The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-02-15 00:00:00

• _ . V, S' hi shies, without being oppnsod by n single Sr. •tlor! It had originated with the Attornoy•Ge. sere!, end that was cies* enough to create suspicion. It alsoald be recollected au bed nameroes Lawyers —bat onty one Sir Seeley! Itomilly. With net gitsace is a Member of Perlseaseut, no good geoid be obtained. Mr. Hutn addressed the Electors. Ile pledged himself that he would net trespass ion epos thtie mention. Ile was asked why he did not stand as a f'anditiate is the perseut Election. Ile did not think GI to do so ; hot at the same time, if he saw any shafting, sod that the Elntora of IYrsteninster want ed a Candktate, ht wool(' he ready to offer himself. Appiesse.)—ila was determinvil to watch daring the present Election, both for them sod himself.— (.4i(alastre.)-11, was determined to take care that the People of Westminster should hate no sham, Inst • real Elocaisse. Theis were snail of them of the laghmt respertahlitty whn thought, and justly ihnoght, that it was an honour doe to Major Cart. • to rol•r• him as their Representative. Mr. Gall Jones spoke; after which the Meeting broke up. ANEMIC:4. HOUSE OF RIiPRESENTATIVES,Ja..I2. THE SEMINOLE WAR. Ste. Mr. T. M. Nes.aon, freed the Coosmittee on Mi litary Affsr■, delivered the following Report : " The C 'teatime on Military Affairs, to whom was re►erred that part of the President's Wimp, of the 17th November, 1818, which relates to the proceedings of theCourt-Martial in the trial of Ar buthnot end Amb►ister, and to the conduct of the war eft ninst the Seminole Indians, Report:— " That after a perusal of the various ducomente submitted to Congress, on the subject of the Semi nole War, they find much difficulty in separating the responsibility of the Commanding Officer to hi. Government, from the obligations of the United Sates to Spain ; hat as the occupation and capture of Pensacola and of St. Murk, are subjects of or iodation and correspondence at this time between the two Governments, and a. the Committee ea For reign !Watkins Bill probably consider this part of the President's Message more immediately coenected with !' air branch of the subj►ct, your Committee will co.fine them,. rev in this Report to the trial and executi.m of Alexander Arbethuot and Robert C. Ambrister. lees could these men (Arbuthnot and A•rbrister) be considered liable to it, who wets acting with a power, acknowledged and treated as a Igo aid lode. voodoos by us. YoarCommitte• beg leave to call your attention particularly to the case of R. C. Ambrister, who, •ft.r listing been sobjeted to • trial 'before • Court which hod no cognizance or jurisdiction near the offences charged against bins, was shot by order of the commanding General, contrary t• the forme and •sages of the grey, and without regard to the lad ing of that Court, which had been instituted as a guide for himself. Your Committee most here, in justice to Omit own feelings, espies. their Wrens regret, that it has be. come their duty to &wrote the conduct of OM, who hes, on • former •ccasino, so eminently con. tri►etad to the homer and defence of the natio•, as has Major-General Jackson ; but the more elevated the Minion, the more tallied the character of the in. divides!, the more necessary is it. by a reasonable, yet temperate repression of p•blie opinion, through the constitutional organ, to prevent the recurrence•f incidents at assignee with the principles of ear Go vernment and laws. " Oo the Mitts April, I MR, a General Order is. awed at homi.qsatters Fort St. blush's, by Major. Gimeral ?acumen, girl i es] by Colonel :;otrost Butler, Adjotaot.Geweral, dewing • a sine's! Court-Mar tial, to moot at 12 o'clock, A. M. for the purpose of inantigsui.le charges ethibited against A. Arbuthnot, 8.. C. Ambrister, and streh echo aro unilarly Situated as may be brought before it.' " Your Committee do out deem 1 , necessary to attach to their Report the proem...hogs of that Court, as every Member of too Neese has bren furoish. ed with several copies, to winch reforonco can be owe. Nor eau year Committee forbear incleding in their strictures the Court Martial who sat on the trial of A rbethoot sod Ambrister. A Cepert-Martlal is a tribunal Invested with limited jurisdiction, hav ing for its guidance the agate roles of evidence which govern Courts of Lite ; and yet Arbsthstet Is re fitted by the Gaut-Martial, before whom he was tried for hie life, the benefit of the testievorty or Ambrister, who had not been put upon his trial at that time, and whose evidence would have bees re ceived by any Court of lA+ as legal, if not ere dible. Many other eseeptioos might be made to the evidence recorded in theta proceedings; pertieelarly to the question pat to the witness Humbly, Do you believe the Seminoles would have com menced the holiness of murder end depreria- Bon on the white inhabitants, had it not been at the instigation of the Prisoner (Arbuthnot), and a promise, on his part, of British protection ?'