The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-09 00:00:00

r 'S f PI :Pr. lAses plact"ori the s. l (itli, leaves full powcrs it ith his :11i•ei.tets, he has made severnl liaridsotrie presents to the inti , erial Officers placed about his person. It is remarked that Prince Talleyrand now more frequently atreilds the Court entertainments, and th•rse of the dillorelit :Ministers. llis society is much c: urted for the graces of his mind; and the Princes of Germany, who sce that on this occasion the policy of France is noble and disinterested, wish to obtain lier Minister as a support to their claims. Itritux, Dcc. 20.—'lire cvelirg before last, a to mutinous scene tool. place at our theatre. The Lu ther of Werner (who toriird Catholic ut Rollie last scar) was performed. Some people, who chose to think this air odd contrast, ga►e out that the piece would be• hissed ; in consequence of which the po lice distributed GO of their officers in the pit, dressed like •.itizens. Scarcely had the curtain risen, when universal hisses burst forth, with shouts damning the the police ofliceis arrested 17 of the most turbulent, and the piece was concluded without in terrupt►on. 31u,sicir, Drc. 26.—The return of our King ap pears again iortefioitely postponed: the treaty of al liance which h.• has just signed with Austria is as si4ped as the reasou of this. in consequence of or ders which the ling has just sent from Vienna, and which will be immediately executed, the disposable pa r t of the Bavarian army, namely, tire four divi. sions which made the campaign in France and which are still on the war footiag, will be considerably re irir,ircerl by the iocorporatiou of a part of the re. svri ez. 'lliese measures are calculated to augment the Bavarian army, cantoned on the left bank or the Rhine, in Franconia and Bavaria, by from 15 to 20,000 men; its total amount will then be from 50 to 60.000. BOLOGNA, DEC. 21.—Our city continues in a fer. mew. The people seem to grumble without object . . and to be agitated without any precise motive. This state of things, which is influenced by the uncer tainty as to the decisions of the Congress, is a very tii ,, ,reeable one, and paralyses commerce. 11 ILAN, Dec. We have here recovered a little from the impressions caused by the numerous arrests that have taken place. It is understood that many of those who here withdrawn themselves have gone to Vienna, to demand justice from the Emperor. It is to be hryed that his Majesty will give an example of moderation and impartiality which his ageuts have not always displayed. Preparations are making at the palace for the arrival of the Emperor. Tuatm, Dec. 25.—1 t is saivl, that the Court of Loudon has ',willed a demand to the King of Naples, that lie redact• his army to a peace establislitnent,— . o t 25,000 mvn. NI ;num, DEC. 21.—Government has just pub lished tit thtlo*ing Extraordinary Gazette:— " Tao Secretary of State for the Department of th- I:1(1;es has received the inclosed dispatch from the erilv of Nlrhi( o, Doti Felix Calleja:— " Toe commullicatiorts with Vera Ci uz are still rrupted by the causes which 1 mentioned in my fast dispatch, of which I send you a copy; and in the event of their not tieing re-established by the mea sures Is hid, I hare taken to clear the roads of these ro :i temptilite binds of brigands, I send this dispatch by the inilitect route of the Coast. I now hasten to a• i iinni,ce to you the re-capture of the important fortress of Ara pi.lco, as v. cli as the destruction of the last intrenrhment oreit;iied by the rebel priest Morelos. You will fi':d the details of these events in the Ga ge/les of which I send you copies since the 3d of May. You will there also see the rapid progress %%hid, his Majesty's arms have made in these pro sitices ; the insurgents have been beaten and routed et all points, except at the lagoon of Chapala, in New Gallitis, where from the strength of their position they obtained advantag,es over the division opposed to them. I. have been forced to order the Com mandant of that pros lure, General de la Cruz, to ollect his troops, abandoning the less important Fading, and to make a new attack on the fortified isle where the rebels are nitre:setter!, while Brigadier- Coneral Ciriaco de Llano, its command of the armies of the north, eideavours to combat the assemblages which are foiceid uet weep that province and those of 1 - 411adolid and Gimasuoto. " There is nothing new in the other provinces of this viceroyalty, where the Chiefs labour with ar dour to di.sipate the remains of the.great assembli e ;es which wander about 03 every side, intercepting the roads, and preren:ing e-very kind of commerce. " opinion improves. Many individuals gaily present thentselyt.s to take tile benefit of the animfsty. The }west nc,7nunts which inform us of the return of our bolcv( ti Sovereign, Ferdinand VII., induce many othors retto.wce that i,tsurrectionary spirit which his Nlajest:.'s aly:etice, and the apparent impossibility of his return, escited in these countries. This 'otelligence, so satisfactory in all respects, has produced here inexpressible joy. It has accordingly been celebrated in the manner described in the G. 4ttte., which I transmit. I beg your Excellency to ley before his Majesty the eclue<>ion of my profound attachment, and that 0 1' all the worthy and loyal inhabitants of New Spain. It is my most ardent wish to preserve to his Majesty ibis 11'111a:to. part of his dominions, and all my ef• forts shall be directed towards that object. .