The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-11-17 00:00:00

TO MR. SPGUIER, FIRST PRESIDENTT PAR OF TII F. ROYAL COURT AK LETTER 11. Sin, —If you had been a private individual, anxious t o pave your way to the favour of your Sovereign by a species of flattery for which language has not yet found a nomenclature, I should have held it beloW the dig. pity of argument to controvert doctrines which carry with them their own refutation. Hid you been cons pelted by hunger to lend your talents (the richest gift of nature!) to support the illegitimate pretensions of degraded royalty, I should have sought an excuse for your baseness in your want of fortitude to resist the pressure of the times, and have pardoned the prostitute the rompers I should hese left your Royal and ( Added Master in the undisturbed enjoyment of the divine attribute with %%bids you have invested him ; e cr would the escroquerie of the flatterer to improve his ruined fortunes have been deemed worthy of my animadversions. Perverted power is always ready to most amply recempence the servility of those who do nut know any distinction between vice and vir tue ; and, however munificent the reward may be, you are toe well read in the history of Courts not to be well aware that it costs nothing to the donor.— The liberality of Princes is sometimes on a par with the generosity of highwaymen. You have not, however, Sir, the obscurity of your rank in society to shield you from public censure ; your station is not that of a private individual who fills for the moment an imperceptible chasm, arid re tires as he appeared, witho..t being known or no ticed. It is not a private individual whom I address, hut a public functionary, responsible to the laws and to posterity for his conduct ; nor are you to be told that your public character gives an importance to your opinions, which even in the happiest periods of foreign and domestic tranquillity should never he hazarded but with the greatest circumspection and -inity. When a Magistrate comes forward to ihs'ruct his colleagues, and the subordinate officers of jug 're, in tt.eir res;vective duties, it is in the as tless, genuine, unt•oithisticated language of truth that be should ail Trees them, and leave the nonsense of divine right and pa,A.re uladience to the vile herd of Priests with wl, origimuel, nut sole!) and entirely for the bene:it of a: ido's most blasphemously pirbet.ted to us to be ss..rshiped as the irna;e of Goo by the.cs worst of sharpers, hut to prop their own usurps;ions on the human mini:, and to abridge and stupify our intellects, as the others curtail our fortunes and the produce of our labours, for the saneeitutry purposes of unprovoked warfare, or profligate dissipation ! Surely, Sir, you proclaimed that Kings reh,zsi by tl.e GP.ACE OF GOD, it must have escaped your memory, that you I:0110% ed the impious teat from the theocracy of the Jews ; that it was the f ou l co n . tri‘ance of the sacerdotal order to subjugate man- Lint! to the worst and most degrading species of ty ranny ; and that you have, by a plagiarism no Icss dishonourable to your official character than unwor thy of your understanding, incurred au odium which a retrograde march to a fras.k avowal of the LEGITIMATE rights and duties of a Sovereign only can obliterate. What, Sir, is it a Minister of Justice, and in these day, that is so lost to all de cency, as to open on account current with a hypo. critical priesthood, and share with them, if not the profits of their frauds, at least the dishonour of their guilt? To tell us that Kings reign by DIVINE RIG la, what is it hut an attempt to fence with the rays of Heaven the booby or the despot from the contempt or the degradation they deserve? The history of your country, in times, Sir, far less en lightened than the presets', records, its the answer made to ono of the many tyrants who ha.e dis graced the Throne of France, sentiments vet) , dif (meld to those with m loch uu would dishonour aril enslave your fellow-cif:zees! " Q .ri roes a aortic le droit de me pa, ter ainsi," s,iti the Despot to the Nobleman. " Nun pas v,,as," he answered, " muis (vox rpm .our opt fait lif‘i." In this an. sac., )sto will find a complete refutation of the pi tiftl falsehood you have so indiscreetly litizalded to the kjury of ) our Sovereign and youtself—that your (incest°, s, more wise than the present gene ration, recognized that your Kings rtigned by the CRACE of GOD." Where was the GRACE of COD when CU %RLES IX. concealing himself in the Louvre, shot nt midnight the hapless fugitives as they Ned from the assassins, whom he, in concert %WI his perfidious mother and the Guises, engaged to butcher those who differed with them on the sub j.