The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-01-05 00:00:00

. • 4, ;nitself, isoswyti the greatait blessingk i that Oman notate can eajoy; but peace is not always at ,tainabletbacense ir must be considered, not simply in Mil s bet as atteeded with many concomitant cir cure- I if we wish for peace to nnot have it now, for no peace can BONAPARTE. lie is the insatiable, invete of all nations, and, therefore, to sup . s call adhere to any terms of peace, is a' of infatuation, which, it is surprising, has en corrected by a long experience of his cha and situation. Ile is formed only for war and sr---he possesses none of those virtues or o f which are requisite to make a nation happy tesperous—his element is war, and he has no t bat. in . ancontrolted dominion. Were a signed with him one year, he would be at war nut, with all Europe. Were the forces of the Allies disbanded and reduced to a peace establishment, lloxxrxtiTx would, in six mouths, have an army of five hundred thousand men, and in six months more, lie would overrun all Europe. it with such a man that we are to make pence The Emperor of AUSTRIA may feel much fatherly tenderness for • the situation of his and wish to spare —Ms kingdom and his life; but, depend upon it, . that son-in-law would soon forget how much he weed to his mercy, and think only hovi much he "load been humbled, and could he once more get,. within ther walls df Vienna, his, credulous father-in law would soon cease to reign. That Lord CASTLE.. REACH'S mission should be ofa pacific nature, I say, with all my heart, " Gon'forbid." I love peace-se much as any man ; but I had rather consent to a few ;mire sacrifices, and fight for a few years longer, . than make a peace with BONAPARTE, which can _only end in misery and ruin. Europe will, how ever, again be in such a state to regain her indepen.' dence as she is at present ; and they who are friends to that independence, and to the liberty of all na-. tions, mistake their end most grievously, when they imagine that either of these objects can be promoted by a peace with BONAPARTE. For my part, I say most heartily, let us get rid of the war, and then , talk about reform - for reform must come, when all fears of an externaenemy aviat an end; but with such an enemy as BONAPARTE, pressing upon us without, it would be worse than'folly, it would be treason, to title' 'or limiting the powers of government, and.' cramOing their means of defence ; but once let us pat an end to BONAPARTE, and then we will look at home, and iealwbat can be remedied and what im-.; stances. 11l last long, . I had witi • proved ; how we may 4essen our burthens, improve our manufactures, and increase our freedom. Should the Allied Powers ever set foot in France, and..de dare themselves the liberators, and not the eon querOrs, of the country, it is all over with BoMA. *arm; fcr such is the detestation of the French to - that inhuman monster, that they would, with one and one mind, shake off his detestable tyranny. •-Tt is Austria atone that prevents the Allies fs.om openly declaring fur the BOURBONS—and were it SW' for -Austaia, England would long ago have espoused their cause. The Duke of Benuir, a youth of spirit and enterprize, has long solicited our Minis ters fur a command in Lord IV Err.' N GT° N's army—and he has justly said, why should he not be allowed that lionour as well as the Prince of oa.tmce—to whith the only teply was, 44 We are sorry we cannot com )1 ply with your request at present." Were he before Bayonne with sufficient authority to hoist the white flag, the South of France would very soon be in Open rebellion, if it can be called rebellion to rise against kusurper. Truth, justice, and policy, all dictate a return to that government which the hellish counsels of VETUS alone dissuade, because it would make France too happy and prosperous. I remain, &c. Welheckg.treet, Cavendish-square, Dec.2B, 1813. W. B. " Ere we had ceased to announce (says the New. castle Paper) the receipt of subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers by the dreadful accident which took place at the Felling colliery, about 18 months ago, the melancholy task has again devolved upon us, of recording another disaster, almost equally calami tous. List Fi lday morning, about two o'clock, the foul air in the same colliery, by some means, took ire, nosing