The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-05-11 00:00:00

R~: '.'~. i 0 DAY AT ONg WCLOGIL India South 7 9 p Exchequer NO- '2 5 p ()n►uiam '.301r; 19; l'ay ditto limas fur Acc. (ii 1i THE STATESMAIy. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, 11, 11414. Paris Papers to the 9th instant were received this morning, from which +ie have taken the following est meta - I. l .sats, MAT B.—The Duke de Berri. reviewed yesterday a part of the cavalry of the National Guard of Paris. This day the whole will be reviewed by the king. . The Deputies of the southern departments waited yesterday morning upon Lord Wellington, to express to him tbe,gratitude of their constituents, for the good conduct uf his . army. By letters from Naples, the King Of Naples had left his head-quarters at Bologna, on the 25th ult. for 14s capital. . Generals Lanriston and•Razont, though prisoners of war, have sent in their adherence to the new Go vernment ; also Count Rampon, and all the Officers of. the garrison of Gomm. • The Senate and Legislative Body have beett con voked by the King fur the 31st instant, instead of the 10th of June. " Thu fullowimg have been appointed a Council of War i viz.:—Marshals.Ney, Augereau, and Macdo nald ; Generals Dupont,. Compans, Curial, Prevost, jaatour Maubourg, fiery, 'Sorbier, :vain, Keller man, Felix, and the Commissioner Ordounateur Marchand. FRENCH FUNDS. May 8, . 60f. :Mc. I Wink Actions, . 45 .Bonansuanz, MAY 2.—Two English soldiers who had been condemned to death, and were upon the point of :offering, received their pardon from Lord Dalhousie, in consequence of the humane inter fe;ence of the populace. LIRRIIEN, APRIL 27.—According to news from Norway, the Councillor d'Anker, wbo had been sent to London to interest the English Government in favour of that country, had been unsuccessful in mission. FRAN:if/OUT, MAY 1. 7 -The Russian armies are immediately to leaie France in flee bodies, by as ninny different routes. The ftest four will be pre ceded by four columns of Cossacks. As they will increase in their march by different detachments, pri soners of war and convalescents, their total, which is at present estimated at 180,000 men, and 88,000 korses, will then amount to a third more. MANYVA. APkIL 26.—The Prince Viceroy has learnt at this city the events which have happened at ilan, where lie has not been for the last six months. To-clay he left here for Munich, but previously is sued the following Proclamation:— _ . PEOPLE OF THE KINGDOM OP ITALY!--7My life has been devoted to your service for the last nine years. Not one moment but what has been employed in the interior for your•happiness, and on the frontiers for 'our defence. I have found the recompenco of my cares and troubles in your affections, and my corre sponding feelings.. I have experienced honourable testimonials, which hitiory has collected, in order C.at after having myself derived from a delicious feast, they may be transmitted as the inheritance of my children. Yes, 1 have felt all that can rejoice a man's heart from the affection and gratitude of a people, joined to a conscience without reproach. • After these long proofs of my devotion and my love, I . have given you the most signal mark of a boundless confidence. I have left my friends by mt• ture,•to reside amongst the friend . ' of my choice:,-- Bilt new political arrangements oblige me to-go from' you, and render Uncertain the accomplishment 'of a wish, which 1 might surely be permitted to indulge but once, when, you yourselverhad expressed• it a thousand times. People of the kingdom, wherever Providence may dispose of me, the current of my affection will—re main the same. For a long time the first desire of my head has been your felicity. Italians, be then happy ! You may become foreigners to me, but ne ver inditTerent! However, in order fully to enjoy the pleasing remembrance of basing resided amongst Sou,' I must banish from my salmi . the circumstances . ' in which I bid you farewel. • . • • J An you, brave Army of -Italy, soldiers whose names, whose features, wheite wounds, and whose services, are for ever engraver on my hen t it ; those wounds received under my eyes; those services, for which I have obtained rewards ! Perhaps you will . never more see me at your head, and in your ranks; perhaps I shall never again hear your :tech mations ! But should ever the country call yGu again to arms, certain I am, brave soldiers, you will be. stow a fond recollection in the post of danger on the name of Eugene mamma, Aprtl 26. PRINCE EUGENE. . The Debates last night in the House of lairds, opnot the motion of Earl GREY, respecting the affairs a Norway, were unusually animated and interest- \ An. 1 F pourable.' '' '• • Lliboa PRICE OF STOCKS THIN Hank 451; S per Lena Red. 661 i S per Cent. Cong. 67411 per Ceara. SS 11 S per Cent. Ntivy 96; 54 I.,•ttig. Ann. 161 I-le TIIE KrAtrusmA N ?'4;t_ r ar--*TroPmerm -gmffirww.