•ct of religion—a subject on which no two men were ever yet fully agreed, since the Clergy have eared to adopt it to their own iniquitous purpose, and call it to the WORD OF GOD! In my next, I Mill state to you the probable results of the perni cious doctrines you would incorporate with the civil jurisprudence of your country, and proves that in. stead of fortifying the Throne of your pasteboard King, you are probably accelerating its destruc- tion, and assuring the inevitable ruin of the hapless who are far better fitted for ehaunting Mass is a Franciscan blonisstery than governing an en lightened nation. I have the honour to he, Sir, Your most obedient horrible servant, THE GHOST OF WA' 4 HINGTON. Loodoo, Nov. 13. 4 to spl nit KI r of de YII ilf i.k di' of, an to to 1 Y' 1)1 th 1 so at' 51 lii 11 i( hi) I o d to le to of ;t ju itfi o si h d. 01 Is ai b! 1,1 al r r tc t f. 01 er la .1 It 111 U L. II ti a Id 1 nd ch .al f . an . :11 1 at, II; is in I le r II f Lth 1 rf 4 I 0 wi en ;r 1 Lei I rip If ;Se 111 is la IN" II THE STATESMAN. • 11. + • . A • THE COURIER AND THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM. The fullowi;g observation: (from the :baiter:ham, Hull Paper) on the pernicious nod degrading doctrines which the Cu ur irr Newspaper is now Ai) to favrpar the cause Of arbitrary limier in this ronutry, , and the extraordi• ' nary and disgraceful cu trast w•!tich the pre-rut conduct of that Paper afford. , compared with its former zeal in the ca use of liberty and popti:ar rigid, are penned with so morn molt. reason, and claws: lice, Coat we sithinit them to sir [trailer• in preference to any remark, is hien our obis feel logs tray have prompted a: tie citotemplation of so much bier servilit) in rine, and rim.. than one, of those who pretended to be actuated by pa , riotie principles, but who are, indeed, only fit to exist in ine recious of slavery and despotism, and who have furnished examples of a postacy which the rerords of all they trenoutte; in France cannot parallel. A Cnrunna Mai', con, packet, arrived yesterday. from Vera Cruz at Cadiz, Coot t. Also 2,372,112 di of silver, in ingots, with 1 61.1;75 pmunds of cochinet Hon IL IP M Gueros , •y, Nov. 4.—" A apparently shout 60 year name to he Thomas Fooki sided at Truro, came here purpose, as he said, of . this island and Jersey, wi sided at Cole's lintel, in whilst there, conducted him ty. After breakfast, yest' take a walk near Fort Geo 4 fore dark, as two men were of the shore towards which walked, they discovered water, near the cliff. The feet deep over the body, took up, and conveyed to proved to be that of Mr. Ft wit) opened. A severe woui and several bruises on the ' that otherwise the state rl feet health. There can be , ceased was murdered, robbed cliff, near to which he war - to have a pocket-book, a mounted spectacles in his nor any money whatever, —We have made enquiry and unfortunately there is the person above described. what amount of property he his (mil v last heard from hi near Weyesoutb.—( !Vest CORN F.IICRANOR. Nov. 17 this as .riiing, yet NI iodas's pi s4l: ,ply of fLotev. nl a teiliscli.in saiiiiiiiita ‘Vritilemlits's prie. Wheat (Kalish) 42 7 Magi (Foieigit) 4l 74 Itse tlitrlev "6 53 New tiiit•• Malt -964 White l'eas l4 Al NeVi &nit) Ditto t4 , sileni 3q 42 birei etnab ... 34 So 1 5:111111FIFLD W To slat the (Wel, Ore/ ... 4. .11i 4. ho 21. 1 Atimin . 0.. I. 5. 'U.. i rPRiI 6. 04. ta 7s. 41.11 Prk it. 01 t. 5. IP. Lo. h . i• 0. 0 HA Y-1414 41. N. •re• .... 51. 41.. 