•' Mexico, June 6, 1511." •' CALLLJA. Dk:c. '32.—The Extraordinary Ga-ette which has I just given us news from Mexico, by no means dissi• pates our shims with regard to that noble portion of our colonial pos:essions. The English Papers, which give much more ret'ent accounts from Mexico than those contained in our Extraordinary G=ette, renew our anxiety. A report was circulated here of the arrival of some galleons from Cuba ; but the Government has said nothing of it, and this official silence undeceives the most credulous. Our double expedition has not Vt left our ports; and the expressions used by the iceroy, Calleja, are by no means cheering. We know that the tactics of insurgent nations are al ways' the same, and that the war of regular troops is far from being the most dangerous. Daesexx, Dec. 20.—in despite of the efforts of the Prussian Authorities entreated with the admini. stration of' Saxony, no class of the Saxon nation will -listen with any patience to a change of Government; ill ranks give the most affecting proofs of devoted. -c .. : . ?FIE S TATESMAN. ness to their Sovereign. This attachment, loudly proclaimed throughout the kingdom, is regarded as criminal by some Prussians who are here; and the arrest of Counsellor Fleck, by superior orders, evi dently proves that it is meant to punish the fidelity of the Sixons t 6 their Prince. The following are the particulars of this affair November, rkgreat number of the inhabitants of Dresden had invited the representatives and heads of classes and public bodies in the city, to become the Channel of communicating to the Ministers assemblorl at Vienna, the inviolable attachment of the inhabi tants to the sacred person of their King, nod to beg them to accelerate his return to his States. In con. sequence, IS representatives of Dresden met and signed, on the 9th inst. a Petition to Congress. The Prussian secret Police, which is not suppressed as was announced, in some of the Journals, informed of what had passed, caused Mr. Fleck, a Judge in the Supreme Court of Appeal, to be arrested, as having presided at the Meeting of the Representatives. The ori4inal of a memorial was also seized, together with several copies and addresses. Some of the do cuments, however, escaped the vigilance of the Pros sisl Police, and have arrived tit their destination.— Mr. Fleck his not been sent to the common prism, but is confined at his own house. The affair of Saxony is by no means settled. trian Emperor had given such a consent, which he ♦ery Rely never will, if he has a spark of gratitude in his composition, (for besides his family relation to NAPOLEON, be ha‘thrice owed his crown to the ge nerosity of that far-fallen man), this step we may reckon would notbe taken without a previous sen tence,. declaratory of ,the nullitrof the marriage with the Archduchess MARIA LOUISA. Will the Empe ror of AUSTRIA declare the child of his (laughter ille gitimate Y Brussels and Frankfort Papers to the sth came to hand this forenoon. The following are the only ar ticles of political interest which they contain : VIENNA, Dsc. 22.—The tragic end of Baron Schall, the Austrian Minister to the Court of Wir temberg, is supposed to have been occasioned by an abuse of confidence, which exposed M. De Schall to the mortification of being supposed to have betrayed some secrets of state. A German Paper, under the head of Vienna, says, " It has not passed without notice here, that in the translation given in the Moniteur of the note of the Plenipotentiaries of the minor German Princes and free Cities, of the 16th November, the passage is omitted, in which the conviction is ct pressed, that the German Constitution cannot be complete or durable until the dignity of a supreme head of the empire be re-establiihed. There aro va rious opinions on ibis omission, whether it be acci dental or designed; people are likewise not at all agreed, whether the question of the re-establishment of the Imperial dignity, which is universally ex pected to become, sooner or later, a subject of de liberation at the Congress, be a matter adapted for the consideration of the European Powers here as. sembled, or whether it ought not rather to be dis cussed, as a purely national concern of Germany, only by the Members of the future German Con federation. SIUTGARDT, Dec. 28.