The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-04-15 00:00:00

tf 1. 5. Ot It tt I rf f lI 1 Fr it Ii pl ly hi 411 cc 31 t ti it It i t II 21 ti. r 3 al to Fr Cf . 4' rt a 1 11 ft t i I I I I II ) e I• 11 :t It .n. If Is ve • 11 r • o f the woods and forests (Mr. Ituskisson), t ofu h h a d been formerly a great la.:hit:economist, and 1 .4 had represented that the ntin must be ruined, o dlgal expendititre was . n o t c h ecked, had now ,r pr , m pletelv chattier! his sentiments. Ife'now ridi culed the idea of controlling the expenditure of the atol asked who would be a King, or a priace Reg ent, if they could not he allow e d t o s p en d 5. 0001. on a green-house, or 1,000 on horses, %all ot au investigation before the House ,of Commons ? la mea tia,itig this 1,0001. about horses, an anecdote . .. eo rred to him, which he hoped was not true. It e a said that an illustrious foreigner (Prince Pla toff ) hr i i d.. a oreseut to the Prince Regent of a horse, t A had c .,„i e d him through the late sueceasful cam lt might naturally be supposed 01.0 such a as a remembrance of the donor, would have t e a kept with the most extraordinary care, that it w „,1,1 have a separate. groom to attend it, that it soald Lave been pampered, and sulTered to pass the remainder of its life in a sort of riotous felicity.— i Ile heard, however, and he was sorry to hear it, that this animal was now employed in drairiag a dung-cart at Ilimplon-court. [A laugh.] Wh e n Ili: , passion for giving 1,0001. for horses was s o lightly of, he could not avoid thinking of „lint he had heard had been the fate of Prince Pla o.a's expetices at %Viotti:or also certainly most minute examination. It appertied th o here there was a most profuse and lavish et:- Ir.dore. Coless the Committee were authorised A lir persons and impels, it was not to he ex tiil that documents from evidence would come sitioatiiioosly befit, e them, to show where the waste rt t 1 public motley la). Lar, t o -urns of money were purposes to which Ow) ‘t ore ilf.vPr applied. A 11r::e was annually given for travelling ex to our gracious (lapel', who never travelled. A h ue .min was given for horses, which she never 11 , ( 0. A. to the Embassy at Lisbon, he would call killed nn the other side, to fIOS wee hiomjak. and upon their honours, whether, if those ileowslie 1-4c:ono:tures had not clade it desirable for (,Arming to 'o to Lioihoo, they would have ap paiiitial any Ambassador to that Court ? If they ( null sat they wnvl.l have done 5,., th en th e quest i on alit disposed of : hut if thov could tint S 4 V, upon thrir honours, that, independent of Mr. "Canning's c omenienre, they thought an Anihrts•ndor necessary at Li.hon, and intended to send one, then it was evi dent that this transaction had been properly desci 'bed, jolt for Mr. Canning's benefit at the expellee of the raontrt. Ile was not surprised at the manner that the Snhle Lord floundered over this part of the case, as ti.i. appointment had taken place in his absence.- 11hen the Noble Lord professed such excessive de lot the Crown, he would wish that he had al,n some compassion for the people of this country. If the proper consideration was shown to them, and it could he proved that the expenditure was justili -2100. the gratitude and 'attachment of the people said amply rep,. r this consideration. 51r. B. BATiWithiT contended that no farther allvahta:ze could accrue from a viva yore examination rf witnesses than would be (let i red from the produc. lion of the documents protnised by the Noble Lord. llr. TIERNEY would not claim his right of reply any farther than to observe. that it was absurd to owns, that the enquiry could be satifactory, when the wit uessa,. who *lona weld give the-dearest ie. formation, were not to he examined. Mr. W. SNIFF!' supported the Motion. cir 'l'. D. ACLA NI) thought that where a general c;iiiion prevailed, that a greater expense, and a greater habit of expellee, hail existed, than was roe. crs , ftry for the splendour of the Crown, some en cony should be instituted. On any question where a .I:tfereure might arise between the Crown and the h . o;'le, the House should not be wanting in the dis charge of what might be considered its especial duty ; more particularly at a time when the people who had abe , dy for so malty years persevered in supporting the Government, m ere likely to be called on for fresh sarrifi 04. All rnotivec of delicacy should cer tainly he attended to ; nor would he wish to curtail Ih 2lty degree the splendour of the Crown ; but he (.0 , 1'1 , 4.11 that an examination into an apparently ex ilftrapint expenditure, would he tlos best meth(d of P , Prenting the possibility of vexatious interference iu future. The House then divided, itie sionelided 11 •t Against it, 1111j..1 ity 117 94 -33 A4journed. D UTC .TAI L. M All4ll Fin:lcis the First, * . r. At the moment when we had reason to indulge in :he reof!dent hope of lel tiftz our beloved people r"ls.h its their full event, the blessings of a perma nent ppare, seemed Isv muslin! decisions and politi "l co-berstioos, rce nre e.,mpolled by the events 1 4 ‘,. 