The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-10-21 00:00:00

. ._._._._ • _>~;: :, narch has bad cause of 't,ersonal displeasure with the' King of Paossit—whether his views with respect' •tO the angry , and complicated "Pits .Of • Saari., and Baden have not beets met as•he could wish— whether be is jealous * of the close • connexionbe tween Prussia, the Netherlands, and Rnisia,-.--who. tier he conceives that the obvious leaning of the :latter Power to France, and the _terms she has obtained through the Medium • of Russian policy, may, at no distant day, endanger his footing in Italy—whether soe(te Isikiegtifection for his deeply injured Daughter wily have Whited himie fay a • word or two for NAPOLEOff, which bad ,not been . • received w‘tb,a correspoeding feeling—whithesthese or any ether circomdiances, may ho•weektil in the vied of the-Emperor of AIUSTRIA . , 111116111114 Pot s bat the 'anent. from Ais-la-Chipelle Strongly in duce a belief that he is discontented. Be this as it may torn eel, the great political probkm, which asks, • 64 what will best secure the Welfare of society," is Dow likely to -undergo the progress of solution. It will not be long before the truth of the position that this security rests alone.,ott aimed power and here. • ditary right to dontineetiver mankind, shall be tried, and thee the chains of .despotism trill lie bioken in the dust. Thrones, established on a disregard e of the first rights of the People, will siuk into insignifi • canoe; and' persons who, ity their haughty preten sions, titbit to be considered as demi-gods on earth, may yet own the weakness of their mortality, in the pains of elite, and in the sorrows of despair. The degradation under which the continental People la : boor—the useless slavery to which they are reduced —the vile tyranny of their Boleti—the pride of 'their dependents will cease, when ignorance resigns its place to wisdom, end the multitude disown the folly of being sacrifices to theMolochs of power ! Forms of government will then be established, which will Surround property with security, and the subject with protection ; and the political truth that treason • ...gamin the nation is a fouler crime than treason against Kings, will prevent Monarchs from assuming power inconsistent with the happiness of society ! Now that the Army of O.cupation is to be with drawn from Francs, an important question arises fgr de. termination, namely, whether or not an additional force of 26,000 or 40,000 men is to be added to the already enormous amount of our Standing Army.--' If the decision of this question were left to the pub. lie voice, or to rest on the public ability to maintain the monstrous butthens of military and other es • pence. imposed upon it,•we can easily conceive in what meaner the deterasination would be made. Bot , • the power of decision unhappily rests where prejudices In favour of large Standing Armies exist in a 'stronger: degree than is the minds of the ind ustrioos community. Great di ff ereeces and difficulties, hum/orient told have arisen at military and Ministeriel'hesd-ilearters, ' In regard to the disposatof the returning army. The determination of the Cabinet, has been to reduce them, •but it is asserted that foie Commtoder.iu.Chief and' , bis councils object to theiedection. A Paper of this morning' informs us, that this question has occasioned • 66 no little alter Cation Otween the Commander.in- Chief and the Ministers, and rumour, through vari• cos channels, gees's° far as to affirm, that it is the intenders of the Deke of Yona to resign, end that the Duke of WELLINGTON will be appointed Com . mander-in-Chief., The remonstrances of the Doke •f YORK, it is said, bare been supported by the • 'PRINCE REGENT. This very curious state : meet, and might well excite some remarks, but we will not treat suoh rumours as facts. It is for Parliament to decide upon such proceedings, and en der such circumstances it is not too much to desire that the Constitutional guardians of the People's kr terests and safety should be speedily assembled, nor • too much to expect that their conduct relative to this subject should be vigilant, and be regarded by the station with more than common interest. The Earl of LIVERPOOL, it is understood, is most strenuous • 10 urging the necessity of ;eduction.