The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-03-20 00:00:00

T $ Ills ROYAL HIGHNESS GEORGE PRINCE OF w ALF% PRINCE REGENT OF THE UNITED LINGDOM OF GREAT ERITAIN AND IRELAND. THE RUVBLE PETITION op THE UNDER.- SIGN ED HOUSEHOLDERS AND IN HARI • TANTS OF THE BOROUGH OF WESTBURY. IN THE COUNTV OF WILTS. s. im Mete. I 'HAT your Petitioners basing been disregarded and coateseneil in muttons in which they have cointitu venally implied (or vlief. and Boding their fondly-cherished extieciashow dlsar t ieStoted and el ceased, turn with impl or ing ,„,.;..y.to sour osal Highness. cis their last resource, Cant,. 41-sioly grassing w your Royal Highness's paternal solicitude and • meet the mei-ail/ice which they seek, and resting ' folly usgetred.yeur Retyul Highoers will uev. r 'elect the suppli- ; e. • as at your people, In duly their requests, when reasonably • ere wed. Zw,t reef P 4 iiiiorwry hewing, in common with his Majesty's 141 ) 111 !mod effectual:tie subjects, horn Jo they conceive with un esasobille.l patience aad fortitwe, the unprecedented and alin.es ass wheltnies; burdens with which they have ham Inden during rue late prattucted mid mast expensive war, bailed with pecu 'jai eleaauce the return 41 peace, trusting, with it to enjoy its .'jstingolshedroncomitanb,the bleteings of commerce and plenty s but to their. e‘treane disappointment and dismay, they behold a sisciaure all rally adopted by the Honourable the House ni Coin mow, and now peadaig in the Right Honourable the Howe of Lords, which must inevitable (as the prices of all provisivas depeud ell that of bread cord) have for its end the increase in COI tit cry-1y necessary of life, and therefore deprive them of, the blessiegs from which they have been so long estranged, and w hich they se exultingly expected. That yiitir Petitioners hvA shoal; the lite unprecedented woe s beheld the commerchil and manufacturing interest of their country toiling ender the mod heavy and oppressive duties, sub lees a. extrumoinary rates'? insurance, their repots,. extreme ), G.:cleating. and mane branches of their maantactures decay ing and reduced to utter rrih antrdisirets i while the Landholder oda been Subject to no vicissitude. or risk . but taking advantage of the disttesses orate times, has made such enormous advances io the price of his posetosiotts (far exceeding the increase of nay other property), as to raise himself to opulence and luxury ; thus enriching himself without endangering his principal, at the ex pence or the mere numercus and usetul 'mitten of the com apitiitv. That your Petitioners had long beheld with regret the per fection to which foreign nations have arrived. in the manufac ture or Many of the commodities, which were formerly confined to this country; but they faltered theneelvev, on the return of liner, by the cheapness of iaboor, to be enabled to bring their produce to the foreign market, .with their accustomed advan ta4rs ; but to their extreme mortification they find themselves already outsold in many of their manufactures ; and they arc fully assured, that any measure tending to increase the present price of Con, would. by rasing the costs of labour, totally ex clude them from the foreign market, and thus the mechanic be lug without employ, m spirit of emigration would he excited, nod considerable additions made tq the already overgrown and inereasiug Poor Rates. That yourPetiiioners conceive the present prohibiting price of Os. per quarter, affords adequate protection to the grower, as the expellee attending the raising of Corn, is, and will be • greatly diminished; and as the rents, which have risen beyond all precedent. must be much decreased by the abandonment of the Prnperty Tax, while the imposts substituted in its place, are calculated principally to affect the merchant and manufac turer, the only sufferers from the late war. That your Petitioners bud fully believed that the feelings of newly the whole &mien, so decidedly and constitutionally ex pre•s, d to the Homerable the House of Commons daring the pi esent Session, would have been sulllcient to have induced that Ilenourehle Huuse to refrain, at least from passing the purposed nice ere—a measure so deeply interesting to the