1,0,.1v occurred, to make stew exertions etri..4l the ortlinury resources of our Slates. — t,. the system we have always followed, our rhinf ri.lvavour, melee those circumsta nces, is t o retain, ac hr a. posts ble, trims burdening our sub- Pets isit!l new ()pores:Ave taxes. ()Is those eolibidern ha% e resolved upon It measure which, white for the wants of the State, will give the sisrs of the papers called Redemption and lAntivi -1 "lon Ponds, an OpporlOtlity of employing to ad "lillsge their disposable funds. We have accordingly 1 . A Inlei slid' he opened to the amount of 50 : , iWrins of florins in value, called Vienna Wachrang. 9 -. The contributions to this loan may be made in -11..iiiiately, in redemption or anticipation bonds : •'‘ IPts than lOU florins will be taken. t• The interest shall be 21 per cent. payable half li 4 For the greater security of those concerned in c loan, ne.blive re4olred, that besides the collec -I;,P lerentlO of our gia les serve to cover it, *llr ; allicinii salt mines .1111 II he a special security for this and tudeleil, shat the produce in money of the orks of IVieliezka and Ralinia shall in parti r' ;:r sem* to pay the interest and die principal of .; i i elkti. 5• Tlint this burden on the revenue of the State mrifinne no longer than circumstances 'ruder it •:ro:utlly necessary, weihove resolved ) Oat a sink- THE STATESMAN: ing fund shall be formed to discharge it, 'into which shall he paid yearly the sum of 300,000 florins, like. wise from the produce of the same salt-works, &c. Kabuki tiottenburgh Lisbon Arr. PitiCL (PI. STOCKS Til 18 etivik per Cent. Red. 55; ••4 per • Cent. C . .nh ;i I I,l' Celle., 72.1 ly 1 I Cr Cent. Nary 871* Ihte I)AT AT fl'': cLock Lent. Anil 11 7-lei [Wan Bun& 8 9 Exchequer Bill. 4 Ouinitun Consuls for Acc. 561 LONDON: SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1815. The dreadful note of preparation for war is sound ed throughout all Europe. It is easy to perceive whet will be the result of all this hostile preparation ; but it is not so easy to discover the intended plan of operation. So much of the elemMitg of contention as we see collecting in the political horizons of Eu- rope, cannot, we fear, separate end subsido into harmless fragments without an explosion. From Vienna, where no small pert of the mischief which now threatens the world has been brewed in the'. baleful caldron of kingly ambition, the world, it seems, has again to expect its doom—whether the blessings of peace shall be allowed to re-clothe the earth with verdure, and close the wounds of bleediug and long-oppressed humanity ; or the work of general sia'sgstes and desolation shall again isicarnadine both ell .1. and sea, because a feeble old man has lost the shadow of a Crown, the substance of which had long &.pas total from his repudiated line. France is ! tranquil and satisfied under the change, except where the lingering hopes of ambition in the scatter ed members of the expatriated family, are wounding nature by ineffectual struggles to excite revolt against the stsimg upheaved effect of the general will ; nor • has the sea which has produced this extraordinary Revolution with so little disorder, yet threatened 'o overflow its banks, spreading confusion and dismay - I over surrounding countries. But it is feared it Fear is no legitimate ground for hostile ag-; eression----it 'dwells but with the weak. Prepara. tion for .ts , fence is all that apprehension can justify. All wars but those of defence are criminal, and vengeance will visit every wanton shedder of human blood. The new Government of France—new it is in act as well as principle—has declared that it means not to interfere with the concerns of other nations— let us believe it at h est until we have proof to the. contrary—Will any be so mad as to lash into fury those waves, and break down the mounds of those elements of discord and destruction which had before overwhelmed - them ? Yet Is — thlrifirlitualliiii rently still influencing the councils and the conduct of thoses States who have suffered most from giving way to its destructive stimulus. It must be with re ' gret that the friends of peace, however moch, and from whatever motives, they may detest France and its present Ruler, whilst they perceive every indica. lion and hear every assurance on the part of the French Government that can he given of a disposi tion not to disturb the tranquillity of Europe unless attacked, perceive also at the same time nothing but the most