The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-12-23 00:00:00

!gets triumph of the &utmost amuse. The conduct of the Catholics and Royalists is extenuated with all poi sible ingenuity, whilst that of their victims is covered With blame. This is the way in which outrages are sup pressed, end own discouraged from the most horrid climes! Let the dncun►ents published by the Dis. tenting Ministers of London be compared with this that it may be seen on what side truth and humanity lie. . TO M. SEGUIER, Formerly First I're•ident Ow IMPERIAL C.llO, and, until 1814 a sno-i loyal rabies'( of N troLeoN I. y but at reMill FLEA I Et , iiPlll of the It WEAL Court, and uttokto loyil tab j •rt, doubt, 4,f Loch XVIII. t.F.r mit Ix. the plain and artless simplicity of com. tomi •P!INP, hn I nevd ioir tell you is a CITIZEN TIIE WORLD, and as well knouts in your coulitiy as in mine, E mployment moms C Al) A. —Prumotion DESERT. Such istlie standard by which puhiic Functionaries are measured in Eng. laud ; sou ulioneter her Soseieign sel ec ts ineGicient per.:riis for high official trusts, or confers titles or 1104PIYA LITT Ei Or. Tilt M A Nil 0 N-110VSE.—IVe un derstand that the Loan MAYOR give. a publi c di n . ti er, st tie Mansion-House, to a liai;ind number, every di in the week (Sundays earepted). The p9r. ter stationed at the front gate has a state, %thick j e se,ihes the numher for each tiny. The ',nun NlAyon'.l friends have only to sill and put their f lown for auy dny that snits them: if they Welt,' tinting on the day they call, it must be before iViPlie o'clock. ponsiGns % here they have not been merited by eminent public cols ices, this porversion of duty, w hich has formerly, happened here as well ag else here, brings • We have received, by the ship Perseverance, let- his integrity or his capacity into question, and he in ters from Buenos Ayres up to 2lth September ; but • stantly becomes an object of suspicion or contempt. they are extremely barren of news, no late teen:rills PUBLIC OPINION is a lever of much greater having been received from Peru. Art order has been force in England than in France, because our un issued in the Canary Islands, enjoining that all Mails, from whatsoever quarter they may arrive, are to be firma! character has less frivolity in it, and more carried to the Governor's house, and examined before consistency than that of s our'':. 1 3 111)iiC opinion, ill d e livery to the public. it is supposed that this mea. this land of well-organised, rational liberty, has a sure originated its the circumstance'of the lose Ge- pswer far superior to any that Mechanics has hitherto nets' Pottuse being a native of the Canaries. invented. It is at once a stimulus to virtue, and a New York Papers, to the 24th ult. reached town iestraint on vice. It has consigned one despot to the yesterday, with Boston and Baltimore Papers of various dates. It has been already made known, scaffold, and another to beggary and exile. Our that the American Commodore DscaTua, had de. -Kings, since the expulsion of the STesters, who, minded of the Beys o f Tunis and Tripoli restitution you know, were all " GRACE OF GOD MEN," for permitting the British, unmolested, to cult not of have held public Opinion in great respect, because their bays or harbours, ehips carried in there prizes they are conscious that they sway the Realm by no to American ships of vane, We now perceive by other tenure. Your Kings, hedged by bayonets, these last arrivals, that the American Commander Iso succeeded in his objects ss and the following are and governed by the POPE and his bandiiti of Eccle. espies of the official accounts, addressed by the Com- siastics, claim their right to reign from heaven, and rn ,,,i,.....,, his Goiter:wield, on the subject : ; set PUBLIC OPINION at deiance. Your Sore- COPY or t LETTER FROM COMMODORE DECATUR TO reigns thus propt, run riot with an authority which TOE SECRETARY OF Tide NAVY, DATED UNITES they are told is derived from Heaven; while