—lie is so• • entirely convinced, says one of the statements; . of the incapacity of the nation to' bear the continued espence of the immense army, that be Ins been firm in his recommendation of the urea sure, and we' trust he .will gallantly persevere. — Finding the Minister' inflexible as to the Tonto" of the reduction, the next topic of controversy has been the mode of effeetteg it—wfieflielbjr the eedecaiiit. whole regiments, or by redecing the complement ' of each. The Duke ot Treenrie for keeping a great number of skeleton s , so as to lave O ffi cers, Serjearits,,aod Coporits ready to fill up the corps end drill thim when occasion should require them to be brought to the War Establishment. This course would not merely eutail on the country e. much greater expence than if the infantry were re• duced at once to the 80th, and the cavalry to the_ 18th, which is proposed, but it.woold also require a more numerous Staff, and be a snare for raising the regiments imperceptibly, under the pretext tdrafts to foreign corps, by which all the needful Mtiomy would be evaded. That the troops . Jo be brought from Front, would, if Ministers could gratify their own predilections and the'n jibes of theWar•Office, be incorporated into the Standing. Army there can be no doubt. But the finances of the coontry•will not per mit its being saddled „with such in eteentl • burden without the danger 'of some great' convulsion; end sorry, indeed, from Many considerations, should ire be, to 'see the - tino"pa which have been so • long in cuenttieseubject to a Military letpatiscn ) that have been to long accost' 1 assistazte, set op let citizens of a free coo► of material consequence . is strange, however, that it there be no occults. fel these troops in France, and there is the best natter. once of a permanent prospect of peace, it should be deemed necessary to keep the up in this country, still more strange thst Royalty here should be the first to suspect the professions of Crowned Heads gbroad. The eccounta from Spain mention farther impel. sonments of distingoished men by the order of the humane and beloved FERDINAND. CAN AIL. GUELLES has been arrested and confined in a castle.' CANGA ARGUILLES, it is believed, had been called up to Madrid by PIZARRO, and was on his way from Valencia when *Azad by officers bearing a secret commission. He has always been. considered as one of the best financiers in Spain, and was at the head of the Finance Department during the time of the Cortes. He is not related to ARGUELLtS the orator, who has long been is confinement. We anairetand that the two Lima Commieslifters were to leave town yesterday for Paris, on !belt way to Madrid. Another day's Paris Papers, and a, Beinhargh Mail, have arrived, from which we hare made ex tracts bat they bring nothing deserving ofrosnotent. Yesterday the Duke of YORK transacted military business with the PRINCE REGENT at Cariton-hoose. The Earl of LivEaroot. had au audience of the ' PRINCE REGENT yesterday. REDCCTION OF THE CAVALRY.-14 is diald that the 7th Dragoon Guards are to be reduced, and that the other Cavalry Regiments will be reduced two troops each, except the Life Guards, the Gator(' Blues, the Hussars, and the Lancers. It is reported that his Royal Highness the Duke of YO RK will resign hie situation of Commandir-in- Chief, and that - he is to be succeeded by his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON. Colonel Iletime, Aid de-Camp to the Duke of WELLINGTON, to be Mili tary-Secretary, rice Lieutenant-Colonel Sir HENRY TORRENS, who will be appointed Adjutant-General, vice Sir HARRY CALVERT, who retires upon fall pay, having completed his 30 years service. Lord and Lady MORPETII are returned to Castle Howard, Yorkshire, from a visit to the Dakar of DEvoNsutaz, at his seat, C hatsworth , Derbyshire.