—The departure of the King is fixed for the 26th. His Majesty has given the Order of the Golden Engle to Count Oppenni, who, during his Majesty's residence at Vienna, has attend ed on his person. Since the 25th, numerous couriers of different na floes have passed through here to and from Vienna, among them two French Couriers going to Constan tinople. It is obvious from every thing we hear and per ceive of the movements of our Rulers, that they are not all in a comfortable situation. Symptoms of a disposition to shift and change are more and more observable in a high quarter. We cannot be sup posed to be so highly favoured as to be in the secret, consequently cannot vouch for the truth or f^.l3ehood of any of the rumours in circulation ; but certain it is that it was yesterday currcutly reported at the Clubs in St. James's-street, that an immediate change is to take place in the Administration. The following were named as the probable removals and substitu tions : interview, it is added, accordingly took place on the' Lard Wetutst.st --vice I ord Ltviarooa. 9.411 i, no Minister Mr. Wicid.ester PoLe .... Lord SlDStotriH. • 1 being present except the Austrian mr. 1113S4ISSON (Prince METTERNICH), who was merely called in to Duke of Wst.i.rassos Lord MULGRA VE. furnish such documents as the discussion required.— , Another report gave the Embassy to France to , Here the information relative to this Royal con- Lord WHITWORTH, who is to be replaced as Lord ference ends. The explanations given cannot be Lieutenant of Ireland by the Duke of WELLINGTON. supposed to have been very satisfactory, for we find I —lt is probable, some change sill take place, I that Austria is continuing to use every means of ! but, perhaps, not so extensive as•the above. strengthening her military arm of defence, and her It was atso yesterday reported, that it is the in. influence among the other German Powers. She has I tention of Ministers to propose the continuance of signed a Treaty of Alliance with the King of BA. ' the Income Tax for three years, at 5 per cent. Per. v.lttiA, who ts ill in consequence augment his army , h a p s the recent letters to Liverpool, Bristol, &c. on the left bank of the Rhine from 15 or may have some reference to this object. 20,000 to SO or 60,000 men. The movements Whatever may be the Confidence which Ministers of the Austrian troops in Italy, and the precau- have in their own abilities, or the probable duration tionary measure on the part of the Cabinet of of the Congress at Vienna, it is confidently asserted i Vienna of preserving relations of amity with the King that they will not again venture to enter on their I of Mutts (Murat), are sufficiently indicative, ' Parliamentary campaign without their leader, who I though they appear to puzzle some, that Austria , , I h is so ably con d uc t e d our negoc i at i ons a b roa d , an d dreads as well as opposes the annexation of Saxony who, on this account, is expected to vi s it E ng l an d i n to Prussia end the designs of Russia upon Poland. ; the course of next month. We hope his Lordship Respecting the former country nothing new is men- i will be better prepared to answer a few questions , Honed ; with regard to Saxony, we learn that some that 9 will in all probability, be put to him on iris ar than h is 66 responsible" colleagues. of the principal inhabitants having assembled for the rival, purpose of petitioning the Congress in favour of I On Saturday the Members of the Q UEEN ' S Coen tbeir !climate Sovereign, the President of this meet- cii met at Windsor, for the purpose of making their leg, who was the Judge of the Court of Appeal, h a d quarterly report on the state of hi s M AJESTY ' S h ea l t h. After having examined the Physici ans , th ey re t urne d been arrested by the Prussian Authorities, and the . . to town, and delivered their report to the Privy I printed papers circulated on the part of the meeting ; : Council. seized wherever they could be fouod,.by the Polico. The fol Toning monthly bulletin of his NlAJesze's I ... This circumstance affords strong evidence of the de- ' health was exhibited yesterday at St. James's : termination of Prussia to berown opposition by I , The .6 Wiwisbr 6 t RING'S disorder continues unabated, but the strong arm a power, wh i ls t it also proves that h is. ' MAJESTY has passed the last month in a very the current of public opinion in Saxony sets strongly . tranquil state." in favour of its despoiled Monarch. Saturday some Canadian Papers reached town.— It appears tolerably certain that the final arrange. Major. General DE RoTverentroun, being senior officer in the Lower PrOvince, had b een d ec l are d b y meet of the affairs of Saxony will depend on the part proclamation President, in the absen c e o f Si r G eom.; e PREVOST.