your tastes( elite GUERRIERE, BAY OF TUNIS, JULY 81, 1815. Priests piously propagate a fraud pilfered from the 6 ' SIR,—I have the honour to inform you, that Jewish theocracy, and thus render their agency indis upon toy arrival at this anchorage, I was made ac- peesable to the despot by the impunity it promises quainted with the following transactions which had hi m, for t h e i j o i ai i o ,„ ~1 the trust reposed i n hi m ,. taken place here during our late war with Great If public opinion has not always had 'sewer to the Britain. Two prizes, which had been taken by full extent it Ought to bare in England, from the tra. the Abseil/so privateer, and sent into this port, aere taken possession of by a British vessel of ture of its Government tied the freedom of de war, while king within the protection of the Bey bate, its voice, whenever prarlainsed, whether in of Tux's. The Consul having communicated to Psrliament or out of it, has, however, had sulll-1 me information of this ; I ; `• 0 • 21 •^" "t our '''sty giant authority to make itself respected by with Tunis, I domande(' satisfaction of the Bv• those who have ventured to place themselves ----After some hesitation, asd pie ustog a ;te:na , of payment for one year, my demand was „cc-dad a bove it' This, Sir, is one, and tint the least to, and the money amounting to forty-six thous.rn.l yalsahle, of our securities against despotism. Our dollars, sirs paid into the hands of the Consul, Mr.' Magna•Chiarta and the Bill of Rights are additional Nom', agent for the rive e e ls I shall proce#4l im- securities ;' and if they should unfortunately prove mstliately for Tripoli, and will give you early infer- inadequate' to keep infatuated Ro)'alts within the statist) of the Further proceedings of this squadron.— i li m its prescribe! by the Constitution we have our The Bey of TUNIS has now lying in this harbour, 1 nearly ready fur sea, three frigates and several small , courage to appeal to as a dernicr resort, and woe to vessels of war.—l have the honour to be, w i t h great , the deluded, misguided Poince aho would dare to respect, Sir, your obedient servant. l bring his illegal pretensions to such a test. Yoe; I:: t S ,h O , F iN C4' , ll.l it. " M.o. B. W. ernanin , birls7 " :er T r i s : l l ;:r H y disdain such fences and appeals ; and, denying ally 1 By a s e c o nd l e tt er f rom Commodore DECAIun to right in the people to punish delinquent Kings, you the Secretary of the American Nssy. it appears, that surrender at once their persons and their fortunes ir on proceeding to Tripoli he induced, by threats, the revocably and absolutely to their supiomacy. &straw to give him, by way of indemnity, 25,000 • 1 dollars. The Commodore recommends, in his letter, You throw the guilt of remorselesi tyrants, such that other nations would act against the Barbary as disgrace the thrones of Spain and Naples, entirely States with the same promptness and firmness that he on Heaven, and piously assign to the Divinity the has done, and depredations on their part would soon . odium of their crimes and the ungracious task of be put to an end to. ! chastising them! But tell me, Sir, what crimpensa. lion will the consignment of such wretches to the Bet wen the Saturday and Monday previous to the • list accounts coming sway, fiftee n ships and eight . brigs arrived at New York from European ports, infernal regions, equipped with a son bcnito at their with valuable cargoes. In the best times for trade, I hacks, afford to the nations they hnve dishotrolired America never had to boast of such numerous ar- ' and beggared, or to the manes of those whom they rivals of cargoes as of late have entered the American ' have consigned to the gibbet or the flames ? Where po Their Imperial Highnesses ths Archdukes Jolts: rts. i are an injured, desolated people to seek reparation for the oppression they have endured, and how are they and I.swis partook of a collation with the fluke arid Duchess of OttrYses, at Twickenham, on