The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-01-03 00:00:00

I • •; 7 -7 r ~ i Pi 4 Ii Will, a grrat part of its possessions nut of tiertnany, the tirremity of union will also be felt there. For a state whirls ceutrrthends several tatiwts. uod a nation which is d tided tnto several roves, must necessarilv ear -6- race a fresoltrion. r!:.• !o.'!• become one, aril thrfhe user separate. though may fur a time prevent this. Hence Austraa. as a state, must fall to pieces, for 10 Italy aH. to ler of thing's is arroationK. The lierman Revolution will otdgioate in {lease-Darmstadt. the Rhenish Provinces, and Nassau. and it will soon si-rea.l over the whole land. and all Europe will be drawn into it. II ould to (lots nu I revolution were necessary, but things are now come to that pass, t',al men have every where rer.owiled themselves to the idea of hearing whatever may be' the consequence of change, rather than the present fuller of things. A Revolution may as well take place when form and spie=l, the political Constitation eh.srailee of the i•opi.e, are in the roost complete contrast to each other, as when they are all equally in the saute state of coirup- Con. The former may be called a Re; olution front Hy y. and the latter front .lathenit.—The former is t oo I, the latter only in it, •••,44....vaeneve. The Preto-It Revolution was of the tirst description, the Lerman will he of the second. The French, at the breaking out of the Resolution, had no final Oiret in view—their dill not overtook the a hole extent of the fa int. but tired their Person the next step. ,They did not aid' the gaud in itself, but merely %hat With reference to their then condition was relatively better. They first bethought themselves Of being' free, when by their un bridles' licentiousness they bad sported away astir free dom. The authors of the Revolution were not aware that a chained dog first falls bn the person who fires him fi.oo his chain, and yet retort's at last to theplaee where he formerly got hone*. 2We Itteototi:ot moat eertuiuty Oki out corrupt Mt Frearh, Gat Me Perna. the Its rule tiuti. We tiermans have long familiarised ourselves stub the idea of a revolution, and our object has all albng been to make it a radical and mental revolution. the natural consequence of a hill' will 1w a formal one. On this account we have striven to produce a better reli gious feeling, aad to appose with force superstition on the one hand anti scepticism on the other. I hir emlea yours were ooh to be pererit eel by their results. Hence we bore our sufferings pa'iently. tit ithoot opposing pow er; hence we rejerted every means of producing an ef feet cot the people in the slightest degree at variance aids the usual uteions. and a‘ailed ourselves only of such as were unobjectionable in a legal point of view. Heuer -we have preferred out 1:Ing in secret for - to hazarding th-- „hole by a rash step. tell Ilermann (ilrtnittins) our ancestor— lie enemy for three sears, and yet pre- Atli fidelity in our Hearts. It requ.res of strength of resolittion to follow the confederates at Rutli. who continued to for three mottles alter their oath. If freed for otirseler s. we sh o uld America, alter.. a man may still raise his ards Waven. without challenge front 'ho ran see his lather starving, and his gar at his floor ? 11 a lived nut for our 'mortality. I have puri.usely expatiated these subjects. her:into- the above are a! ;leas m rely, but the views of the h an in Itermany may rcsort rimsr of repotting' force by force, is justiti- 'Ater every indis bloat as played in a con hr may cleferot hitn-rif in every manner rstposllettl. When knlves soil fools are to oppress the honest man—when the tshingly avossi&l, *tat joy rationr rolvw tl most hr forgiven when his rage int ranee, as the poor Wiirtemherg prbants , tilietl in billing the will! boars and haves their crop, thong!' the late King, of chose to confine theta in a fortress for of notoriety that Prince II"•• carries la every it here a female, whom the Jew C., "Magnetises, and whose topiiiitill% govern Ins. What an ign • yto he dependent ho has no other will hut that of a and a crafty physician. Prussia, which , like Humboldt and lineisenati, must a Harslenberg and a Charles Vow • Hanover. I will not speak. fur we may is now rising, when we reflect that it is since the torture scat abolished in it. able and intellectual Alontgelas; who. illy nut sufficiently careful in the selec •ans, like all the Illuminati, was yet of to his country in banishing s tupid hi. gots was obliged t o resi g n his Ministry, as the marriage of a Bavarian Princess to the Emperor of Austria was impossible on other