- taken by the Austrian Cabinet, which, in this pal 'Phis latter Officer is stated to have ar culor, appears strongly inclined to support the views I•Tived at Halifax. Lieut.-Colonel Nl'liAs- had ar of France. In this state of affairs, and with these rived at Montreal. In compliment to the gallant de-! accounts of political jarrings before us, it is absurd . fence made by hire at the Prarie des Chiens, Macki- ' to tell us that the business of the Congress has been ! nac had been called Fort M'Kay. satisfactorily adjusted; and still more ridiculous, I COURT-MARTIAL—The several Members ap enEmperorßANClS appears t ointed on the C- which hwh the Fto be putting his to ordered for sit the trial of the ourt ch M arges artia l preferred aga asbeen inst faith of efficient opposition to the plans of his rivals ' MURRAY, are summoned to asqemble on in the influence of military power, to ask us to be- i Monday morning, the 16th instant, nt Winchester. lieve that he has consented to the banishment of his The Right lion. CHARLES MANNERS SL , TTON, the I 1 the charges, with the exceptio n o f th e last.--Ad this rumour is renewed . son-in-law, of such military fame, and loot yet at- Budge Advocate-General, is the prosecutor of all together powerless, to the island of St. Helena. Yet •miral HALLOWELL is the p r o s ec u t or o f thi s c h arge, Unworthy as such a statement which relates to the raising of the siege of Tarragona is of brief, particularly at the present moment, we will and the abandoeing of gem', &c. r only add that, supposing all the. Allied Powers werecor.l Her Royal Highness the P r i n c ess C HARLOTTE o f dially agreed OR their political concerns ; and the Aus. WALES completed her 19th year on Saturday. • • •-r Palls. Due o O O 0 l'itlCE OF STOCKS YIDS DAY AT On/F. O'CLOCK flank 1.4114. Ann. 16 5-164 per Cent. Red. 64; India Bonds 2O 9 per Gent. C0a..6544 ex div. V.:chequer Ei,lt 16 p 4 per Gents. 924; Onin;tira I 5 per Cent. Navy 5144 ex div. Causal.; fur Ace. C 5 THE STATESMAN. LONDON: MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1815. Paris Papers to the 6th inst: are received ; Dutch and Hamburgh Mails are also arrived. 'rhe accounts from Vienna are of the usual cast, full of contra dictions and conjectures, " signifying nothing,"— except that the differences reported to have existed so long among the negociating Powers, are, apps. rently, as far from being adjusted as ever. The So t vreigns themselves are said to have had a personal conference for the purpose of trying to adjust those matters in dispute which their Ministers had in vain been endeavouring to settle. The Russian and Prus sian plans of aggrandisement, so pertinaciously pur sued, appear to have awakened the Austrian Cabinet to active and vigorons exertion. The Emperor FRANcrs himself, finding the conferences spinning out to an indefinite period, and the net of circumven tion weaving around his precarious power at the same time, is stated to have taken the extraordinary resolution of calling on the Emperor.[ ikussta, and of fixing with him an hour the following day fet the meeting of all the Crowned Heads at Vienna. This -. 1 ~ ___ - r,., T ..`,,.., MEETING 01' LAND - 0 !VIVI , : RS AND F.IIZ. F.RS OP WILTS. On Friday last, a Meeting Of 44 Lend-ownery Occupiers of Lind," was held at the Town-hail. Wartnioster, convened by public adrertiseraem, signed by John llenett, Esq., of Pyt-house (th e denial) who gave , such long and strong evidence b.. fore the Contm:ttees of both Houses of Parlia ment in favour of the Corn and several other re., 'spec:table land-owners and farmers of the county of Wilts, to take into consideration. the propriety o f presenting Petitions to both Ilrmscs of . Parliament, on behalf of the Proprietots and Occupiers of Land. THOMAS GROVF, 1.; , (1., of Fern, one o f th e (s, r ,. tlemen who called the Meeting, having talie? th e Chair, _ _ 11: . r. E.TT rdiireFr•ril them at my considerbla leegth in favour of a Petition that he submitted fo r their rlopriott, explf , ssive of •the serious iiritils• really sustaiiieil by the farmer and the probabi o suit likely to fall upon the landholder, arisi ug f rnte the reduced and low price of corn, owitnT part;cular. ly to (ho importations from France, &c. Tiw PPti, fnrther stated, that as the agricultural interest was blended with that of the tradesman and roe. chanic, the latter was invited to join in its truPport, and add their signatures thereto. • Mr. Beriot in. sisted, that as the evidence given before the Cora Committees had never been contradicted, the Lezisi, L . lure were bouud to afford the agricultural ;mete...! their protection ; and, enforcing the stecer!