w e a nes . to secure themselves against a repetition of such slay morning; they returned to Stratford-place to ' atrochies, if the ceiestial rays of Heaven and the dinner; after which they proceeded in two carriages, Grace of GOD are to shield perverted Royalty from with their full seine, including their Interpreter, at- the block re or exile ? Is it by this abominable (loc. tended by the Pa INCA'. REGENT'S livery schools, •(11 t r i n e you cou ld meanly purchase indemnity for your view the extensive promises of MP•II4S. PARKLIt and Prany, the glass-manufacturers In-Fleet.street. The own guilt arid the favour of your present Sovereign, two spacious show-rooms upon this occasion were against whose family you would have pleaded two brilliantly illumilinted, and the splendid and tonne- years ago, had they been caught on the territories of ficent lest re intended for the Emperor of Cuts( t was your late master? Is it by turning King's evidence you lighted with was, as it will appear a hen in the pos. would (Nice yourself from that punishment which session of his Majesty. The pattern and surcimen yen are so ardent to have inflicted on your former of the service of glass intended for Dosi s seliiTe. at St. lieleon, were also shown them. The 'service, associates, and which you have no less incurred, togethe r with the chaud lief-, lamps, &c. had been than those whom you would now devote to destruc. packed up by Mr. Bin Lt.:" K. tints ? Are you a ware, Sir, that the (loci i isle you This morning, at half-past seirAl l l o'clock, the linve had the audacity to advance, that " Kings reign whole of the attendants to the fen'eral of the lilts ha the wrace qf GOD and not 4 Constitutions," is a Duke or N ottFosK assem bl e d a t N b Norfolk House, tit. ' low ' , mast perfidiously levelled, not only against the i' • Jarses's.square. The cavalcade moved so sifter eight, in orde r to I r e at D sr ' s ing by four, %oin the at liberties of your own country, brit against those of funeral ceremony was intinsaltely to take place.— England:rand of every State under a regal Govern. The hody aid be depos;trd in the same vault where meat ? It ii antler a regal Government, Sir, that his father inad the late Doke now lie. Englishmen live; and they are more especially trilled ERICIITON, DEcemasti 22.—At trine o'clock this unon to enter their solemn protest against a doe. Snoreice tier Nlijestv; with the Princesses Augusta ' 8 11 d Nl , liv, took their departure from the Pavilion for trine so evidently at variance with their laws and Wier'ssr. Constitution, as well as with justice arid common sense; because it appears to be in the contemplation of a set of Gentlemen who are very apt to " resolve the rights of tneum and futon into mum," to esta b!ish under the sacred auspices of this holiness this execrable sense as on article of faith in our political creed, now that Royalty, glutton like, has devoured Democracy throughout the whole of the' European Continent ; for as to Switzerland, it is a! nest of contemptible Aristocracies, the very worst of all Governments. The Sovereigns, Sir, who have forced upon your ill-fated country the family it had discarded, have not so far forgotten, with all their relish for a doctrine so congenial with their taste, what is due to decency and truth, as to publicly proclaim, 55 you have done, a right divine to reign; but they have given the world clearly to . . A Lit . vs.—A foreigner, representing Limself Count Fieth•ru kde Rode, a Captain in t h e Emperor of linstar Regiment, has l'een endeavouring to Kllll admittance into the Pavilion, which induced Townveml and Sayers to look into his motives. lie k•is !wend.d by a servant. It war .discovered that t!