The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-07-05 00:00:00

1 -, RI - -`-` ~_ .t.*- - 4' TIIE attendants wished his body to be conveyed to Europe ; but on opening his will, it was found that he had left a reques , tLat it should be interred in the island, and pointed out the spot where be wished his females to rest, in a beautiful valley near to his residence. Though Bonaparte is supposed to have suffered much, his dis solution w•as so calm and serene, that not a sigh escaped him, or any intimation to the by-standers that it was so near. At the departure of the Heron no day had been fixed for the funeral, but it was understood that it would be solemnised with the military honours due to his rank. A likeness of Bonaparte, after his decease, was sketched by an English Officer, and is brought to Eng land. Count Montholon, we bear, arrived by the ship which brought the intelligence of this event, and imme diately forwarded it by an extraordinary courier to the French Ambassador. Numerous expresses left town yesterday morning to announce the death of Bona parte to the different European Courts. The news will he conveyed from Calais to the French capital by tele graph, where it will probably he known in less than 24 hours after Its arrival in London. The following is stated to be an extract of a letter re eentiv received from Hamburgh. We do not know what credit attaches to it, but think it may be read with in terest at the present moment : " St. Helens, April 25. In the latter end of January, Bonaparte trans- To'tted a complaint, through Count Montholon, of a want of money, arising from a cessation of his owlet remittances. 'To prevent in future this disagreeable eircug.stance, without imposing upon himself the 'seers s:ty of acceptiog those supplies tylsich were offered him ti.rough the commerrial house of B. and H. without his looming who zsve the command to this house for the *deduce, or from whom it received the money, he or dered it to be proposed to the governor to advance him tt.onthiy AO/. which the Duke of Leuchtenherg would repay to the English government through Mr. Baring. —He desired at the same time, that instead of the two priests living with him, and instead of Dr. Antomarhi, Counts Bertrand and Muntholon, he should be supplied with other society. As Isis family lived in Italy, and could not well judge what kind of men would be agree sink to him, he left the selection of them to the King of Fiance, and to those of the King's Ministers, who had formerly served under him, and knew Isis habits and wants—such as MM. Pesquier, Segur, Darn, and Latour-Mauboorg, or M. de Cares, who had been his own and Isis mother's private secretary.—With regard to a priest, be desired a man of know ledge and experienre, a learned divine, capable of disc is , sing religious subjects, able to anstver Isis onestions, to resolve Isis doubts, and to instruct him in the sacred Scriptures--a man of between 40 and :AI years of aee,and a well-grounded scholar. Although,' said Ise, • I 111.1 my strength decaying, I am not yet so pr r.ireste as to take refuge in spiritual remedies. lint when tisi. happens, I must have another spiritual guide he.ides the two oho at present attend me, one of whom has slot yet shaken off the dust of the schools. Voltaire hiusse.7, in the view of death, threw himself into the arms of relission ; and who knows but that I may ac spire a taste for the sub j ect, and become pious?' As plsysis ian, he wished a Ulib like Courvoisier ; but he declared that he would receive with confidence any one selected for him by Bourdois, Eymery, Larrry, Dubois, 111 I/est:ensiles. Of those who were to come in room of , tonsils Itertraud awl Ifordholon, lie required one to be a General (the most agreeable to bins was Dermot); hut in no case an (Area who bad served against him. 'f Ise other might he either a secular person or a ci dessum, priest ; but in all cases one of his former coun tit or chamberlains —a man of education and talents— i sits!, as Caulainrourt, Savary, Segue, 3lontesquieu, Dvrce, Dross's% 'furrow, Denon, or Arnault. " The loresurutioned money arrangement WAS under by the liovernor. Sometime Afterwards Bona psi tr said, that the priest who was to be sent to him must kr our who adhered to the Concordat of ISO 2, such us M. I)nvoisier, late bishop of Nantes." PRICE OK wrocks THIS DAY AT ONF: O'CLOCK. Rank Stoek 9391 16 3 per Cent. Red. 74; 7 Japer Cent. (nn. 34 per Cent. 147 4 per Cents. 