The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-11-16 00:00:00

. imaditaayeeteaessewsweeeeee------- A Mail from Ft:adore Whigs Papers to the 141 jt is stated es certain that the Congress will not be terminated before the end of the present month.— The Treaty between this coentry and Holland, for the more effecteel Abolition of the Slave Trade, has been approved of by the Second Chamber of the Isstes.General, by a majority of eighty-seven to five. r i Leiters from Amsterdens mention, that the Bank of that city, bad given tram to the etorchants, that ' owing to the great demand for money, they could no longer dieteent bills few less than 5 per cent. interest ; • the former rate wee 31 per cent. At Antwerp cash w a g mo re entree than in any part of Holland; money s with 7f per teat. i A lettey from Dover, dated Nov. 13, Friday, asp fq ..ti Six treasperts and hired vessels have arrived to. ilay, with a part of the 18th regiment of Hussars, s end aboot 32 *extols have sailed on their return to. Caleis The 12th regiment of Lancers marched •e n • we, .this morning, for Maidstone." A Dutch hone. iss Paris is reported to have failed for upwards of two millions sterling ; several ape ; lent bosses here have suffered severely by the failure, es the sweet implicit confidence was placed in the firm, particelarly by the Jewish interest. The , i Besse abroad hes had the buying and selling 4- stock for the London Capitalists to an immense went, and the differences due to them amount 2ts near 300,0001. Two or three failures, one of. them for 60,0001. are reported to have , occurred its Glasgow; an Irish Lioen Heusein London is also said to hare gone for 150,0001. A foreign house in London has lately Ulcer' in many opulent tradesmen in London, Menthester,Yorkshire, end several manu facturing place', by perchasing goods upon six • months credit, then selling theirs immediately for cash; bet instead of delivering the goods, titey shipped them fur the Continent, by which means they succeeded in obtaining both goods and money : the partners in this respectable firm have since absconded. New JUDGES.—It is stated that Mr. Serjeant BEST and Mr. RICUARDSOI4 are to be the two new Puisne Judges in the Cowls of King's Bench and Common Pleas. Mr. SPrieSsiS COPLEY is to succeed Mr. Ser jeant BEST as.ChieE Justice of Chester. The following are the names of Gentlemen who have been appointed to succeed to the offices of the King's Bench Court, in the room of those dismissed by the stew Lord Chief Justice :—J Wseeas, Esq. succeeds J. PLATT, F.sq. ; and W. WATERS, Esq. succeeds SMITH, Esq. Part of the waggon train were on Saturday etas ployed is removing the frame work of the Rotunda. erected 10 the garden of Carlton-house, for the en ttetainment of our illustrious foreign visitors, to the Arsenal at Woolwich, there to be laid up in store, until a similar occasion shall require it to be brought forth hereafter. In consequence of the surprising increase of the bombsaren manufactory at Norwich, that city is ra pidly rising in population. One handfed and twenty bowies were built there list year, which are all le muted. 1 ' A new invention of considerable merit has made its appeareiste in the rnantsfactere, on en entire new principle, of that most useful accompaniment of the toilet, the hairbrush. It is, •we understand, the invention of Messrs. Ross and Soes, Bishopsgate- stre,t. DRORT• LAKE THEATRE —Saturday night the Jew 4 Malls was represented at this Theatre for the first time this season. KEAN never played Bar abbas with greater effect. Ma harp song was loudly en cored. Nirs.W WET apploa *III) IS the Abigail, and her Performance wry extremely respectable. She received Considerable testimonials of approbation. COVENT•OA R •EN THEATRE.—M Wig O'NEILL ap. roared, on S•iturilay night. as Florham. in Mr. SHEII:S tragedy of 77w Apostate. She performed this part. as usual, with the 1g.. , +test eclat. Tile part of Pescara was performed throughout by Mr. MA CRE MY with his usual fire and energy. Mr. YOUNG'S Malec is a very superior performance. It la charac terized by force, grandeur, anti even sensibility.