community at large, until the same had received a comideration proportioned to its 11114 tottenituile ard importance ; but how are they aeo ni.hro e l b e holding their representations and entreaties wholly disreearded, while the measure has been carried through that flietourahte flame with a celerity tend haste, which nue of their Honestnible Members has, as pew Petitioners conceive, rightly termed " indecent," and is now with the same speed Otheugh the Right Hon. the House of Lords. Yew Petitioiwrs, while they cannot bring themselves to sup wee that your Royal Highness would, unlike your beloved pa .cat, our tuost venerable and gracious Sovereign, so fir oppose bie wishes of his people as to give your Royal sanction in a itiew•ure ill the 'ceiling', of so vast a ma jurity of the papuletion of the country, emu wetly entreat your Royal IJfxtn e ., , that in your wisdnui you would see tit to exert ne your Royal rrernicative, by directing a dismiss. lion of the present Parliament, that the ...eiiiiisschts of his Whs. lib I.iiticlul e atf elienate *airily way he more fully and effectual', tarried edit ct ; and w Cf. w 'tit anxious riatibet loch -1./ the present disturbed and unhappy state of France, fearing test they may he speedily involved in mother war; to Nolo Rity . al Highness they bauk with iac rem i ug centicleure Jer the aversteu an measure, which will Wasl all the beuefft. of the d.rwsning peace, and restore to Orin all the atis. ries which they bad fatally hoped, they should at lewd for a period, have e.cul CJ. and your Petitioners, as Iht duty bound. shell ever pray, &e. r e v Til Proprietor of this JOURNAL having swift/rawly op po►ed th. Coax Buz since its first introduction into Parlia ment, under a conviction of its being a most impolitic and dan vino- measure, trust- he may pith confidence claim the support of all Moat who entertain the same sentiments.—lie hopes thereto's, that his pretensions to support will not be overlooked, and that he may at least share with other Jour nals (most of which a ere in favour of the Bill at the commence ment) in receisi.ig the Advertisements, which the present mo mentous question may produce. )dr. Lorna. trust. that his political conduct, during his captivi ty. has likewise given general satisfaction, considering the numerous difficulties which have necessarily attended his pro. traeted separation from his establishment. Nevrgate, March 20, 1815. In the Fifth Year of his Imprisonment. A rr. Malts fl 2 ] France . 1 0 THE STATESMAN. I)•te DAY AT ()NH. O'CLOCii. Long. Ann. Indus Bonds 1 p Exchequer Hills 2 5 p Ornninm 81 8 Consols for Acc. GO} 1 COI rain; OF STOCKS TllllB • 3uxtt _ _ J Net Cent. Red. , per Cent. COll.l. 61 CO4; per Cents. 4 per Cent. Navy 914 i LONDON: HONI)AY, MAUCH 9,0, 1815. The insurrection in France becomk every day snore formilable. The most reprehensible attempts are mAlt.in6, both lu France and this country, to de ceive the public mind with regard to its progress.— We cannot juin in the unworthy and impolitic de. caption. Let the Reader look nt what nre considet trefhcrtfic &mut tt 11,..-at the substance of the ditpetches .receleed yesterday by oar Covertinsent from Lord Fiezttoy Soactitstr, sent off from Paris on the 16th, aad at the confer* of the Monikers end the other *rvetich rapers, which are received to the 1&h ;lwatant, and judge then what it the real state of .affairs jy VIIIIIM. The ,real state of things, however, we apprehend, but little applient, even from these official declarations. The march of etents-s -' the uninterrupted mud at nconcentable ta ucceyea ,stf., him who I. rgain climbing the steep of empire with bold and awful rapidity, of which hibtory, his omit eventful history, wards no pa tulle', ay fftelotitly hod; • vest* the:actual .itun t ion of public altars l tbateouit tryrrille tee! seutimetits of the Frac!' 00; the THE STATESMAN. BOSAPAWrt, and may, from the style, and the subjects it embraces, be considered as a genuine ptoduction of his. The defence of his present conduct is rested upon strong grounds—the violation of di the articlis of the Treaty agreed upon with him—attempts upon his life, and to wrest from him the asylum to which he was reduced, to take - from him his wife