— Answer. I do not belic..e thee would, without they had been assured of Balkh protection' A leading question is expressly forbidden to be tried by a Court-Martial, by Macomb on Martial Ldw, and of which the Court must have been apprised, as it Is a work common in the army. and usually referred to by every Court-Martisl whcn in Session; and the question was calculated to elicit an espression of opinion and belief hoes the witness, rather than a statement of facto, spots which alone could the Court act. Hearsay evidence iu a case of life anti death, your Committee will venture to assert, was never be. Cite received against the accused in any Court of this country, and yet on the face of the record of the idoceedings of the Coort-Martial, hearsay testimony is admitted, which had bees received front an Indian , who, if present, would not have been allowed to give evidence himself." After meters deliberation, your Committee beg leave to submit the following Rwsolotion : Resolved, 'l' kat the Rosie of Representatives cf the United States disamweves the proceedings in the trial and execution of Ales. Arhetboot and Rob. C. Ambrister. " Yost Committee can find no law of the United States athorising a 'nal, before a Militery Coat, for sock offences as aie allege.' against Arbuthnot and Aentstister (ezcept an mach of the second chap •s charge, Arbothnot with 4 acting as • spy: of which pert of the charge the Court found him ' not guilty), nor, in the opinion of your Committee, does any usage militarise, or exigency appear from the documents accompanying the Report of the Trial, "which can justify the assumption and earthe of power by the Court-Martial end the coornaoding Genersl, on this occasion. It is admitted, as a rale+ of the law of illations, that when the war Is with a savage nation which observes no rules, and never gives quarter, we may punish them in the per. son of any of their people whom we may like (be longing to the number of thews), and endeavor by this rig proceeding to force theft to Mr/1i the laws of honianity. Whenever severity Is not abso lutely necessary, mercy becomes • duty. In vale has your Committee sought among the documents on the subject of the Seminole war for a shadow of toe testily far the death of the prisoners arraigned be. fore the Court. The war was at an end to all to. ants end purposes—the enemy's strong holds had been destroyed—mar of them killed or taken pd. soars. ad the remainder. a feeble.band, diapersed and scattered in every direction. The Spanish fort of St. Mak, which it was supposed (and no doubt jai:4)lmi protected them, was also in our possession, and so entirely was the war consiaered to ba Wed rated, that the Georgia Militia, ander Gen. Wass. cock, had returned to their homes. Then where was the absolrle pieces:lly which alone said warren( a &paters from the Vll•feitO of that clemency of which the United States hes heretofore an justly boasted ? 66 Your Committee find, in the Generic! Order of the 29th April, in which Gerretal Jackson orders the illocution of Arbuthnot and Acebrieter, this remark able reason, intended as a justification of the execu tions, principally of Actinism'. bet applying le tooth Arbechnot and Ambrirtet,:—• It .e an eels hlished principle of the law of nations, that any is+ divide., of a nation. making war against the citizens of another nation. they being at peace, forfeits his allegiance, end becomes an wallow and a pirate.' It may be asked, by what system of interpretatioe (he offences charged could be considered us piracies, which imply, in common acceptatine, offences upon the high seas, of which the Court could not amine c..guissnee; end it is equally diliceit to nedentend the propriety of the application of the term • eat. 13 w,' to the offenders—a term which applies sal, a• the relations of individesis with th:ir sun Mem. relents. It will not be pretended that La Fayette, who volunteered his services in the cease of America, in the war which established our independence, foe. felled his allegiance, became en netts*, and subjected himself to en ignonsinioes clued,, bad hr fallen or. the hands of the English. Or can it-be believed that one voles would be heard in jortification of Spain. If she wore to esparto such of our countrymen as she 'nay make prisoners, while hefting in the armies of the South American Patriots ? And if these cases should not be considered of such a natures. In warrant a resort to so severe. measure is bile they occurred with a p►ople in a stets of revolution, and con sidered by the parent countries to k W a Stele of rebellion, much PROTEST. M►. Jetteson, of Kentucky, else of the Military