— Dir. C. Komi: performed Heowya with his usual toy's , of teaderne.s and passion, and was eminently effective. The amount for which the Portsmouth Bank has failed is stated at 200,0001. Such was the reliance upon this Batik, that their notes were invariably pre. 'refired to those of the Bank of England, and thus the lower orders of society are likely to be great sufferers. FIR E.—A •little after five o'clock on Saturday morning, a fire broke out in the first floor of the Plough tavern, Clapham •, the alarm was given byl the watchman, and with difficulty the inmates were soused out of their sleep ; the pariah engine was on the spot in a few minutes, and with that some la bourers who were going to work, and some bakers from Mr. pebble's, with pails supplied with water from Mr. Butterworth's opposite, succeeded in Sr. testing the progress of the flames, and confining them to the Lest door, the whole of which, with the fur niture, was destroyed. This house has been only about three weeks occopied, after being newly built up, having been before burned to the ground. It is remarkable that about three weeks ago, whilst in the shell, it had nearly met with a similar fate, owing to a glee pot boiling over, and communicating to same loose shavings. Cox EZCHA !GE. Nov. 16.—There was A good supply of Wheat this moroiag., dull sale at it redaction of 3s. from hut )looday's prices.—line ErtgliA Barley at FrlrWs price..— Oats la. cheaper.—Brans Ss. to 4s. tower.—Yeas !s. cheaper.-- fa other articles no alteration. Wheat (Naglish) Orel Peas —7o 7! New diuo Ditto (Foreign) .... 7Y 88 , Old do. Rye Barley . .48 73 Oats New. . . Malt White Peas SO. • Feed de 33 38 Now ditto.... ...... Fine Fleur .• 65 70 Ditto Boilers .........75 80 Seconds...... SMITHFIELD MARKET, Nov. /6. To biok the 0,1111. per stone of Sine. Beef .. 31 8d so is at. $ Heal{ et Cattle this dee 9. . 4 Mottos64. o as 44 Routs. 620 V'at • • 56 04. to 6.. Bd. Sheep and Lambs ..... 17,640 i P. vs • Si. 6d v 7s. 04. Calveb • .. Lamb ....Os. 04. to Oa Od. Pio.. . 240 MAY-MARKET. }MT • .. bl. Or. Oct. to 81. Os. ra. cio.pr ... 61. Os, Od. in 91. 04. Od. aft , ..... tl. Si. 06. to 21. lls. Od• I { 1 NAVAL INTRI:6IOII74VMV . . itzszsattz, Nov. 14 end - 11 —Cense Jo gaivez4l vessels for shelter, amongst 'which, the brig Eagle,, Williams, windlass palls upset • schooner Anne and Elisabeth,' Lovering, w itti 4 1;ari' of fore.vard*. and 'other damage; and aboot Wail' of transport) from Calais, with cavalry. PORTSMOUTH, NPV. 15 •--Arrivs4 the Carron, San Joseph, Dolphin, and Urania transports. from Cadiz for Russia, wyll Rapists troons ; hya Majesty's. sloop Wye, from Halibut ; and Regattas transport from Gibraltar. PLYMOUTH, Noe. 14.—Several of the wind-bound slots have sailed for their destinations. FALIIIIOOIII, Nov. 12 and 13.---Arrised We Doke of Marlborough packet, with a Mail from Lisbon in seven days; the Lady Arabella packet, with a Mail from Lisbon in four days. SIMMS', NOT. 14.—Sailed the Bottoms, (treat-41 port) for HoUsed, with discharged foreign troopill from Chatham. Sc.aascianoon, No,. 14 —The London, Brown, of and for London from Petershurgh, landed here flirt of the crew of the Hartford, Newton, which *easel was last on the 16th of September last, ow be? voyage to Petershuegh. NOWN SHIELDS. NOT. 12.—The Fortune, Him clay, from Riga to Landon, with grain, put into this 'lWirboar, having shifted her cargo, and made so much - water that a part of the cargo is supposed to be :damaged, which must be taken out, that the teasel way be trimmed. DARTMOUTH, Nov. 14.—The sloop Richard et* Ann, Peychet, from Penzance to Portsmouth, with wheat, sunk about four miles off thia part, about l o'clock this day—crew saved.—The French slip : Theophile, Daniels, from the Isle of France to sly Melees, put in here last night by contrary winds; and in wirrut of provisions. lo thlt,f--listing for the last It tosis been coolest** strith tdsifs Press. i hare freqodatly looked - le ift , the di fe rent Police Offices, Courts of tam, Oze. apd therebx someday's furnished an . e!ticii of Renee; t was led this morning . 