The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-12-22 00:00:00

v 4 1 0. 1 7. ,- • AUG• 11118 01 Dec.• 11.—A letter which we have r p eo ,y e d horn Berlin (but not from any of our usoaf Correspondents) says, 64 It is well known, that ten • month, ay. Prussia promised, in the German Diet, doting the D-bates on the 13th Article of the Ante of Confederstinn, to prepare and &ear op its CAS. Slitntinn in one year. This year is nearly expired. Iraq King named a Committee for the Constitution, cnnaisting legit* of enlightened Jawd dispassionate non from the &until of State. by which the At.. tide was evaded, which the enemies .of thonseasure Lad iutroduced into the Edict ieopecting Wile for motion of the Council of State, ii=. • That nothing should be discussed in it except whet Was referred to it by the King. Tketowinsittoe bus now completed Its plan of the Constitution, it will be immediately kid before the (.11 Council of State, and not first he. fore the Cabinet, where it • might perhaps meet with unexpected difficulties at the outset. rn the Council of State the question Maker 2 will certainly have the majority in his favour, even though the question ; Bow? may lead to some discussions. This, howevaV far from being a miefortene is much to be desired ;11'1 Is enough. that the first step is taken. Persons, who Say they have read the plan of the Constitution, Mato that they foend in it unlimited freedom of theMileie l ; ' publicity of judicial proceedings, only tank,Chatbbef s evapensibility of Ministers, t heir. ming ef (awe by As the States, and their participation in theetegialatiou r , • the army .of tine people, nod the redoction of the y '' Mending army. According to this the Preislin Copa l siltation would be one of the most litiefal in Europe.d And to whom are we indebted far it 1-..t0 men•who organised the Council of State so and not otherwise— *, Privy Councillor Eichorn—to a Savigny—a 13eysne, the warm advocate of the publicity-of judicial pro- 4 coedings•-aod to others whom I oiled not name. It can hardly be doubted but that the King will give his entire approbation to a Constitution proposed to him by the whole Cinacil of State." Wetutst, Nov. 30:—A plan is spoken of, which t - . Mould be of •est importance to Prussia, cod which it is supposed will be effected, namely, the acquisi , • , tion of a narrow slip of territory ta cOanact the old provinces with those in Westphalia sod on the Rhine. : This territory would be obtained, it is' raid, by the cession of some districts belonging Co' /gismo and the Electorate of Hesse, which would receive a suit. able indemnification by an annual payment. It seems certain that the new Prussian system of Customs will • be scarcely feasible, unless this plan be allocated. In this case, a person woeld in future be able to travel from the frontier of the Netherlands to Memel, with. %. out leaving the Prussian territory. Beaux, Dtc. B.—Prussia will obtain a military .;410ad, one league in breadth, from the Lahn to the so Werra, passing throegh Nassau, the Duchy t,f Hesse, Abe Electorate of Hesse, Saze-Meinengen, Gotha, • *id Weimar, without the cession, however, of any • teen or linage. The Princes whose territories are • tags intersected will be indemnified in money. ~t FRENGIi PAIPERS. I . - L il'Arta,Dtc. 18.—The King is Wei in the same state. Y 'Yesterday, after hearing Mass in his apartments, his Majesty received the Ambassadors of Spain and /klvies. At one o'clock, tile King presided at a Council of Ministers, which did not break up until A melancholy catastrophe has jest oecerred in the • department of the Yonne. M. B--, the husband of a young and beautiful woman, whom beeraght $ from Naples. resided in a village in the canton of • &Imlay. On the 4th inst. he was found dead, with "f a musket at his feet. Near him was the emhslraed • body of • dbild, whom •ha lost two years before.— ''His wife, killed in like manner by a musket-abot, was stretched along the earth, hold* in her arms a straogled infant. Many conjectures are • formed as to the cause of this horrible catastrophe.