•ity cf Parliamentary interposition in favour of the lauded interest, he said, that unless some measure were de. vised to enable the farmer to pay his pro.otrt rem and taxes, the landholders would be.completely tithed ; and he solemnly declared, that onless t' is desirable object was carried into immediate execution, he for one would he under the absolute occes‘ity, that day twelvemonth, of leaving the co•,;:tr-i ••, his family, to reside where proiisinns ritni all r •• •_ - . cessaries of life were to be obtainaal at a rate wham the reach of his fortune*. The motion was briefly seconded by Mr. Bowt.ts, an attorney. a _ _ Mr. HtINT began by stating his objection to the meeting altogether, asserting, that if the meeting was not illegal, it was' highly improper ; for a few indivi duals of a particular class to call a meeting to peti. titan Pa rl ia Mont in favour of tradesmen and mcclumics, without giving them an opportunity of attending to decide upon its propriety. This was a close meeting of landholders and farmers; many respectable trades men, inhabitants of the town, would have attended, but they were told they had no business there, not being landholders or farmers. This meeting, there fore, bore a resemblance to a " Conclave o f Cardi nals with closed doors."—lnstead of c a llin g a meet ing like this, why not cell a public county meting, and meet the qeestion manfully and openly? One reason against this was, that at an open county met" ing even Mr. John Benett would not be so hardy as to bring forward a petition, the sole object of which was the keeping up the price of corn, under the cloak of its being a petition in favour of the trades man and the otechaaic. In fact, this was a peti tion especially to benefit the landholder, even the farmer was of secondary consideration, and it was decidedly hostile to the interest *of every other class of society and if acted upon would prove ruinous to the little tradestor.,), the mechanic, and the labourer. The landlord had met with no reverse since the conamencement of the war ; his rents had progressively increased, in proportion as the rest of the community had setTered privations; the nearer the mechanic and the labourer, had approached to starvation and beggary, the higher were the profits, and the more efficient the means of the landholder.— This was no theoretical proposition, hastily intro duced, it was a practical truism, the result of careful and recent enquiry.—He would read to the meeting an account of the population of the parish of En ford, a large parish in the centre of the county of Wilts, with the comparative statement of the rise is the price of labour, the price of bread, and the price of land, within the last 30 years. The number of houses were 143, inhabitants 650 • of which number 450 were farmers, tradesmen, andtheir families, 4.01 labourers, and 205 labourers not paupers. About 30 years back, the labourers in this parish received Gs. per week ; at this time they received Ss. per week-30 years back, the quarter!' loaf ave raged about 5d., at this lime it is 104d.-30 years back, the labourer could purchase with his week's pay, Gs. fourteen quartern loaves; now he can only purchase with his week's pay, Bs. nine quartern loaves—about 30 years back, the principal farm in this parish, then belonging to the late Mr. Benett, of Pyt-house, in this county, was lot for 4001. a year; nt the present time this farm, the property of Mr. John Benett, of Pyt-house, is let for 1,2601. a year. Thus it clearly appears in this parish within the last thirty years, labour has risen from to Bs. per week, 33 per cent. the quarter!' loaf from sd. to 10141. IU3 per cent. the rent of land from 4001. to 1,2601. 212 per cent.—Ttis proves that bread has risen within this period more than three times as much as labour, and land more than twice ay much as bread, and more that' six times as much as labour. At the present price of land, corn, bread, and labour, the landlord is benefited three times as much as the farmer, and six times as much as the labourer. Mr. BENErr said, that be had, since thd period mentioned by Mr. Hunt, purchased thp flaw, and added them to the farm which was included in the present rent. . • bir. Hoar replied, that he was perfectly . mare of this circumstance, as well as of another circuritsiancis equally important, which was this, that Mr. Beveit had taken a considerable portion of ‘-llte best • laad from this farm, and added it to anotiier Which twP ducell a gt.eater rent than the value if the tithes, therefore the balance was more in favour of the land lord than he had stated. He had•menticined this par ticular farm, as it belonged to Mr. &nett, the pm. poser of the present measure; but from his own knowledge (haring an estate himself parish) parish) he could state, that the land ha. , same, and in some i nstances i n a hi g h er He therefore particularly .enjoitled (bere.— If this solemn nsevenstitin of correct (who t by-the-by, is a lend-aotwr 19,0001. a year), what will be the file of beuiaa r viithctit the ;Items of dying front iht sl di tl 0 ti Ihfacrristrhiei semi a ;her proportiori- the farmers l a t. f Mt. Bore:t, t , ) bravusit ri bolt' %she, are t rrt • cvk . • t A