The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-05-10 00:00:00

~_. 4 4 ~~-- -~ There base I►ren published at one an►l the same time, the neus of the formation of a new kingdom, and a Proclamation of the King of Naples, which recals us to the energy of our ancestors. FRENCH FUNDS—Five per cent. Consols 66f -13attk Actious 7674. APPROACHING CAMPAIGN. The Rhenish Mercury, of the Ifth of April, has the following observations as to the probable quarter where the storm of war will first burst.—" From Paris, in his Elysian fields, where he seems to enjoy the beauties of nature, Bonaparte turns his eyes to the confines, to consider where he may best and most effectually break through. To surprise Switzerland promises him inestimable advantages for a defensive war, but that he does not wish; the armed insur rection in the mountains is, as the Directory ex perienced, not to he despised, help is near, the country poor, and affording no resources. Neither is the quarter of the middle Rhine likely to attract his attention ; the Prussian army on the Meese and Mentz, the gate of the German armies, formidably threaten his rear or flanks, should he attack by the hloselle. " Belgium remains, ■nd unquestionably all his restless.itaparious views concentre in► it. lie has at least 60,000 well equipped men assembled at Paris or dispersed in camps and cantonments, all of whom he could assemble in five or six days on the Belgian con fines, and increase to the amount of 100,000 from the frontier garrisons. Should he succeed in breaking through, or surprising the Anglo-Prussian lines, badly covered by ill fortified places, then Belgium lies open to him; he reckons on aid in the spirit of its inhabitants, and forced loans and requisitions would give him what he is in want of, while his for tresses, in case of defeat, secure him a retreat. 44 With him is the bold and able tacticiau Carnet ;1 around hint are his guards, and all the outrageous men whom France possesses, who will fight with de operation, and who, together with their Chief, are well aware of the old saying, • the first battle is worth tern,' and that their own fate depends on the event. The formidable attack should therefore be well and anxiously prepared for. " Caruot 20 years ago developed the plan which, chile it turned the left flar►k of the Austrian army by the. Sambre, and thus compelled its retreat to the Rhine, first gained France the Netherlands. It is , possible that the violer►t hatred borne the Prus- j sites, may bring the first storm on their position; but. it is much more probable that the enemy will, in the first instance, posh forward against Ghent, between Lille and Dunkirk, and endeavour to drive back Wellington towards the Maese, in or. der to cut off his communications with England, and, if possible, drive him from Antwerp, as he hopes his operations will be favoured by the doubtful fidelity of the Belgian reserve. -Belgium once won, Napo. , leon secures France to himself, 'and can extend his piens to the left bank of the Rhine. ' The furore event no man can with certainty fore ere, as it depends on such an infinite variety of causes, all of 1;146 no man can take into account.' At the same time, these military combinations have at feast hist°, ical probability : hut our Generals are on the watch ; Blucher and Gneisenau know their cue. ; my, and Wellington is not one of those who suffer themselves to be attacked dreaming. All are aware how much depends on the first battle, and we may venture tranquilly to place our confidence in God, the gond reuse, in brave armies, and most able Coro. wanders." Nl.xr , ;ITUII)kY AU. THE LOTTERY MUST r,F, Mt A WN.—ON I.Y Fl VF; TIIOUS,M I) TICK EIS. — '11! ; TIIOIIA I) POUND PRIZI3e—TIIREE TAOUs %ND GUINLAS IN GOLD. !Me Vinih Arr. Fnmee ...... Malta Cottrithurgh U PRICE alt' 4 TOCKII TllllB 5 per (.id. Red. Sat ,ler ..3ent ogis hil 4 per Cerro. 