946 U 6 per CI. Nary (shut) h per Cent. Long Ann 19 3-I6i Imp. per Cunt. Irish Ann. India Stork 2331 Ditto Bonds —4. —s —I. pa South-Sea Stock South Sea Old Ann. 911159 d. 3s. 4s. pm. Onolain for Money pm Rank for Account India for ditto Coo. for Aeet 79 Lott. Tickets 24/. 19s. NIGH MATER AT LONDON-RNIDGE eanonnow. Morning IN ea. after 0 ;—Evening 3S m. after 0. CO /Matti Oman. " Tilt 111111 THIN •TATISNAJ ~ ts ineseposioras WITS " Tllli STATINIAII." LONDON: 111111PIDAT EVENING, JULY S, 1921. The extraordinary sensation produced by the intel lige•nce we yesterday announced from St. Helena, has induced us to present, in the preceding columns, all the details we have been able to collect connected with the important and affecting occurrence. Diminished, as the interest had become respecting him who was Its subject, from the reverses that had befallen his for tunes, and the distance and obscurity to which be had been exiled, the announcement of his death for which the public mind had been by no means unprepared, re ♦ived on a sudden in the most lively manner a crowd of those striking impressions which the various scenes of his eventful life hail made in former years, accom panied with a train of emotions that were serious and profound. Whatever bad been the opinion cf indivi duals relative to the character and merits of the de ceased, we saw not one to whom the intelligence was communicated, who appeared not touched with his fate. The contrast which the dismal close of his career presented to the vast and splendid space it occupied in the different Ftages of his glory, n as a cir cumstance which came home to every man's business and bosom. It gave a lesson to ambition and to worldly aggrandizement, which every man of reflection W I every condition felt, and acknowledged with a sigh. It threw the foibles of the departed genius into the shade of oblivion, and excited only sympally for his extraordi tary fate. The forlorn and solitary state in which he bad been doomed to die a lingering death, compared with the busy brilliant scenes in which he bad passed his life, divert reflection from the sufferer, to those who bad decreed the suffering; and while the judgment is occupied in estimating the demerits for which the pm. nishment !ma .been awarded, the generous' feelings r coil from the severity with which it was inflicted. We live too near the events involved in the history of Bonaparte, to appreciate without prejudice the circumstances of bis fate. The details of his life also are too fresh in the recollection of all, to require to be repeated here. The community of which he was in his early days a member, and the military education he had received, may, it has been well observed, inde pendently of any original bias of character, have laid the foundation of the greatness to which he attained , and of that mischievous application of unbridled power, through which he fell. With talents and en terprise beyond all comparison greater than any against which be had to contend, he overthrew whatever opposed bis progress. Thus, ambition in him was more conspicuous than others, only be cause it was more successful. He became a Sovereign. Wielding, as he did, the power of the new order of things, he might have conferred the greatest and most lasting benefits on mankind. If he had had the good of the human race at heart, he would never have sought to ally himself with those Dynasties which the Revolution and himself had tnade so ridiculous and contemptible in the eyes of the world; nor hue attempted with so much eagerness to foster and revive the aristocratical prejudices to which the Revolution had given such a shock, in order to surround himself with a pageantry which lie of all rulers least required. —lie might easily have extended to other countries the benefits which France hail by her struggles 1 , 11 C• ceeded in obtaining, and destroyed the reign of feudalism and privilege in Europe. But the bene fits which foreign nations received from France, as a compensation for the loss of their indepen dence, were received by them before Isis accession to power. At a very early period of his career, he d►stingu►shedl himself by his hatred of free institutions, and he carefully