-- -- ing. The book of numbers, however, preesilkhd 1 , DUVAL INTELLIGENCE. against the Law of Nations and the dictates of htieto- l• ---....--. . • .. .... ~..1 , PLYMOUTH, MAY 9.—Arrhed the • Prevayante storeship, pity; and the Address proposed by the Noble Lora • . „from Gibraltar.—The Repulse man of War, with the Mediter to be presented to the PRINCE REGENT, praying his. }'very fleet, passed up Channel yesterday, but as the wind is Royal Highness would use his influence to rescue : very strong from the East, it is supposed they will put back to _„ the people of Norway from the alternative of starve- i this port.—Arrived thaFritocis Drake frigate, from the Medi tion, or submission to a foreign dominion, was lost' terranean.—Sailed . Ill!. Majesty's ships Levant, Halcyon, and by a majority of SI. Thus are the People of England.. l Bittern, to the westward. or rather the Government, involved in a war of. thi 1 DUAL, MAY 10.— Arrived the Bermuda sloop of war, from ~; , Bourtleftitz ; and the Tigress gun-brig, from the Itoompot.— ' most unpopular and disgraceful kind, contrary 101 4 principles upon which she has uniformly acted against: Conte down from the River half a dozen merchantmen, and sailed fur Portsmouth, undei convoy of his Majesty's ship Red the arbitrary power of France, and also contrary to i I pole. those principles which seated the family of Beulah.; liAewscn, MAY 10.—Arrived the Earl Leicester packet, WICK upon the British Throne ! The speeches of ' with a mail and passengers, from INottenburgh.— The outward f',arl CiitElf, Lords GRENVILLE and HOLLAND, Con- bound Heligoland convoy, under protection of his Majesty's taut so many convincing proofs of the injustice and ship Bruiser,is here waiting. PORTSMOUTH, MAY IU.-Arrived the Cumberland man of iinpolicy of the - subjugation of Norway, that the reader who feels any intetest in the subject, and it is war, with a convoy from the Downs; and the Sharprhooter, impossible for an Engliihman who sets any value up- from Chternsey.—Sailed the East India floet, under convoy of on his own liberty not to appreciate that of other; his Majesty's ships Desiree, Ac.hille, and Columbia; and his ;Majesty's ship Ariel,. with a convoy for the coast of nations, has only to peruse and contrast them with 'Africa. TORBAY, MAY 9.—Arrived the Liberty, Buckingham, from those of their opponents. It must be desirable that Bayonne; the sailed on the Ist inst. at which time it was re the fame and. glory acquired by the Allies in, the f. ported that Sir John Hope was doing welt, and nearly reco great work of universal peace, should not be. ta vered of hi i wounds..—The loss of the French in the battle of mished by a conduct towards Norway, so much the Bayonne was in prieportion of three to one of the Allies. reverse of what they profess towards 'the other Con tinental Powers. The suspicious conduct .of 'the . Cnows PRINCE during the campaign, was very pro 7 --erme-- perly noticed by Earl GREY, and would be a sufficient On Thursday night last a most splendid .ball leas justification, if a nyeacuse were necessary, for the non - : give" by Sir Charles. Stewart. More than 400 per i sons were b chief oe was Lord performance of that part of the contract relating toNor . i WellingtOn, resent who ha at the d unexpectedly attracti arrived that way. Indeed, Lord HOLLAND very justly observed, i morning. The moment he entered the room the when high sentiment, Of humanity and justice were t whole company crowded round him, struggling to to be expressed,the Allies were chosen for the office ; get a sight of the man whom they universally ac i but when the hangman's office, the Devil's business, knowledge to be the first Captain of the age. When Blucher was presented to him, they bowed, and looked was to be undertaken, the odium unfortunately de at one another for five minutes before the spoke one volved upon us. In the present state of this late- : word; at last, however, a conversation commenced, resting business, the people of the United Empire i which lasted for about ten minutes. Old Platoff by could, not perform a more meritorious action than • this time had worked his way up to Lord Wellington, i and was presented him. 1 to He was followed by a by petitioning the Throne in behalf of the utifortn number of , other o ffi cers, all anxious to get a look at •• nate Norwegians, and we doubt not the liberal and i the hero. file Emperor of Russia, who was there, patriotic part of the community will set so bright !hardly had a circle round him, all having' crowded an supple. , I round Lord Wellington. In short, for some time a complete stop was put to the dancing by their anxiety to see him. Ho was dressed in a British Field- Marshal's uniform, with the Order of the Golden Fleece, Garter, Great Cross of Maria Teresa, Tower and Sword, Swedish Order of the Sword, &c.