71* 2i 4 per Cad. Nary cif OAT AT ONE. O'CLOCK to•or. Ann 114 7-H Lidin Bondi 11 12 p litsche.mer Bill* 5 1 p Omni ure Cismols fur Are. 58“ THE STATESMAN. LONDON: WEnIESO AY, MAY 10, 1815. REPORTED ARRIVAL OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON .42. BOULOGNE. Every day furnishes additional reasons for he lie% lug that France will not fall an easy conquest to the militated Crusade against her liberties sud inde pendence ; and that in proportion as the spirit of re sistance is manifested in the threatened country, nod the calm of inherent strength and unaggressive rose. lution is opposed to the fury of the passions, which have, in vengeful imagination, devoted t vast empire to subjugation or destruction, the strength and rasbly.formed determinations of the denouncing Powers ore lessened, and cooled into sobriety.— Already have they reason to pause—already may they read the result of invasion. 'The circumstances under which the Allies if ill now enter France can bear no comparison wigs those ender which they entered it before. Then they bad merely to pursue retreating man, who, to save the. heart, was under the necessity of drawing every particle of strength from the extremities, which were consequently left powerless—now we see the circulation of the in vigorating qualities has restored to every extremity its wonted power, while the life-blood of animation and national strength is seen manifesting itself in the " native hue of resolution" argund.the heart, and on the whole surface of the body politic of France. Not merely the bold and stimulating genius who now tlir,:cts her natural energies, and calls lonia ber vast TILE STATESMAN. resources, is engaged in incessant activity, to in flame the predominant passions of her people, and oppose a barrier to the threatened invasion ; but his success In this e►►deavour is appallingly discernible from one end to the other of the French nationos hick appears to present the spectacle of a whole people giving evidence of their determination either to support their independence, or die in the last ditch of their country. The policy of not compelling a spirit like this to overstep the bounds within which it seems disposed to remain, must be evident to considerate minds, who can make proper estimates of the past, and judge rationally of the future ; but unhappily there are understandings to which this is not so plain, and to whom experience and wisdom vainly unfold their page of instruction. Still more unhappily the des tinies of mankind often depend on the will aud the result of such understandings! ' There is no reason to believe that France will allow the storm that is now menacing her to burst in with. out a terrible resistance ; and there are grounds for apprehending that she may be the first to roll the surge of war over the countries who have so rashly devoted her fields to invasion. NAPOLEON has only delayed taking the field at the head of his armies, and throwing back the insulting threat and proud de fiance, by the arrangements which he finds necessary to be made fur the preservation of the peace and the government and safety of the country in his absence. We find by the Paris Papers of Saturday, which are received, that he has decreed a Regency, composed of the Ministers and Presidents of the Sections of the Council of State, a measure evidently symp tomatic of his approaching departure from the ca- Ipital, and of his desire to act in accordance to the wishes of others. We have indeed intelligence by a French fishing-boat, which is just arrived from Boulogne, that BONAPARTE slept at that place on Sunday night, but the public Papers of Saturday do not prepare us for such a quick motion on the part of the Emperor. We have however to obser►e, that these Papers should more properly be considered the issues of Friday night than the intelligence of Satur day. The distance between Paris and Boulogne, about 150 miles, might be passed over in less than , two days in NAPOLEON'S usual style of trowelling. Certain it is, that instead of finding themselves in a situation to carry their denunciations into immediate execution, the Allies see the necessity of confining I themselves to the defensive, and a very probable ap_ pearance of a stratagem