0.1 Straw .... IL 19p. 044, IL; criminals most atrocious, (Mtge of sos r:osinrryist4' • who venture to disappros, of fortiog a mon:reit, though fashissiishly le,i irmote, upon an on tilling people. We contend,. however, that it Wool* crime ia itself considered, any 'rime .than it is a crime' ist ns to disapprove of the present construction of oar uattu, .ti topresensetion, of a large standing armv, of pensions, and sinereres, or to wear the Foxite livery of Woe and bortf. Bot it would seem that French Chambers, with the Coarier„ are determined e•il to ha re two opinions in Freoce either of the acts of Go vernment oo the divine qualities . elf the Gorernor.; and the method they ailepted in attaiiiitig that end is as wise as theend•is just. They muzzle every mouth Bast is not opeited to sing the ',raises et legitimacy and at Nantes it appears thet a war has hewn to be waged ngsitost.pinks nod violets, which of course will not be suffered to deforsn the face of nature any but he extermi!inteol, or.ssitht to the absence of more ifiterestiter matter we have loci in that co untry, their growers an d wearers, deported to a foreign soil. determined to m ike a remark or two on some ob- Their cooduct is that of men just emerging from semeiotic taken out of last %Veditesilev'S Cottrier,. more for the sake of inculcatinff very t; t iely righ t careen under ground in w loicb they have lived alt '• • their li• s seem to know (h . tic fth principles of action than of exposing the profligacy , . C . • i° e norm, nor of ) the nature of man : nor to have t at and want of true 13 , itisti feeling in that unprincipled id ea t he re vehicle of news. By every reader of that Paper, ithn ; t ll fi t ny i iw I I : r a e y o f he gu i t l n t (I ; f ° , 1 1 1 0 6 . I?e ,,,! h tt av a in a ti als i r , e a r - t . during the last seem al months, it must base been inspected that it is either sold to the m i n i o ns of e " ‘ " e le ' re l ig t e l'e o l f it 0(144 s. in •I heir idle and compass e i useli es they can mike no allowance for the Louis or that the Editor has completely pelt COII , in 4.1 , of the gtishmaii. No Englishman, escept a le. y t his event :—" We think so end we Esi make tout do the same." Tile essence of these Delgado, could write as he dot tent es; for there is not au r oro o ' di ' v ' right of Wow is unerring " Helot laws cosepsiseil in this short sentence: act of tisurpution or ty rann y exerc i se d on t h e The div ine truth aunt neat, and especially iu France ' ,which does not tissil vehicle of diffusion is a I revelry mandate., or.. in him a strenuous, ready, awl unidualoing advocate. Nay, the two Chambers, in their zee', subserviency, h y, • • 'till a slave ship, and w r it • of cnniocriton. They must shortly waist another and hatred to liberty, seem to mote too slowly f,ir B . 1 : d they , t have better Chief Go the vindictive and rage of this champion for st:r s r l 6 o l l %ha li a ll the le P,d' ell itr: l r n° of theGo' ll erier . . According despotism, whose proper place is at the feet of the to I.is own account, his 46 anion with his emploser Grand Seignior. 'Pile following is the paragraph to . will he peffeet and hos (rigorous action will be suf. are e have above alluded. It is a merles( two- fieiel itiv apparent ' to all. 66 H. will be anxious to duction, compared with many preceding ones ; but shssw there is no difference betwixt his pi inciples and it belrays the tone and temper of the man, and suss- measures and those 44 the Legislative." " ife will mates doctrines of which the people in this island (Wow of no dances." " Ile will destroy the very ought to shudder. race of pinks and sinless." 64 He will make the " There is rather a pause in the proceedings of , soldiers wear the white cockade whether tit.y like it the two Chambers—that is, they seem to be engaged or toot." IV'impurte liking. What busine.ot Sas a in discussions which do toot appear to be immediately soldier to talk of liking? or any body else ? if that necessary or adapted to the present moment. Of liking be not to the taste o: The Courier end the this kind is the discussion brought Oil by M. Hyde Chambers ? It is impossible to read these ravings of de Neusille. They are subjects for quieter times, for an E ng li s h quon d am p atr i o t, an d t h e news conta ined- less agitated state of the public feeling. The whole in the French Oiticial Papers, and not be filled with mind and force of the Legislature should be directed disgust and contempt. They demonstrate neither to the eradicating the revolutionary spirit, and the the opinions of enlightened men, nor the seller's of punishing or keeping down those turbulent men that men who bad either acquaintance with books or es )et have the revolutionary furor as strong as ever.