deitiuction to nearly every living crea ture within the range of its explosion. Nine men, )3 boys, and 12 horses, fell victims to the fury of the blast, and eight more pitmen were severely scorched, though likely to recover. lily this heart. tending occurrrence, eight widows and 18 fatherless children are became the deserviu objects of public benevolence. On Friday last, . arrow colliery, a. large stone fell on two pitmen de at work", and rrushed them to death: both. kit &Mines. A simi lar accident happened cn Tuesday, in a pit belong ing to Mr. BURDON, of Hartford. A man named Nicholson, upon whom a large - Stone fell while ascending the pit, had his head literally cleft in two, and died instantly ; %bile another, in the rime loop, bad his thigh dreadfully lacerated, but, notwistand. • •ing, kept his hold both of the rope and the dead man till they reached the top. 'l'mo men at the bot tom of the pit were also much injured." . Monday, a man of the name of Estall, who lives *car Pimlico Wharf, and . : who is u retailer of coals, had his house robbed of notes and ()ash amounting tO7II. About fire o'citick in the evening, as he was returning home with his cart, after having • been la bouring to sell his coals, ho was accosted near his 1 - ewe premises by a man genteelly dressed, who asked him . 44 why his wife had not sent the coals he order ed two hours before ?"'—The poor man not know ing that any coals had been ordered, became angry with his wife for the supposed neglect, and said he would make enquiry. lie 'accordingly went to his wife, who stated that-she had no knowledge of any iwch order. The husband, however, persisting iti it, desired her to walk out and see the Gentleman who ordered them. During the time that the man and his wife ware absent, some one entered t" L """ and stole the notes and cash, which Valli Rosmised• • • ever, one good - i themselves are divi =OlO tacks the Morning ma*, as subservient to ministerial fond of blood as any other Pegs. The Editor of the L worth to express his detestation [ the Times, whore be describes the misery and quarrels of manl that totd Castlereagh is actual' cheered, ;Allis setting out, ' who looked upon hlio as anoth, on the most blessed of all errands. differ, who ►hall decide," says and truly, when it is seen than • q. has no n eces &so. of the congratulation• terial a point has broken out between ither, &es, who have fought the same and each other's battles so long and so cordially, a little her taboo will be excused in the minds of those who are not permitted to peep behind the curtain. But this is not the only difference of opiniou amongst the London Papers on the signs And duties of the times. Whilst this uniform approver of Court measures, and advocate for war, turned round upon all his former professions, is anatbe. matising those who object to treat with the Emperor Napoleon, as he politely dedominates him, one Gen tleman will not put up his sword tilt the Bourboni are again on the throne of their ancestors, and an. other, the Times,'indifferent alike to the Bourbon and Bonapartean dynasties, insists that France It, self must be subdued, and that there will be no security as long as that empire is permitted to re main entire. Whilst our new friend assures his Readers that Lord Castlereagh is gone with the olive branch in his hand, and " with healing under his wings," it is as confidently asserted in another quer. ter, that he is gone as a fire-brand to re-kindle the extinguished fires of some of the Allied Powers, who are supposed to be inclined to conciliation, and, if he can, to prevent any accommodation whatever be twixt them and Bonaparte. Lordship dia not intend to ex, . according to the tenour of his words—that he meant to deceive the Parliament and the Public—in short, that his Lordship uttered a cajoling, a Madurpiliala LIE in the house of Peers. Not a passage proceeds from these writers bat it may be interpreted into a libel against the honour and integrity of the Britiih Ad ministration; and hence our Allies mistrust our views, and our enemies accuse us as the fomenters of war. 41 We are from believin bo jellig Members of our Cabinet to b e immaculate in t dharality of their, policy : history already attributes numerous errors to them and a long train of fearful consequences are to be traced to those errors... It is the present circum stances of the war, numtpected as those circumstances certainly have been, by Ministers themselves, that afford them au opportunity of compensating for those errors by encontaging the negociations for peace : for peace, according to the bold and magnanimous outline I in the declaratien of the Allied Se• swigs i t 7 , :-Vbe interests of the Continental nations .