to defeat their plans before theysare half formed. A rumour has been in circu lation that the French hatl broke through the line , between the E►►glish and Prussian armies, aud that the British Commander had, as a measure of defen sive prudence, been under the necessity of iuon• dating the country. We do not believe that any sock lamentable neces s ity has set been occasioned ;: but the Reader will perceive from an article which we quote from the Rhenish Mercury, a Paper pub lished under Prussian authority, the apprehensions which a►e entertained and openly avowed on the Al lies' side of the Rhine, of a sudden irruption from the French territory. That Paper says—" Bel , glum will unquestionably be the first object of NAPOLEON'S attack. Ile has, at least, sixty thou- sand well equipped men assembled at Paris or dis persed in camps and cantonments, all of whom he could assemble in five or six days on the Belgian con fines, and increase to the amount of 100,000 from the I frontier garrisons. Should he succeed in breaking through, or surprising the Anglo-Prussian lines, badly covered by ill fortified places, then Belgium lies open to him ; he reckons on aid in the spirit of its inhabitants, and forced loans and requisitions would give him what he is in want of, while his for tresses, in case of defeat, secure him a retreat." Whilst every endeavour seems to be taken to keep the war oat of France, every measure is also pursued to render it destructive to the invaders if they shall succeed in penetrating. France cannot be expected to become the scene of action till almost every town and fortress on the frontier shall be in possession of the Allies. They must subdue and garrison as they go along ; and apparently the defensive positions, and the forces which will obstruct their progress, will be much more numerous and formidable than any thing they formerly experienced. Preparations of every kind are making for the defence of every poet in the line from the frontier to the Me tropolis ; and the instructions of the War Mi nister (DAvonsT) to the Prefects and Authorities throughout *e Empire ) will give some idea of the nature of the warier, that is to be waged. The smallest town, every insulated house, every mill and enclosure is to be defended ; the woods and de files are to be disputed; gates of towns are to be re- I paired, and bridges are to be fortified and defended ; and all that species of Guerilla warfare, which proved so fatal to the French in Spain, is to be had recourse to against their enemies in their own country. " It is," says payourr, " for every authority, it is for every cities's, to second, in every direction, and by all kinds of partial resistance, the grand movement which the Emperor's genius will impress on the masses, whose success will then become infal lible, and will assure our safety. If more ef feotive forces should penerate into some of our departments, let obstacles of all kinds be multi. plied on their passage. Let their convoys, their de tachments, be cut off or arrested on their march ; let an active correspondence be every where kept up ; let the military chiefs promptly receive information of the slightest occurrence. Let the inhabitants of th e country-places themselves dispute the defiles ) the woods, the marshes, the mountain-passes, the hollow ways !" And to give greater activity and something like organization to this sort of resistance, every Magistrate is to be a Chief and a Captain. The Times, of this morning, has accompanied the Address of DAyourr with Notes, in the osuil style of that Paper, that is, opposing to the energetic language of the Address all the elegance and energy of the language of St. Giles' and Billingsgate ; and to such a height has the rage and ravings of the Times writer been carried, that he has not hesitated to commit to paper, and thence to the Press, the most daring blasphemy. Impious as it is, let us show what some men will utter, and palm upon the world is sound argument. " If the Almighty in his an• ger," says the Times, " should suffer the late Ty rant