•e unfortunate man had no passports nor money shoat his person. Ile stated, that he was of noble birth, and was a soldier, and had bravely fought la the campaigns in France, and received several wounds, and during his stay in l'aris he had been ruined by gambling, and lost more than 50001. — HP hind walked from London to 13righton, in the hope of obtaining pecunin re aid from the Nobility. Towns end and Sayers hureane:y 'rook charge of him, fearing his distresses might cause no act of desperation, and ronveyrd him ire a post-chaise to the Alien Office, for protection, froth a hence the officers returned yes terday. §tA.4.'ks.iiii.l4., ira• . . undorstand that they have tacitly adopted the princi. pie, and selected the llouttaoms fur the experiment. The doctrine in not norel. tt 113 S only lain dormant until a favourable occasion occurred for reviving it, and in reviving it at the moment /lilt France lies prostrate at the feet of her conquerors, we ca•tont hut admire the deste:ity of corrsizoing who is iihei lou4 in your assnrti,ot to the Bar, and the blaq plioiny to the I)..ads..iog, however, t;,e fal.ehood, the 111.11%! , I1 , P, a;! , 1 impiety of your and for ihe sake r,f irgninatit„ admittinz as gospel, that " Kings rci . zn b 1 tite. Gram of Goo, and nut by Gnstitutions," how it, Sir, that so malty of them desc . prol from Hearer so ill qualified for their otlice ? It it that !leaven has I,;rt so important a consideration entirely' to chsiice, and that it is a !natter of accident whether mankind ore governed by wisdom or by fol 4 —by vice or virtue? Sir, your declaration goes to the full Patent t,f all this indecency, and is no less a libel on Kings than on their office. The Russian contemplates in lris Sas-co-rip, a Prince worthy of empire. Contrast tho ciordlct and sentiments of ALEX N DER witit those of the te o FEltntxlNns, and tell me, sir, if these men, the sewn and contempt of all mankind, and the terror of their own subjects, reign also by right divine; and if they do, what has become of the Gr ace of Goa %Well can alone prove the legitimacy of their authority ? Your doctrine, were it to be received, would lead to the mmt deplorable results. Weak minds, incapable of embracing the complicat d affrirs of a nation, are those the most likely to be intoxicated with authori. fy, and to spurn adintmition. Omnipotence will not safer its power to he questioned —nor Omni sciettre its oisilion to to , arraigned. It is the general error of all mankind to suppose themselves competent to the stations they fill in virtue of their places; and Crowned heads ere more apt to fall into this delu sion than any other description of public func tionaries, as they are so liable to suppose that office confers talents. It may be of much public utility to enquire occasionally if their pretensions to superior sagacity are justified by their conduct, and whether the uses they have made of their power entitle them to an unlimited, uncoil, routed exercise of it. Power, Sir, is of a very mischievous character. You have experienced this truth under the dominion of two !wooers, to both of whom y nu have sworn allegiance ; and 25 1)015 ef is apt to forget itself, it would con tribute very mach to the preservation of its purity, and to restrain its propensities, if it were remittded, not only of its duties, but of its OitIGIN.; for after • all, it is founded on public opinion, and it is not ne cessary to recur to two grand epochs in the history of this country to prove that those who CONFER. power can RESUME it. 1 I have the honour he, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, THE oilosr OF WAiiIiNGEON. I London, Dec. 15, 1815. SECOND DAY'S POLL FOR THE COMMON COUNCIL. CASTLE BAYNARD WARD. Mr. Murrambe . 122 Mr. Farrance (Irioitlis 122 Male •1 1 e3rean . 119 Treacher 11 arinek 116 *Pulley Fenton 1151 •Vere flux 1;6 I . Thi. Ward returns 10 111eml!ers. ALDERSGATL•STRI•ILT WARD. Mr. Rolls . 59 Mr. Pa %tan Kiiie sli ilf.tirkin Turner . 6 5i • Hinman Fisher . fri I Forrest Kay 4 , Adams • This Ward return h Members. COLgNIAN.STitF.ET wpm). • ' • FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL Mr. Paynter 10i j*Mr. Mercer . Weg 103 1 I'llaimuto . . Davis Itil 1 • Wuker . • Letts . • 11)1 This Ward returns 6 Members. • CHIP/MUTATE W 1 KI) WITHIN. Mr. Hukherton . F 5 *air. Towers kerl . 