the part of GovernEnent to withhold the Treaty in question ; t that he believed a ll the necessary documents had t vet arrived in this country. ,jr. BEN NET made some enquiries respecting the tes ty or Treaties ente into b th yis countr with c o., and hoped red y there would be no objection to the n d ue lion of t them. Th e CIIACF,LIOR of (be EXCHEQUER re ied, bait in so low a tone as to be quite inaudible. Th e Bank Loan Act was committed, when, afte, f ew words from the Chancellor of the Exchequer n d si r John Newport, the House resumed, and ave was given to bring in a Bill to amend the said them with specie ? Thecountry has long been drained of this. And wbo will be so unjust as to say the merchants of this country shall or ought not to have the power and opportunity of exchanging their com modities for the means of subsistence? And what would be the effect of such a prohibition on the gene ral interests ? The circumstances of the present can neither be compared with nor regulated by times past. The Civil List and Congress at Vienna were again ' made subjects of conversation in the I Commons, but the flint of the Treasury Bench refused to elicit a single spark to Mame the darkness of the subjects mentioned. It will almost exceed belief that any Ministry, more particularly in the present financial situation of this country, could think of saddling its worn out means with another Lisbon job, to the extent of 12001. a year; yet something of this sort seems to have been in contemplation. Mr. WHIT BREAD stated that it was publicly rumoured that a , Lord of the Admiralty had been appointed, or was to be appointed a Secretary to the Embassy at Lis bon, with a salary of 12001. per annum. Mr. W. pressed for an unequivocal denial of the truth of this rumour. In what terms the answer was made may be seem from our Report. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER merely professed his individual ignorance of such an appointment, but would not say whether it had been or was still meditated, or whether from his own feeling lie thought, as he doubtless does, the country was not already bur thened too much by salaries to useless secretaries and rhodomontading legations. On the subject of our Foreign Relations, the ob i tuseness of the flint only yielded to emit sparks of Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY presented a Petition rom the inhabitants of the borough of Arundel wing the Property Tax. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, when the Ilouse adjourned. list's. Doe Malta ........ 1 ... France L b, .----- PRIC E OF iTOCKS THIS ttna k i civet Cent. rect. g i s st per Cent. COM. 4 4 per Cents. POI 1 per Cept..Nav) 9316 DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK Leong. Artl.l6l 5-16 India Booth 13 14 p Exchequer Mil. 5 6 p (minim d Cowls for - A , .. 63i41 TIE. STATESMAN. LONDON: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 11115. At a late hour this forenoon we received Paris i indignation. The shadow of Lord CASTLEREAGH, papers to the 12th inst. and we had another (the ' in travail and homewards bent, 44 treading the crude previous) day's French news last night. We have consistence," and " ruminating sad his doleful tale" neither space nor time for much comment on the was indeed seen passing in the dimness of distance; rsetents of these Papers, nor do they require it.— , but as to other topics, the eyes of the enquirer were 'lke latest date from Vienna is of the 31st ult. The ' presented with " a universal blank," and his ears Emperor of AUSTRIA was indispoied, politically it ! greeted with the repulsive admonition to " en. may be conjectured. Austria pretends that she 1 quire no more" till the master magician should ap. Dover assented to the cession of Lusatia, and the i pear on the scence in propria persona. other districts of Simony, ctaimcsl by Prussia ; and i The Pod of this morning has a very long and la we have the usual apparently it!le speculations on housed attack upon Mr. PONSONDY'S appeal to the this and the other stumbling blocks of the Congress. SPEAKER as to the physiognomy of the worthy occu- From Italy we have nothing to confirm the report of ; piers of the Treasury Bench. 44 Look at them, the advance of the Neapolitan troops to Rome.— ' Sir," said the Right Honourable Gentleman, " look The Austrian troops are endeavouring to obtain pos- ; at thei i 'countenances, and say which feeling you are session, by various pretexts, of all the garrisons in ` most impressed with, pity or contempt." This the Italy, but they have failed In some instances. JOACHIM . Post calls " an attempt at the facetious ;" we con is also at the work of counting human noses. lie in- i fess we do not think the Treasury Bench found it so sists on the addition of a population of 400,000 I very delightful a joke. Can any thing equal the promisee to Naples out of the POPE'S stock of souls, contemptible figure which the whole Administration and Lord Wl4. BENTINCK teems performing the ho- made ? The advice of Mr. WELLESLEY POLE nourable office of a go-between bet wixt his Neapo- was followed to the letter. " I don't know—l titan Majesty and the Infallible Father. I won't tell—l won't answer." Nothing more could be —.se— I got out of them. Well, Indeed, might Mr. WHIT. It appears by the discussion in the House of Lords BREAD say they pleaded ignoramus. There was no last night, that the Executive Government have taken one subject on which they could or would give either up the subject of the Corn Laws, and that the