resolute determination on the part of almost all the Governments by which -France is Bur rounded, to exert themselves to the utmost, and beg. gar the inhabitants of their respective States, in order to bring destruction on the present fabric of French legislation, and the empire generally that supports it. We thought no Government which professes to act upon principles of political and moral right, and that knows the shame, injustice, and danger that must attach to an unprovoked aggressive conduct,. would have hesitated a moment in expressing, when public interests and public satisfaction required it, a disap probation of such conduct, and a restitution not to pursue it. But Lord CASTLEREAGH, who appears lately to have comprised the whole British Govern ment within himself, and certainly comprises, or thinks he does, no small part of it still within the firs row compass of his precious person, refused last night in the [louse of Commons to say that the British Government would not t act aggressively towards France. We certainly cannot .suppase . that we shall be immediately committed to war without tometyng like assurances of effective support from those we call our Allies, whether they can give that effectual support or not ; yet in answer tors question from PONSONBY, whether the Government St this country means to take any steps which nay %stalled aggressive against France, till 'an answer from Vi. enna be seceived, Lord Casneeexdu replied, 'that he would not answer the question, nor disclose any opinion or determination of the Government. These determinations, we suppose, we shall find out. by the usual discoveries of Government intention— fresh loads of taxes, and de Wits of the must disagreeable of all . inquisitors. Nell—may our actual suffering he as short as the ,sesense we are doomed to feel in regard to the inten tions of our Allies! They, we see, are all best on war; and if It be any consolation, as they say it Is, to have partners in affliction, we appear in . a fair way to see other nations iroassing, as well 'y. our selves, under the burdens of taxation, and lostria,and anticipation bonds that anticipate nothing but misery, and redemption conlributions that are nester redeem ed, but rather anti to pat the bear of: reslieltation further off than ever. Prussia, we have before stated, was, like a desperate gamble!, drawing large bills upon the future, and her own subjects, with the hope that by these and the liberally 'disbursed con tents of our Excheqeer,' she would be enabled to preserve the far-spreading slices of territory to which she has so unceremoniously helped herself, whilst others were debating on the subject at the Congress Vienna;of and new Austria finds it expedient, either from this grasping conduct on the part of her t►eighbour, at once her Kira and Ally —the cat and dog friendship of coquettes—to try some plan for recruiting her finances, and strengthening the sinewsof resistances it hin herself—by profiting bytlmsew cinder iul lessm►s of State policy which this country has so strikingly exhibited ever since we learned the art of borrowing from ourselves, and impoverishing the cou►►try to enrich the State. The Emperor of Aus- TRIA has issued an Edict, stating, that Le is compelled by events that have recently happened, to make new exertions beyond the ordinary means of his States, and for this purpose he proposes to raise a loan, if he can get it, of fifty millions of florins, by Ike. &M I A i till and Anticipation Bonds, offering the salt mines of G;slticia as securities for the re-payment of the advance. Ilis MAJESTY professes himself to he " faithful to the system he has al►cays followed ;" but, except giving us to understand that late events have rendered such measures necessary to provide fur the wants of the State, he leaves the world as much in the dark as to what line of conduct he means to pursue as Lord CASTLEREAGH and his Colleagues do respecting theirs. We should think AUSTRIA has as much to fear from Prussia and Russia as from France; and as to the system that the Emperor of AusTitta has always followed, we know it not to have been always against his son.in.law. We derive the information of this token of acti vity as well as various other accounts of military prepatations on ',the part of the Austrian Cabinet, by the medium of a Dutch Mail, which arrived last night. The tendency of the intelligence by the Mail relative to the other Continental • Powers, is of the same character as that respecting Austria.— Fifty thousand Prussians were, it is said, to pass the Rhine, last week, in the neighbourhood of We. sel ; 15,000 had before "arrived about Maestricht.