Committee, sabasitted a paper drawn op in the shape of a Report by that Committee, which, by a mejerity of ens vote, that Committee hod refined to accept, and Ike said paper was reed as follows : Pere follows a paper in the form of a Report of • Committee, giving a fell history of the war with the Seminoles—of Geo. Jackson's conduct through. out the whole of it ; and a repetition end enters. meet of the fads and principles advanced in Mr. Adams' celebrated letter on the subject, which has meetly been given entire in this Paper, end must live In the recollection of the Reader. It occupies three columns and a half, close printed, of the Na tional AMU:ester. Its length, end the circum stances that its subject matter has been anticipated, will no doubt induce oar Readers to muse the omis sion of it. It concludes thus—) " Limier this view of the whole subject, the Com mittee can discover mach which merits appl•ese, and little that deserves outesere ; and, from the incalcu lable benefits reselling to the elation, from the faith ful •lid dirtiagsished services of General Jackson, sod the Officers and aro who served under his com mand, in termiustleg finally the Seminal• war, •re of opinion that they are witted to the (kaiaks of their coustry." FLANDSRs' MAIL. Toots, JA e4.—Tho nl6c►rs of all cent• who worse le the different regiments intended to be seat to America, bad received orders some time since to join their corps without d►lay ; some of them, in no huts to conform to this order, remaifted at Madrid ; they have just been struck off the list ofthe army, tad replaced imm►diately. Count d'Abisbal has succeeded in establishing the strictest discipline among the regiments assembled in the Isle of Leon and the Bay of Cadiz, sod in other parts of A 64810116, for the purpose o( being es boated. The desertion bas entirely ceased, end the troops show goad dispovition and mach devotedness to the service foe which they are intended. The number of those now in cantonments, in expectation of o►- ders to depart, amount to 11,000 or 12,000 men, bet they will be segmented by several battalions now on the march from different quarters to join tbem.— bl•drid enjoys the most perfect tranquillity, and bat for the extreme ♦igilance of the Police, the numerous patroles every night in that capital, and a host of spies distributed in the public places, to watch what arses, no change in that city would be observed.— The garrison is very nem : besides the body guard, the regiment of Spaniels Guards, anti that of the Walloon Guards, there ere three other regiments of infantry and one of cavalry. The two national theatres are ouch frequented, particularly that of Del Principi, where a tragic actor, who i 4 the Telma of Spain, draws crowded audience•. The promenades in the Predo are always crowded with company, and it is not uncommon to see 600 carriages there in a line. 'I he Inquisition, of which so moth is said in other countries, is formidable only to the Lngiitb journals "Al V`A",iAM end hooks, übicb it hes proscribed. It bits suc ceeded in seising some copies of the Constifutionof • Meted et Leaden, which have been deposited is ifs. Holy Mica. The beads of robbers become more nemerees in several provinces ; but if they are sometimes formid able to travellers, to couriers into the country places which are not protected by any military, they di,- appear es soon as detachments of troops come to parse. them. Some have just shown themselves in the mountains of the thaadarama, which separate New and Old Castile, as well as is the Astern,. A few days ago, a battalion of the wino° of Napo leon left that piaci for Valladolid. Oer differences with the Court of Rio Janeiro are far from being yet settled; notwithstanding the 'me diation of some Allied Powers, they have not been able hitherto to reconcile the reciprocal pretensions. The Government of Brasil requires, as the first con dition, the restitution of tire town of Oiiveeza said its territory. Bausszcs, Fre. B.—The day when the Second Chamber will meet again is not yet Sled. The die cession of the new Projects of Law petition in tin Sections. It scopes,s that the change, projected, particularly the propsed Duty on Coffee end Sugar, meet with strong opposition from the northern pro. winces of the kingdom. end that the private interest of some merchants seeks to pot itself in the place of general interest. It must not be forgotten, that some patriotic voices were beard in the latter Sea. lions of the Slates General. They called for a duty es colonial produce, instead of loading with tulles entities indispensable to the indigent classes. There is, perhaps, reason to regret thit the northern pro. winces and the southern provinces are not united by a federative system, conformable for each of the two parts of the kingdom to their polestar interests; for how shall