— • The most probable opinion is that it arose from de'pair, occasioned by distress. WednesdAy. there was a numerous meeting at the • Minister's of Police, and among the persons present • was the Doke of Richelieu. ' The President of the Chamber of Deputies has up. 0 plied to the Nlinister At the Interior, for the purpose of taking his Majesty's commands with respect to the day end hour when the Provi.ional Bureau shall la) before the King a list of t..e five Candidates for the Presidency. It is probable it will take place this ' morning. The Legion of the North is authorised by the Mi nister of War to form a Company of Artillery. Lie,rtenant-General Count Labatt, comprehended in the second list of the Ordinance of the 24th of ' July, has arrived in Paris. By accounts from Montpellier, it appears, that • limey women who were transferred from the prisons of Rodez and Albi to that city, have made important discoveries in the affair of Fualdes. It is not yet known whether these discoveries are favourable or not to the accessed . During the Doke of Angooleme's stay at St Omer's, an officer, not in servece, requested that the Yrince would permit him to serve as a soldier in the • Royal Guard, and allow his half-pay to be given to his mother. This request could wot be acceded to, according to the existing regulations; but the Prince, touched with such a proof of filial affection, re mitted a gratuity of 200 francs to the mother, and gave r•easoo to suppose that be would not be forgetful of the •on. Frencb Fonds, Dec. 17.—The per Cents 63 f. 60. —Rank Stock 1500 f. 1.10.111 CHAMBER. OF DEPUTIES, DEc. 17. Yesterday.ilie Chamber preceeded,to the election of foor Vice-Predente. The number of voters were 17'3, the absolute ma jority 87. The persons elected were MM. de Cour voisier, Blowout Batßeal, Beugoot, and Becquey. Ihmuunun, Dac. 9.—The young men who were recently arrested here, at the request of the Spanials Minister, were afterwardstet at liberty. They then assembled to the number of 800, and proceeded to the Danish territory, where they effected their em. • borkatiort without. esperiencing the slightest obstacle. Lenny, Dec. 4 —Some distorbsoces have broke• out arn-livit the students of our University, which was so celebrated for its regularity. During some lise past two yanks hare beau termed, betweeu r‘h9llOan , bag- bolero& l apple 4 alit some rather . wines ectieskes resolteri, wilth suppressod in their outset. But sbortly wirrdi the quarrel degenerated. into spew which at first broke out in the apartment arms are depesited, and the contest was f .some instances. as to require the intervention of an armed force. The culpable have Iwo° osemined, and it is propsble that the leaders of the fray *ill be ex pelled the University. FRABILIFORT, DEC. 13.—1 t is add. to be certain that the groat Powers have orldresetpl • note to the Elector of Hesse, inviting him to mitlyjnote the sales of domains which took plate sailiV the Prussipsy Government. . The Project of Constitution a " at &Mk" is said to afford all the guarantees frteorktsi liberty can desire. • , • AMERICAN PAPERS. New York Papers to tne 18th 011. htiiihtrived, on which day Congress was to meet.. ' • The following is.au eatract fro• one ot Arm Pa pers • " CHICKASAW TREATY. " Trent. Grows', Oet. 19. ss We have just closed a treaty with the Chicka saw fudinn•, for all their claims in the States 'Wren nessee and Kentucky, contsioing about 7,000,000 of acres of the best lends in the western toutltty, and washed by the Tennessee, Ohio, and Missisiiippi 'ri vets, for at least 350 milea, for an annuity of 20,000 dollars, for 15 years. " AN DREW JACKSON." ••• Oar Corrtspondent " !Act/anus" will perceive that we have no objection to give publicity to his view of Mr. Owax's scheme for the benefit of the Labouring Classes ; and, in fact, we think it would be as well for Government to employ some portion of the Public FOnds is such a be. uevolent speculation, as in that of building New Churches, until the old ones are more numerously attended.' Indeed we expected that Mr. OWZIF would have made known the result of his interview with the Allied Soveroigas before Oh dose. PRICE OF STOCKS TM! Bank Flock 4 per Cent. Re .774} 3 per Cent Crvt.nls 34 per Gent. 6616 t consuls for. Ire Mt 4 per Cent 9411 atf DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 5 per Cent. Navy India 800d576 78p Long Ann. Exchequer Dills 9 15 p °maim 1 dia. TuE, STATES'S( AN. LONDON: TUESDAY * DECEMBER 22, 181 8. New York Papers to the 17th ult. have been re. ceived. The Session of Congress was to open on the 16th ult. end preparations were made for receiving the PRESIDENT'S Message at New York by express.