and son, and the States which had been guaranteed to them. These attempts, he says, have restored him to his throne and liberty. He promises to put to flight before the 30th of this month, "the slothful Princes, who wish to' render Franca tributary to foreigners, and the contempt of Europe," and to give glory agakn to the French nation. The lives. of the BOURBONS are promised to be spared. Thouglithey have set a price on his kW, he pardons them, and will content himself with do. livering them over to their Allies, or to that foreign country where their Chief has already reigaged nine teen years. What bitterjrony ! What a 'moment on the Proclamation of the restated Monarch, who dates, in the 20th . year of our reign. In addition to the various interesting particulars that will be found in our columns regarding the state of France, we shall here add, that we have just seen a Gentleman of distinction and undoubted vera city, who is returned from Paris, and who assert:, that there were three to one in favour of BONAPARTE in that city—that he was confidently expected to enter the capital yesterday without opposition, and that the utmost bustle and confu sion reigned there, particularly among those who ' were eager to get away. Several men had been cot down in the Carousel for crying out Vim k Empe. retie ! Those who were not actively for him took no very warm part for the BOUREIONs. The King is chiefly supported by the returued Emigrants, to wards whom he has manifested a very indiscreet] partiality. Nothing would prevent a general in surrection in France, if the British troops in Bel gium, and the Prussians on the Rhine, should enter the Freuglo territory : it would be. a signal for the defection of the whole French army. Our Readers will see,, even from the extracts we irate made front , the Moniteur, that the Government itself coolest.s the commotions of the populace tlei places _ Where BONAPARTE has appeared.. • " - - Our Ministers appear of opinion, thot, it will .be, impossible for this countertottop mit' of the fray. that threatens again to embroil the Continent... in: such hands we fear it will 'be impossible. •We look at the Treaties by 'Mich we are bound to support the crowned heads of the wrangling and partitioning Congress with horror—at the situation of our countrymen in Belgium, who, ' after delivering Spain to FERDINAND, are now to fight to aggrandize the House of ORANGE, with anxious apprehension and regret—and at the sur render of all the advantages which this country threw back to France as a dower to the BOURIONI, with indignation. Dave ell these advantages reconciled France to the expatriated family—was if necessary that we should pay them so well to take them back— and are we nab' to be plunged into war to give kingdoms to Foreign Princes, and redeem the blun ders of an incompetent Ministry ? It seems we are. The Duke of WELLINGTON has been appointed Ge neralissimo of the troops in the Netherlands, and Ordered to procted thither without delay, to assume the command. Transports have been taken up, aiid directions have been issued to expedite 6000 troops Ifrom Ireland, and three regiments of cavalry from London to join his Grace's army. Ministers, says a Paper of this morning, have re ceived information that the Duke of WELLINGTON is arrived at Brussels. The news of the invasion of France by BONAPARTE was received at Vienna on the Bth. The consternation was unitersal, and sad was the dismay and confusion that took the place of dancing and feasting in the higher circles. The first feeling was to reconcile the Crowned Heads, who had been wrangling for months about thedivision of spoil, instead of cordially fulfilling to Europe the promises they had given; and it Is said that " a very ho.. pourable mark of their confidence was shown to the Duke of WELLINGTON, by appointing him Gene • ralissinto of all the troops in the vicinity of France, ,an consequence of which his Grace set out for Brus 'eels." it may not be inconsistent with the former policy of (he Allies, to expect that, by this appoint. ment, they are to do Great Britoil' the honour to defray the expellee! Great Britain is certainly 'Mitch obliged to them -for all the honours sod ad. -vantages they have conferred upon her. A letter, dated Dover, 9 o'clock Inst night, was stuck up - tkia foredoom at Li.ovo's, headed " Glo rious News," stating that a boat had just arrived at Dover from Franc., bringing the important intelli gence• of pomsesare having been come up with at: Macon, by Welty• who had defeated him, after a bante l , and taken one of BOMATAATeS Gene van, elld.BBo of his men prisoners. This statement obtained hot, little credit, and turned out to be a mere stocitiobbing trick. ".