terms. In Iles's. Darm. stash the Brand Duke directs every Opera rehearsal without exception, and thousands (amen were driven to beggary for the sake of a new Opera I louse. Dextrous, btu unprincipled men, like the Ninister. Vitt) firohnanis, and the physician, Von Wedekind, are at the helm. When the Driastat:on ft I 'litter Hesse, mentioned in my last letter, preceeslesl to Darmstadt, to deliver their urgent remonstrance into the hands of the Grand Ituke, an answer was returned to them by the Private Secre tary., Schleiermacher, that his Royal Highness was sorry be could not give them an audience, from the pres sure of business, from a bad 1(2, and from a visit, which he expected, of high and Mile: nits friends. The. Spokes man of the Deputation, a spirited old Yeoman, then said, they wonld, in that ease, wait till the high friends arrived and departed, till the had leg got better, and till the pressure of business wasover. In the evening a friend of the Deputies conducted them purposely to IP • s rehearsal, when the Wand Doke, as usual, had the This was too much for their sufferance.— , morning they returned to Sclsleiermacher, the Pri- Secretary, and gave him their Remonstrance, with expression of cordial regret, that his Royal highness being the director of an Opera to being the of his country. In the Electorate of I less?, the audacious arbitrary power, and the coarsest nen , prevails; and between this country and the pre one, there is only this difference, that in the !lie peasantry, in the latter persons in public em mts, are more particularly oppressed. As an in of this arbitrary power, tee need only mention, Orand Duke, notwithstanding the repeated de sf the Diet, persists in refusing to acknowledge of the domains under the preceding Government, no person is allowed to study who is not the . a man who attained the rank of Councillor, or West son of a Preacher. As to Baden. we may see have to hope for from that quarter, when we usiud that the States were dismissed with the invectives soon after their assembling. because Ore to propose savings. The Princes of Bavaria Baden merely gave Constitutions to their people ain them over in the sarcession war which was expected. It is difficult to decide respecting iVur nurg. We can only wish and hope that the young , vigorous Kin may now display as notch obstinacy maintaining t he Constitution as he formerly .14- ' in refusing to acknowledge the general validity contract of Tubingen, and in rejecting the de sof the States of Old Wurtemhurg. Every thing at be expected from the Crown Prince of Ramis, body. enfeebled by excesses, were compatible with• and vigorous determination. The Orand Duke of • .1 iirute, too, we hi seven lung tt We have imi!ated ie have served toe served our tote ni no small degree of example of the en tend their Hocks f tte had merely wis Lave gone to Ante eta nteuance tower Princes. But who neighbour a berg; selves, hut for join at such knell' on I not my indisidea fr:euds in general. Every act which to, for rho' rtrpose *hie. I cons ider dition which he which he fin+ , es i n a c onspiracy to 113 h sim is nn!oinsh tea, an individual gels him to resista were certainly just which devoured tl blessed memory, so doing.. It is a runup . col about with Inyi et his physirriatt7loai him in his actions on such a man, u mercenary female can boast of men abjectly serve a M---burg of i see how high it is only hl . l l a year In Bavaria, the 1 though occasional Lion of his means infinite benefit to gotry from it, w friend of V a the rehears direction. Next morn 'crate Secret an express' preferred director of most soda su apte pre cedii i t oft • former 'he • ploymc tits - stance of that the 0 &lotions of the sale of and that son of a I the eldest what we 1 they be s a r ei iann: it Bade to gain I then expo temhnrg. and Ago' in maint played in of the co minds of might be if a bed, Arm sad a • -,-- • - -a-kr ~~'- _ THE STATESMAN. Weimar would do every thing in his power to make Mel MAI people happy, where he not too old. and had not his son, sane sea. married above his condition ; he is now so dependent 3 Dublin on !lassie, that he was obliged to select a Russian as his I wIlt" 1 " 4 51inister for Foreign Affairs. At the University of thle7 a" Jersey • • Jena the slightest circumstance was immetliatelyireport-1, - , Onttenbo . .. ed to Russia ; and the well-known Russian spy Kota- ; bite had his 'residence (here. The kingdom of Saxony PRICE OF STOCKS Till believes itself contented, and respects its King' Ra n k Stock as a fter its death, it dreads falling to Prussia.