—A most splendid supper was served at one o'clock, to which the Emperor of Russia handed Lady Castle. reagh. After supper the company began to separate, and dancing recommenced with great -spirit. It was nearly six o'clock before the company departed. There are to lie a series of 'entertainments, of which this is the commencement. LL ANT ACTION. • FALMOUTH, M tY B.—Arrived the Francis Free ling packet, horn Lisbon, with a Mail, in seven days. She bad an action off the Rock of Lisbon on the 2d, with an American schooner privateer. The following is an extract of the packet's journal:-:-. " M tir 1, sailed from Lisbon ; 2d, at day-light, the Rock of Lisbon in sight, discovered a schooner; we stood on under easy sail. The schooner made sail, and shortly brought us to action ;. after 11 hours hard fighting, broadside for broadside, she sheered off to repair damages, and afterwards again attacked us in different positions ; she was again beaten .4 1 / 4 ff, after one hour; she again. ress‘wed the Wacky hat unsuccessfully ; she afterwards directed her course to a brig, apparently a merchant vessel, which she fired at, and brought to ; we made sail, and lost sight of her. The action was about four hours in the whole. She appeared to have eight guns on a side, and full of men, with yellow sides and ports." The passengers have made Captain BELL., of the packet, a present of a very handsome sword, and given him 1001. to be divided among his crew. The packet had on board 130,000 dollars. BALL.. Al' PARIS. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Some of the private advice. from France state, bat I we know not whether upon any other authority than rumour, thit the Definitive Treaty. is in great for- . wardness, and.that Lord CASTLEREAGH is expected to return with it in the first week in June. Messrs. BAYARD and GALLATIN certainly leave this Country next week to proceed on their milision-I to Gottenbargh. We understand that Lord LyNEnocK (late Sir T. GRAHAM) is not coming horn*. The army is sp. I pointed to garrison Brabant ; and his head-quarters is to be at. Brussels. , How many British troops are to be kept on the Continent, for how long a space, I and for what object we pretend not. to know; but ! the circumstance is certain, and it is in consequence of an agreement, by which each of the Allies is to furnish a contingent—the whole we fear at our cost I The Gazette of last night contains a dispatch from Lord LYNEDOCIE (late Sir T. GRAHAM), dated Ant werp, the sth inst. stating, that agreeable 'to the terms of the Convention of Paris, that fortress was evacuated by the French troops on the morning of that day, and, according to the wish signified by the Commissioner of the Allied Powers, in pursuance of ; his instructions, it was occupied by British troops. The marine establishments remained in the hands of the French. As soon as the Foreign Potentates arrive, we un derstand that they will be invited, with the PRINCE REGENT, to partake of a magnificent dinner et Guild- I hall with the LORD MAYOR and Citizens of London. The provision for an appanage for the Duke of WELLINGTON, corresponding with his new dignity, and worthy of his services, and of the gratitude and esteem of the nation, it is said, is proposed to consist of a grant of 400,0001. to be laid out in building a mansion, and in the purchase of lands, according to, the precedent of Blenheim, in the case of the great Duke of M ARLBOROUGU, The Allied Sovereigns are expected to arrive by the 17th of this month. LLOYDS, MAY 9.—The Lords Commissioners of the. Admiralty have been pleased to inform the Com mittee, that all thl signals along the coast of Great Britain and Ireland, are ordered to be discontinued, excepting the stations from North Yarmouth to the Land's End, both inclusive • and also from Bally oacotta to Dinsey Island, both inclusive, which are to.remain for the present. Dear.