preserved the vicious governments, and most of the vicious institutions of the countries which he subjugated. His aversion to freedom proved the cause of his don nfall. The peo ple of the Continent feared him, hurt bated him as their oppressor, and they seized the very first favourable moment to join those nho►t they bated only less than himself, in order to put an end to his power. Consigning to impartial history the estimate of this extraordinary man, we would only notice now the ef fects his death is calculated to produce. In relation to this country it relieves the f►nances from the ex pense of his custody, which appear to have amounted to almost MAW/. • year ; in relation to France it removes an anxiety from the existing Government, the importance of which we cannot pretend to calculate. In what other respects it ►nay affect the minds or urea- sores of the !rulers there, it is as difficult to foretell. Su far as previous measures have been modified by re ference to him who is removed, they are at present liable to change ; butt whether that anxiety i< capable of being transferred from the deceased to his son, is matter of uncertain speculation. Whether any por tion of the projule of France who were fascinated by the genius and glory of NapoLEns. gill also transfer their devotion to the mere heir of his name, appears extremely problematical. If there be any point round which it may be requisite for the friends of freedom in that country to rally, on any future attempt upon their privileges, it will probably be one at present out of the reach of contemplation, and is hid, still arise on the spur of the occasion. Paris papers to the 3d inst.came to hand this morn ing. According to advice' from Vienna of the •30th nit., the 3lorea and Negropont have become the scene of all the horrors of a war of extermination. Patras, formerly a flourishing commercial city, no longer exists. A few cottages and three or four houses arc all that have escaped the dreadful fire that consumed the city. Athens has been burnt by the Turks of Negropont. An article from Sweden of the 15th ult. say there has lately appeared a very remarkable message front the King to the Storthiog of Norway, on the subject of the liberty of the Press, accompanied with a p►ojet of law tending to repress the abuses of it, by means of the establishment of &Jury. " The Liberty of the Press," says the above message, " ceases not to exist, because it is placed under discreet limitations. The most en lightened governments, the most powerful states fur nisb examples which prove the troth of this assertion." It concludes in the following terms :—" The Liberty of the Press is commonly considered as dangerous ; external wars, civil broils, extinction of public credit, depreciation of state-paper, disunion of families, de struction of all species of industry, of commerce, of arts and sciences—these are ;he blessings which it procures for nations " The Foreign papers preciously received, mention various reports relative to Russia and Turkey, none of which appear authentic. A rumour was cur rent at Odessa on the 30th of May, that a Russian ship has been taken on the Danube by the Turks, who mas sacred the whole crew. The Governor of Odessa had dispatched an express to obtain certain intelligence re specting this report. The Greek division which de fends Moldavia is represented to have fought several bloody battles with the Turks, without any decided success; and the Greeks are stated to hare established an Admiralty at Milos. The Portuguese journals, which we yesterday stated to hare arrived, contain an interesting communication from the Minister of the King at Rio Janeiro, to the Cortes. In this dispatch the Minister, after announcing the desire of the Sing to be in the midst of the august assembly which now constitutes the hope of the nation, be subjoins " It is my duty to acquaint your Excellencies that the King, having been informed that there were at the Con gresses of Troppan and Laybech, persons who persnad ed the Sovereigns there assembled, that they ought to take it as the incontestible basis of the deliberations, that the Kings of Naples, Spain, and Portugal, by no means adhered to the Constitutions there proclaimed, and that it was proper to distinguish the tonna part n ith the respective Sovereigns—constrained by