— a Tile dread of a great itnpentling danger 3 per Cent. Cons. insensible to that which is present. In the Grand ,31 p er Cent. 731 by of Nassau a truiy Jlachiavelian policy pre-4 per Cents. Kalil veil. It is ruled by the famous Iltel, a dextrous 3 per Cent. Navy politician, who cannot be reproached with doing ; Long Ann. 170-16 any thing contrary to law, for he is prudent enough Imp. per Cent. Ann. MI to take the precaution of making only bad laws.— The whole land is one secret police. Every higher office-bearer acts as a spy over the inferior office bearers, by means of an galiet by which the appoint ment of all servants of the State is considered as pro- vis;onal only during the first five years; and all the Re port. centre in the bands of one Minister. The I.onsti onion is a mere farce, got np by the dextrous Ibet in twenty-four hours. Every man of any weight, such as the Criminal Judge Snell, !kr. was immediately driven out of the country. The condition of this (hand Duchy is horrible, and very lurch like that of Hesse Darmstadt. The Ihtke is a good-natured man, who, when the Em peror Francis told hint that nothing could surpass the admirable manner in which his territories were govern eat, run in all haste to M. Von Marschall, his Minister, then confined to his bed, to repeat what lie had heard. Who can think of the shocking manner in which Milan is treated by Austria without shuddering? The Em peror would no doubt be pleased to see his country happy; but as it it is more easy to make gmd sealing-wax than to snake a people happy by a variety of sacrifices, he pre fers the former. in Which he has attained a wonderful dexterity, particularly in making black um The fete listens. as they are called, have lost their inde pendence hang ago, anal only vegetate with difficulty, Floe- hatred against tiovernment in the Rhenish pro vinces and Sawn Prussia, exceeds every thing that, can be conceived. The times of Napoleon are una-1 ninionsly wished back again—they are deemed a golden age in comparison stith the present leaden one. But it, is not nay intention to write a Chronique Seandalettue, °them ice I cool] sale things which would fill event reader with hatred, abhorrence, and disgust. lam 11i no want of material., as we have made a sufficient col lection of them, with the view of composing a mirror he, Princes. Every one, it is to be hoped, will be able to judge for hims elf, whether it is possible that a State can stand in tshich the people arc ripe for freedom, and the i flood mounds by princes wish to stop the oyerwheint.itg like thew. It st be otherwise, and it will be other ite. Eternal justice anal the destination of man assure us of it. Tltrungli battle to victory, and through dark ness to light. Civic equality and the will of the people alone, can be called ruling by the grace of ! Arise, ar'se, nay people—tiod created thee free, anal calls on thee to leave the wildernesses of slavery for the shores of freedoms. But first, nay fi•reently-beloved country, net than pass through the !led Sea, through the blood +au clues o/ thy eons, and it trill mallow tap the Pharoah 1., horn.s and chariots, crowns and armies. 'A (I[a MAN. DI7CII MAIL, Dacus, Dec. 25.—1 n the very remarkable debate which ended in the rejection of the Financial Laws pro posed by the thtteeenteent, there appeared nos. Aidireet grounds of opposition. Some of the speakers, particu larly those of the Southern Provinces, grounded their opposition on the excessive expenditure, whirl,, in their opinion, brought the country to the brink of ruin ; others thought, that though the expenses of the present year were not too great, yet they could not be adopted for ten years ; anal a third party did nut think the re process so excessive that they could reject the proposed laws on this ground, but, in their opinion, the causes of all the embarrassments which had been experienced for the last four years, were to be sought in the injudicious nature of a system of reveling., which, however continu= ally reduced in its limits, yet always remained below , the limits fixed—they therefore judged it impossible so, t ro etitine this system for ten years. The Direetor-Deoe ral endeavoured to refute all these arguments, as well by au int rodoetury discourse before the opening of the de bate, as by a detailed circumstantial reply at the end of the debate, to the objections of the several speakers. The following - are the particulars of the laws rejected : No. I. First project of the lave for the decennial budget. R. budget. 1, us first proposed, rejected unanimously. by the :1!