— It was the general expectation throughout the Union, that the PRESIDENT would recommend it to Congress, to recognise the independence of the Government of Buenos Apes It seems probable that some change in Adminis tration is contemplated, for some change in the sys. tem has become absolutely necessary. The CHAN• mama of the Excises's/ea, and Ministers in gene• ral, find that things cannot go on as they Sr,. The financial state of the country, like that eflipain, has approached a crisis, which renders some great alteration inevitable. The most lavish waste of blood and exhibitions of horror can no longer maintain the credit of the Paper Systems, and the Finance Minister who relies on the aid of the Threadneedle-street paper and the Jobbers, and Contractors, and Speculators in debt and money, finds himself so bewildered that no traveller in the Black Forest was ever at such a loss to discover a right path. At the end of the 4th year of peace, we not only have not begun to pay oft' a shilling of oar debt, bat we have not been able to bring our expenditure within oor receipt. We cannot proceed farther in this state of embarrassment, and we are persuaded, from the reports we hear in the best political circles, that Ministers themselves are convinced that the cons. mon interest of all who are identified with the soli of Great Britain, demands an immediate recourse to some operation that shell estricate us from our dif ficulties, and re/ive a healthful state of national haauce. posed England, the practicability of introducing Trial by Jury and tkeiLiberty of the Press, will occasion strong colli sions. The Address of the Peereto the King, in re• ply to his Majesty's Speech, WM; to be presented on Saturday. The Chamber of flapeties was expected to take the Address into consideration on Friday, 'on which occasion it gni &limed probable the con tending , parties would make a display of their rela. strength. There was but little fluctuation in the Irma Funds in the close of last week. The Paris Kpers inform us that on Thursday the price of the rise per Cents. was 631. 60c: ; and an express re exited in the City yesterday( states, that on Saturday tisey closed at 63f. 80c. •: There seems fob *struggle going forward in the French Ministry % and, the Ultras are again at their 'hotrigues. The political questibii which is said to littansealled forth the existing difference, is, accord 'Nl sip some private 'dykes, the policy of maintain ing v. of modifying, if not totally rescinding, the present Election Law, which Is by no means to the bide of the advocates of the old system, the No blesse of the ancient regime, and the despotic Ul tras, as the effect of the Law In question has been 140 t throw a greater portion of popularity into the ytjections ot the Chamber of Deputies, by reducing the qualification of an elector. The old Noblesse, and certain others of the landholders, have lost, in consequence of this meow', an influence which in some cases was thought to approach to a monopoly of the representation. It cannot be supposed therefore that a recurrence, either direct or circuitous, to the j former sytem under which the Chamber of 1815 was elected, could fall to he en object of the most eager interest to the ancient Noblesse—to those of the landed proprietors who found themselves weakened by iii overthrow. By them and by others, who lean more to the side of the King's Prerogative than of the Charter, by which he voluntarily restrained it, the Election Ls w of September, 1816, has always been stigmatised as of a tendency too democratic. Yet the number of electors who are qualified under that law is no more then 110,000, out of nearly 30,000,000 of people; little more perhaps than a tenth of the Voters of the United Kingdom, whose population one.cbird less. The qualifica tion of a French elec tor is the payment of 300 francs per annum, or 12 guineas in direct taxes, to the Government ; sit Owe mote than that tom which constitutes the legal income of a British freeholder. This shows that the Elective Ftenchise is yet considerably confined in France, tkough. the illiberal faction would restrict it still fur ther. If the Election Law he really the hinge on which the present party-conflict turns, and the dif. fereuce cannot he adjusted withoot an ahmehite 046 paration of the component Members of the Cabinet, it remains to be seen towards which quarter the plea sue of the Sovereign will incline. A Mail from Flanders, with BrOIISPiS Papers to the 18th, and Journals from Frankfort, have like wise arrived. New reductions, it is said, are about to take place in the Admiralty and War Departments of the Netherlends; and the King hes given an order, which we could wish to see isseed by other Sove reigns to their Ministers, namely, " not to present to him henceforward any Report, the object of which is to increase the expenditure of Government."