• This'inornitsg the Sit, Bth, 7ilt, 10th, 116, 16th, tsrad 18th Regiments of Dragoons received orders to •held themselves in remliness to march for the coast, 1 ,4 bn embarked for Belgium.. Lord Aixeitzima is let take the command of the cavalry there. • A confidential letter from Brussels, March 14, 4isira, 66 we, enchanted that the Prussian corps , iPimatileo in Lottemburgh is in motion towards St. pyassian troops. are assembling near Trues. /ans torry.to say, that a good many. Del riaa Officers were arrested here latt night:. situation in which the whole of the Continent will, in a very short time bkin, and the falsehood and elange; of the disguise now attempted to be th'rown over' the public mind. The ditpatches receiVed . yestetthy, as liven out by Ministerial Prints,admitted that Rolek.. l PARTE was still in possession of the important City of Lyons with 8000 meatiest ManhaiNtT% army,which had been sent against him was only 10,000 strong,and that one of the regiments (the 13th Dragoons), had been " for a moment seduced by the emissaries of BONAPARTE." It was added, they had, however, re. turned to their allegiance. It is clear, notwithstand. ing this returning to duty, and all the statements l*e have of armies marching on all sides to arrest the Invader, that the Marshals dare not bring the troops into contact with the " Rebel" force, that they re. treat as fast as those they were sent to oppose ad vance, and that the dernier resort for saving France, is now that of attempting to cover the capital by a concentration of the Royal Army. For this pur pose, it is stated, that au army was forming at Melt's', which, at the date of the dispatches, was said to amount to 30,000 men. The Monileur of the 17th received this morning, states facts still more alarming, and to the' people of Paris and France, we may say to Europe, mast show still more the danger and even hopelessness of the Royal cause. It does not give any official dis. patch, bat announces that BONAPARTE has resumed offensive operations on the route from Lyons to Paris. 46 The most recent news," says the Moniker, " causes us to presume that BoNAp.twrEquitted Lyons on the 13'b, and moved in the direction of Macon and Chalons. The combined dispositions which we have already described, sufficiently show that this I Movement was expected. Marshal NET, who ob served him, is in march to follow him." To follow him! Was it not said that Marshal NeT was marching down upon him with an . over whelming force. Now he is following ! and BdsA CARTE IS advancing in the direction of Macon and Chalons. The latter place is ninety miles in advance of Lyons. It is not said that there was any force at . i Chalons sufficient to arrest his career. His road, 1 therefore, Is clear of obstacles, as it has been ever since his starting. What hope for Paris then ? Ins.! force is admitted to be irresistible without—the par ty for NAPOLEON we know to be strong within the. Capital. BONAPARTE'S movements, it it evident,. have disconcerted every plan formed to arrest hitis.d lie would not leave Lyons defenceless ; his ability; to place in it n garrison sufficient to keep the popula- . Lion in their favour, and repel external assailants, cannot now he doubted—what prospect then is held , out of gratifying the friends of the BocanoNs with . s the blood of NAPOLEON ? The account which we have copied from the Mod tear admits two important facts. let, that after having rested anti organized his troops during three days at Lyons, NArozrox has reilimed his march towards the capital, on the line whichthc insurrection of the people (yes, tie people, for thts cannot now be denied) in his favour had pointed out as the most favourable to. the execution of his plasm Secondly, that