force, and the rest of the nation burned away by the crime of the wick ed. His Majesty orders me to signify for him, to hi! , Ministers at different Courts, that far from assenting to such an assertion, be positively orders them to express, in the most solemn manner, whenever it shall be neces sary, that having resolved to take the most free and vo hintery oath, to observe and enforce the (7nnstitution, which the General Cortes of the Kingdom shall agree, upon, this act has proceeded solely from a sincere con viction that the Cortes are the legitimate organ and ex pression of the National Will, and that nothing can al-, ter the firm and deliberate resolution which he has taken to maintain, in the whole extent of these kingdoms, whatever may be established or decreed by so legal a means, to serve as a Code for all classes of the nation, all of whom his Majesty recognizes, ought, without ex ception, to obey the general will thus expressed. And that fa► from approving the announced alliance against the three Nations in general, and against the Portuguese in particular, his Majesty will consider as a most flagrant aggression against the independence of his Royal Crown, all and every Inch convention or agreement by which Foreign Sovereigns shall pretend to interfere, in any manner, in the objects now discussing, in the Oen,- rat Cortes of the kingdom." The French papers contain no intelligence of import ance. French Funds, Five per Cents, June 30, S6f. 35c. Hank Stock, 1542 f. 50c. Charleston Papers arrived this morning to the 25th of May, from which we give the following extracts : TIII I . .NITCD STATFri SCHOONER, LTNl.—Serious apprehensions are entertained for the safety of this vessel. She sailed from St. 3lary'a under the couituand of a Lieutenant, on the 21st of January, direct fur Jamaica, and has not since been heard of. [EXTRACT OP A I.FTTER PRosl J4MAle.t, MAT 2.) Most of :he sugar estates will 1411 short of their ex pectations, but I hope from the appearance of the coffee and pimento blossoms, that these will be a good crop. I have heard that in the pirish of St. Thomas in the Vale, they hare not had anv rain for a long time till lately, and that some of the estates there have lost a great many cattle, and their fa:l plant canes are nearly all destroyed from the drought ; cons• quen►ly, there will be short crops next year in that quarter. EXTRUCT 21 , A LETTER /FROM HI ENOS AIWA Or THE 2STII Of MARill.) Remairas, who has collected a considerable force at Entre Rio, with which it is reported he intends to at tack the province of Santa Fe has caused great alarm here, and all the citizens as well as strangers have been called upon to take up arms. Carrera, at the head of a small force, composed of Indians and disaffected citisens from different quarters, hail in vaded the province of Cordova, the Government of which had taken the field to oppose bim. In the mean time, deputies had been appointed by the differ ent provinces ton General Congress about to assemble . at Cordova.: foe the purpose or adjusting their differ ences and establishing an union: but it is doubtful whe ther their labour will have the desired effect. Ar tigas, Alter loosing the whole of his army, has taken to flight. The Portuguese have possession at pr-sent of the whole of the Banda Oriental, but it was gene rally supposed that in ease the other provinces became, united one of their first measures will be a declaration of war. MI I DF:Nns.—To•onorrow and Saturday the Mer- chants and Bankers will sign the books, and on Mutt day the Batik will pad• the dividend. to the public. The Lord Chancellor, who has been created Viscount &womb, (Earl of Eldon) pre!ides this day in the Court of Privy Council. to attend which all the Great Law Officers who are Privy l ,uncillors, are summon ed. The Sitting of Chancery Court, in Lincoln's Inn Hall„is in consequence deferred. Sir`William Scott has been crated Baron Stowe!, of Stowe). The Estate which he purchased from the Executors of Lord Cheilworth. The Noble Baron it is said, retains all his offices in Doctors'-commons. even the very inferior one, in point of emolument. of Seal-keeper. Mr. Hasa will of course be returned for the University of I Isford, without opposition. lisNoven, JL 19.