• _ I st * ..t fir.! ,_, .- « ~:~- • . aaY mew, The in the cala. mities . Ani Mlles, . thereby, misery can be inflicted apse the foe: the depopulation of the finest provinces of Russia, and the subsequent sacrifice of Moscow, drew pot a sigh from bosoms so politically indurated: the sufferings of millions were in their estimation mere than balanced by the annihilation of two hundred thousand more of their fellow-crea- 1 chi set i —..t many from tures, who bore the appellation of Frenchmen. Sen. i ponderance . Bonaparte. , Austria has seen the sibility is with them secondary to political considers- galling Confederacy of.the Rhine dissolved, and while lion, and they affect to treat every expression of , Francis has a stake in the fortunes of ,the French , itumanity, when applied to that wholesale butchery I Emperor, by th e marr i age o f his .s l at i g ht er , anc hh e of mankind, which forms so dreadful a feature even success i on of his groigison, he tits. tie motif id his be asoatglortosts success, as the puling, of the hands o f ee ,, esta b l i a bi ng no d i ne l gotot j . his 'iron sentimentalist. .Such apathy, whatsoever colour it euthority. Prussia bas - equal -.sssor ng„ may assume, has its origin in partial and rticular ~ her lost consequence am ong the 'Pliel . bi interests, and is as destructive oPeirok (ism all None of our Alli es can h av e an ,rts coltti itse, it is of every other generous vir al pa- *with us in the prosecution of thewOr;escept Sweden : ' ' triot prefers the_ pacific prosperity, to the -sangui- and the object professed by the Crown Prince if ~ nary glory, of his country; and looks for her wel- one rather of ambition, than of justice: He 4eetne, t :4: , indeed, sensible, that neither the Emperor of ftstalla s . , :-' fare rather in the energies of her own indostry and t. 4 ingenuity, than in the wretchedness of her rivals: nor the British Government can have a real int e r es he would see her emulating, and surpassing, the ma- in contending for his possession of No rwa y, and-by;: nufactures, the commerce, and the agriculture of recent advices from Gottenburgh there. is mention of ,„x, other countries ; not envying and destroying them. I his negociating with Denmark-for Ones surrender of, It is the part of a coward to seek for safety only in I the Bishoprick of Drontheim only. We have, there. fore,,,..rea.son to conclude • that a continental peace. ,the total -destruction of an antagonist ; and it is the game cowardly principle, that actuates those, who will take place, and if the mission of. Lord Castle. Warn us ipiott the consequences of Peace -0103 e reagh is to connect the interests of Great Bejaia ,miserable writers, who would persuade the British ; with the views of tha,Allies, and, by including our nation that *either her trade nor her independence • jest claims in the terms of pacification; to afford the is secure while the power of France is in existence. I world a prospects of permanent tranquillity, we *lsis In spite .af the moderate and manly sentiments his Lordship success, and shall heartily re4eigiv itetbe uttered by the Prince Regent at the Convocation of result of his endeavours. :01 0 47L'a ist ' Parliament, and notwithstanding the magnanimous ,: . . ~ ,„.....ior: i 'f t , . declaration of the Allies, published, if not with tint - POLICE. , - _,:e,„4,- . .-,-4, ot immediate concurrence, yet, according to the lesti- - 4 ---o•WastrY 3 rtSkir , s4 4 .' mon) , of Lord Liverpool, with the knowledge of the, u sus u m ... ment ,...,o n ew s man ws s, 41 , 1 1e ves a y , opinions of the British Government, we find the a res hlre pec th i e abler I" :!;t ill ie w pi i ) t e h o r ri E n g . hott h e i er, that he ti , st public prints, which generally advocate the measures in the Peninsula, where* had received fuss gan-shat Wens*. of the Administration, deprecating the idea of any nod ono with a rake. and disclaiming any intentional et ruee suitable peace that may leave the French power uncrippled he was, after a , UrneN--Bridgel Rennet and Eleanor Murphy and undegraded. It in in vain that the Allied Sore. I brought up by ME, charged a 4 cerstenno weevers of base ' reigns . declarelhat France may be greet, powerfu l, Consented, that the Primmer. Here mother and daughter. i anthappy ;" and assign as the wise and liberal tea.; and i hr: n n e t i b .h r gzr e h ,f rd e . P ritt ri g:th t ter hri w r r as taling it ~to . di n e l diflerent shoprand inklea porcbases vrtth the fige Mil, son of such a declaration 44 that a great nation can only be tranquil in proportion as it is happy ;" our the mother s ayed at ft diltl!Thre to receive Hsi elsainps Mats . r n d t 4, , , tv i a v r e lir violent scribblers in the COURIER and the 7 1 131 ES . ; a oi f f r a h a s : e P fa lY o o a t It:1 1 ,":"..):: Vrt h iVamn'inf'' . have already stigmatised such generosity as silly, and time, but had not been able to detect them both-together fll hilt -,•,'• inße paym ent jt— for some liquor to the landlord of the Ihr i g.,ars,. .If . call upon the Continental Sovereigns to extinguish a Tuesday , when be stopped them as they were olkrin Will gagEbik_if: power ‘ skiek hes for so many years been their envy , They were fully committed for trial - , and their hatred . Even the ancient limits of Frattee, t Gorsuns a._ Toesd , o; clisahton;44444 wee 4 .1 t. ty ..- , according to the COURIER, are too extensive for Mary .. Lun g hy with stealing from he r . eight or a nS i tie til bt the safety of Europe; and his Liverpool namesake is Russia ' atni uss V l -t a Itlchkit:r the p lg i nnhe o w r a ll o rm fore-woman. ae The a 4 11 , : not backward in re-echoing the pusillanimous sen- . who had also been in the employ of Mr. olaberley for t timent. The patriotism of these writers consists, it teas I sh e e Ve w il a in s o g l o it i l rig , O a u n t d l u odinn w er Ws Ln p i e ed an n y tk raf e e k) nt t ton of foo titl~ as , seems ) in mistrusting the energies of their country; but was only taking it home to make use of it for some worn they are either the organs of a greedy war-party, or which she was employed.—A clerk of Mr. Maberly. se . . w th l t h n o o ut e a losh w , as w p b c k n i s t eitr e to tab soner : L b:rad s ::: w pizingt they have no real confidence in the Government which they pretend to support, nor in the nation •I contained ferule!. 1- ( which, on the slightest occasion, they are so ready to I . 11110PL1FTING. t AtaggleoßoUGll-STREET.—Tuesday Mary Smith, Mary Fa* flatter. • ley, Khali Perry, and Was. Perry, wertapprobeuded by Johan. From such writers the enemy finds pretences, to , .on, the officer, charged with robbing Mrs. Lee, a Milliner and attribute to the English nation the whole chain of 1 Haberdashe r , of Holborn, of a piece of fashionable ribbon, causes, by which the peace of the Continent has been trial consisting of 36 yards. The Pr i soners were fully committed for ~ ... disturbed, and by which France and this' country i Jovetkux Stioiurreas.—R. Johnson and Joseph j Fi nch' shave been prevented, year after year, from coming to chargedt 1 o I'lw with 16 ha years of K • vi grolen a f e r;m w t e ti re r. %%Tans a up pieL a:v i glsei any terms of reconciliation. The expressions made teen, consisting of 2.6 yards. The Prisoners were folly coat- I use of by these writers-are of the most virulent and mined to Newgate for trial. 'irritating character; and it is impossible after the 2.eemtincslereemse 2i . 4 40 I perusal of the TIMES Newspaper, or the POST and .NOTICES TO CREDITORS. v .?1 the COURIER, to be surprised at the pointed re- " - "01.".• flections against the policy of the British Govern- The followiag Prisoners, now confined In merit, that are to be found in the pages of the Moni. King's Bench Prison in the County of Surrey tear, and in the speeches of the f re n ch Orators.