- Orders have been issued from the QUarter;Master. General's Office, for the barracks at Chelmsford to be immediately prepared to receive one thrummed men of the army about to leave France. THE NEW CROWN,. PIECES....e•TOttCh them gently, gentle Reader ! !—The Bank has sent round to the Bankers 400 new Crown Pieces, with the following curious Notice :—' 4 The hag contains 10 paper par cels, each parcel holding 40 pieces, Making the whole contents of the bag 400 Crowns, or 1801. value, 11 being desirable in the first issues ,of the pew cr4oll l l.i that the pieces should come into the hamb of the Public as perfect as possible, it is recorompided to the Bankers, in the distribution of them, that they should use precautions to prevent tilse JoiTressinn being injured as much as posiible."—FronMis lest paragraph, Mr. W. POLE seems to be aware that it is rather to be preserved as a medal than pat into cir culation as a coin. Between the sth and 12th inst. 233 passengers ar rived at Calais from Dover, and 4t)3 embarked for the latter place from the former. The French Papers say the vintage is newt every where finished, and the produce exceeds every Vipec• tidos', both in quantity and quality. A few days since the Ist Regiment of Magoon Guards, commanded by Colonel Tezinar.a, which highly distinguished itself, and suffered severely at Waterloo, was reviewed at * Hamilton by Major General Elope. A new Tragedy, from the pen of Mr. SHRIL, is in considerable forwardness at Coveat.prdett Theatre. Bch Joustron's Vo krone, or The Fox, is esicfro be in the list of revivals at New Mary. This Drama was re.produced by Mr. GAttarct with much success. Should it again be brought on the Stage, KEAN and MUNDIN will, of coarse base the two princtpni cha. rectors. WALLACE, late of Drury-lane, took with him lo Maeda a MOSE splendid wardrobe of theatrical dresses, stage ornaments, and other properties, to the estimated vale. of 2,0001. The foundation of an ancient building, supposed to be that of an hospital, has been discovered in the ground behind Northumberland-huse, by the men employed In preparing it for a shrubbery. CHANGE O Tistay.—ln 1703, when Mr. PITT .Callaijaio-poswery44te grinohrwirperstirgt Guyer n *Wei i L 2,5000004.; Ito* . at Peer Rik. ea. • ~ • The election of the Mayor far ittrerihnit foot place Oft Saterday. J. B. HOLLtitOSHEAD Rod' !Airwave, Esqrs. were proposed; and after a • spirited contestohe former Gentleman was dettar dole ele'cted. M Avnews, it appears, In announcing his At Home, et the Kilkenny Theatre, on Monday ie'nnight, for. tot to put at tire top of his bills, By Permission of his Worship the Mayor!--In consequence of which; 'on the forenoon of the above day, while Mr; MA. '!Haws was in the Library, on the Parade, a City Constable, rather a curious-looking fellow, rothild he and seized the Comedian, at the same time 4- claimin g —" How dares you, Sir, put forth thesehere bills without the Mare's permission?—his Worship Its mad, and you mast come - aloncwith me to his office; directly !" The report immediately spread that MA. Tams was arrested ; he, however, soon returned . ; and intimated, that ' 6 the Mayor - was very _polite, and behaved like a Gentleman ; but that from the behaviour of his ruffian-looking deputy, he had thought he had been arrested for high treason !" Mr. Mattlaws immediately ordered a few 'more bills to be printed with the permission, and on his Weir• s hi p rece i v i ng the customary nine ticket, (worth b4s.) the matter ended. 1 13VACUITION cis !NCR. ••, , . ,Orr. 17.