the commercial views of Amsterdam be reconciled with the wants of the laborious Fie mists farm►rs, and of the poor inhabitants of the Ardennes ? Ili. Excellency the Minister of Pittance strived Mere yesterday evening, from the tour which he has vas& in Flanders. A vessel hoe London has jest entered our noel, having oo board a part of the utensils Decessary to light the city with gas. It is affirmed, that the Magistrates of the city of Brussels have petitioned his Majesty to tempt from Land Tax, fora certain number of years. those who shall parttime ground on the new boulevards of this city to erect buildings. De Cook Debee, end the three sailors, Aumart, Lejetuse, amid Ssinnee, have appealed to the Court of Cessation agaiost their sentence. PECUNIARY INDKMNITY •r FRANCE ro Tux ALLIKD POWERS. DEFINITIVI MINANCEMMITS FOR ILICOULATING TUC MOOS AND Till tattoos OF FA TMLNT or TUC LMT 011 C 1111•DSMS MILLIONS or irctircs, or VIII PICSIIIMIT IMMUNITY TO BS PROVIDED ST gamic& Editlog circumstances having rendered it neces sary to seek the means of diminishing as much as partible, the 'suss of the Inscriptions of Rent's. on the Great Book of the Public Debt of France, which may imetedistely be brought late the market at Paris, it has been agreed as fellows : Art. 1. Th. inscription of 8,815,914 f. of Rontra, made over by France to the Courts of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, conformably to tkeSth Article of the Convention of the flth of October, 1818, shall remain in deposit in the handl of the Commissioners of the said Coeds, till the Sth of June, 1810. In coniequence, the Contract entered into between the Coatis of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Kunio, and the Houses of Hops and Company, and Baring, Brothers, and Company, for the reolitstion of the capital of the said inscription of kenos, is considered as null end void. I. In pursuance of the above Article, the inscrip tion of 2,105,3141. which the foe, Special Commit'. stoners had remitted on the 2d of December, 1818, to the houses of !lope and Co.; and Baring, Bro. theta, and Co. in eatcelion if the contract of sale above mentioned, shall be returned by these same bunking-bosses to the four Commissioners, who will return to them In itaahange their engagements for the same valet. The said inscription of 9.,405,311f. shall be transferred by the Royal Treasury of Front*, and shall be uni'ed under the name of the four Pipe dal Commissioners, to the inscription of 4,110,8301. which remains in their hands. 3. On the lot of Jone, 1820, France shall remit to the sbove.named Courts, in eschange for the above-mentioned inscription of 6,815,94 f. of Renter, Bons of the Royal Treasury, for the sum of 100,000,000 of frames; the said Bons bearing in. term at fire per cent. payable in nine months, in equal portions, from day to day ; to commence the Ist ofdsee,lB2o,sod to finish tbe Ist of March, 1821. The tam first thirds of these Bons shall not be negotiable ; bet the last third may be nepciated from the period of the lot December, 1820. —..— . . _ • . 4. The Commistioners of the Courts of Austria, Great Britsie, Prussia, and Rossi., will receive the arrears of the said 'tonna of 6,615.944 f. Inscribed, with interest from tint !Id of September, 111111, which will fall doe from that day until the Ist of June, 18510, indent., on shish day the soccossivo remit. lances will bo paid to the parties interested. 5. It is ivied that the above arrangements shall not interfere with those concluded between the French Government and the above.mentinowd homers, Hope end Ce. and Baring, Brothers, and Co., nnr with the modifications which may be gives to them by vir tue of the present arrangement. 6. It is ag►eed that at the period of the negotia tion of the last third of the Bons which shall be plated at the disposal of the Courts of Austria, Great Whale, Prussia ► and Russia, in p a nee of the 3d Article of the present arrsngentent, (protided t►at those Coasts shall be disposed to mike use of this power,) the French Government 'hell be informed thereof, and on she same condition shall enjoy the preference* of negotiating such Reuss._ Done, in Owe pur , af Park. Feb. *I. 1.19. (Mord) LE BARON DK VINCENT. LK PA RQU 0 KSSOLLKL CH A R LES STUART. H. DR OOLTZ. • POZZO in soaca PH OV STOCKS THI , Kaiak ginek 6 3 pPr Cron. 1tra.771 3 per Cron. C.m..1.,5t se per Coot. Sfij for Arr. 74 4 per Crow 95i IS SJAV AT (INK O'CLOCA. II per Ow. Navy 1054 InAia lissde Tt 74 Long Arne 10 3-II Feßeposer KIM 11 10 Oaseies THE ST.47'ESMAN. LONDON: /1111111AIN MI MI 11, 1819. In the variety of objects which press upon the attention of a Josue.list et Ibis time, undoubtedly the ems of paramount importance is that which re. tales to the choice of a Member of Parliament to fiii up a money occasioned by a &emit/ of both a person publicand iu lo thelciest. .1 o anature. 