The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-04-15 00:00:00

;• Tom EDITOR up 71116 STATESMAN. Sia s —Believing, as I sincerely do, that you wish well to "the cause of liberty all over the world," lam disposed, whenever I perceive any sentiments in your Paper of a different tendency, either to question the accuracy of my own deductions ; or, if the case is too clear for that, to attribute the apparent discrepancy to that hurry of composition, and want of time for mature reflection, which the compilers of Daily Papers labour under; and which, I believe, have frequently exposed certain patriotic Editors to feel the rigour of the Law, whilst great indul gences have been enjoyed by Journalists of different gentirnents. Impressed with this Idea, and consci ous also of your present unmerited sufferings, lam disposed to think, that it must have been from some of these causes that certain remarks, on which I shall take the liberty of making a friendly animad version, have found a place in your Paper of Satur day last.—" The Paris Papers, which arrived the pre ceding day, present (you inform us) a picture to our mind of the most gratifying nature. After twenty five years of successive convulsions, and almost uniti terfupted warfare, every friend of the human race (you say) must rejoice in the prospect of peace, or. der, and happiness, which now dawns on France and on the world ; and every lover of freedom must exult in the consideration, that the noble and enlight ened principles which gave the first impulse to the Revolution of 1789, are still actively and effectively at work in the Revolution of 1814." I need not tell you, Sir, that lam a friend to peace, but I like to see peace proceed from a pacific spirit only; but the sentiment, the correctness of whichl cannot agree to, irthis..-the principles,yoe say, which gave the first im pulse to the Revolution of 1789, have been effective is producing that of 1814, consequently the present Revoletiooot Peritonea to give us pleasure. Now, if this be true, what occasion was there for this long, ruinous, and murderous Isar ?•• Has not this war lasted upwards of 21 years ? Did it not begin with threats of annihilation and dismemberment ? Was it not intended to overturn the first free Constitution, the objtat of the vows, the hopes, and affections of all France? Was it not designed by this war, not only to subvert that free government, but also to ex terminate French principles? How then can I snp -1 pose, that this war, crowned with success, as it a p pears now to be, is likely to leave in a fixed and flourishing condition, those very principles it wasl originally designed, to eradicate? What has pro duced so wonderful a change in its nature ?—What modern miracle has given this ferocious monster the gentleness of the lamb, and made it the friend of the liberties of mankind, instead of the foe ? Every man (if he is net a downright ideot) must be tenable how gieatly It wilt enchant* the trisraph of the' war-faction in England, to receive accounts from Paris, where BONAPARTR is treated as the greatest tyrant that ever existed ; and the Allies eulogized as the deliverers of those poor galley staves of the capital, who have so long smarted under the scourge of the Corsican oppressor : these accounts, I say, must be very gratifying to many persons in London ; but they will not bo very honourable to the Parisians themselves, who have not only sub mitted to wear these chains, as we call them, but have even gloried in them : Nay, we learn, that the very day before the capture of Paris, they exultingly exclaimed Vive tEmpereur, Vive let France, and freely shed their blood for the man we call their tyrant. Bat when they found resist. mice vain, and it was necessary to conciliate the foe, or pillage, violation, and, perhaps, a gene ral conflagration, would have been the consequence, then the cry was a bat le Tyran. Now, what shall we call this? Is it change of sentiment, er only change of language? If it is the first, how contemptible does it make the Parisians! if it is the second only, how silly must all our boasting appear! If an Englishman, for the paltry consideration of saving his windows from being broken, will join in tha cry of a mob which he despises, what right has he to blame a Frenchnian, who saves his goods and chattels, the honour of his wife, or that of his daughter, and even his-own life, by crying a bas le Tyran. If the Reader imagines that it is my intention to advocate the causg of- nost %PARTE I can assure him that he is very much mistaken. No, Sir; my design is to maintain the independence of free -nations---a cause in which no people are more nearly interested than the people of this country. It is essential to the very existence of a free State, that it should hare the nomination of its Supreme Magistrate and the establishment of its own Constitution. BONAPARTE, for any thing I know to