— The second Declaration of the Allied Sovereign., of which we hare already made mention, Is said by the Dutch Papers to be in the possession of the Duke of WELLIIrGTON. Dispatches, we understand of great importance, were received this forenoon by Government from the Prince of ORANGE. Mr. HUNTER was the bearer. The Dutch Papers ire desirous of inducing a be lief that the Duke of AsnoutEKE and his Roy alists, are still making head against the new Govern !reale, ...Yte itamitt-ikittZar-lx-a-Abstwie PrecJamak tion frosi MASSEMA,-Prlisell of gattLING, in support of Louis! Private accounts state. that M ASSEN A ,doubt ful s hich side to adopt, had beestmade prisoner,and conti. nued in confittement at Marseilles. This Proclaim. tion, in ftis wanie, is, we suspect, like some other pf the BOURBON is4oev, net the most true and genuine: It is dated as far back as March 15th. • We must net omit to observe that, Lord CAtifTLJP.• naaon, is the House of Commons last night, cc nowledged the estraordinsit.tetter- addressed:to him at 'Vienna by M. iniiithrikeitti resPPetluli Naples, it)" he a genuiae It laid down, as our guatlers may recollect, a pkin for enabling Lore CAST L tabIAG violate his compact with MURAT•With the toast appermst , tlegvaeof blame. Ilia Lordship would not say whether he had acceded to the plan, 'and subscribed to the proposal of the falwe Yintcroan," bat as ?seal, contented himself with telling the douse, when the proper lime arrived, he Would giveihe fullest explanations !" Mr. Mettnnt, the Bank Dliector, had a ►ong con. givrence with the CMANIMIALOS of the EXcIirQUIR yesterday ) supposed to be on the subject of the new Limn. Lord Fiction-I.n was to sail yesterday•morning from Portsmooth, in the Boyne, 98, to take the naval command in the Mediterrartean. It is a fact material to be known to•Olfeers and • others going to Flanders, that English Bank.neltes }1 re •st a discount of one-fourth at Ostend ; but liviilsit-efiser posses eerreotly. • Govessment 'hes: resolved, widen 'the 'preeent mimstanees, to tetain possession of the Isle of Hour bon, Pondicherry, Ina, and other conquered colo nies, still in our hands. • By particulars which have transpired at Vienna relative to the late conspiracy in Italy, it appears, that on the night of the new year all the civil and military Austrian authorities were to have been mur dered. An Italian gens-d'artnes resealed the plot, and the horrid scene was prevented.. • Letters of• the lltiv inst., trim: Brussels; state, that the Duke of Wst.LINGTOK•haI 'sent to Portu gal to basted to him some particular Portuguese re giments Whitt% had diitinguished themselves under his Grace's'orders in the Peninsula. • His Majesty the Emporor of AutretA is esrp d• to declare' himself, without delay, King of ions- hardy. It it said; that before Lord FlAllitowiY••nd W. Pete left the Continent, the arrangements for subsidiin were concluded. The etnbarkatioos for.Ostend are continued with; unshated.nctiVity. Sit; trooptet the 16th Dragoons sailed-front :Ramsgate for that doh las lion etaTutndny. On Wednesday the liratisquadrob of the 10th Hus sars left Canterbury tote shipped; the second squa dron arrived at Canteabuey on Thursday, to go for ward for embarkation yesterday ; and to bi followed by the (bird misidroot this' day. t • NAVAL INTEI. Liu 14; t PLYMOUTII, Montt. 13.--Came in the William Sibbald, Strong, No.ter, from B tirt!e mit nit setigters; amongst %shorn is the Miyor of thit city (Count Lynch).—Artired the Courrie , i gon-hrig,. from a ciuise.—His Majosly ship Efighsa* has de= timed anti sent hi La Leonie, Frttheti shill, An- dre Master, with nine, titc. from 1115.ontie for the Ilavannah.—Arrived the Pricrord, Lowrig, with nine and patsengers, from LI •aux.—Pit in here the Caroline, Allen, from 1)-tilarsra, pith lo•! of sails, &c. and must repair before she can proceed. MARGATE:, APRIL 14.—A stoat ship bins disco.: vereil this morning on shore, at the back of MArgate Sand, which, by a letter received from the Ciptsiti, proves to he the Hind, JOHNS, Mater. for Landon, with cotton, coffee, and sugar ; as it continues to blow very hard from the north, it is feared the ship will be a total loss—several of nur hoes are gone off. Four of our passage.boats, which %vote fitting out for the season, together with several smacks, were yesterday taken up b. Government to p -.A A A to Sheerness to take infantry to Ostend. Y. s.—The Captain and crew of the hind hata just landed here, being compelled to quit the ship for the preservation of their lives—it still continuo to blow very. hard. The sth Dragoon Guards have been diatoms*, liy divisions in Cambridge for the last three days, on their route to Nottingham. The 7lst Regiment sailed from Plymouth feet o:tend on Weilnevrlne. The 55th Reginient of Foot comet to the. Tower of. Lottdon,,to do duty, and to be at hand to ember* for foreign soh vico, if necessary. The Pill Regiment is ordered from Dublin to C. rk, to embark for foreign service. It is stated from Aix.la•Chapelle, on the Ist inst.,' that the Duke de Beam was very near being taken . at (Nimes by 200 lancet', while at table with e party of officers of the King's heusehold. 