of France to re-establish his sway, who would not blush to wear the badges of distinction confer red by a Rebel, an Outlaw, an Oath-breaker, and an Usurper." In other words—" who would not blush for the decrees of Heaven—who would submit to them E . " This serious madman impiously pre sumes to Judge the justice and wisdom of his Cre ator in things yet to happen !! Count 9' Edon (Daourr), has declared Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Bergues, Lisle, Donny, Valen ciennes, Conde, Quesnoi, Maubeuge, and Avesnes, in a state of siege ; yet it does not appear that the departure of individuals from France has been pre vented. It is stated on the authority of letters from Paris, that the conduct of NAPOLEON, and his " proposal of not :nolesting the Emperor of Aurrata on the side of Italy," has had the effect of determining the Austrian Emperor to keep aloof from the league against France. This intelligence is said to have been com- municsted to NAPOLEON by the Empress MARIA LOUISA, who says, be may trust to her father's neu trality. It is certain that BONAPARTR had declared himself perfectly satisfied with the last dispatches he had received from Vienna. Wit have some more Austrian reports of the war in Italy, but they do not bring down the detail of the operations to a later date than the accounts we have already published. We observe that the Aus trians do net give any returns of their losses. Letters from Ciudad Rodrigo, of the 22d of April, say :—" They write from Santona, under date of the 12th inst. that the French have established on the Bidassoa a line of 10,000 men, who are in daily ex pectation of having NEY at their head. Two thou sand of the Imperial Guards have entered Bayonne." They add, that FERDINAND the Beloved is quite thunderstruck with the arrival of BONAPARTE, and knows not what to do. It iv said the Court is to be removed to Seville. The pretensions of CIRIZLES IV. had created great ferment in the mind of the young Prince and his people, which has been partly allayed by de pension treaty just made. War is the general subject of conversation, and the British Minister is said not to be asleep, but not a shilling is to be had any where. A Council of State hu been held, in which it was proposed to mortgage the pro perty of the Grandees for the war supplies, and even to seize the church property, but OZTOLAZA called this heresy, and the King ordered it should never be again mentioned. It is reported that England has offered to supply the funds, in return for an importa tion grata of cottons for two years. Letters from Madrid, of April 10, mention, that the arrests con tinue with equal fury, and a new list of condemned persons is' to be published immediately. Before, only those who were decidedly known to be in favour of the Consitutinn were arrested ; now the measure ex tends tc all those who are suspected of being so." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE AGENT TO LLOYD'S, AT RYE, DATED MAY 9. " A French fishing-boat arrived here this morn ing from Boulogne, which port she quitted on Mon day. The Master reports, that BONAPARTE slept at Boulogne on Sunday night, and took his departure from thence on Monday morning." Advices from China, via America, up to so late a date as the 26th of December, brought by the Rufus , arrived at New Bedford. The war had occasioned some altercation between the British Agent, Sir G. Szattlyrox, at Canton, and the Chinese Authority; but the result was, that the latter admitted American privateers to come op the river with prize goods, as simikr indulgencies were granted to English private armed ships. Tile Captain of the Rufus heard nothing in China of the famous insurrection, so-par ticularly narrated in the European Papers. _ _ littan.