85 Hirt Witterhnuse . 143 • I idder Valeiwe 83 f Mathew • llerroo 77 1 H eiser • This Ward ref liras 8 Members. ('RI PPLEGATE WA_HI) . WITHOUT. . .... . _ *Mr. Broid l . II . 212 Mr. lie Him ly . 178 Daker '20:4 Dixon 152 . . Pmlho 180 • This Wards rooms 4 Member'. Thusemarked thus (•) are New Candildes. Calcutta Gazettes, dated the 13th J u ly, have b een receised. They mote that the late excessive rains, both in the upper and lower provinces, have been extremely prejudicial to the Indigo crops. The late truce between llot.s.su and his disorder ly army; has already given rise to dire contention and open rebellion. The lluhshee troops ore stated to base matinied, confined their °dicers, and to have given them during formal successive nights, a snood bastittado. Part of the Rajah's own guard hail re. fused to perform its accustomed ditty. BABOO J ett SINDOIZ: meditated an attack on the fort of Rim. oug t or. RUNJEtT SINGH' has marched considerably to t h e north of Lahore, and on the 4th of last month entered Witzeershad, a city on the east bank of the Chuttab. His late prisoner, the Ex-King of C %BOW-. has taken refuge with UKBUIt KHAN, the Rajah of Rojouree, Who had been promised assistance by /loon Oor.A KHAN, the Rajah of Poonuch, and Z eaIWROUST KIIAN, of ilvluliku, in the event of an invasion by the Sikhs. Tile Rajah of 00 it ER, a dis trict lying on the southern border of Ksshmeer, had incited Rotsizts again to attempt the conquest of that delightful country ; but the latter appears at present to be entirely bent on reducing to subjection the Nuwab of Butiawnt.roort ; and to hove laid aside all thoughts of undertaking so hazardous an enter prise during the present season. Mr. .IG7N FENDA LT., of the civil service, Iva, drowse.:tce the sth July, white attempting to so i n Isis itortoAtainst the water at Buirampore. j• _t. _-~>-; iS ry Is ti 1$ te • e, I r, to r t • 1 • i NAV4L I IV7'F; LUG EIVOR. DEIL, Dec. 22.—Caine down from the River the Friendship, Smith, for Jainnici; I,4tigrtim, for Lisbon, and taii.4 .4h Ore whole of the nut.. tiait'-'rottird for their fl ITe relit tle;tinatiors4 ; f ern the River the Dick, Ilarriron, for Surinam, and r:sina;•;i in the Downs with 01... Wilford livliarnio.l, re. I.ll%itng Ler damage : anti a few trat,i),,ts w ,,; t i ng • for .or,leri.—Arrived tile Bombay, lintlikon, from Rombny, anti renu:ina. 1; 5 r,v,ourtt, Drc. 2t).—Arrived a min of war bri t :, ntntP uoknown--Put bark packet,, Clot. Caddy, with 7,11i1., for Btazils ; the schnoner Piegcdc Mutter, CApt. Lucia, from fur Lie. 11011 ; anti Nanctt, Capt. Collin., from W,torford. - PLYMOUTH, DEC. Ql.—Arrived the Prince *Ed tcarit, Parker, from the Bay of Fundy, flirt. timber, for (hi% port. PoltTSMat.llll, DEC. i2.—Arrived the Phcerris., Wa'ker, from Quebec; lost all her masts, hosts, Itr. her beiss nits store in, and other rismage.-Ari' rhea the Indvstry, I.sy, from the Alediterranekn ; atol the Frerdwn, Coroforth, from Cil , ra!lar. Shied the Charles trlttek ft, for ITssre de Grace. LIVERPOOL, Ihc. 21.—The Septane, 14slie, front intnnicit, for this port, pot itila the iiivanssub on t!►e Ist ult.; sailed again on the 7th.—The Aulhorn, le, from this port, for (lot , lre, is on shore, with 1.5 other vessels, in the Cult of .;t. ttivre:iee. NIAVIIAVEN, DEC. 22 —Part of a vP‘cel, of lane ilinleti%losll, came on shore neer Rotterdam vesterrh6r morning, at three o'clock, her name is Catch me if Non can ; it happens she is an American copper b.u r tomed schooner : a part of her rig ins. and a qnantity of copper has been saved. It is reported that th:11 vesso-1 sunk off Worthing on Sunday lest. PEN% ‘NCE, DEC. 29. d off this port and. proceeded up the Channel the Timour, Patker, from the South Seas, with 230 tons of oil. The Timour spoke, off the Isle of France, the Liverpool frigate, with the Tumor and Harpy sloops of war in company.