0 Commons sending a li critical rr moment is an affair of no trivial natant. It is not now, as formerly, la briber he shall be a little toque the Whig, or a little Ins the Tory. It is whether he shall be the min to support the greet, the varied, interest of the People et large, or the interest of an Oligarchy, w hose views ars to check (they will me, to moderate) the demands and importations of this People. The People are suffering sod complain. ing. They do not went more thin the costlier on which they exist can yield them, nor wilt they accept of less lima the pore Constitetion under which they Re* can administer to them. —The point is now at ince : of how mach con. sequence is it then to fir upon as hessest Repre sentative for so distinguished a City as that of Westminster, the Electors of which, through the labours and vigilance of their Committees, heringgaioed so much coedit, and having /sited tech high 'specie (ions. It is poseible that upon ibis else choice de pends the early termination or farther protractloo of the grimaces complained of every where, bet in that place whence they arose, sod where they eight to be redressed. One pare, one honest and intrepid Reformer sent into the Senate for Westminster, may, like new Imo, set the whole into a wholesome fer mentation. It iaferrnenfolion which, in the natural and moral world, purifies the corrupt body, and ionsloces a wholesome animating spirit. What thew can be mere essentially requisite than a feet, an UNEQUIVOCAL ?ANT of the determination of tie man you may choose, that be will have couttase and 110NtilY enough to emote the dodos of the commission you confer on him. Both those qualities he ought to bare in a high degree. Ho will hod the artful, the practiced enemies of the People's liberty, ready to jeer him and fagot at him: hot he most re. soil's not to he brow brute's, but to persevere in his stairs. He most be contented to bear the censures cf his Co.Repreientatives in the Rouse, end wait for the applause. of his Constitsetits and of the People without. Cam a young man be 'apposed capable of this? Does it not require a mast of a MISITOR'II calmness and imperterbation to stead the shuck of such insidious rhetoric as will be poured Into his yielding, if not willing, ear? Will it not require more than a Samson's strength to throw off the weight cf aristocratic kindred, who will naturally hang on hie arm, and with perhaps mere than feminine blandishments, say, " first, your self, then your family, and last, the Palle at large." That would a Ragouts, a Caro, say at this time? " All self.consideration--all ties of eels tionship to me are suspended, my whole goal is absorbed in my country." We know that this way of speaking will be smiled end sneered at by many of our compeers. We are sensible that a Cuarius is not found in every house, nor perhaps in every town ; bat a wholesome impulse given, and a patriotic guidance Wended to the pub lic spirit, now in diffusion through the island, will mul tiply their number over the whole soil like the teeth of CADMUS. Bat to come beck from generals to parti culars, in discussing which we know we shall wound the pride of some, arid offitod the feelings of others. We cannot please all. We matt seek our MOW, if arraigned, in the frank, the unreserved protesta tion, that the hand which guides this pen, took up the arduous, to many the hopeless task, of beneficially advocating the canes of RADICAL REFORM. The Mastic can have no reason to doebt hie sincerity in, and his attachment to, this cause, when they *retold that after being bereft of an ample fortune in its ad. eocacy, 'and being, through that caste solely de. prived of more than len years liberty, (seven of them in a loathsome prison,) he is more disposed than ever to hazard the collected ruins of fortune, and what. ever may be the remnant of his life, in the same pursuit. So much of himself he hes been urged to say, by well.mee ' g friends (however grating to ret , "ll), in order to pat a stop to the iosidioos and wicked in sineations of opponents, who, in order to arrogate the confidence of the patriotic part of the NWT, insinuated that it was not certain what line of poli tics would be taken by the old and tried S :4;•i•s --1 alas, under the new, bet not untried Editor. It is with painful concern we have beheld the init.. 'pitiess proceedings at Corent.garglen. The stream of public ',pinion and hop. does not continue to dose so freely in the -time course or channel. Tt. decla ration of Mr. Houton st is, withoot deriat, eq..iro cal. The Candidates must be put to their to the torture, if they wail call it so. The prime forts et dure, as is the olil law phrase, most be applied to the person tried, if necessary. It were better the breath were pressed out cf his body than that !he 1.):,i;Is U