— perience amongst their fellows. They take every Two excellent laws undoubtedly have been passed— thing on trust themselves, and they are not ouiy those relative to arrests amid to seditious practices.— surpasse d b ut i n di gnant t h at ot h ers do not the same. But have not our readers remarked, in the circular --'They are strangers to every mode of operating ors of the Minister of Police, that he appears to be un- the human mind but by force, and employ force to willing to carry the law upon arrests into execution effect a change of opinion, they are furnishing not in all the spirit and strength given to it by the Chem. only justification but weapons to every present and hers? Does he wish it to be supposed that the Ese- future profligate assertor - anise Government conceives the measure to be too a t h e h uman rave . If ti harsh :itorl rigid its its provisions, thus tending to the cositemptible Ferdinal bring the Legislature into odium—a very reprehensi- as one of the enlightened ble conduct on the part of the Minister if the sup. cellent laws assert*, 64 si position be well founded. lie should lather he anx- Goo, and it is not given to ions to show that there is not the slightest difference and if, as another of them, with respect to principles or measures between the F,xecatioreaosaLLegivJative. Au, idea to the contrary upon Lanjuitais, for public probation, such public disai can only serve to give spirits and encouragement to derogatirm from Hord A , the disaffected." be punished? what lons Fl Oh shame! yet the eulogist of these laws, so excel. on and say, " I will it." lent that, as was asserted in the Chamber of Peers, great respect for Ferdinand 800,000 spies would be let loose on the French pit- land be upon their guard. pulatien, and the lives and fortuties of that wretched, people put into the hands of a hoard of dependants whose merit must consist in furnishing victims to the fears and cruelty of their employers, was formerly, forsooth, the Secretary of the once lamed Constilu. tional Society in this country ; an advocate for re• form ; a fiimel of the people. In what their excel lency consists we endeavoured to explain last week, and that excellency we again aver, is, that they are savage, cowardly, and calculated to answer all the purposes of utofeeling despotism. Letters dc cachet, during the ancient Bourbon regimen, so much the object of reprobation, were tender mercy compared with these enactments. Their executors tire liable to no responsibility. They cannot he called to ac count for abuse of their power; for in the very cir. cular of instructi ins (vide first page) of whose mild. 111.43 and moderation our hero so bitter ly complains, all the remedy to be obtained for an usojustitiable ar rest, is, that the arrested shall he set at liberty with all convenient dispatch. Would the Courier like such a law as this to be establishes! in England ? We sometimes think that Isis leaning is very much that way. Rut would he like to have some fellow or other planted at his own door, or behind his curtain, or ordered to follow him along the street just to catch a few unconnected words capable of any construc tion, amid then run to the Prefect with 66 I have dis covered a traitor ?" Would he like to he clapped up in a dungeon ins such a score, and after a formal en quiry before the Prefect, at the end of a few week's imprisonment, to be told you may go about your bu siness, whets, perhaps, that business is entirely ruined ? Oh ! but I am a loyal mars, he exclaims, and am ready to kiss the foot of any legitimate sovereign in the world. Such laws are not for the love!, they are only for " eradicating the revolutionary spirit, and to keep down the turbulent men who have the revolutionary furor as %hong as ever." And what is this revolutionary furor upon which he is so severe? In truth, nothing in the world but a dislike to the family and former policy of the House of Bourbon. If a desire fur re. voll'6oll in itself considered be so great a crime, who are more criminal than the Bourbons themselves ? and what does this apostate from liberty and dis ciple of arbitrary power think of the projectors of our