-1 y thai it my pesos to semi you..? Tr •y faiP_ _ - is no *copy a. , a teat for th e Ivacuation of pasts. It ceonot iii to be gratifying to your Readmit. - j hepe to be able to morrow, or on Monday * to send yos the conclusion to-which the . Allied Midistry have come, in the affair of Baden aid Bavaria t— " TREATY FOR THE EtACHATIO* OF FRANCE. the nabs of the Holy end ludiviiiblei Trinity ! " Their Majesties the Emperor of. Auatrii, the King of Prussiiii and the Emperor of all the Hussies; having repaired to Aix-la-Chapelle, and their Ma. iesties the King of France and Navarre, ,and the -King of the kinedbm of Great Britain and Ireland ! having sent thither their Plenipotehtiariev, the Ml• slimy of the five Courts having assembled in confer: ence, and the French Plenipotentiary having made known, that in consequence of thkstate of FeIICP, and the faithful ezecutioo of the Treaty of N0v.20,1810. his Most Christian Majesty was desirous that the ml. litary occupation stipulated by the fifth Article of the, said Treaty. should cease as soon as possible, the Ministry of the Courts of Austria, Great Britain., Prussia, and Bassin (the names of the Powers yo• wilt see are placed in the alphabetical circlet). after baying, in concert with the said Plenipotentiary of France, maturely "asinine& every thing that could hare an influence on such at. important decision, declared, that their Sovereigns would admit the prin. ciple of the ',legation of the French territory at the • end of the third year of the occupation, and wishing to consolidate their .resolution ins formal Colleen. Lion, and to . secure at the sante time the definitite execution of the said Treaty of November 20, 1815, their Majesties mooted (here follow the names ..f IN. Miiiistry), who have agreed upon the follueitz Ar ticles : " Art. 1. The troops composing the Army of Occupation shall, be withdrawn from the French territory by the 30th of November nest, or sooner if possible. " Art.. 2. The strong pinces and fortresses which the said troops now occupy, shall be surrendered to Commissioners named for that purpose by his Most „Christian Ililajilaty, in the stale in which they were at the time of the occupation, conformably to the ninth Article of the Convention coueluded in execu tion of the fifth Article of the Treaty of November 20, 1815. " Art. 3. The sum destined to provide for the pay, the equipment, and the clothing of the troops of the Army of Occupation, shall be paid, in all eases, till the 30th of November next, un the same touting on which it has eaisted since the Ist of De cember, 1817. " Art. 4. All the pecuniary arrangements between France and the Allied Powers having been regulate*, and settled, the sum remaining to be paid by France. to complete the execution of the 4th Article of he Treaty of November, 1815, is definitively fizeorat 26 millions of francs. . ".Art. 5. Of this som, the amount of lop Mil lions of effective value shall be paid by an inscription of 'Ceuta on the Peet 'Melt of the Publie Dobt of France, bearing interest from the 22d of Sept. 1818. The sail inscriptions shall he received at the rate of the f on ds on the s;h Oct., 18111. . . " Art. 6. The remaining 165 millions shell be paid by nine wornathiy instalments, commencing with.the 6th of January neat (Note—i formerly by mistake named the 26th of December, of the present year), by drafts on the houses of /lope and Co. and Baring, Brother+, and Co. In.the same fejii . ouer the inscriptions of the renter, mentioned in the above Article, shall be delivered to Commissioners of the cowls of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Rum lie, by the Royal Treasury of France, at the epoch of the complete end definitive elacintion of the French territory. " Art. 7. Ai the same epoch, the Commissioners of the said Courts shall deliver to the Royal Treasury of France, the silt obligations (engagements), not yet discharged (amities), which shall . remain in their frauds of the 15 obligations (enmentenls).de. livered conformably to the second Article of the Con. vention concluded for the execution of the fourth Article of the 20th of November, 1815. The said Commissioners shall at the same time deliver the in. striptions of seven millions of rents:, created is