‘ Members present. No. 2. Project of law for the decennial budget, If 'ails and Means, rejected by 971 votes to I. N 0.3. Revisal of the first law, rejected by 55 to 13. No. I. Revival of the second project of law, rejected by 62 to :16. Nu. 5. Law N 0.3 of nth October, relative to the extraordinary budget of MO (Expendi- ' tare), rejected by fib to 341. No. 6. LawlNo.4, of bill 4 trtolw, relative to the extraordinary budget of 11420 (Ways tool Means), rejected by 70 votes to 29. No. 7. Law No. 5, proposed the 2btli October, to give the Go- ; vet-omens a credit of 21,000010, according to the laws of 24th February, Ittle, adopted by 51 votes to 44. Haers, Dec. 27.—1 n the Sitting of the Second Cham ber, this clay, a Message from his Majesty was read, stating, that their nigh Mightinesses having reported the Financial Laws proposed to then., it was impossible to fix the Repenolittire and Ways and Means (as pre seriherl by the funtiatnental law) for this year; it is ne cessary to provide for the ordinary expenses of °ovens ment, for satisfying the claims of the yublic creditors, which his Majesty is engaged in liquidating with all the speed that the importance of the subject will allow of, on the measures to he proposed to the States Ilene ral for the execution of the above-mentioned article of the fundamental law. His Majesty, feeling it his duty, to prevent any stagnation in the public business, sent will this message a projectof law, theubject of which is to malt fain, in future, the existing laws en the subject for ' space of eight months after the 31st December, lb., or for sorb shorter period as they shall remain tintype lasted by other laws to be hereafter enacted. This mew sage anal project of law bring read, it was resolved refer them immediately to the Sections, to hear the port of the Central Section, in the afternoon sitti; : , and then to proceed immediately to the debate. A point of form, however, rendering it necessary to adjourn the debate till the following morning, the Chamber met on the 29th, at eleven o'clock, when, after sonic previosis conversation. the proposed law was put to the vote, and passed unanimously, eighty-one Members being present Gordon William Kelly, of the Middle Temple, Esq. Barrister at Law, was on Friday elected Be- , corder of Colchester. It would appear that the French paragraph,' stating Mr. T. Weld to have retired from the world and its concerns, and dedicated himself to the church, is erroneous, since he has been lbr some years and still is engaged in litigation relative to tithes, with landed proprietors iu the neighbour hood of his Stony hunt Mansion, so long occupied by a company of 'Jesuits. LONDON: MoNbAY, JANUARY 3, 1810. We have received Paris Papers to the Ist inst. : their contents are devoid of interest. The Chamber of Peers assembled on Tuesday. The Pmjet respecting the provisional collection of six-twelfths of the taxes was adopted, article by article, and a scrutiny taken on the whole, when there appeared for it, 138: against it, 9. The Chamber of Deputies were expected to have a public sitting on Thursday. The 12th instant, it is .said, the Project is to be presented to them re specting the Election Law. The Marquis de LITOUR-11AUBOURG, Minister of War, has addressed a Circular to the Colonels of Regiments, stating, that seditious addresses have been disseminated amongst the troops in the se veral garrisons, with the guilty intention of sedue ing them from their duty. BRUNSWICK, DEC. I;.—The Assembly of States hold its sittings daily ; but nothing has hitherto transpired as to the result of its deliberations. 111sNitetm, Dec. 22.—Our fears are now realized. The mild temperature (accotnpanied with rain) which has prevailed during the last week, having melted the I enormous masses of snow in the high mountains, a con siderable flood has been the result ; the Necker, in the course of -IS hours, rose 15 feet, and caused a general 1 inundation. On the other side , the Rhine has risen eight feet above its usual height ; and this river also threatens an overflowing - . ASCHAFFENRCRO, Dec. 23.—Her 31ajesty the Queen 'of Sweden arrived here yesterday evening. She set out I this morning on her return for Wurtzburg, where one of her daughters remain. MADRID, DRC. 17.—The sanitary state of Seville and iAyainontes, as well as of the adjacent towns , c ontinues to improve. The Supreme Junta of Public Health has o decided, that the communications by land with the ca pital may be renewed on the Zia of Jatotaiy, at which epoch the rigorous quarantine will terminate. At Cadiz, from the 10th to the 12th of December, the number of convalescents were 30, of whom two are per fectly re-established. During the same period 28 per ! sons have died from ordinary diseases. From the tith to the 10th five persons died at San Fernando, and there remained 36 invalids. On the same day one alone died at Puerto Real, and there remained three invalids- At Puerto de Santi Marie three are dead, and there remain 100, all sick of ordinary complaints, without any fresh manifestation of the plague. At Xeres, one person remained ill of the yellow fever. San Juan de Ilarramidu is free from disease, as well as are the other provinces of the kingdom. FRENCH FeNDII (Wcunzsort).