own glorious revolution, which effected the ex. pulsion of the then legitimate race of kings ? The strict meaning of the phrase, in this article, is dissa tisfaction with the existing state of things and a dis like to the Bourbon family, not for the name and fa mily connexion, but because the 'listing 'starches have not degenerated from the stock, but partake of its nature and properties in all their deformity end baseness. This dislike is surely not its itself a crime. If that could be made cut, it must be a crime, every where, in an Englishmen as well as a French man, and so indeed the Courier seems to think it is, not scropliug, on many occasions, to designate as .: 1 1 1 t. :11 I. 4 *! ...1 ' I t' t. 1 • . I • 4 . , .. ..,.. .-' t 1 . .. i ' . 1 . .. v t' • • ap•ms to every present and of his own light to dispose they ere right, in what Is land of Spain wrong? If, advocates roc these two et- all authority proceeds from !o the people to dispose of;" ••• ens, in tolling for a censure jotting his speech of olisap. isapprobation be n culpable Authority, which ought t• _ Ferdinand to de but to ge •.r Yet The Courier has no sd ! Let the . people of Eug- iveyed by the Frederick y. A frigate had arrived z, with dispatchoa to the dollars, acid 191.4 5 mares Int ounces of gold, auti 'CI. E‘tract of a letter, dated A respectable looking man, ire of age, who stated his • tes, and that his family re- e some days since, for the contracting for supplying ith corn, beef, &c. He re. in the market-place, and, himself with great proprie- sterday, he left the inn to !orge. In the evening, be- ere in a boat, on the part • ch he was supposed to have the body of a man in the he water was not above two •, which they immediately n the Town Hospital. It • Fookes, and was examined • ound appeared on the head, body ; the surgeons slated, of the body indicated per- • little doubt, that the de- stsed, and thrown over the is found ; as he was known watch, and a pair of silver possession, none of ohich, were found on the bisdy." r of Mr. Foakes's family, s little doubt that he was ed. We have not learned he had with him, es when him, he was at his brother's, Briton.) I.—lini few rr.ive• isf Wheat trees Wer • Olitaioleei.—.A g...b I ri of 14.—C. rh, Peas, oil 0 its ice.. j I kern Old doto ....... Tick do. 7B :.;1 . New — Oat, tB ;.) Fine ditto Polan.l do. r .. 4; Feel Forte Flour ..... 1 .0 1 *CMOs • 50 55 lARK FT. - Nov. 17. ver %vow of Sit.. Head of Cattle this 4. w I, enew . Sheep ... 9, it ra • 1..1 Ptio IttK .t. 10 fi! O. 04. el. to tit. 6s Otl. km. to 1.. 16.. NAVAL INTELLIGENCB. PLTICOVTIII, Nov. 15.—Arrived the Eurdas fri• gate, from Malta. Poarsmotrn, Noe. 16.—Arrived his Majesty's ships Primi.use, Redwing►, and Snake, from Shields ; also his Majesty's ships Gan,finede and Larne, from the Downs.—The country ships Nrplune and Brox burnbury, (hi India, passed by to.day for the Downs.—Soiled the eseoi•re, Well, for Martinique. DEAL, Nov: IG.—Came dOwn from the River and sailed the ►3ritannia, Ilamlyn, for Glenada ; Lady Holland, Diahant, for Jantlica ; forfiirsde, Shipply, for S!. Vincent's ; 1t dl Indian, Cook, for Antigua ; and t;!P 1), i - are George, Bailey, for Jamaica.—Ar ired the Katr, Clark, from the Cape of Good )lope; and the Van ninire frigate, fr:nn the Mediterranean last, from Cibralter : they remain in the Down. with the homeward-bound East Indiamen, repairing the damage they got in the last gale. IbllAssoAta, Nov. I6.—The vei,sel that arts on shore yesterday on the Pan Sand, has got off and gone for the Downs : her name is said to be the West Indian, Captain Cook, outward bound, float London, for Antigua. Worst, Nov. 16.—Prt in the Juno schooner, from* Boston, for Amsterdam. having lost the greatest part of her sails during the gale on the 13th inst. limtwicit, Nov. 16.