44 taunter into timi, Mattliou.hoose to see our pew Chief Magistrate , but, wee aieigoy in Officer, mhsi told me (and, I will say, with the utmost possible courtesy), that he had spe. dal prners within the last two days to prevent the ,intrusion of ell persons wbo had not particular be sioevs. Will you please, thee, to inform me, through yoor Journal, if the doors of cny iestioe-room can be closed upon the Public ; or Irbether'it be not en unwarrantable assumption of . power on the part of some person who ought, sad is preasuppd to know better ? Na. 12. PROLONGATION or rirs tRIIM FOR PAYING rms FRENCH CONTRIBUTIONS. Ali LA•CIIATELLE, Nov. 11.—in the tonfor. ences of Monday the whole of the subject of the time of paying the contributions, and an additional Con vention relative to that tower, was reconsidered *kb the oew lights which Ministers had gained. Mr. r Baring, Ism informed, gave in • memorial on Mon ; day, sienteleirm the rations for this applicaiiim on the part of France, stating the estent to whith it was ; desirable the prolongation should eatend, and on. backs the policy of consenting to the demand on th• new conditions that would be offered. The whole of this intricate business is new said to be definitively MI , and the additional Convention signed in the conf=co of to-day. For all the details, we most wait for the document itself; but thefollowing may be regarded as its principal and only interesting articles : The lime for paying the whole of the contributions is now at last estresded from nine to eighteen months. 'fit. ant payment Is to take place on the Gth of Ja nuary, as • before stipulated ; and the whole sum of 265 millions is to be discharged by 18 equal monthly instalments. The half is to be paid in foreign bilk es houses at. Ilamburgh and Amsterdam, sod the other half in Paris. Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. is to be given on the part of the contributions tba'payment of which is deferred beyond the nine svitantbs stipulated in the first Convention. The same rats of interest, and the same division of funds into pi:Meals at Paris, and bills on foreign houses, are to be common to all the Powers. The contractors, the securities, and all the other terms of the original Convention, remain unchanged. It is reported, that the four Powers have cordially and unanimously agreed to these conditions, whatever might at first -- +lp- - ;me been the foaling of some of them on a proposi. ales to prolong the term of realising their shares so much beyond the period originally stipoloted. The giving of interest at 5 per cent., and the security nf ultimate payment, added to the new cnn lielice- of bills on cities with which the num have Wire intereeerse than with I'4- sivastbrs which have rendered the to all. Messrs. B , ring and the intoreirrit welt as ire r* itheriulnett flely - mitt - weeeive the disidend on the French stock funded, and will pay it over to the patsies is proportion to their shares of (ht coetribu lion. Thus this difficult negotiation, which was more likely than any other to create differences where they did not exist, or to give them a prominence if they *listed, has been terminated with that °mei mity, with that dispatch, and with that conciliatory and confiding disposition, which affords the best ell. dente of present union among the great Powers, and lays the best foundation, as well as Aires the best pledge, of luting teaoqoillity. The Bankers, upon a report of money tnnsactions going forward, have ',pie collected. M. Bethman, the relation of M. La Boucher., one of the contractors, is arrived here from Frankfort. Several others are here from other parts of Germany. I formerly alluded to negotiations going on be- Omen Prussia and the Netherlands, for rounding the territory of the former, by giving it the Meuse for a frontier. The Journal of Cologne mentions a tort. oes report, that Prussia is anxious to abandon en tirely the provinces of the Rhine, in exchange for Hoesseer. According to this project, the King of the Netherlands would accept of these provinces in exchange for Belgium, and the family of Hanover world be removed to Belgium. However wise this arrangement may appear to some German visionaries, it