119 had scarcely time to mount his horse end flee tb Ypres, leaving his cella and baggage behind. • ' No less than 25 regiesefits have been ordered hens.: forthwith from Canada, and four from Nova Scotia.- Scarcely any troops but the Fersciblee Will be 144: itr those settlements. It is expected that this greet" armament will sail from North Americti the first week in May ; and that the whole nill have arrive& fur European servke early in June. We have been favoured by n Geotlema.ti of lama ford, who hes recently been its. Rolland, with the, sight of a private letter from his friend in that coon. try,•eltich but too clearly shows the iniluanc.4 that llnstarAture's name has in the Low Countries, and. that nothing but a declaration of war is necessary to cause the Dutch to throg of their new King, and re turn under the French domination. The writer of the letter is a physician, and a burgoonester in the district of Ithynland, and 4 Major of the lendstriern. On the day when the ?rite of Onvisse waipro. chiseled-Kin ol:l4flihrarcerricbilfl7 were ordered throughout the county, and the mili tary of all descriptieu ~,1 .lire feu de joys.—Th . o . President of the %he lathe Colonel of the tegiment,• beihg the ` ehmthand dr. volved - upon ...the .Marni.-- After . manceav ring 'for some time, • news • arrived on the ground of NAPOLEON'S entry • into Paris,—this wes greetea t by the landstrum with *hoists of Vine 1' , E.74- itereur! Major 11: inimediately remonstratU.l with the men on the impropriety of Weir. swanduct,•and tbreatened to put under arre:t any•fndleidoaltby whom this misconduct was repeated ; this was en ? . ewe* by cries of Vivo NAenteoN! The 'A • feediately proceeded to put hie threat into es In which he was ineffectieally supported* by the Olicers.-e-The tandstruen then mutinied, tickedtkistsperieft Other, - who, being beet, defended himself wPth the aid of lib ell he was rescued by the Colonel and 'rut were sent for in consequence of the.disturba. discipline being at tkee.,end, the late4trum j to the town, broke the windows, end Seat. {gardens of the Major and othert•attached Rouse at OjtANOE, and the' waiter adds, ' Leom continues to he successful, it will be it to continue in his reaidenc.e, since the Intl have threatened his life, and the great mijoill people are -decidedly in favour -of IiONAt (StainfOrd News.) On Tuesday best an Inquest was held at W ; before Mr. CAPTTAN, one of the Coroners land a very respectable Jury, oa the body.. &and its the -Thames on the Sunday preceding. appes rid In evidence, that the deceased had been 'only thrown into the river, by a manor the Rose, so hang look as the Ist of March, though the tonne was greatly altered and deca the effects of time and the elements, yet the' tbe deceased, be beingcrooked.barked,ind he wore, were sufficiently remarkable to id. 'person tweed all doubt. The deceased were passengers together in a Grave end boat morning of the Ist of March last • and althoug 1 .Watt no positive quarrel between them on the • fen they eierrised their wit against each or' part of the time, to the amusement or the COW 11,ose was abusive and ill-humoured to the ifrequeetly interrupted him in singing, &c, him about, knocked his hat off, threaten. him on the fire, and told him repeatedly he ate, over-board before they got to Woote it h. 1" pany, nevertheless, did tint imroer• he meet the deceased took it all in good pert, and 0811 Ina jocular way. At length, in G Mentes Item, deceased and Rope both went on deck ;• Re the deceased by the hind, and withrott seer each other they walked along the (leek a ft' when by a sudden pull Rose forced the decem hoard, and although every effort was immedit made to save him, pet they were will/not se. A gear deal of enquiry . as to the giro ettimo• . made by thethefioroner and Jury, and aftev ttlitfyi!iyi• deliberatiri.. the Jtiry returned a `verdict er. nVit . Murder -against chattel. WO. Arise rer . custody to take hit' trigt i plisopst• Udlbes for ~~. ...,~ wi t Maj , 4 eseastimiti 4, 4 i4 Oft - hikes: . is Maas; Otero mho knee. 'Alt preceedetl ktreyed thi „ teed to the if NAPO, • impossible mperislist* of the • APART 1.-••• Woolwich, I for Kent, • of a man ding. EL barn wan. he name of it, and al. lecayed by he form of t he clothes dentify his and Rose oat, on the ough there ie voyagt', ither great ,mpany.— deceased, c., pull d led to pot should g,) The com. lot it, and dy replied tenvh, the Rose to.dc enkiug tv re ew pac e r, sserl over'. mecliately socreie.—• eimo• Wika t* o slue tt% 0444 Pmli'w in for Kea. - I'H If.; 57 1 2.11'1 7 ;5:47 IV. _ _ 9 I