—The preparations for the recep tion of our cherished Sovereign are pursued with the greatest possible activity in this capital, and in other parts of the State. The Theatre si ill shortly be closed for the purpose of being new painted. An article front Hamhurgh, dated the 29;h ult. mentions, that vessels which bad arrived at Copen- 1 hagen in four days from CronstAt, brought the news, which was considered as perfectly authentic, that the whole Russian fleet was fitting out with all haste to sail to the Mediterranean. Extract of a letter from the agent to Lloyd's at Lisbon, dated 24 J►►ne : " Two Insurgent privateers, a ship and a lugger, ap peared off here this week and plundered several vessels, amongst others the following ; —Leiramento. which left this on Sunday for St. Michael's, and returned on Wed nesday; Bonn Jesus, from Oporto. The corvettes Leadade and Brigandes sailed this morning on a cruizc, and the Perola frigate sails tisk evening. " It is reported that the privateers saw the D'Alfonso, Doke de Vittoria, Vasca da (1.11113, and Senora do Luz, hound to Brazil, when they went out from hence the 27th ult. but were afraid to attack them, and that they have good itiselligenee of the skips that are preparing herr for the Brazils and India. The Three Friends. Walker, in working down the river on Thursday even ing, got across a hawser, upset and sunk in deep water." An Insurgent ;lip privrteer, and a schooner priva teer which were cruizing near Lisbon on the 29th May, reported that they were malting fur the ship St. Jag*, which they had information was to sail from Lisbon in a few days. Yesterday the despatches were closed at the East India House, and delivered to the Pursers of the fol lowing ships:—viz. Hose, Captain T. M"f aggart, and princess Charlotte of Wales, Captain C. Beden, both for Bengal direct.—The East India Company's own ship Waterloo, outward bound, arrived at St. Helena 3d of Alay ; all well. The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of Ilchester Gaol, after an investigation of thirty eight days, terminated their labours on Monday e%en ineast, and will shortly make their report to Go vernment. ORIGLY4L POETRY. STANZAS WRITTIN TO TWO Itv ( UIINOLT 10418T1frL TOTING .sass. 11 111LISLLIPLOG, ON 111111 DAY, AIN* 3, me i. I. flow placid and bright is the scon-ray beaming. Crer atoontain sad vnt!el at night's still hour, When !leaven itself anon Earth poems gleaming, Alt! Losers are met in the it-3,ring bower : Yet, lovelier far. k that blissflti no. le, That sits on each face as on beantv's throne, And tell; of •weet visions that Few., •4 gule Would tempt the fair sleeper to deem her own. How gentle and calm is the evening 4reele.' That eosaes from the Routh when the Rpriog is yaw. To die on the rose or the jasmine trees. Or to wander their flowers and bringhs among : Yet. is there a zephyr, so softly cairn, Or I. there a rose with its hoe so bright. As the sigh that is yielding that hren:h of balm, Or the lip o'er which it is borne to light 1 22, 11. V. 11 The King retuned to town on T•tegday evening, from Hampton-court. Vim c lasLarso.—The mo't acive and catet+ire preparations are making for his Maiestv'a visit to the sister kingdom, which will take place shortly abet. the t'oronatiou. Yesterday morning, soon after day break, twenty of his Majes'y's coach horses left the Royal stables on their way to Liverpool, whither they are to proceed by easy tages, travetliug morning and evening, and whence they are to be embarked for Dublin. So carp fully are they to proceed, that fi:teen days will be allowed for the performance of the ronte. They were &ern tipanied by two of his Majesty's beat carriages. On Monday fourteen saddle hours will proceed to Liverpool also, for Dublin. We are estremely happy to announce that the hint we gave a short time ago, relative to an invitation to his Majesty to honour this town with his presence, has met with the approbation of our frl'ow-townsmen a numerous meeting of the inhabitants has taken place, and a communication has been opened with the Secretary of State on the subject. The particu lars, of course, our readers must be awame, we can not at present detail ; but we are sure that men of all ranks and parties will join in giving a reception wor thy of the town of Birmingham, should oar gracious Monarch honour us with his presence.