would be needless here to discuss such an absurdity as wield be involved in any proposition to realize it. The Hotel de Ville has now become like en exhi bition of pictures. A young Prussian painter ex poses his works in the Great Hall, and Sir T. Law rence paints sad exhibits in an adjoining room. The Emperor Alexander has given four sittings, and the head is nearly finished. The King of Prude sat for the first time to-day. The Emperor Francis's portrait is nearly in a state to be carried to England. Prince Hardenberg, Prince Metteroicb, and Count Nesselrode, the Ministers re spectively of Prussia, Austria. and Russia, are ad vancing apace by the side of their masters. The room of the painter is now a place of fashionable resort as much as the shops of the statuaries in Athens. Four or five Ministers sometimes meet there ate time. _ _ P. S. The readiness and unanimity with which the Allies have agreed to the application of the French Government, clearly demonstrate that there could be nothing very unjust and unreasonable in the demand ; and furnish the best answer to that chain of reasoning detailed in my previous letter, as proceeding from the party most hostile to this fresh concession in favour of France. ^• laMe gees down, early to-morrow morning, to Colchester, where he is engaged to perform Richard the Third and Sir Giles Overreach, on that and the following evenings. The Alexander end Isabella discovery ships, arrived in Grimsby Roads en Saterday last. The Sylvan, Ptigh, from Liverpool to Cork, was totally lost the 11th lost. near Kinsale. The Margaret, Hughes, from Liverpool, was driven on shore on the 10th inst. am Yonshall, sod it it feared mild be lost. ritrAirtglifei 1 sT. tits Elnfralt is v*ASTAlttlfitlf. S 2 11ELENA. The Hampshire Hampshire Telegraph poblishes the follow. lag eatract of a letter from St. 1101P1111 :-... " St. Helena, Sept. 28, 181$. " The Mosquito sloop of war sails to-morrow for England : she is charged with dispatches from Sir Hudson Lowe, (elating, it is understood, to an intercepted correspondence, which has discovered the existence of a plot, the object of which was the liberation of Bonaparte from this island. I forbear to mention the names, currently circulated here, of those who are said to be implicated in this transac tion ; a banker's house in London, however, and two Individuals in England, with others on the Continent, it is rumoured, are concerned. Detection of the plot was produced by the circumstance, it is said, of I many letters, addressed to a person (the name of which no individual is to be found here), lying on. called for at the Post-oflice. Bonaparte is in very good health ; he still, however, abstains from elm- else, confining himself wholly within doors. Teel t. son assigned at Longwood foe the dertnere heater' Gen. Goucgaud, is a quarrel bet woes' Men wed fliers' Montholon. Gourgaud.hed been challenged by the latter, but Bonaparte forbidding them to fight. Gourgaud quitted. It is confidently . said, Bonaparte has recently obtained the sum of 16,0001. in dollars; through what means this weighty bulk could have. been carried clandestinely to Longwood, is still a matter of surprise. The discovery of the plot has also brought to light where the whole of Bonaparte's treasure is depo•ited. Bertrand some time since es spited, he could et any time command a million sterling. Of the three Commissioners, one only re. mains on the Wand ; those of Russia and Austria are gone to Rie to take up their abode some time. Bonaparte will not admit either one of them to his I presence; the Austrian Commissioner, Briton de I St urmer, who returned some weeks since to his Court, did not, during the long period he remained on the island, once see Bonaparte. 