the contrary, may be a Ty rant or a great Statesman; nay, were he a thief, a Jew, a Turk, an Atheist, a cannibal, or, to finish the climax, a very Devil incarnate, it would not make the weight of a feather for or against my argument; he may be any thing you please, except an Usurper, but that he cannot be, because he was invested with the Executive Authority by the French nation. He came by the power he exercised in the same way that IleGu CAPE; the first Prince of the late dynasty, came by his ; and, if you please, you may say, in the very same way that our WILLIAM the THIRD and Cuenca the Ft RS r came by theirs; conse quently, in the self same way that oar preeent much loved King comes by his. FORTZSCUI tells us, that the power by which a King reigns io England is potestas populo effiuxa, or a ewer delegated by the people; and, he adds, that he cannot govern by any other power : and, indeed, the fact is, that there is no legitimate authority whatever, but that which this great Constitutional Writer says proceeds from the people; now it cannot be denied that such is the authority which at this instant is enjoyed by BONA.. PLAT& It IS a power the more pore and the more wor thy of veneration Ind respect, in that it is immedi ately derived from the people, who are the source of all lawful power; it comes directly from the fowl . e; PI I E S' CA'rESNIAN. tain head. , Also, it is very certain that the same CORONER'S INQUEST. ancient custom existed in France as in England,. by • —" 61101 —. means whereof this polestar populo ejllura was 1 I Last night a Coroner's I nq uest tat at Bettis deemed the most sac r ed r i g ht t o th e C rown . BONA• Chop.house, on a person unknown, apparently be- Lucre then is Emperor, or King of France (the tweets 50 and 60 years of age, who died at the One name does not signify), by the same title that gave Bell Inn, Strand. The body was opened by Mi.. the Crown of England to GEORGE I. and his heirs, Stanton, surgeon, in the Strand, who stated that he on certain conditions. I shall not enter any further died from the effects of laudanum, a quantity' of into this argument at present, intending to resume i which he found in his stomach. Verdict—Deranged The subject in another letter, and there show that ,in his mind,, and in such state poisoned- himself Ali nothing but a. full and freely convoked National As. 'inking laudanum. The following is the t rans l a ti on sembly, similar to the C onven ti on P ar li ament o f iof a letter written in French, whieh was found, King WiLmast, can dethrone llomaearre.— in his pocket, containing the money therein speci. .As to the decree of the Conservative Senate, it is u : led ; incompetent to effect the deposition of BoNAPARTIII "I em not guilty of the theft committed o n M rs juridicially, as the bay one t s o f t h e R uss i ans and ,I Dobee, of which I hat* been accused by Mr. Dan-. Prussians are. The French nation invested him : gen. It was his own servant and a great shoemaker with authority, and the French nation must divest 1 who Ores in Lock's-fields, whose name I do not him of it : and if it is done otherwise than -by their I know, and who has married the cook, who stole free will, then is the nation an enslaved nation.— i the 100 guineas of Mr. Duliee, which he has con- The power of delegating naturally comprises that of i vested into paper, and partakers of it ! If the officers loosening. 'l'be social bond is .uo doubt capable of 'of justice examine the numbers and dates of Abe being peaceably untied, as well as of being forcibly Hank-notes, they will see I could not, being a great broken ; but it can only be lawfully untied by those economist, spend fifty or sixty pounds in so short a who first tied it—and of this we lave precedents, both time.. [Here were two lines written and obliterated.] in the French and English history; but it is not to be done except on proof of misconduct; and whether and the theft. The passion I had for drinking mad.: there is proof of misconduct amounting to forfeiture ' me unable to conquer committing all these sacrileges. or abdication of office, as our ancestors called its, is The Devil has taken possession of me, and it is time I more than I can tell; nor indeed is it any business of should pat an end to a scandalous and hypocritical yours or mine, Mr. EDITOR, nor of the Governmeet ' etiateeee. I wish this to be put into the hands of here, or the Allied Sovereigns abroad ; for nobody, Mr. Le Chevee, heir to Mr. Dubee, he lives in West except the French nation, has any right to en- mitister, bet I cannot remember his address. If I quire into that matter: theirs it is to judge and to have parted too soon this morning, it is because I determine, as their ancestors have done before them, ' am afraid that Mr. Nebest will come and expose me in various instances, and lately in the case of Louts to Mr. Bramston as a drunkard and a wretch. I