-:---No alteration in tie price this week. The Marquis of TAVISTOCK has had thelmost satis factory letters from the Duke of BEDFORD, respect. lug his own personal safety, although it is perfectly true that the four gees d'armes and two postillions were put to death by the banditti, to prevent, as it is supposed, their pursuit and detection. His Grace lest all his baggage, and about 4501. in Batik-notes asolopecie. The ruffians offered him no violence. About three months ago tw•> Gentlemen, Officers of the British Museum, were sent to Bavaria on some Important business relative •to that great national Establishment, and after having most satisfactorily performed the object of their mission, they returned 'to this country. One of them, the Rey. Mr. was tarred to proceed to town, but his colleague, CnAnt.ts KONIG, Esq. a Gentleman well known in the scientific world, and who, though a native of Brunswick, has resided for 15 years in England de •oting himself to science, has actually been reftised pprrnimsion to land, although in an infirm state of h ea lt h, because he•bas been suspected of being a French Jew. Sir NEAL O'DONEL has been liberated. His health had suffefed .so much that immediate danger o Ms life was apprehended, and the Lords Justices remitted the remainder of the teutence.—(Dublin Paper.) NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEAL, MAY 9.—Arrived the Dee sloop of with two French store-ships, which she has (l e t and brought into the Downs from Brest, b o . Dunkirk ; the Mercury, Robinson, front Iti neiro; the Elizabeth, Van Bucli, from St. Nilo with loss of anchor and cable ; also, site Prrcroqi and Cambrian transports, with part 14 the Light Dragoons, from Cork, for Oatend.—A of transports have this day passed at the kick t. Goodwin Sands, with 'infantry on board, for from Cork. PLYMOUTH, 'MAY fl.--Carne in the /1/, Watkins, from Mogadore; his Majesty's sLi i . goo, 74, fr4itn Bermuda.—The Gorgon store passed up Channel on iaturtlay. PozTsmouTtt, MAY 9.—Crime into harbnar , tetchy bis Majesty's ship •Iloratio, from Otterei;ee hawing been on shore.—Arrived toaelttyh l i h s !! e da ren jes e t r r: ship Thames, from Bermuda in 17 dayl:Te.he ' sian brig Felix, from Havannah, spo k e hle, Hutchinson, bound to America, trots in let. 45. 27. N. long. 29. M. W.--611 wen, Majesty's ship Hope, and the British Tar sod: transports are released from quarantine. FAL:ammo, MAY 7.—Arrived the Mottffp packet, with a Mail from the Brazils; sailed ' Rio on the 15th of March; left there his ships Duncan and Achille, and the Sand:sick pick, On the 15th spoke his Majesty's ship (Irpheas, England.—Arrived the Quaker, Renown, SIIICer, and Minerva, from London. RAUSGATE, MAY D —SeYerrti small YtotlPli to-day sailed for Ostend with troops.—Arrived Ostend, the Apollo, Oliver; William and Elizabeth, Anti% and another transport. a SPORTING INTELLWRNCE. ' -r•simis-- NEWMARK ET SECOND SPRING MEETING, MONDAY, M 4r 8. Mr. Fritter'. Towng Engle, 80. 4"1. heat Mr. St o od Slender Billy, Ss*. 91b. T. Y. C.. 5941. I to 1 tqg.t Eagle. Sweepstakes of 1000 each, b. ft. B. C. Mr. Moorhen •r's eb. b. Sir der dilly, 90. 21b. Lord G. U. Cliveed , sii's Co, 80. 91b. • Mr. Stone hr weer Wink!. 9't. 21b. • Mr. Yillieft's Cwrw, 8... Sib. . . Lord Foky's Merrylleld. So. . - Mr. Terrell% Blitoer. Sst. 101 b. - • 18 to 1.•,45t Slender Bills. 3to 1 igo Rootlet. 3 to 6strow. 7 1.. 4 opt Bluster. Mr. Hallett's 1. nee Desired, bent Mr. litenkeopear'e r. , David, 7!h. each. T. Y. C. 5044. srn 2 di Mr. Yilliets's Don Co-raek . 8-i. 121%. twat Mr. W Charlotte, .74.. 81h. A. F. 7inl M. DM. Duke ref Graftenle Jeweller, 84. leY.b. he•lt .'r. Cnarlinte , Genera, Sa.. A.h. M. 100.:s, h. ft. oin4 no J-weller. Duke af Grafton's Wire, 8-t. 31ts. feeit Mr. Yeassilturt's 7st. I.llh. R. C. goOgs. 41{I W i;e. 1 ' . TUESDAY. M•Y 9. 1 Mr. Perren's Cambrian beat gaJor Wilson's Roller, Bit. each. Ab. M. Rigs. 16irs ft. 6tol oa Cambrian Lord Itons's Tigris, -'st. I heel %I r. Shak. ape ir's Duke , 8-1. 41h.• T. y. C. sour. li. ft. 5t02 es Tigro• • 6,sreeristakes of 10.tgs each, b. ft. T. M. M. Lord Jeisey", Cminion Bolt, tit. 21b. . Lord Jer.e%'s Fugitive 8-1. alb. - - Mr. Udoi-r's Emilv, 84:i. bib. • Duke of Dnr•et's Ilocaspbcos 841. 