66 This island is not healthy for a continued re sidence; it is for many hours, every day, covered with vapours and dense fogs, and it does not yield a sixth part of sufficient vegetable substances fort he use of the troops and seamen. The inhabitants are wholly excluded front all means of livelihood ; no ships are allowed to remain here longer than is abso lutely necessary: all supplies come from the Cape, but they are very scanty, and what fresh meat is afforded from this channel, is wholly engrossed by the troops; the ships never get a meal of it ; sod . during the last five months they have had only one third bread, no cocoa, and no peas; the deficiency is wholly made up of rice. Dysentery, consequently , prevails much, and all the vessels have lost many men ; the Mosquito has lost about 23 in three months, and the Conqueror has scarcely -seamen enoogh on board to work the ship. But, notwith standing this weak state the squadron has for fi shed 300 men to assist in building a new house for Bona parte, of the most capacious dimensions. The sea.. men, after the day's work is over, are marched to another part of the island, to be emcamped for the night. Every ship furnishes goard-boats, which row round the island, and, as they approach the various points, are always challenged by the sentinels.-- A short time since, one of the sloops of war, in working to windward of the island, discovered two men in a cave on the shore; she accordingly sent a boat, and brought off two Yamstock (native) Negroes, who had been fishing ; and who, it ap peared, used to get to the beach from the top of the Cliff by a secret but dangerous path. A new battery was consequently immediately erected, and it was by this unknown outlet, It is said, that the Great Man was to be carried off. We are constantly amused with stories of schooners hovering off the island; the cruisers certainly sometimes see such, but never board them. A transport from the Cape lately passed one close, lying to, to windward, about 80 miles from the island, which took no notice of her ; she might, however, have been slaving, or lookioa out for Spanish or Porteguese Indiatnen : she was 11 large long schooner of 18 guns, and apparently full of wen. The troops here are more healthy then the seamen are; many casualties, however, °cm among the former—several sentinels have been lost by falling ever the cliffs". 4 FU,NaILAL Or Silt S. AND Lent k'O WILL, .ongethy lett thd remains bi Lady %maißy *ere ;stirred in the Isaiah moil( of her Ladyship's Welto:, C4l; Waltham, lit kaill Chore!), hi Herefordihire, ilttisiteett to the direction ~of Sir Samuel's will. to tiimplifnee WWI His Fish; Idbe terentotty was private; none but fhe hest rein- Owes, and two or three Ingleside telendi of the de.; sensed attending. Both funerals Proceeded from chi Jeintlon.house at Knit! Cow attill# 4 l was attended by M , l as chief mourner, and Mr. College, the Martleie of LaH Mr. Brougham, and Mr. Lady Hominy's wis au and Whittaker, bet brott Jones, Mr. F. Lewis, and residing in the neibourbood, formed by Dr. Grdbh, the affecting ceremony was wi course of the neighbouting attached to this worthy far The eteciatore of Sir Ss, Walsham and John Whit Waishoidi woe even unable lamented relatitel. lie ender the stale comptaink:of .died. The Marquis of Lettsclosinto— ippoitoed guardians to the 'children. By the will, to vlbiebthere are ieversi codicils, his elicit, e ff ects 00 tot be divided into eight pacts--tad to MI eldest tun, lad bee to each of the other,. GENSIGIL 420tiit040.. • I'. fire Saturday !horning, wisciut 'Often o'clock, Ills tradesmOts on ripening their Shops in the neighhoot. hood of Comptes, al i es-t, Brunswick.sqoare, iietetera I prised to see eight or t eri moth stationed as Isriaisiscor sserss a circum , tance shiers ea-cited taohlidehysfilitetse pinion. Soon after a wellzdreased rash iseeits!Werk. leg up to No. 7, is the said street, wheie Knoms. eel at the door and asked fur General Th• servant answered he •es in bed Sftivill; and c o u ld not be disturbed. Its? Gentleman ittatabilr" ' • ••': said he must see him, and if his %Iron was not Aliened he would break it open. The servant imliesellele, went into the bert.room and told lire Goiseviir a per son wished to speak to hits. the General geld bee to show him in, if he would etctise his heir,* in bed. --The Gentleman a ent in slid epf , •llo a fiivr wards to the General in Fiend), did understand, but she steles II to excite any alarm in the eel to the street.door, opened it, t tendanls he had outside in waiting, into