NET, whO was represented to move on Lyons at the head of 10,000 men, to attsok, not merely to observe the four thousand seven hundred men which were said to compose the whole force of the enemy, now finds himself too inferior in strength, or too doubtful of the fidelity of his corps, to attempt any thing either against BONAPARTR, whom he is con tented with following, or against Lyons, though the Invader has left it. It also appears, that although BONAPARTE'S present movement is said to have been expected, it has disconcerted every plan formed to arrest him. NET, who woe to defend the road to Paris, is now left in the sear, and NAPOLEON stands between him and the capital. Whet other armies are collected to oppose his further advance is not known ; and having, as is equally evident, ob tained sufficient artillery and muskets to arm a very considerable force, he win be able to take advantage of the dispositions of the people in the departments s which be now crosses, and t o p rocure a large ad dition to his numbers. Nothing but want of force Or of judgment (an error of judgment !) can have. thrown Ncy in to MI piquant a wkward situation. From: :•, , his position . at DOOM. 3-5 miles.eeith-east of le"' he could by a sheet *Mil 401 abotit . 20 miles ori'cis right, reach Macon' i4ore BONAPARTE, and (mod nuing his movement on Moulins,. cut Mm entirely from the Paris road. But this he has not done. Was lie deterred from adopting this plan, by the`pro... gress of the insurrecti o n i n thos e p arts ? . I• 4 . It is stranse that no honouraTale mention, is i'ids AMM 4ker of MAMMA or his troops, Meng the attached . . shals and corps, by the French Government.:. _ ifs army has been estimated 27,000 mop ,. $ e haft joined BoNAPARTE. • i The French Royal Family ipWar sensible of their danger. They- hive been mikint the moat a 9 tin( appeals in mien to theCluoiltersoked twee on their honoor to live and-/fteliiiikketti the Consiftq. tional Charter and the country. • Somit yells of • this sort were made when Lotus the Desired ascended th# Throne. ))ow have they Witt kept I • The meth of France can tell. y' R . i • • We give, in aiti4lter csileati,*ea iristiortant Paii. it is (said to be)*.one of BONAPARTE./ dectitiii*lri addressed particularly to the Padding, and ditstli. buted in that city, where we are inforiaed thege.atie' many such articles in circulatioa, a piaestat aa the walls, notwith s t an di ng ill !h 1 e ti . ititlia/ gkillii' police, It is e er y lik e the Proelsmetione et NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEAL, MARCU Ig.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Bellerophon, from Portsmouth, and sailed for the River; Dextrous gun-brig, from off the North foreland.—Came down from the River, the Redpok gun-brig, and remains with the whole of the East India fleet. Piss u'CLocs.—The wind has every appearance of coming round to the eastward. The whole o f the East ludiamen are getting top-gallant -masts and yards up, and preparing to sail to the westward. .PoßlrsMoura, M A RCIS 19.—Arrived 'the Hyena store-ship, with a Mail from Halifax; Horatio hi. „gate, from the Downs; two ships, •ne English and the other French, from Havre; and L'Adabic, Victor, from Hontleor.—Sailed his Majesty's s hi p /Nano's, for the Duwns, and several light tuns .l: ports to Ramsgate. PLYMOUTH, MARCH IS.—Sailed the /VuOtllark and Badger sloops of war t for Beardeaux, with fleet under convoy. FALMOUTH, MARCH 17.—Arrived yesterday the Aranchceler packet, with a Mail from the Brazils, in 15 weeks; Marlborozigh packet, from Plymouth, where she lauded her Mail from Lisbon som e d ay , ago.—Sailed to-day the following packets, all with Mails-*-Duke of Kent, for Lisbon ; Prince &nut for do. ; Lath/ IPellinglon, for Jamaica ; Queen Charlotte, for the Brazils ; and Princess Mu, :y for the Islands. The packets now in port are p ut on the peace establishment; each having lantled an th e i r guns but two, and reduced their complement of men to 21. The Manchester packet spole the llopc froxn• Poole, fur Newfoundland, off the Lizard, dis. muted. HARWICII, MAR= 18.—Arrived the Prince of Orange and Diana packets, with Mails, from ilol. land ; and the Alliance packet, with ditto, from. Gottenbergh.