re. XVI., who, though perhaps not legally condemned peat that I am innocent of the theft ; and that if and executed, was yet legally convicted of the eve* I had the least intention I conk' not, the ser breach of his oath, which, by the ancient' want of Mr. Dangeli being always with me when I law of France, incurred deposition. In short, ! was ill, and heard every thing that I said. I drank whenever a free nation confers the Supreme Map , much, but I defy any body to, say that they ever saw gisterial Authority on a man supposed wor thy o f it , ' me Lipsey.' It is nothing but the disgrace and shame and he proves unworthy, they alone can take it , that makes me commit this crime—nobody has been from him ; for all agree, that a delegated trust can instructed to do it. Yon will find in my breeches only be resumed by the Delegators. However utiwor. pocket a 21. note and a 11. ditto, and some small thy the Delegate may be, no man, or body of men, , change in my waistcoat-pocket, which is all the can force the trust out of hissaii•is, witkout an act money I , possest. I repeat, for the third time, that ' of aggression on these who placed it there; and in lam innocent." this light the Decree of the 50 Senators may be coil- The body lies at the bone-house of St. Mary-le sidered as a Declaration of War against the whole Strived to be owned. body of the French nation.—l am, &C. Buckinghamshire, April 11. TIMOTHY TRUEMAN. • See the conference on the word abdicated, in Ravin. DIRECTIONS To MASTERS orVESSELS TRADING to BOURDEAUX. (Already do we begin to return to a state of peace; we regiments of cavalry, which were. ordered to oin Lord WEGLINGTON, have been countermanded. All the French prisoners belonging to Dunkirk have been directed to be released and sent back imme diately. -.....--- 4 P` 6l rivo persons, both inhabitants of Baker-street, North, on Tuesday met in a field, near Kilburn, to adjust an qffuir of honour—when after an exchange of shots, in which one of them was wounded in the left shoulder, the dispute was adjusted by the inter ference of the seconds. . His Majesty's ship Porcupine. Garonne, Ruda or Ca►iollon, April 3, 1514. or &a —Although I am not aware how far, under present circumstances, the commercial interests of Britain may be benefited by the opening of the Ga. ronne, yet the interest I feet in it's prosperity in duces me to state to you, that his Majesty's ships under my orders now command the whole navigation of the river, from Point Grave to Pouillac, and will, I trust, soon to Boardeanx. The French charts of the river are so good, that I brought his Majesty's squadron in, in safelytwith not pito%s, threagh the rdatelieu . Chiliney; but the best, et present, "for merchant ships, is )te Grave' Channel; and I m not believe thelittle Shoal, called Ruffian, at all .noels : at the changes of the tides, which are very rapid, there are often appearances of breakers, where there is no danger. The passage by Point Grave has.the advantage of simplicity, as well as having enemy's batteries CO . pass. - By the Escameur Channel; a ship 'can Mime in also without risk of a shot ; by the Matelieu, it can hardly be avoided from Point Cookie. The Chairman of the Committee of Lloyd's:. • " • The directions for the Garonne in the Petite Nep tune Francais, printed by Faden, i 0,1763, are ex cellent, and may be perfectly depended upon. In the charts ho danger is omitted, and some•are duced which do not exist. • Lord and Lady HOLLAND have It in ccintentpla , tton to join the Duke and Duchess of BUFORD shortly at Cadiz, and tasking a tour, proceed with them to France. At Paris, Lord and lady Ossat.. mu, with several other amilies, purpose joining , them. COVENT-GARDEN TIJVATRE.—One of the most no. tnerons and fashionable audiences, which even this present successful season has produced, last night assembled to witness Mrs. JORDAN'S resumption of her professional duties. This inestimable actress's entre, as Rosalind, in the Comedy of As You Like It, was marked by the most cordial greetings of boxes, pit, and galleries—every part of the house seemed anxious to express the joy which her recovery imparted—a joy resulting at once from admiration of the actress, and respect for the woman.