— rhe Stock redeemed in the lest quieter amounted to V 1716,181, FEMALE SWINDLER. --............._ A female, about 30 years of age, of a 'gent.eel pearauce, who has been committing a variety frauds in towns and villages in different part , . of , country, under various pretences, • upcn the inn, tious and unthinking, has at length been Jeter!ed , Bedfordshire. In the town of Bedford she prt:tend, ed to be a Lady of Fortune, and kept a cacti , and actually engaged four stalls at the Swan there to stand for her. On Monday se'nnight called on a Lady who resides at a village hear Bed, ford, and stated herself to be a distant relation the Lady's husband, who lately died abroad, pretended- to know such circumstances respect. ing him and his death, as to 'induce the Lid to credit her statement, and to show her ever possible attention ; but the imposture was detect by the Lady's sister, who happened to be present, who put such questions to her respecting her deceased brother as she was not able to answer correct' She has pretended in the same county to he the ni of Mr. Hope, of Mansfield-street, Portland-ph but having imprudently married and eloped with mother's servant, her family had neglected her. the evening of Monday se'nnight, she got into company of a servant girl, who had formerly V with a farmer near Bedford, from whom she gain, thorough knoaledge, of the farmer's family, connections and pursUits, and afterwards told girl she had been married to the farmer within these few days, and that she would take her into the vice again, and make her place better than it wte 1 In consequence of the information she gained ff ; the girl respecting the farmer, she went to his li, and assumed the character of his bride, and the i was following her home ; and his family underse ing that he was gone from home to be married, lieved her statement to be true, and the spry' I treated her as their true mistress. She sent a to borrow a gig from a neighbour, which was readily lent, and also borrowed 21. 74. of farmer's housekeeper. She then ordered one the farmer's men.servant's to drive her to Ampthil 1 a town about seven miles from Bedford, in t' gig which she had borrowed from a neighbour. Ff 1 Ampthill she sent letters by the post directed . i her pretended husband : however, before she time to commit any depredations at Ampthill, 1 farmer returned home, and the whole fraud deception were discovered, and in consequence express was sent . off to Ampthill, and she ! orought back to Bedford in custody, examined bel a Magistrate, and committed for farther me lion, on a charge of obtaining money - under . pretences. , The account she gave of herself is, that ell last settled at Te‘tkesbur y , in Oloucestershrre, she assumed the names of Harriet ,tope, II ; Brown, and. Harriet Clark. . • - Lie s tlt m en o i nt n i t e :C w accompan ol og o ld ne a l p C pea me r e i n i e h r. st r., C w ol h o l ic4srr Bonapantt from Paris, is promoted to the Bre' r;nk of Colonel in the army, " on the Cocaine , Enrotie,' aid is the island of Elba only." From es . pre NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING, 1214. and the other Allied Merit', placed in stiperin TUESDAY, MAY 10. ~. , lance over ATivotiow, are to,cootintit *with hi iweepstakes of 100 gs each, h. R. colts, Bst, 71h. fi llies, Bst. Sib . : ...... . , .. I'. Y. C. Num tor some time. End . P. Bentiock's b. c. by Camenut - - 1 : KING'S THEATRE.—The fine . Comic ,Opp Lord Lowther's f. Amanda - - 2 ; CISIAROSA, called 11 Mulrimonio Secreter;witiel 6 to 4 on Amanda. . ! founded on the story of the Ciundesilne Man' Mr. Payne's Onyx, Bst. 21b. beat Mr. Vansittart's Sellm - 1.; . .85t' • .•• T. Y. C. 00g5. 2 11 to 10 on Onyx. - ` was produce d last ni g ht l .for -the fire. tine - this . Sweepstakes of 100 gs each. D. M. ison. On this occasion Signor. CIIIOIII, from , Mr. Lake's Pointers, Bst. - - 1 ' Italian Opera of Amsterdam, made Ms first appea Lord Jersey's Asraodetts, Bst. - - .. Mr. Uday's.Truffle, ftst. 121 b. - - S ance on a British stage as the Count, a part Lord G. D. Cavendish's Eccleston, ist. 131 b. - 4 ls analogous to that of Lord Ogkby. His vol 7to 2 apt Pointers. 6to 5 apt Asmodeas. 2to 1 aEst Trudle. ' a bass 2 more powerfal than agreeable, but Seventy Guineas, for 9-yr old ! co M lts, Bet. 71b. fillies, Est, 41b. i very remarkable for the former quality. He shop tt. . Lord Stawell's b. c. by Waxy - - I judgment ' however, in its management in the recite _ Mr. Wyndham's b. c. Olive - 2to 1 opt Olive. 2 tive l and Ise is, upon the whole, a better actor than a Doke of Graft l an7s Ramrod, Bst. 71b. heat Mr. Villiers's Piony, ! ; singer. NALDI .and Mrs. Di . cicaits sustained the Bst. 11h. R. M. 100, h. ft. 2to l on Ramrod. ' parts of Gavonimo and C a rol i na with the .happiest • , effect. The house was filled by a brilliant audience. handicap Plate of 501. by Subscription, being the third A or y tke .three 501. Plate for 3,4, 5,6- olds and . The Merchants and Inhabitants of Leith, tic- Lord Darlington's Cwrw, s.yrs Y o r ld ° , -- S b st - . Slb. aged 11°1.'61* A. 1 i Lord G. H. Cavendish's hi. tn. Cat, 5-yrs old, SsL 21b. ' I tuated by the most praiseworthy feeling, of sympa -sto 2 apt Cwrw. I thy fer . their suffering fellow-creatures, had a meet ing on 'Friday, the 29th ultimo, for the purpose of COURT OF ALDERMEN.