— being charged in custody on the 6th day of ' Those wretched papers, together with the SUN and her, 1813, do hereby give this SECO"' the STAR, the columns of which are marked with Notice, that they intend to take the' Bev disgusting abuse in the place of political discussion, past in the 54th year of his pre pretend to advocate the measures of the Administra- reign, Intituled, "An Act for the Lion, even now that the Cabinet has assumed a dig nified and moderate tone, worthy of the nation Insolvent Debtors in England." by give Notice, that true anti Whose interests it directs. batting Discoveries of all It is this o liiit venders the professions of our Esiates, hereafter to be Ministers suspected both at home mid abroad; and be delivered to any l induces many' to believe that the errand of Lord to the keeper or r Castlereagh to Frankfort is not of a pacific nature., prison : Thu the Ministerial Journalists asperse those very JOHN FIT' persons as bypocrites, whom they praise as polite. afterwards of clans; and the LIVERPOOL COURIER, in street, star harmony with it colleagues, dresser,' would persuade t h e nation, that when Lord Liverpool attributed the re- ...JO , cent successes to the people, in direct contradistinc- r . Lion to the former defeats of their governments, _ his ;prep self ,''' I . ,~~~, ~„ :. 4 . ;X; The followlag Prisoners, now copiloted is 'S - King's Bench Prison, in the County of Sore, being charged in custody on the 6th (lay of ..; ber, 1813, do hereby give this SECOND• psi) Notice, that they intend to take the' Benefit of an past in the 54th year of his preseot Matbso 4 4o: 7 ll t. reign, intituled, " An Act for the Relief of certa Insolvent Debtors in England." And they do hs,: by give Notici, that true anti perfect 'Schedules, con., taining DLscoveries of all their real and personal Estates, hereafter to be sworn to, are now ready to be delivered to any Creditor applying for the same to the keeper or gaoler, or hie deputy, of Mite said: prison:— JOHN FITZGERALD, formerly ag.Dreat Fqrtlnnd-strlig, afterwards of Deke-street, Portland-Once, mid hiteof Si street, Manchester-square, in the County of bliddlier "Wes dresser, Perfumer, and Toymen.. • • JOHN HOMAN. formerly of West Mate. In lbliett e tc pees. mad late of Feachureh•streeti le tlit City of URtelitler and Auttioneer. •,1.04;.•• 42.7.4Vit We are requested to state, hr the Eagle Insurance Company, that Policies which expired at Christmas last may be renewed by application wthe Office h . Cornhill, or in the Haymarket, ,ost 'tor .before the 9th of Jaunary inst.—AU claims _paid promti tude, and au allowance mode for ritritiprege destroyed. CORN-tICHANGE, JAN. 5.---What Pei& Wheat appeared at this morning's market met reedy sairrat Monday's prices. We bad a few arritais'or Barley from.Soffolk, which 'sold freely, and fill!) , maintains its price. In Pease, Beans, and other ar ticles there is no alteration. Wheat (English) 66 84 Beans 46 41 Mtn (Foreign) 90 Old ditto lice 96 42 Tick do. Risley old 3B 45 Old A - New ditto s Oats • Malt 7O 78 FilW ditto ..... • %lite Peas 62 64 Poland do. New ditto ...b Feed ditto s • Ditto Bailers X 66 70 nue Flour ..... ...,16 Grey Pea 44 48 'Wds ~ ii? l 46if JC. - • . .4: .. • • - Um!' Mitootorist! • • .. t these are Whip wives* number in owe olliwool . _ ird ' , 'l4 4; leireiies of men, slime time Port, a pint a till for be t , ~t .• , • ) . - 4,6lllmanity, as to co ministerial views, and ai Pliqte . Vero with h horror; • yi °N a their devoted hire- power • P ' ; s . t, and so extensive are the ilk Pad. .cannot now' find that •, ~ t,hesseivele,wkit. any Long reel tion of the Courier aid' cyst .• ' thowsonds in this country ha ve o Ibis as existing wilt*, to co* 4i moral distinction betwee n w e mankind, and assert" it * , Pew mi r il l mud both the. *Re and the oti tally gone to make pes.ce r otottcro of *le policy. With seth persons wart by au immense crowd,. atrocities : bloodshed and destruction are the I >ther heavenly messenger airy adieects of their views ; aid, tbecefore, •ands. 64 When electors Wien, wetter* proceeds from the successes I Lys the ancient praerb*; enemy, is the subject of triumph and congratut hat a rupture on so ma- These people have learnt to rejoice even in the : between brother, war- mities of our own . Allies, if thereby, misery c 4.4. .orsusu "wpm agave DOEU 'Melt • Weafilletl-A4Ad • uow by the admirable rosette of .the last- ,Ministers hate an oppostenitrof melting it tnantfeet s • by a solid and bonooraidelonice p that those wounds were the necessary cortseqrseicete;if liror meinetreO4 and in no wise attributable t,ll desire. ls 41)444 tosi. * • large the power; or tamal" like mtplosteveelVo- vernment. i . 