—Sailed the Lord Nelson packet, with a Mail, for Holland; and the Phoenix packet, wilt. a Mail, for Cuxhaven. A great proportion of the light artillery was sent of yesterday morning for Belgium. The Hon. ANDREW FOLEY arrived in town on Si.' i tiiiday last, from a continental tour. ire came from- Naples, through the feta of France; visited ke capital, and left in on Tuesday morning early for Boulogne. He states that every thing appeared gay and tranquil at the Coot of Naples. The Prin. cess of WALes opened her palace to the English' end Nettpojiten nobility, on Mondays and Fri 'digs; aad the QuitEN had drawing.rooma on Than. de)... The most unremitting attention Wee paid' to the English by MURAT and his Acacx.-a Mr. FOLEY came home by -a vessel froM Boulogne, he having learned that Calais was crowded with Eng. In the same boat came the Duchess of 04LEAKt in disguise; the latter eircemstanee he did not know ' until his arrival at Dnver. He 'Old 25 Nopoleont fat his pauage. The English at 11110etegne were not in any proportion to these aa--feakda. •Thbliallitary evidently disaffected. He added, in Paris, certainly the party for NAPOLEON is a strong one. Soutt's affair becomes more mysterious than ever. The Moniteur informs as 1 ' that the Xing has writ. ten a letter to the Duksl44teetkett,t,wilkolsh approbation of his service, , the estimation o'whirh he held them, and the dales which be felt of avail. ing himself of them egain." Is olitpelloo powerful still to be punished; or if he wet sotla fault ally was he deprived of Ms situation ? ' The Nem York Gazette, of the 25th of latteary, gives a detailed account of the loss of the Britiitt sloop of war Sylph, off Southampton, Long Island, on the 17th of that month. Every exerttoit 'bat made by the people of the town to save the crew, but t4e state of the weather rendered their Bodes. years in a great degree ineffectual.—The Offers who perished with the Vph were—George Dickeni, Captain ; C. D. Brown, Ist Lieutenant ; George Burr, 21 ditto ; J. Stirt, Surgeon; William flirt. law, Master; William Boyd, Gininer ; James Marshall, Ca rpenter; Andrew MAGregor, Boat swain; Archibald Lundie ' Master's Mate; James Service, Midshipman ; David• Citron, ditto; J. O'Halloran, ditto ' • T. F. Willoughby, evert's. merary ditto ; W. If. Fox, Captain's Clerk.—The above 14, with 07 seamen and marines, making ill drowned. The rest of the crew remained primmer - I of war at Southampton. Government recently issued orders to the COMnli&' sinners of Victualling to supply theforees at Ostend To and Antwerp with pro t i%l ons r three. mouths. Ministers hove abandoned the proposed Wind , " Tax on manufactories and warehouses. This filetou urination was on Saturday announced In the followill Circular sent the Members of the Deputation of 111 a. .nufacturers:— nowninustreet. MarOs IS, Dili. Mr. VAxserrAnT preseuts his compliments is and has the honour to acquaint, him, fat the information of those Gentlemen in whose behalf he is more particularly interested, that it has heel thought advisable by Lord LIVERPOOL and Mr. Irtv• srrrA RT,Under the present circumstances, not to prey the proposed Uouse and Window Duties on muw factories and warehouses. The most serious apprehensions are entertained in a very high quarter, that Mr. NASH has not yet ef. fected the removal of the state-bed from Malmsisor. As this celebrated specimen of upholstery wis the bridal bed of the Ex-Emperor, It is netts'sl that ti should make every exertion to retain it.—Quere; Has Mr. NASH paid for it ? We regret to learn that there were some dis. tut-boners at Norwich on Friday last. An Apia'. tural Meeting was held In that city, attended by Mr. COVE, of flolkham, Lord ALBOCARLE, and sever other Gentlemen, when the populace availed thee selves of the opportunity to commence a riot, end tk Angel Inn was the scene of action, the gates °IRMA were nearly destroyed. The MAYOR was comeeliti to call out the military to restore order, and some the leaders were secured, We lament to hear any insult should have been offered to Mr. CAA: , who, with hit friends, left the town before theta , ' tory were celled out. ier e Pcn 1131,11 vi p, hift Rye Jim M ee ppd whi Pita Mug ve il Per WI