met- information or explanation. Matters which depended sure against which the voice of the country has been upon the very instructions which were sent out toLord so successfully raised, is to receive the support of CASTLEREAGH from home—even on these points they Administration ! The Earl of HARDWICKE said, he could say nothing till the Noble Lord's return. What ! was happy to hear this, and it would appear from do the Ministers at home, does the FIRST LORD of the tenour of that Nobleman's speech, that although the TREASURY, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the Report of the Committee expressly stated, that and the remainder of the iteGesr's Administration, snore information was necessary before any Legisla. do they pretend to say, that they do not know what tire measure could be founded on the Report, the instructions they sent out to their Negociator at Vi revival of the Committee is deemed superfluous ; " the , eons ?—or do they confess that he had most absolute great importations which had lately taken place de- power and authority—that he went out unfettered cisirely proving the necessity of some measure to ! with instructions, to do whatever he pleased, uncoil protect the agriculture of the country without [qr. Itr oiled by the adv ice nr opinions of his colleagues, ther delay." The Executive are therefore, it seems, 1 whom he also chose to treat with the contempt of to legislate immediately on] the subject, though the I showing sham that he would not even communicate evidence yet before them in an open and regular what he had done. One of these alternatives the %ray is confessedly partial and limited. Lord GREN.- Ministers must take; and either of them is sufficiently TILLS, with a manly candour that does him the : disgraceful. highest honour, declared that he conceived the in- 1 Mr. WHITBREAD'S admirable Speech, which we re tended measure fraught with mischief to the corn- gret we cannot do justice to, was perhaps one of the rromity, and that the plans that had been proposed finest political Exposés that was ever delivered in aoy were not only unjust, by shifting the weight from assembly. lie exposed the infamy of the Congress, those who ought to bear it, to those who ought not and the shuffling vacillations of Lord CASTLEREAGH, to be made the sole support of it, but had a tendency who had been in turns for and against every measure to aggravate the evils under which the country , which had come before that Body, and who bad ab. suffered. I solutely been the plaything and the laughing-stock of The subject, which is of vital importance to the ! the most paltry representative of the most paltry country, affecting the subsistence, the liberty, and 1 German State ! It is impossible to give Mr. Were. the feelings of the people, would unquestionably be I BREAD'S Speech in a limited publication such as ours. mere likely to undergo a fair investigation, if brought 1 It must have been heard to be properly appreciated. forward by an individual, than when supported by And we may safely say, it made too deep impression all the influence which is attached to measures pro. I on the whole House, for Lord CASTLEREAGH, with posed by the Executive Government. The ground : the aid of the Treasury Terrier, the Master of the of conviction in the minds of Ministers, as to the' Mint, to easily undo. necessity and justice of the proceeding which it is We rejoiced to hear Lord PROSY express in such now understood they are to adopt, and the shape in strong language his opinion, which he stated to be which it is to be brought forward, are yet to be more I that of all Europe, of what he called the infamous clearly explained. The radon will now be wakened I and detestable Spanish Government. Mr. VANslT anew to this important matter. We will just observe, i TART (for, poor mats, be has it all to himself, not a en passant, that the chief reason assigned for the ! single individual of the Administration venturing to necessity of the step meditated, is by no means a 1 his assistance) allowed that perhaps Generals WHIT. proof either of its justice or utility as a measure, TIN4IIA M and ROCHE received money from England. of national policy .-- We admit, and it is ad- 1 Lord PROBY demanded whether the Secret Service netted on all hands, that the home corn- I Money was thus disposed of ? To this the usual si. growers have been placed its a state of extreme' hence was observed. But Mr. Vas/arrows. could not difficulty and distress by the fortunate events be justified in subjecting to public obloquy the names which our very sapient Ministers claim the honour of of two Officers, one of whom is at present in this hating p ro d uce d —we mean the importations of grain,) country, having resigned his commission in the which have compelled the holders and g rowers of that . Spanish service, and the other is daily expected home at tide in this country to reduce their exorbitant! in the same situation. But why did he omit Sir imt es—but let u s ask by what means these importa- i Josh Dowers, who is the only British Officer who lions have been effected. Are they not, in almost has remained in the ranks of the Inquisition Why every in s ane, r for exportations of our ma. did he omit to notice the manly letter of Gen. DYER, EBfaCtilled goods ! Can it be said, we have purchased who sent to FERDINAND his commission, telling him ..r'C:- ~+~- 1 •••••••' - ~..r~. he would not serve against that body who had given Our cotemporaries of the morning have a report, him the employment be held. We