7• • , It weold t indeed, bo-didsitite to SliftMtitst AV' agents "by -which lord Cestlereagh mead pentads the Allies to eontinue the war, since thpy have sec.. ceeded beyond the mest.sanguine- estunitatiotis with, which they might• have commenced'hostltities. The Emperor of Rossi& has not only vindicated the in- dependence of his own dominions, but has cirri'''. chised the governments of Germany from the pre. ponderance of Bonaparte. Austria has seen the NAVA t IN7'E LLIG ENC E, DEAL, JAN. 4.—Came down from (b River the Venus, for RitiJanciro Mentor, for Pernambuco; and the Aquilber, for liavannah, Lod sailed with the whole of the outward-bound merchantmen and transports, under convoy of the Griffon and Viper cutters. PLTMOIII, JAN. 3.—Came in the Resistance frigate, from the Mediterranean; and Warsptte man of war, from a cruize ; four French chasse marees, with brandy and wine, captured by tee squadron or the coast of France.—The Joseph galliot, of this port, caugkt fire about six o'clock this morning, and but for timely assistance would have been consumed, but was saved; it is, however, much injured. FALIWOUTA, Jia. 2.—Arrived the Duke of Marlborough packet, with a Mail from Passage, in five days; she saw, oft the Lizard, a convoy of 15 sail of transports, under a frigate* pos t standing to the South ; and off the Manacles saw a convoy 1 of large ships, sup o be hummer, standing to the West- ward. 4 ' 4,; Ilawnica, Jaw. 4.—Arriied dtpsPrnisriek, Paterson, fro* Sletten, in ballast, bound. to Liverpool. . TORBAY, JAN. 3.—Passed the Start, on Saturday, at roar o'clock, r. st the East India fleet, wider convoy of his Ma jesty-a ships Medway, dcc. for India. UrdarJor., 4.—The Nimble, Cudd, and the Cornwall, lid'Dougal, for this port, and seven others of the Leeward Island Beet parted three weeks ago with a sloop of war.—Ad Ameri can privateer was off Colons) the 25th Dec. OAX.—This place, to which Soolt has retreated, Is a town of France, and principal place of a district, in the department of the Landes, situated on the Adour, surrounded with walls, flanked with towers, and containing about 5,000 inhabitants, celebrated for its warm baths, the spring of which discharges 543 Cubic feet of water itr fifteen minutes. Before the" Revolution, it was the See of a Bishop, suf fragan of Auch. This town was destroyed by the Saracens in the year 910. It was a tong time in the possession of the English, from whom it was taken in the year 1461, by the French, and has remained annexed to that country ever since. It is 22 miles N. E. of Bayonne, and 26 S. W. of Monte de Mar an. Tuesday a feat of pedestrianism was decided be. tween a person of the name of J. Leaderhead, who is a fine athletic man, and a veteran of great cele brity, of the name of Benjamin Davis. The comba tants were to run a distance of 12 miles against time, the odds at starting were two to one against Davis: each of their shoes were to weigh three pounds and a quarter. Davis performed the first two miles in 14 minutes, and did seven miles within the hour: he finished the distance -stipulated in one hour, 5f minutes, and eight seconds. His antagonist com pleted the distance in two hours and 12 minutes, and in consequence lost a wager of 201. by 19 minutes.---.. A great crowd was assembled on the occasion, aed the friends of the veteran were highly delighted with his success over his youthful competitor. The phenomenon of a fossil human skeleton may shortly be seen in London. Sir Alexander Cochrane lately sent this curiosity from Guadeloupe, and it has been deposited in the British Museum. It was found, with some others a few years since, In a bed of hard limestone, or marble, in that island, and part of one skeleton was sent to France, and is tiow in the possession of M. Cuvier, the naturalist. The specimen sent to London is perfect from the neck to the ancles, and is supposed to have been a female. Dexterous .workmen have been employed in detach ing the stone from thejorm of the skeleton, and a drawing has 1;eon made to accompany a memoir, which is to be laid before the Royal Society. A glass case is making for it, aftd when complete, the fossil will be exhibited to the Public. COMPLIMENTS Or VII SEASON.—The most agreea ble compliments of the New Year will not be paid iwntil the 18th, when they will come in the form -0f a Letter, sating—" Year Ticket in the State Lottery is drawn a Prize of Twenty Thousand leda!".—This will be somedu 'mg late a caagratad 111.111/P'.: t. 1. 1 !/ . ' r; ['""• 11 f.j ~:ti :.ta f ~'~ i. _ :,. r• , t i•~ .~~~ ~..'- y •! •