—Five per Cents 701. c.-3ank Actions 1390 f. 50c. We are sincerely glad to observe the honest part of the press stand up manfully to complain of and to reclaim what has been so recently lost on the score of its liberty. As to the venal, the servile, the corrupt part, it is out of the order of defenders of the bulwark of freedom. Its virtues are sold to its enemies; they have no chance of ever taking rank again with the esteemed champions of their abused country. They are like leeches, they suck the tu mid blood of the diseased State, and when full, which one might have thought would have been the case ere now, they will drop off, and die despised by those who employed them. We give a most excellent dissertation on the political state of Germany in "Ter STATEssiAN't of this day, which cannot fail So make an advantageous impression on every well constructed our chains, thought obliged . the work to save their own lives. What impulse is there so strong in human nature as self-preservation / They did not want for art and skill to effect their purpose. They have been too long in office not to have acquired all that kind of proficiency. They had besides, most apt and fit matter to work upon. ' There are not, perhaps, in nature, more plastic ma ' aerials than are to be found in what is understood by an English or Irish country gentleman. His in dividual wealth is his and his country's weakness. Through this does the artful Minister, with his venal crew of journalists, work upon his mind, till therein no absurdity he will not give credence to. I i In the French Revolution, be believed the Sant CuIOW roasted the children of the Aristocrats, atul ate them : and now recently at home, they were impressed with the noti.m that the Spcncrans, to the number of a million, were about to make their visitations mono the holders of masses of land, and to cut their rent-rolls into slips, leaving the lordly owner but a small portion oTit to himself. But no matter, the mischief has been done; these too rich men, fur now we may say 6 - .1 without being justly charged with condenmehle invidiousness, since their J ruperty is the mist• of our ihrerst; these too rich, and too cr,dalons personages, have done all the mischief that a set of desperate political artists saw them cal ‘aile of doing ; and we must endeavour to overt it from i!s last and deadly design. Our Liver:mot. a, CASTLEREAcas, and CANNING*, with their mati.2- SIDMOVTH, know well that the subjects ,:r country, wl:en once subdued, and consciocs of the impossibility of shaking, off the yoke. thick only how to render their condition tolerable, seeking their tcmporaly safety in baseness. These bluer enemies to Bri ton's freedom expect that. bt•lieving, or rather knowing ourselves to be fr::` 11U longer, we shall soon despise liberty. It may be thus with many, hut not so with all. It shall not be found with ourselves. If our feeble hand, directed by an honest heart, lins been able to do something in the way of example and precept, under the most vexatious of extraneous circum stances, and that it has, theNastly increased circu lation of THE STATESM CS is an irrt fragable proof, what may not be hoped and expected when, freed from every care or concern but that of the promul gation of sentiments in fnvour of, and calculated to regain and establish the liberty of our country !! Many good patriots (if there are sech among us still; but why do we say if there ate—they must be numberless), sensible that they should be de serted by almost every ow!, ient!ire not on mea sures which would serve only to bring destruc tion on themselves and families. That reduced to wish for a better condition, without daring to attempt any thing to rescue their fellow-conntry men from their misery, and even to "eppland that which it would prove dangerous to blame, they, as the rest, resolve to be submissive. Hence a baso servility begins to prevail among a people once re nowned for the independency of their mind, till at . length every one offers n:c.Alse to the idol they detest. To save the British people from this disgrace and degradation shall be the study and the labour of the small portion of life which may remain to one who knows of no