31h - 6to 4 agst Canna, Ball. 6to 4 art Fatly. _,.. Seventy Guineas, for 2.yr old colts, B e t. alb. lifilet l / 2 SC OK R. M. Mr. Wyndham's h. r, by Hedley Lard Grosvenor's h. c. St. Sebtatiau Lord R.ols's cb. c. Tigris . - sto 1 Liget Mr. Wyodliaut's b. tv. 91st I isa Tigris. 1 The Notional Inielligencer, the official paper the American Government, says— IMEREegMENT OF SEAMEN.—TMS important ject having been waved in the late negociatim Ghent, and a Treaty of Peace concluded wl any provision thereon, the subject will in all probe. bility become a source of contention, and possibly of war, between this country and England." 1 An interview took Owe on Monday between CUANCELLOR of the ExcnEetrga and a deputat i from the holders of Exchequer Bills, with a lir_ , a further explanation on the subject of the proposed fending of Exchequer Bills. The Gentlemen informed, that such of the former subscribers as desirous -of aceeding to the peepotutis of-Goverm and had not Exchequer Bills its their possession the purpose of subscribing, would be allowed to scribe 1001. money, instead of the value of that in Exchequer Bills. Those who weed to this pi, were required to pay 10 per cent. deposit as tamp row, 451. per cent. on the 11th of Jane, 451. ts. Gd. on the 11th of July nest. Advices from Montreal state, that Sir G. Pei was about to proceed to England by the way a United States, and that the Civil Government Canada was to be administered pro teeporeby G. DRUMMOND. The Provincial Aseembly had pa' resolutions expressive of their high opinion of services rendered to the colony by Governor von, atid voted 50001. for the parches. if WIWI of plate to be,presented to his Excellency. The sembly bad also voted 10001. for the erection monument in memory of the late Gen. Basta. FCesecutioes are commenced by the Law Others for the Crown, against three Irish Newspapers, publishing a Speech delivered by Counsellor O" NELL at the meeting of the Roman Catholics ii City of Cork. CORN-ExcuAttoa, MAY 10.---We had no arrivals of any grain this snorning, nor any demai for Wheat, which article continues esceedingl: sale; but our prices may Oe considered as on day.—Oats are rather better sale, owing tt shortness of the supply.—ll.Ang but little Ba, at market, and tine fresh samples being in reqi sold rather higher.—lu otherarticles thereis litt no variation. The singular circumstance of MARTIN end having sharea'and sold, in shares, the only Rio, Prize in the lait Contract, induces the strongegi lief that they will share and sell the only £3O. Prize, the great , .st in the present Lottery; in the antlers of chince'furnishes repeated instance. this attire, for it will be found that a run of redline inyaiiably follows one great fortuitous Suaaisee;•ar evidentiy was of this opinion, he " There is a tide in the alF,irc of o Fec.—Ne. 8, Cornhill, and 120, Oxford-strerf Forture's• Imperial Offices, where Tickets and are now on stile , and where the Golden P•ize• he pad •in Goinen%, as wan ac drawn, by' MA mud CO. Stork-brokers. Nu at Saturday the Ito' begins and finishes. .1 of Wir, el 'of ion.l t q tat J 1• he 1 pe errro q i eri P 13,6 lispf set fir the /siend, In an /greet pit 1. /h. q . ptl hit tie ve s . he ~rusey, fill Itos. be ' acres- rid %Low', the 1,.. His Ere ofF chi ottßf il e df., ioo five ?wk..% t, Goa it Icerit s y, nil N hove des al (roe fee Mari, of 6PD feel gel Fit 0115. we fePI pbreeeet eh Yang st, • I nPn final -• is 0 14 1 cut • o r w ly t we f. fr Jtf con ne ired. W ikon's that w. deb rlimis f. ivei• T. is Ceti!, are two 1414 &t. 71b. bawl Donkey, that 1 toys • t:i beg ost4fi thot tat t b•• 4 ' $ eon Ir. dint for 'per of CAM whii fit sub. ruin ono at ing. rithout that probs. peel lossibly fair! bins lee the tboii utstiorr tiew to suet ()posed was ti were was is were i nn give nment, on for • L :o sub- It sups is plan • antor- s ) and ft V/lIST a the lent of r passed of fist r Paz. ut service he M. hs a of a Mann • rs, for vi tin IT e ots- no in lit re fresh oe emend it ly do:1 Mon- to the Barley Pquest, the or ifl eqt he. 30,0 W tided, itt ices of a r 40 , .1 1 • I event. 611 st PP." 't, per Star • .4le;l' r. .1 tirrC ,otter; ki • e, _ q ' T. l i l a A ? ' k` 11 1 A L