virtue of the eighth Article of the said Convention. Art. 8. The present Convention shall be ratified, a nd the ratifications exchanged at Ais-la-Chapelle, in the course of 15 days, or sooner if possible, in the faith of which the respective Plettipptentieries have herewith signed their names, and allied to it their steal and arms. 66 Dune at Aix-la-Chapelle, the 9th of October, in the year of Grace 1818. ~(Here follow the signatures of the Ministers.] •• We have found the above Treaty conformable ; to our will, in consequence of which we have cons tituted and ratified the same, as we do now confirm and ratify it for our heirs and successors. [Here follow the signatures of the. Sovereigns, with the eperification of the different yew of their several reigns.] hupelle, pct. 17, 1818. . - There are at this time in the port of Bristol greater number of vessels in the harbour, for unload. ion, tbad ever Was remembered at one period in the memory of the 'oldest Merchant. To•morrow the prisoners who stand committed on charges of felony will be removed from the several jails in London and Middlesex to Newgate. prepara tory to their trials it the ensoineSessiens at , the ad Bailey, which commence bn Wednesday near, the 28th inst.: • • The Sessions for Middle•ez begirt at she %miring: hens", Clerkensreli-green; on Monday out, the 26th instant. CORN •EXCRAINOR, OCT. 2l.—Althnogh we hire had no fresh•sopply of English Wheat since klatfcray, what remained Oyer from that day could not be dis. ' posed of this morning, having bat few buyers at market, and our prices may be considered at 2s. per quarter lower. -Barley supports Mowley's prim; the quantity of English at market being small, 'which occasioned. brisk sales for Ike meta 411. tide. no alierativa. .: gTAlittO A N 21-14 • .r• • I :ditomed ; to t r tind,r " LEA FY " 14 rlia a permanent bail to coerce the FR4I ()entry. This is* consideration .• . nce in the present question. It LA•CIi A iIiLL; 007 . . to ft :•• ••••• ram. • .. :-4 NAVAL INTMLLIGEPICE. •0V 4 ' DEAL, Oct 10.-Arrived tt4 Itenit,.Attiniori; from Quebec, and sAded for Sterkt•qt —Remain iti the Dorrui the Sir George Monte (trabipor), for order,: PORTIIKOI7TIt, OCT. 20 ..:—Artriteti the Regalii (transport), Du nn, from the Cape and St. Helena,' with her ibeib.:meit thiirrikl by lightning, hull dainaged,and one man killed .;.-Saliert the Blebdenbalt, Martin, for Bombay ; Valiant, ler Jamaica ; den, fur Antiria; Sitters, Rolfe and meiy, DU: parti fir the.MeidiritVranean ; the b h frigate 1)11. phin, for therOitiof Gdinea ; and iris "rl..jesty'l brig Rosario, On I crake CoatEti, Ocr. 20—:Arrirrid the brig Loyd! Briten,. from Halifax, with troops. PLititotrrif . Oct 19.—Cadre id the LA Suffield; Brown, from London fbr Calcutta,and .emains wind: hound ; Hope, gees; frons London for Bilbos, out 14 days, with loss uttop4vist.—Ssilid the Peissier.: ante, Luke, for the South'S•44. Pm:motto, Ortolan 18.—Arrirod thi glinfiter picket; with 'a Mail, from Jamaica.), 39 , :tiy a ; *Flo Nall struck With lightntog on the 17:n ult; iihi Ilhirorid her main mist sod killed Id fowls which were in coops to Oct, tall fuitinsiely hurt none of the Crew.—The brig Vitilligen; 1 0, 41 ik; from Lbodun for Bored struck uu 'he rocks a Wile to the westward of the Matilde, tail night in d ioick fog, where the time lieu *lib the rork• Ihrooth tier bottom; all the itoret are laird; rind to.Mor rb '4l tide if is hoped she-will be gat off with tbeitiai4l4.ici. Of the Revenue ratter, Captain tattle BttiotirL. Orr. 20.-;-Artiseil the Albloili trim • LITEIteOeL, llT—The Mars, Bien, ft VA . '. 4" 5 Isle et Mull, With t 53 r.ttlyrs ; and Sterling, W. e; from GreOtiock, with 33d hale Wien,. • it Quebec. •• " 211b147 1 10ES: I t ';' • DRIIR*-LANE —The Recruging formed at this Theatre fast nighty for the unit aeae three . ram The ran comprehended meat Of the streoith'. the compttiv. Florae aOB Brine» found artfora, repre , etitatires lii STANLEY and ffaitt,E*; uftd,:.4 and KNIGHT were highly a:nosing in' the tw.