distinction under Heaven tanta mount to that of hating served his country!! ! The Dutch appear to be unskilled in the arts of bribery and corruption. hat a Gincornment mea sure should be unanimmts! y rejected by the Council of the Nation is indeed unique.! The Mynheera run no risk of being called sans culottes, wearing as they do so much broad-cloth in the place of unmentionables ; but our Cm! r ice" , Posta, &e. would be sure to stigmatize them as Jacobins, for throwing out by immense majorities six out of seven of the propositions of the Court and Ministry. I If our Representatives had acted the same part with respect to the late six Bills. e. had thrown live of them out, which they might have done with equal honesty and patriotism, they woidd have been punished with dissolution ; but the circumstance could never happen so here—our discipline is too correct to allow of any thing so erratic and ic- regular ! The Princess of Wirtemburg, tinder the name of the Duchess of Montfort, and by Nirtue of her matrimonial rights as the spilase43f Joseph Huonaparte, now carries on an action a i ;aiii , t several bankers in the capital, and from which it appear. , intended to inenlpate the administration of NI. and Madame Ilacchiocchi, at the time when they were invested with the Principality of Lucca. 31. Hennequin, Advocate fur the Duchess of Montfort, represented, that at the restoration in 1814. Jerome Buonaparte, feeling some uneasiness respecting the possession of two superb estates lying in Touraine, and which he had bought from M. jnn. for a sum between eight and 9010,0110 francs ; his agents agreed to effect an exchange with some French speculators of those estates for some others situated in the Princi pality of Lucca, and in the province of Alassa-Carrara. fhe law of Itil6 ordered, that the limbers of the Iltionapartean family should nut be deprived of any ,rty_except that which they had received as a gra- The specnlatists preserved peeeenbly the pee- .0 - estates of Villandry and of Steins, in 'fon- Joronie Buonaparte was dispossessed of the _states, under the order of the Austrian Court, supported the pretensions of the Arrh Duchess The sale was annulled, not precisely on account being national, but because as the effect concerted ht•tween M. Hacrinechi and tbe ar order to de, ive even the French tiovernment. • of Montfort now demands the anaohneot of exchange, by virtue of the 727th .nd of the Civil Code. The discussion, wh eb yesterday on behalf of the Duchess, has bet a 4 for a week, in order to give aa opportunity for .cply of M. Tripier, who is to plead for the opposing parties. A Morning Paper classes the following amongst the most ressarkabk events of the year 1819, " The Primes Regent received the Saeraneenl at Brigh ton, flee. U." At a period when so much encouragement is given to every invention which has for its object the destruction of the human species, it may be gratifying to the Philavahropierl to learn, that a Correspondent has directed his attention to the ex tirpation of a troublesome insect. Take the fol lowing To Isaiah the Flew.—Keep is or aloe* the MI e sprig of pennyroyal, or put • jilt drops if the mese* upon the tier-elethes : the swell will election, Mak& those troublesome visitants." II :: So make an advantageous impression on e v e r y wen . property except lene- constructed mind. These elaborate productions of , laity. The spt e of session of the co patriotic few operate like an evening gun in a 1 linty, l e m • . raine, while Jar wit it p orAtarrkin.; tbey apprise us that the enemy 1 Italian ,stateL all 'On the RM . 'tit, d not far fn us. England i which sapporto the Hl' n these rem%hoejices. She U.! 1819,1 , .. liestrix. The is 1 of the property . e, and la has bier Aloe , prf n . lly flat- iof a fraud cone repo.' 11 " men- 1 tered by forteiite,. lint wo.knovs4intkreneMelaim t quirers„ in orde ..1 . - "I is i she can plead ie r Vial . .... ilt - The Duchess u le rr- i . Mac ' I accidents which have befallen t'S g 'otis , articles o Pticnt frituvr ' 1 41 ';Z 1411 ,1 2 , 0t . f th e contract point in their turns. The men who bade been forging i was oPeued yes ii die! i postponed for a _. our chains, thought themselves obliged to perform t h e re p ly of M. tir patriotic &nor the' ISM 11.8. ARR. DUE. Holland I Flanders I France 0 Lisbon 0 Malta .. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stork Ditto Bonds par Is. ft. prm. Old Annuities Ex. Hills, 9d. 44. 3s. dis. Ditto Com. 934. ills. Omninm dis. t'ons. fur .\c. USW Lott. Tickets 119 IS Mir 1 i 1 I I be 111 the *eta t cOntatt. (N.B. TIIE BRITISH ST.ITESMAN" is isroftroaA TED Ira " Tur ST.I TES MA N.") {