—The Timor in 47 da)s from St. Helena. JAMAICA PAPERS. The most disastrous accounts are given of tho late hurricanes, both a regards the devastation of pro. perty on the island, and as regards the shipping.. Of the 20 parishes in the Island of Jamaica, or more of them, have suffered irreparable injuries, in h ou s e s, risittati ius, end carious other kinds of property. Rut the most to he regretted is the se. were less of !ices, particularly amongst the negoes. The whole island was a complete deluge. Rivers which have Leen in eaistence for ages past, lu.ve been driven from iheir natural channels, sweeping away numerous buildings in their pasage, together with their uitfort is ate inhabitants. Up to the last ad. vices coming away from King tin, the whole event of property ral lives lost in the tremendous hurri cane of :he 171 h, had not been ascertained ; but enough had .ippeared to prove that a more disastrous storm had w ver been t xpeiieni ed. At Port Antonia the gale was dreadful. The shipping .ufferNl severely. ra'sant Newland *Put on shore. and had her main keel knocked off; the ship Fox was hJed; the ship Foyle totally lose, the Captain and two others drowned ;.the Salo, Dick, from IVilmington, wrecked, aid all lost except one; the 7';:to F iends, and Crptain Redman's sloop, both went on shore; a Spanish brig lost, and all hands perished. At Mnrant ray two wheal.' were totally destroy. ed. The sloop Dart was driven nn shore ; the steno Enterprise was totaily lost at Ainiat'e Ray. nn.l her mate drowned ; the ships Janet, Earl f Lonsdate, and the IVilhart, all suff , redmoie or less. 112 111 105 81 8.; Plum Port Ma.ia.—Ship Fife, on share, etpecte.l to he lost; Lady Banks lost h r rudder, and moch injured; William and Nancy sloop and riarora got on the beach. and were totally lost. Several build ings were blown down, cattle derroyed, and the estates much injured. Eliza Ann, Captain Stniqt, on shore at Oracahessa ; trte ship Ilercnks, bound to America, on shore near Frankfort-wharf, and it is !eared f o r the lives of the crew ; a brig and a schoor:er 011 shore at Dry :rhour. to the parish of St. Praia's, the damage by the storm was immense. The plantations and coffee were almost entirely destroyed. Numerous n e groes' houses were swept away down precipices '2 and Stri feet deep, when the ground under the houses gave way, and the friends and children of the negroes he. ing involved in certain ruin, the cries of the un torunate presented a scene beyond the power of man to describe; not only was the coffee destroyed hf the rivers altering their course, but the corn svls beaten down, and every tract on the plantation tlt nvolished. The Parish of St..Thomas's in the East, all the hilly estates, I,;antell with sugar-canes, are fondle detroyed, tint only as regards present crops, but those hereafter. The grounds in this quarter must be all re-planted. Coley, Font-11111, Georgia, Pelmet° River, 11 , 41 Mullet. hell , have suffered more than any other to the valley, at least one.fifth of the land is gone in this quarter ; all the buildings were swept a wa y and amongst them 35 negro.houses.-- The loss of cattle his been prodigiods. The great sufferers have been Blue Mountain, Mon ~ Pleasant, Vetersfteld, Serge Island, Middleton, Si: ton, rnintiroke Ball. Cardiff, Golden Valley, r.nd Alorairt, in all upwards of 100 miles. It is impossible to enumerate all the losses sustairt ed on the occasion. 11 RIO !bow, the Lady Caroline sloop, and Ano ther, were ride , n on shore. - The regattations ender which the second hattsli , ,ns have been ordered to be reduced, are understood to he ns follow :—whon lbw regiment co u ld ro.te - fourteen hundred effective% both 7 attalion• wer be continued on the estalAshat. it ;* when r.ilv ; twotre hundred, one battalion, vett. (Meets fo r sit additional co apardea ) were to tennis fa fail psi. , tI9 39 32 r•. , • J ~.. . -• i i . ' r 1 • . , • 1 , 1 : s f t 4 4 I 3 , if 1 i i 1 / I .1 -.. I 4 i 1,4• i l \ l i .. : .4 • • _ 1 i 3 , -3 1 It i l • • 1 I • 1 I •• P r. he