understand that I which we have great pleasure in saying there is rea the eager zeal of Sir JOHN DOWNIE made him show son to believe is unfounded, of th.. discomfiture of himself in the front of the battle in support of Sir ; our expedition to New Orleans. The account, JAMES DEFY (the British Consul at Cadiz), whose ;is said to have been brought by a passenger in a vessel most extraordinary interference in the duties of the ! arrived at Plymouth from the llavannah, is, thnt the Spanish Executive Power, relative to the prevention British troops, incapable of proceeding to the mouth of Spanish subjects quitting their own country to of the Mississippi in the heavy ships of wit- consti• find refuge in a soil more congenial to their own feel-1 tuting the maritime strength of the armament, had ings, has been so properly brought before Portia- embarked on board transports and other light vessels moot! which could pass the shoals in teat situation ; but We wish we had sufficient room to go at length they were still intercepted by the fire-ships, ports, into the reflections which the important conversation and other expedients of defence to which the enemy (for that cannot be called debate where no answer is bad resorted to protect the entrance of the river.— given) last night in the House of Commons gives rise Under this difficulty it is said that tne British landed, to. We shall, however, resume them the first open and were subsequently compelled to re-embark, by day. !the powerful resistance given by the Americans, whose Mr. Wu rrnaran's reference to the conduct of the I force under Gen. JAcusoN,who commands the 7th mai. British Government at Genoa, caused a considerable eery division, is calculated at from 10 to 15,000 men. sensation in the House. It is really shocking to liu- In contradiction of this story, we hive to add, that manity to see the way in which rich and splenc:id letters of the 4th, 6th, 7th, and Bth January, which cities, and men of the first consideration in civilized last is the latest from the llavannah, have been re countriesare transferred by onemilitaryCommander to ceived , and which are wholly silent as to any such another—their rights and liberties, persons and pro- l unfortunate operations. From the merchant also to pertiesdisposed of by Proclamation without even the i whom the ship in question is consigned, we learn, common regard to decency, or any thing in the way 1 that in a communication from the Supercargo, and or shape of their own consent. Lord W.Bearrruciciln advices from the llavannah, of the Bth of January, declares solemnly,and pledges the British name to the !from the assignors, nothing is mentioned of such a fact, that if the Genoese will assist in expelling the : calamity. French, their Constitution of 1797, founded upon their ancient one of 1576, shall be restored and guaranteed to them—he makes arrangements for a minor and a major Council—he names Senators—he declares that "The forces of his Britannic Majesty under my command, having driven the French from . the territory of Genoa, it is become necessary to provide for the maintenance of good order, and the Government of this State. Considering that the universal desire of the Genoese nation appears to be to return to that ancient Government under which it enjoyed liberty, prosperity, and independence ; con sidering also that this desire seems to be conformable to the principles acknowledged by the high Allied Powers, to restore to all their ancient rights and privilege."--(Leghorn, March 11). Now let us look at his successor's conduct. Not one single promise of Lord WILLIAM BENTINCIOB is kept. The Genoese are delivered bound, neck and foot to an arbitrary and despotic Monarch, and in the insolent terms contained in the following Pro- TIIF, STARLING AND MARY ANN EAST INDIAMEN. The two ships above mentioned sailed from India, under convoy of his Majesty's ship Desiree, and it will be remembered they parted company on the passage, and as the Dcsin...e fell in wit!► an American privateer next day, great fear were entertained fur their safety. They were fortunate enough to escape the enemy; but the Starliug, in coming up Channel, went on shore yesterday morning at four o'clock, near Beady Head, where she now lies with her masts cut away—crew and passengers saved. The Mary Ann has arrived, but the following ex tract from Scilly will relate in what state : SCILLY, Frs. 9.—Came in the Mary Ann East:. Indiaman, from Madras, last from the Cape,"ln great distress ; she is one of the ships that parted fro►p Assi convoy when off the Western Islands ,; she shipped AL sea that carried away her wheel, binnacle, bulk. heads, and cabin-work, nearly cleared her decks, her foremast has sprmnig, and part of her cargo hay' been thrown overt oi rd. clamation : " The Provisional Government, appointed by his Excellency Lord IVictiAst BENTINCK, on the nth of April last, having delivered its authority into my hands, I hasten publicly to declare, that it • has constantly laboured towards the welfare and happi ness of its citizens. " Having received orders from his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of GREAT BRITAIN, to restore the Government of the Genoese States' to the authority which shat be appointed by his Majesty the King of SARDINIA, conformably to the decision of the Con gress of Vienna, in virtue of which the States of Genoa are placed under the dominion of his Sar dinian Majesty, I order, that all the inhabitants of the Genoese States shall obey the existing Admi