— When will the Panne REGENT issue such an order to his Ministers ? The Report of the Dutch Budget for 1819, had been made to the Second Chamber of the States-General, bat no sketch of it is given in these Papers. Lord LAUDERDALE arrived at Brus• sell on the 15th inst. Ilia Lordship is said to be the bearer of dispatches, but from whence, or from whom, is not added. The most interesting which the Frankfort Paper. present is, a communication from Berlin, according to which the Prussians are on the eve of enjoying the benefits of a free Representative Constitution. The Committee of the Council of State, to whom the task of framing a new system of Government was confided, are said to have brought their labours to a I close; and the most confident expectations are en tertained, that in its general ontline'the plan which they have proposed will meet with the approbation of the majority of the Conseil, though discussions may arise, leading to some alterations in its details. ft differs from the British model of Government, in having only one Legislative Assembly ; but there may be reasons, of which we are not, at present, aware, for giving the preference, in Prussia, to such an arrangement, though not adapted to the habits nor circumstances of the People of this country. At all emits, this is a minor consideration, compared with the great and invaluable privileges which the Pros. Isian nation will obtain under the new system, if they I shall ever enjoy the prospect thus hell out to them. IA military road is, it is said, to be granted to Prus sia, for a pecuniary indemnification, through the se veral petty States which separate her old territories from the Grand Duchy of.the Rhine. This is only whit an ambitines Monarch, like some of the Kings of PaussiA. wants, •4 give him an inch', and he roil; take an all." The xtwebbles between the Govern merits of she petty Cantons of Srtitzetland and the Psi at Clergy still continue. • in that Debt has increased Ito nearly one !When Without the Bank Restriction is the yes would have been impossible to coot inuelhes out cootinoing that Restriction from year 1815, it would have been impossible to raise tomb es extent as the world not only him as the deepest Political Economist could csicelsted. To this facility, aided by winter, Europe owes what has Wo e Salvation, end England that glory which denominated her Prosperity. While t was in progress the face of Europe w tionized, but the state of Englund hersel a more important reroletiou. The middli small lauded proprietors and farmers, chants, and small manufacturers, almost di The taxes swept them front the cuuntry—i were speedily occupied by two great classy the great agriculturist and the extensive turer. On the one hand, scientific ferret annihilated the peasantry, who, instead sit tags and few acres, were solely- cons day-laboorers ; and, on the other, all master weavers, &c. were compelled ti to Capital and the Steam Engine—so tit exception of the shopkeepers its the gr there is now no intermediate state betwee wealth and the most squalid poverty. 1 years have thus produced a change in tb of England, greater than the two prec tories. The only mode of supporting this op Paper Money. It is unfortunately the by which the Civil Espenditure and the the Debt can be paid. The capital of the Bank is said to be lions. Grant this to be true for do the argument ; we will go further in that the Bank might purchase Belli auroont, and' pay off its Notes. So far is safe—so far the Holders of the Notes Stock are secure. But th'e great bulk of ins Capital of the Country is in Govern' ' and Debentures—that is, in promise, by tI silent to discharge the Dpbt contracted war. If the Bank is compelled—or to use d able term in our Political Nomeociatitella alloyed to pay in they will fully disc obligations by paying off thirty millions. Holders of Government Stock mud Efeberi while this opervion is in