—We are happy to state, that her recent indisposition is completely re moved, and has left, unimpaired, those buoyant ta lents, which have so long delighted the town. — Rosalind was never played, even by herself, with more spirit, sprightUness, and vivacity. She identi fied herself with the 4 liracter--she was the very being SRAKSPEARY drew, in whose disposition the elements of good humour are so mi wed and blended, that the severest misfortunes cannot dissipate them. We do not think the more early exertions of Mrs. JORDAN could have been received with a greater exuberance of applause, than attended the w hole of her last night's performance. Mr. YOUNG, as the melancholy Juq:ces, delivered the beautiful speech in which SHAIisPEARE has, with so much acuteness, com pared the world to a stage,in a fine, characteristic sty le of elocution. Mr. CONWAY'S Orlando demands very 'favourable notice. The modulation of his voice, more particularly in the scenes with the false Gany 'lade, was more even then when we last saw his in the character. His taunting scene with Jaques was very good. His opening scene, his first interview, with Rosalind, and the scene in which he demands from the Duke food for himself and his faithful fol lower, were excellently supported. Of Mr. MUIL• WAY'S Adam we cannot speak too highly. It is one of the most affecting and higbly.finished pieces of acting, in this range of the drama, which the stage can boast. If these observations prove of any• benefit to British commerce, it will give great satisfaction to, Sir, ref most obedient, humble servant, C. V. PEN ROSE, Rear-Admiral. Human nature is always tie same. The restora tion of the ancient family of France has been effect ed so speedily, and with such unanimity, that appears almost to he the work of magic. 44 The re. pidity with which all these events were conducted," we quote the expression of Mr. liustz upon a similar scene in this country, " was marvellous, and discovered the passionate zeal and entire unanimity of the nation. Such an impatience oppeated, and such an emulation in King, Lords, and Commons, and City, who should make the most lively expres sions of their joy and duty, that," as the noble his torian expresses it, " a man could not but wonder where those people dwelt who had done all the mis chief, and kept the Kr pro so many years from enjoying !'the comfort and support of such excellent subjects. The King himself said, that it surely must have been his own fault that he had not sooner taken possession of 'the throne, since he found every body so zealous in promoting his happy restoration." And yet, in a few years, the conduct of that Sovereign and his suc cessor drove the family from the throne for ever! Extract of a Letter, dated Custom-house, Kirk wall, April 3, 1814:—" We have this morning re ceived a letter from one of our officers at Long Hope, giving notice, that the Scourge American privateer had boarded a Swedish vessel on Friday af ternoon (the Ist cwt.), about miles to the west wurd of Hoy, which vessel arrived at Long Hope this. morning ; and that Scourge had captored three brigs from Liverpool, with salt and tobacco, sinking one and burning trio of them. The prisoners were put on board the thrived*, who, before the pri vateer was out of sight, law her in chase of other vessels. The officer informs, that, his Majesty's ships Stork and Nighilivak, which were at Long Hope imPOllinittiy*4. in quest of the privateer, of their falling in with SMOLENSKO AND TYGEL—Thin match will each( as cinch interest as any which has lately occurred.— Ilyger is beoome the favourite. Smolensk° is noted. for winning two•of the great stakes of. last year, the 2000 gs. and the Derby. Ty ge r ran in the third (of . the St. Leger, against Aftisidora and Camelopard: T*za Timm—This frigate, lying off Green wich, Rear-Admiral LEGGE'S tiag-ship, was most splendidly illuminated on Monday night. ,Within a few minutes of the time appointed, some very powerful rockets were let off from the main -deck, and afterwards from the main-top-mast head, on the explosion of which, at their utmost height, the air was illuminated by a malts of brilliant lights. After near a do' -of style, the nisi yard-arm to yard-arm, tnaitt-top-mast bead, are called the We prciduced an effect This was done hr; w4h gas lights. highly ratifying r rzen of these had ascended in grand and hopes are enierteleed of their falling in with rbe becanie instantaneously, from he " J-arti, and from the decks to the wording to Mt m reerlitment, the Income Ts/ sad, a beautiful illumination of what expires es *teethe Witer the signing , of a Definitive due lights, whose chastened lust Trent/ of Piece. It is in contemplationi we under- ct the most pleasing and beautiful.— stand, to rodeos It two and a half pecoent. each ice, aad ieith the same celerity as • outer, aceardlng to Which. .Govern. The sight_ was very novel, aid eat will .be eciosetuadati to MH p the es:, to a great Away speetators peaces 4 am • r... 4.1 ' • ~. ~~h ..~~ anal • AN. EVENING'S "CON II V PLAIONt , •• • . • " .