—The Thanks of the Court iconsidering the situation of Norway, and they re were voted to the Lord Bishop of ELY, and the Rev. i solved to petition the Privy Council for permission GEORGE Honcsom, Archdeacon of St. Alban's, and ', to export grain to that country. Of course, if the Rector of St. George IlanOver-square, for their Ser. . Government resolve to. blockade the Norwegian mons preached at Christ Church, Newgate-street, on • ; Ports, such a request will not be acceded to. At Easter Monday and Tuesday, last. l the same time, what may not be openly permitted. The CRA I !MAN presented a, statement of the sur- I may be connived at,and when we consider the charac plus of the. Orphan's Fund, and the Court ordered ter of this proceeding, we heartily wish that this 11,0001. to be drawn off and annihilated, and six country, in conjunction with its Allies ' may still months' notice to be given to the parties interested.' find some other means of satisfying Sweden for the The thanks of the Court were voted to the Rev. lois of Finland ; for , upon the same principle that Mr. Toone, for his Sermon at St. Paul's on the first we rejoice at the restoration of European indepen- Sunday in Easter Term, and he was requested to deuce, we must feel an aversion to compel, under the print the same. penalty of famine, a brave, simple, and patriotic The Loan MAYoR nominated in the Court the people, to receive what they consider a foreign yoke. • following Gentlemen, to be publicly put in no -(Caledoni(u Mercury). mination for the Offices of the Sheriffalty of this BOW-STRSET.—On Monday evening two men and City :-- a woman underwent an examination, charged with George Blackman, Esq. Thomas Kemble, Esq. being concerned in robbing the house of Mrs. Sim- . Henry Chawner, Esq. John Ayton, Esq. Thomas mons, in Baker-street, of plate, jewels, and other Chapman, Esq. Thomas Wilson, Esq. Robert 1 ed. property of the value of two thousand one hundred der, Esq. Robert Waller, Esq. John Leec h, E s q . . pounds. The robbery was committed on an evening, . The Court requested the City Members and such at the time Mrs. Simmons was gone to the play, other Members as have seats in Parliament, to at. when several men knocked at the door, and tusked tend the House of Commons on the Bill for Regulat- into the house, and locked the servant into Ilia ing Mad-Houses, and to endeavour to obtain a water-closet, and from their ktioa ledge of places Clause exempting Betlitem Hospital from the opera- where the valuable property wry kept, there was no• tons of the same. , • doubt but the robbery was what tvas called a put up CORN EXCHANGE., MAY 11.— We had but WV/ robbery, and which has since beets ascettaitted to be • fresh arrivals of soy grain this morning, whe n the case, arising from a female forique-teller being fine Wheat fully supported Monday's prices, but no de. admitted into the house, to whom Mts. Simmons mend for ordinary qualities. Fine fresh Suffolk showed the above property, and this tin conjunction-- Barley met ready sale, without any amendment in with a woman who went there after a place of eta.' price. A large quantity of Oats remain on hand, ployment, and both were connected with a gang of the sale of which article was rather heavy at a reduc - thieves. Part of the stolen property was found upon ' tion of ls. per quarter. In other aticles no altera- the Prisoners. They have previously undergone tion. • - ' several private examinations, and they were again Cornwall, than which no county has more heavily committed for a further investigation. felt the burden of war, begins already to enjoy the , Boxtas.--Fulke the pugilist, will fight Mori , jsfessings of peace. The price of Tin was advanced netts, the Black, in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, again at the last quarter's coinage, and Tin Bills are Scotland ' on the 20th instant, for a purse of 100 now at 71. 2 M s. to the Tinner. Copper has t a • guineas, subscribed by Scoichmen. The parties were similar rise, and the advance of both has placed all rival sparrers in the North, where a jealousy look the heavy mines (witch before had been worked , place - which caused this match. ~,„ at little or no profit) in a prosperous state. The - ' • . revival of the Pilchard Fishery is coufidently ezi peeled, . LONDON • Printed and Published by D.- L t.. ovet at i:v ' .., StAT4S/un Ovens, 81 1 r lati4ifea,lt • . ' ' • yr i. I • ape y of' the Icau• Al e end. iage, r t she Bed." 1 , oat et and Red:. 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