the bed-room tottether, whir still in bed, threw the clothes nut, and conveyed him to the General, terrified et such an ing, attempted to open the w Ineighbourhood and ask for hell lit was an attempt to murder him, of the house in vain eipost telling (hem he was a defencei ought not to be treated I. General a second time attempt dow, and in their scums to drove his head through the penes. They then threw him s under the table, three several raises on the kuckles and on brought down one of the other lodgers, a lerly v . who begged of the officers to treat him With morel humanity, adding, that if he was guilty he sloalld be tried, but in the mean time they had son right to beat him in such a manner. They snsohred it was a case of high treason, and that they were acting for the King. She told them at all events they had Do right to treat him thus. 'They then dragged hies, bleeding peofutely, fn. *eras a coach sulfating at the door. Terrified and confuted, he called on the servant girl not to abaeden him, end by this time a mob being collected mind, the Officers were anxioes to force him into the coach. without loss of tins.; seeing that a considerable in terest had been excited among the bye.stauders, a report was given out that he was insane, sod they were conveying him to a mad house. The Officers then redoubled their elections and dragged him towards the coach, into Which they posited him. Ile fell down in the coach, and one of his legs was still out of 'the door. They forced the door to, and it is feared his leg was much injared: He was driven off to a detsched cottage in Vsushall.walk, neat door to the Academy. Enquiries being made, it was discovered that the cottage belongs to Mr. Capper. Not being able to walls, tut of the astral Carried him through the garde,. into the house.--. From thence, two hours afterwards, it is supposed he was carried off through a hick done, end comet/. ed to Harwich or Dover. In the neighboerhood of the cottage, where considerable bustle was observed. the people were also told he was Insane. As soon as the ciresmstaries was knew*, tae friends of the General's applied to Losd Sidenostlee Office, and after mentioning the sodden manner la which the General was taken away, they begged tea see him, to know if he wanted money or any thing else, adding, that this might be done in the presence of officers; hut they were the more ermines . leave WM, being confident he required consolation, end was leaving Isis property, &c. abandoned. Mr. Clive answered he was oat of town. The Meads said they would take a coach and follow hint, but Mr. Clive refused pusititely, stating, that the same ma- SOWS which gate rise to his arrest, prevented any ono (torn seeing him. A person went to the cottage, bet Mrs Capper said he had Were . &et to Dover. On. .J 1 It - . - •1 The tilward and Writhe, Flack, pet lute tims TOES on the 12th inst. with loss of asalatintest wed rig. ging. 'Fhe Restrarnadar, Ramos, beend is Cabida. and San Francisco de Aata l boond to the Canaries, which sailed from lARbon the 7th stk. were captured two days after by an Inset-gent privateer, of le guns. which had prseictosly taken the Raises doe Mares, frcitt Bahia to Liebe*. The San Prime/We ds Asis was given up to theses**, and ordered to Ma deira. ;curt together. iir S . Mr. Romi tly, r• J. Romillr, of Trinity • Lansdale n, 13. Allen, as movrniirs.—L. tended by Melifi DIMON' '01,1,41.404e w--and Us nd Mr. Price, Gentlemen Al. The isirvice was par. ie Rector of i r and tbn ritnessed .gurs, ono g peasant tyiryt,tito • WWI*" • . Lindy. ',vide! Remaly are, 2 . r to attend timinaereit4 fi is at Ricitninipi, *Aiming o t .if nbiab Lady riot/mend Lod Reiland it* • the servant did not ;hat it slid slot _swim Pnersf. it. ityin rats , and let ins. Thitlll rushed here the Conoral visa oil him, dmeglithiat hunt patio*. Thg ootrtgeoos proceed• dodo*, to alttgplis tp, supposing, In [*St s n. The females sant tstulated t • mloss forelsrorr t ' that mauntr t • pted to opon iste. drag him from it they Sled, breaking three doe)) on the groend, ,1 times, beet him trait t the head. The noise 1 ' .1 A ~R~ i ,;«.. ...1 1 1 1 i