--(Birmingharn Herald.) The Duke of York, attended by Colonel Steverson, Mr. Cruker, and several other gentlemen attached to the Board of Works and the Lord Chamberlain's de partment, on Tuesday afternoon examined the carious preparations made in Westminster Hall and Abbey, as well as in Palace Yard. At two o'clock on Tuesday s the Privy Council assembled at the Cockpit, Whi;e hall, to arrange, it was understood, the course of pro ceeding that should be adopted, in complying with the favour conferred by his Majesty to hear the Queen's Counsel, in support of her claim to be crowned. The Lords of the Council continued sitting till near four o'clock. The Council ordered summonses to be served on every Privy Councillor in or near town, " to meet in the Council Chamber at the Cockpit, White hall, on Thursday, at tea o'clock in the forenoun." The Council then adjourned, and information was for warJed to the Queen's Agents of the next emetics; of the Council, and of the course that would be pursued In hearing the arguments on the Jlentorial. The Council was rear fully attended. Westminster Hall and Westminster Abbey were yes terday crowded, from nine in the morning till three in the afternoon, by persons of the first distinction, who had been admitted ender the sanction of the tickets issued by the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Earl Marshal. The greatest regularity was observed. The tickets for this day have been issues, to an quid extent. In fact, the liberality of Lord Owydyr is in this respect most distinguishes,. At Hampton Races yesterday, Inurere.ans won the subscription purse of 100 guineas, at 3 heats, beating Mr. Northey's c. by Iledley, Tybalt and Olivera.--. The other stakes did not fill. At Ipswich Kaces on Tuesday, Lord Jersey's Spo►ws won the King's plate, at two he.its, beating two others, Ex re sum Di N.sev SecLu.—Yesterday Daniel Crisp. the celebrated pedestrian, returned to town from Sid mouth, where lit was engaged for a wager of 25 enineas to rnn from that place to the Cas•le-yarl in Exeter, and back again ill five hours, a distance of thirty-two miles, over a hilly country. He started on Saturday last precisely at six o'clock in the morning, accompanied by two gentlemen on horseback, and ar rived at the Castle-gete in Exeter, ten minutes before eight, performing the first 16 miles in ore hoer and fifty minutes ; he rested twenty minutes and took some refreshment ; the gentlemen did the same, and procured fresh horses ; he then returned back to Sidmouth, where he arrived nith ease twenty minutes within the time allowed. On the 25th of this month he is So commence the Herculean task of x•alkinfoae thousand miles in as many successive half hone at Nottinghatk. being halt the time the same number of miles were performed by Capt. Barclay. Great wagers depeud en this match. EDI VW/ROI!, Jcs E 29.—The new Vegetable Market, opposite Canal-street, was opened on Monday. It is very neatly fitted up, and seems well calculated for the purposes for which it is intended. It is a remarkable proof, if indeed any were wart itig, of the extreme inclemency of the weather, of late, contrasted with its unusual warmth in the month of March, that in March, the patients in the New TOW. Dispensary were considerably under the limited nom ber ; and that now, at the end of Jane. the numbet of the patients is doubled, and most of them labooting under winter diseases, more especially rheumatism. Saturday morning, a cart-full of herring fry, eascht at Cardross, was sold off, in the Bridgegate and Saltrna.ket, Glasgow, by measere; and the purchasers rot from lb to SO tish, of from three to six inches ju length, fur a penny, Fresh herrings are selling at five for sixpence. POLICS Gstarroes.—Yesterdaz, the Shade/ea O ffi ce was, by *Met of Government, tit up ! to prepare the transferrin of the establishment to High's:n*olaq le-boor, w h ere very extensive premises bete bees flied up on an entire sew plan, and which are to bs erased for the dircbuge of public business in a few_days. Tiro Sbadwell Magistrates, News. Griffiths. Miklos an.l Hardwick, are to preside AIM with the temples sitAlr. Hardwick. who Is to Mewed Me, Rimilionss. of Um bstb-stestt, the r being sppeistnii in the fwd of the femme Mary-le-bone Office, Ming Mr. Oa, fitful is same situation tie be 41 4 4 e t Sbaiweli, t e te that of t Magistrate, dd. _.~- ;, 1 II O V -- VI ! 41 ...."'w.