progress, poi selves of Gold—to this extent--So more. residue of their Government Paper, amt. we have seen too some bentiredi of mill can only get other. Government Pii i i ; Gold aid N W Atliat the Fame time lac either the brat must disappear, as lies bee with the limited Viso° of Sovereigns, will become inevitably depreciated. It alternative occurs, and, while the each against us, occur it must, we shall speedi (faced either back to paper again, *hie cons. queuce, be deteriorated, or to a base m diem, under the name of Tokens, which w verse. If the other alternative takes pl must be a frightful diminution in the val vernment Paper, which can never afterwi the experiment of a Gold Currency is tried have failed, be raised to ins former nominal In this event, a Bankruptcy, whether general, must be the consequenee. The PRINCE REGENT returned to Car yesterday, from Brighton, to preside at a ( which the Duke of WELLINGTON and Lor REAGII were present. Yesterday, about half-peat 11 o'clock, TLERRAGII arrived at the Foreign office, ward* dined with Lord LIVERPOOL. Yesterday morning, shout one o'clock, of WELLINGTON arrived in town. Betw and one o'clock his Grace rode nut on I and proceeded to the Foreigo.offiee, in street, where his Grace had a long inter Lord CASTLEREAGH; and afterwards I Duke proceeded to the Colonial. office, Grace transacted business with Earl CATIII ab.'ut four o'clock, proceeded to the Coma Chief's Office, and remained with the MIL till between five and six o'clock. • Letters have been received from Mr. Mr. Jones, the Missionasies to Madagast It Port Louis, late of France, July 9 where they arrived on the 311 of that mt Excellency Governor Hall received them teously, but discouraged their proceedine criscmr at present, chiefli on account n Trade, in which almost all the Europeans cage, notwithstanding the treaty entered int King of Pon. So little is that treaty regal 4 illee the date of it 1,700 slaves had beet into the M &c. The standard of copper ore which two was so low as DOI. was a fortnight since 1 this week 1431. This high rate ;as give' animation to the spirit of n 61111114 adventurk It is its contemplation to forts a wet I Itan II "I) head, for the accommodsti Liverpool shipping. We are al,o chitin stand, that a bridge over the river Co:ini lively decided oat, and that immediate step to he ad.ipted., The Cheshire innkeepers alert to obtain the Holyhead mail oil the S road. kl: - ' i• • -I ' • 1 . . 4..1 • 1 1 11 E S ie r SMAY i . ~ . .-Jr . • l e 4 l di s c or d ; Pails Parrs to the 19th ipst. hose y c e o t m b e ee t n o t h re s n nd s. . tritr O Tl ta, wllith were Millbelliflelll of public importance has ° o f t il! r t ll4 e r;rpr he ll' 1 eniletiri i _ u , lor the eel slwrilY *fief* sited in the Chambers, but it is ezperted that - the .4. 1 Bank tiorighl -'N th '' s ti 4 .w nto open war, present Session Will be prodictive of discussions on ion Government all ow t i le s top to v talent where the e wee so v i olent i n 1 some momentous points. Among others, it is snp• PelmPittl? For orlP.li n d.it i pp* lest i a l r mon rion of an I nosed that the mission to Eillentl, for ascertaining been without * metallic currency. 'in :Lit -. 6 w.. ,-.kr. _ , EFROM TER NEW•YORK PAPER OV• NOV. 14.] • NAVAL PREPA R ATIONS. At Washington, one line-of•battle - ship nearly 6- ' ohhed, one frigate reedy to he put on the stocks as soon as the 74 is hunched; also large stores of guns, timber, &c. deposited there. At Norfolk, one lino. of-battle stip building, and the frames of one lino-of. baule ship and a frigate to be immedi 4tely laid down. At Philadelphia, one line-of. battle ship, and collect ing the frame of another line-of-battle ship and a fri. gate. At New-York, one line-of-battle ship in a great state of forwardness; two frigates to he laid down. A. Boston, one line-of-battle ship building, and the frames of ono line-of-battle ship and two fri. gates ready. At Portsmouth, the keel of a line of. battle ship laid down, and the frame of another, and of a frigate, in active preparation. PrsIqACOLA. The New Orleans Gazette of the 15th ult. slates, on the authority of •n intelligent gen►leman from Pensacola, that no orders had been received there for an unconditional surrender of that place to the Spa. Wards, but that on the contrary, strpng reinforce. °lents and troops were daily expected from the adja. cent Stales. k i 1 L .✓