nistrative, Municipal, and Judicial Authorities, until the will of the King of SARDINIA is made known to me. " I do not doubt that the order and harmony which reigned among all classes of the citizens during my residence among them, will be maintained under this change ; and it is with real pleasure that I pronounce a future prosperity to this country, guaranteed by the privileges which have been pre ' served by the act of cession, and by the paternal go vernment of a King, whose only care is to ensure the I happiness of his beloved subjects. " J. P. DALRYPdPLE, " Commander of the British Forces in the Stater of Genoa." " Genoa, Dec. 27, 1814." And what do the Genoese? Goaded, mortified, wounded at the way in which they have been be trayed, seeing the violation of the solemn promise 1 which had been made to them by the British Com mander, on the faith of which, and of the English name, they had joined his standard and expelled the French ; they publish an affecting appeal, of which the following is an extract cc FROM THE GOVERNORS AND PROCURATORS OF THE MOST SERENE IMPunic OP GENOA. " Informed that the Congress of Vienna has dis posed of our country, uniting it to the States of his Majesty the King of SARDINIA, and resolved on the one hand not to yield our indisputable rights— on the other, not to adopt useless or fatal measures, we resign an authority conferred on us by the confi dence of the nation, and approved by the principal Powers. " All has been done, without hesitation and with out reserve that a Government guided by justice and reason could do for the rights and restoration of its people. Our consciences attest it, and the most remote countries know it. " Nothing now remains for us to do, but to re commend to the municipal, the administrative, and judicial authorities, the just exercise of their func tions ;—to the succeeding Government the care of the troops which we had begun to form, and of those who had served with loyalty." Is there a single act of the very worst of BONA PARTE'S equal in atrocity to this ?—And yet these are the " Liberator." of Europe—these are the men to whose arbitrary and despotic views the British faith has been sacrified, and its honour perfidiously violated. SOUTHWARK ELECTION.-4tAte of the Poll this day at one o'clock : Mr. Barelny I°sB Mr. Burdett 2 .Majority for Mr. 133relly - The Covar.—Yesterday, at three o'clock, a Court was held at Carlton.Honse. Toe Privy Coun cil was attended by the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the ) Admiralty, the Mi...er General of the Ordnance, the ci Secretaries of Sl.ite for the Home and Colonial De partments, the President of the Board of Control, the Chancellor of the Dachy of ,Lancaster, the Mas ter of the Mint, tha Lord Chamberlain,. the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, the Vice Cham berlain, and the Judge Advocate. The PRINCE proceeded to prick for Sheriffs for the year ensuing, according to annual custom. His Royal Highness gave audiences to the Earl of .1 HARROWRY, Viscount Siostorpra, and the Juno i ADVOCATE. The latter laid before his Royal High. . nese the proceedings of some Courts-Martial / and ,1 ' took his Royal Highness's commands on them. The PRINCE REGENT will hold a Privy Council on w i I Thursday, to receive the Recorder of London's report of the convicts under sentence of death iii Newgate. The following is an extract of a letter received from an Officer in Sir GEORGE COLLIER'S squadron, dated the 2.d ult. :—" We are now in full chase of the Con- 1 ., stitution and Congress American frigates ; they sailed i i from Boston on the 17th of December,and we had in formation of their sailing six days afterwards. If this is the route they have taken, I am in hopes they will soon be ours. Our little squadron are, the Leander 50, Newcastle 50, and Acosta 40. You , will say we are strong enough, but it is reported that the President is at sea likewise, and if they unite them will be some broken heads. lye are steering for tl.e 1 Azores, supposing they would cruise off them to in. tercept our East and West India convoys that sail from Britain about Christmas." ( A commercial house in the City, connected with , the American trade, failed yesterday. The sum is 1 s. stated at upwards of 300,0001. 1 1 It is reported that the Duke of WELLINGTON is to Nt remain at Vienna, and that Lord STEWART is to be transferred to Paris. 1,-, BREAD.—The LORD MAYOR inSpnted the Moat. weighers returns, and ordered the price of [lreful to be raised half an assize, which is one penny in the peck loaf. i A man of the name of Howard, called On shim ill Duke of NORFOLK, from his so long pretending a claim to that title, contrived to slip in below tine Elr r , s in the House of Lords yesterday evening, and sin.; . proceeding into the body of the House to speak, as he alleged, to the Duke, when he was polled back I by Mr. DYKE, one of the doorkeepers, who turned / him out Of the House. ' 11 1 FALMOUTH, FER. 11.—Arrived the Proridengt, from Amsterdnm, bound to Lisbon ; the Mary Ana, -- t 1 N i \ I from Quebec ' . - and the Mary end Nasals, from Teigu. mootb.--Sailed the Britannia and *tie Triton, for London. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 13.—Arrived a urge from the Downs, an d remain with the outwaid.bouud convoys at Spithead. TORBAY, FEB. 10.—Arrived his Majesty's si.ip dcteon, from a cruise. The Good intent, from St. John's to Bermuda, was taken the '3-I ult., in lat. 33: 10n?.'51. by the Donough privateer, of 18 guns and 173 men. D J r ~,.. li,