• . • WRITTEN . IN A FRENCH Vlif0011: ISY A itAlLoit.; '. • The sun's bright orb retiring, dimly e !ret, In strict compliance with the law of imw'r, Each prisoner to his clicerle;s roof rep).irs, Anal in thrtiight amuse the vacant hour. Now sable night e'er antler mdra le throifs, A ad solemn silenteleigns throughout the yard, &ye wbere yon verraw to his station goes, A poor disabled, solitary guard. Saar that front yonder room In mournful -tiains, With melancholy tone and plabrive air, Some tender father. to the night complains, .Of children left without a parent's care. Within these eadiparts, by fam'd VAORAN made, Yalries iblpirtis youths for freedom learn to weep,- On hedsefehumble straw, till olortvirw laid, . . .Tke braVe and dauntless sons of Nei.tnne sleep. • The pilot steering with'bis Wonted skill; • The song the seaway sings who heaves the lead, The calls of duty, or the pir!'s long trill, No more must route them from their' lowly bed. For them no more the joys of hioine return, Or social friends theii- welcome tables keep— . No grateful sight now bids their bosoms butn, . . Of Brit.tin's isle emerging from the deep. Oft have they been in glorious tries:ph found, O'er naval force of hostile po►r'n CO 7) hi iett --- Ana oft the brows of gallant chiefs have hound, IVith myrtles green, 'midst rosy wreaths eotwited. Oh I let not grandeur, with contemptuous nth* . • Nock Weir sad fate and dectiay severe; Nor pleasure's votaries in fair Albion's isle, Cast on these captives a disdainful sneer. The potent monarch, with the splendid throng, And those whom hit ‘om health adorns with Tait To Dewlt's stern mandate must attend ere long, And sink to prison in the silent tomb. • Nor you, ye great, impute the fault to there, 14 ho in this realm high posts of honour share-- Nor on the brave the gates of pity &qv., But miery's chain to break first noblilarg , • Say, after toils of war, and batiks gtripAl, With trophies raied by them to Beitatiet•fas“-e - Cad you, to steer the helm of state Of tikt We, fstiunp, on neglect like this, a pieta a a ausaa Perhaps in • durance vile' here may he plac'd Some heart susceptive of poetic fire, — /lands which the sword of Duxes?, might have grac'd, Or Ladd like FALcoyan the living lyre. Be science on their birth refued to smile, Nor gave th' instructive volume to their sight; Their lives were destio'd to perpettuil Unseen the rays of intellectual light. Full many along the tuneful bird of night Warbles unheard amid some lonely place; ‘ Full many a suu, of dazaliog lustre bright, 1. lost in distance in the boundle►s space. Some gen'rous HOWARD, who with gorbriiio zeal, Rov'd o'. r the world to set the pris'ner free, 114 y here the horrors of confinement feel, Nor e'er again his home or country,see. . . Some pliant NEIAION here, unknown, may rest . In cells unettial lost; his •ottt of fire ! His mind mind of 'vigour, and that * dauntless breast, • " Hauge( Oak/neer appal, or labour tire. . • Fi grn Lords and Commons to rfeeivi applause, O'er fleets combin'dissutiii the high cumtiando,, To savgbeta‘Moryi.or pitsct its ~ laws And in historic - pap 16 ritiferitaner— • Theii lt;t forbidi alone confines Their useful virtues; bit denlys the poser; By unjust wars whole millions to cOns!gn ' To death or mis e ry in a Mal hour. • • • •Far from ambitious Alpine hilll th&y rove, •Thro' life's low valley modestly they go ; ror_proJects form to climb the lieigbli above, • But-live. obscurely in the vale beton'. Our fate, Oh, Euglatil I. Will thine annals stain, Aorl fill .with tears the sympathetic ers . • • Of gentle Pity, Who wilt not refrain . , To pay for thesu the tribute of a sigh. For who, Cmprison'd fn this glohmy:place, • ' TheTbarmiag thoughts•ef freedom ere relityl— , Felt not an anxious wish to see the fare • • Of some fair maid in Britain left behind ? • A Or whole grief and caul disemie a prey, By every pleasing hope not quite forsook, Can the stern tyrant Death's approach survey. Nor cast an home one longing, ling'ring look ? Dear Preedons ! goddess of the sea-girt ide, Whom Britain's sons with fervency adore, Deign on our prayers propitiously to smile. And quickly waft us to our native shore! • Citadel of Valencienues, G. F. PALMERi Jan. 1814. An Inquest has been taken by Mr. Cowrxita, Coroner for the city of York, on view of the body of John Bardwell, otherwise Chappey, *lunatic, who died in the . Asylum, on Tuesday self. night. The Jury returned their verdict, that ti►e said l rohn Bardwell, alias Chappey, died of bruises giaen to him by all, or some, or one of the three other lunatics, who were confined and slept in the • same room or apartment with him, during the night of Thursday, the 24th ult. but by which of them it did not appear to the Jury. Mr. SVR►OUGHTOH, than whom there is net a more respecTed character on'the stage, 4s appointed MA. nager of the Usymarket Theatre. Bread remains the same as last week. --Fitir;- -- - CORN-EXCHANGE, APAs4l3.—There brine a er.mi spina. 'lily of Wheat lift from lo g o Market day, for which thtr.. sch; Po demand. voiles are nomistal. OM. fawn IF. t.. 2.• per ottar ter cheaper, pod dull sale. Beans rat:.cr cueetper. Other art-• Iles remain the 'same, . Wheat (.Bag.lidt) '.64 it 1 'limos , - 40 44 Ditto (E'oretyo ..•,... 1141 Ohl ditto .... - Rte Barley.. • 4t I Old — New ditto ...t. ...' .‘,. Oat: 16 Malt White Pettit O. 64 j Poland do. 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