—Sailed the Tracelkr and the Tormar transports, ait h horses, fur Ostend; Prince of Orange packet, for Holland ; and the CostlcAogh packet, for Cuxhaven. BAKER, TILE Roc IrEsrER PEDESTRIAN. SEVENTEENTII DAY. Baker began his 17th dat's journey at a quarter before four on Thursday morning, and after walking four miles, stopped a short time for refreshment ; be continued tilt a quarter before eight, completing 11-1 miles, and went to breakfast ; in half an hour he again started, and stopped a short time in the course of the morning, and accomplished 244 miles at half-' past twelve, and then went to the Cossack to dinner ; after stopping his usual time he let off till about fire,l at which time he made up 38 miles and went to tea; in half an hour he went on the ground, anti pursued his journey till half-past• nine o'clock, and finally completed 51 miles and 192 rods. Thursday morning came in %IN' a cloudy aspect, and at half-past seven a heavy shower of snow fell, the fislics of which were as large as ever remembered t, t h e ° t i l es , i o luit i it a l i fs at this part ; another shower ( e lf t ten , %IF hick made the ground in a slippery state; th;s bitterer w ore oil by the early part of the afternim.i, and towards evening the wind shifted N.W., Winging with it a sharp frost, which ren• Herne! the ground in a bitter state for walking than for many dais past. Baker pursued his journey in escellent spirits this day, and appears to he in better health than at any time since he commenced his undertaking. Baker having heard the reports in cir culation respecting Wilson's new undertaking, de clares he is ready to meet any man in Flngtanif Use any number of miles, as soon as this task is corn : !sited, of which Baker appears confident of Ill'eCOM.• plishiog even if he goes on '' his hands and knees." I Mr. Newson, his surgeon, declares Baker's health in a better stale, than at any time since his com tnenceinent. Baker's last mile was accomplished hi rattier ender eleven minutes. Truing is now entirely iu his favour. Mrs. A I.ROP has withdrawn herself from Covent. garden Theatre, in consequence of her terms not being accepted by the Proprietors, which, it is said, were the same as those given to Miss 0'1%11.1-- This was sorely too much to pay, even for an excel lent copy of a matchless original. A robber, who generally calls himself James Va keliste, hitched a • lone ran on the town, and yet remains unpunished. He is dre.seil like a sailer, and commits his robberies on the poorer class of those housekeepers who let lodgings. On observing a bill in the window, he enters the house, and bar. gains for the apartments at sit, seven, or eight shil lings per neck ; this he does in the morning, and remains during the day. Before the evening arrives, he has arquainted the landlord or the landlady with Hs whole story, n hich, on all occasions, runs the same, viz. That he is just returned from a long voyage, and will settle with his Captain at Lloyd's the meat day. Ile then thinks he had better go down to the slip for his clothes, and enquires what it will cost to bring them op from the Docks in a coach, but unfortunate!) he has no money until the nett day. By this story, and the production of a piece of paper, which, in a general WO) v fulls as follows, he bor rows a pound Hole . . Lowlon. Now. NI. 1613. sli:1) Sit ia., Capt. T:s.ara•Cligrk. indrlyttl tole**. V leathee. 3 NI 0t.., Wrtgel , , at 11. 104.. - 41 10 0 9 ditt.., as catim.ter, at 71. - 6i 0 0 10 0 Pay:.ble ftt Neweimn,Own.r,ms Monday., Nov. 14. lie occa , ionally alters the names of the Captain and o,s tier, but never his own. Ills notes always correspond with the time. It is unnecessary to say he never returns to his lodgings. Hardly two di) s pass hut some unfortunate poor woman enquires for him at Lloyd's with rune of the pretended bills in her hand, and it is supposed within the last two years, for he has committed his robberies thus long, he has obtained two hundred pounds by this modeof swind- . line. On one occasion he was apprehended anti tarr i e d t o th e Police-office, Ilation.garden, and his detention being made kunwn through the ptdrlin pa pers, 25 people ,attended, all of whom had been robbed, as before described. of 20s. The Magistrates, we understand, recommended them to prosecute, but it turned out they were all so miserably poor, as not to he able to afford it, and he was discharged accord ingly. We hope, if this fellow comes before the l'o race again, the Magistrates will order him to be pro- . neuter] at the csperace of the county. Put:Hunt.— Dannelly and Cooper met this day, and after a fight of 11 rounds, Donnelly was victo rious, leasing Cooper almost lifeless ou the ground. (Dublin Chronicle ; Nov. 13.) ,‘ • . *.l 4. ~_y:,. ~~ ::.._.