• !Lptic), and the fetnelo characters denied no'smalf.intetest from the eat.' !inns of Mrs. MaRDINi Mn. Allot., and Mrs. ORGER• COVENT-OALIDENC—A rte* serious broom io thfea acts, Meg last 'sight perkaned t/r the first tkv!, tit led Pro,f Presumptive; or, The Abbey of boars ill areo. This piece is taken from the French (it h Said b r Mr. C K suat.r), and hoe already been made fatiiliar to an English audience by Mr. Di DOI 21, at the Circus, *here it hag been acted %Oh same Toristinits, under the title •f The Invitible Wetness; or, ME Chapel in the Mori. The main hut;ners of Proof Presuerptire is dot very different from that of the Foreet of Bondy: the Maid and the Magpie. and other pieces obtairied from the same Source, 'save that the agents ire all human, and dr+ds..a►sgpiee,•errd elineso; are sot te. gutted to glee their powerful assistance. I , is, in fact, a cold detail of crime, remorse, and punishment, inartificially conducted, slid placed directly' before us, without poetical colouring, without episodes of any kind, without goy towebet at seesawed. et- Ala reeler : we seek 'in vain to rape for a moment; Ind main event with its coorequences is peopetuoliy be. fore us, glnotn and horror pervade every scene. Ws' do not believe that a parallel is in this reopeet td l►e f oun d a m on g dramatic productiont; none such ext., within our rerellectiou, and we hero never to encounter such another. Popularity, we should think, is oat of the question it may l►e endured, but can never he ideated. The piece is constretted on fake principles of taste, end an ignorance of se. ncine dramatib effect. In ti.e ilia!, the Isttl.ticene, we will admit, there was some goad acting on the part of Mr. Mkt/Mini and M. C. KEIVELE. hit stilt the Process *as too long, and too• formal. A practitioner rat the Old Bailey might have been pleased by some of its each. nicetittea, but a ;Jilted eudience could nett., srtprose of its minuteness and girls?. ••A Contest took piece on the falling of the curtain. Ti.o piece was flounced for repetition, but it was amidst a tumult of disapprobation.—The Wedding Day followed, ire which Mr. FARREN performed the part of Sir Admits Contest, for the first time. He acquitted himself with his usual talent, and was well supported by 'l`, H ILL , formerly Miss H. KELLY, from the Bath Theatre. This Lsdy sings, bUt site can Only . be classed among the ordinary novelties tn'whlch we have been accustomed. BRiG lITON,' Ocr. 20. The Prince Regent is espected down here, on Thursday nest, for the purpose' of inspecting the improvements at the Pavilion. The sculptured le i. naiets for the south wing' hiving' arrived, leorkmen are busily employed in fixing these•idditional archi tectotai ornaments, iisd by the latter end of. the week a great part of the elevated scaffolding *ill be removed. The pencils of the Scientific Artists rd the paint. ings of the Music and Concert Rooms, eshiblt ,the perfection of the arts of the present day. Miss lieLve made her first iippeirante at oar Theatre, last night, in the character of Peggy, in the Couniiy *Girl. She looked and played the part inimitably well, and a respectable sodience received this deserving 'Lady with considerebie opplasse, which her performance well tweriteii. This evening, she sestains the character of Albino its the admired Comedy of the Will. Last hight . th* Proprietors of the Castle Assembly. robins 'closed them. The Nobility end Gentry a thus &pitted of a' weekly fashionable assembly, end the Master of the ceremonies is may a Dame, ia a town 'Which boasts Its reship - noble' Veneta. • • • • A lipel* new • iharklog stsy,lo4' the leflti of ass 1611 hileay; to etimibinicite het w eta thi,Waesor. leanthire . Allis end the Bristol Citetteei, pee. pole of facilitating th e transfer of 004.4(4 Lie:WA those hills abound, and to receive whi114.8111.14 is t* be formed veer Eviliay-bridge. e "I I l ' I ter to fir rat) aft lid it . ' 11"-"" ir: st, ; , A d