The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-09 00:00:00

Thr Chamber passed to Title 3 (containing At ticich 21 and 22), .relating to re-eagagements. Ar tick 21 was adowNl without discusaion. Article 22, nick decrees a higher pal, and a right of admission into the gendarmerie or the veterans of the Hue, was, opposed by some, as constituting too great a reward for re-entering the service for two years. It was suggested that only one of these advantages should bragiven. The Article was adopted, however, with oat any amendment. Tide 4, contalsolog Articles 23 and 24, relating to the veterinary leeiouaries, underwent a long discus. lion, soda variety of unenditents was proposed, in addition to those ricri'mneesdid by the Committee.-- The debate upon this branch of the law wee tatieeru ed to the &Hotting diy. rus:s. The above Articles were poised with tbe amesd., *tents proposed by the Coismittee. The discoed .n was confined to tb amendetrot of Gene's! Deposit, which Was rejected; sad to the 4th Article, which was agreed twirl& an attend meat, limiting the service of the vderaos, who bed lotted 'as balloted men to the -interior, sod to tbe term of els years. Those of $2 year, of age, :or . .these who hod Wools effective service fee 12 yew,: to be exempted. Fes 4. The Mioistets le Comte de Cases cud Wee at tended. M. DI ST. ALDsnaneDll made a Report in the Lame of the Coesesission of Petitions. Le Sitter --- petitioned for a Law to dissolve -Marriages contracted during the teems of the Celi ac:repaint. The Petitioner declared, that, being only - 18 years of age, he was made to marry a women of laugh.} —The chit act wait not followed in )cis case, either by the religious ceremony, or by cu. Itabitation. —(4 lauch.)—The Order of the Day sat passed on this Petition. The discussion on the Law of Recruiting was re. 'aimed. The Article on Promotion escited a lively die. Courion„ It wes opposed by M. Villefratiche, who was answered by baron !iimeon. M. de Trinque. Age spoke elan against this Article of the Ministerial Project, and M. do St. Cricq defended it. . After a 'few word" tram several other Members, the Mini. liter of the Interior aseeuded the Tribune, and in a speech of anasitlerable length, which made a deep impression on the Chamber, supported the rule of ,promotion by seniority as contained iu the Project of Law, and contended that it did net interfere with the Royal prerogative. The closing of the discos , *ion .warobms doweled on the left side of the Chamber, eta its edlevealpitni till to.eorrow by the Fight. • , Chembe4 esteemed without declaring the die ;oriels closed. French Fands...Tesselay--Five per Cents. 66f. 30c—Bank Sleet 1565 f. Wednesday—Me pet tents. 601. 60e. _ gl ad tlCE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. k Stock 3 per Cent. Navy 103 ii $ per Caw 1101.80il India Heads 96 p per Cent. Causets 11% . 11 11:erk 441 Conseil for Acc. SOU Aan. 90 1344 4 per Cent. 99i KA winds IS 19 p • • - - THE~ STATESMAN, I • LONDON.: MONDAY, VEDRUAKT 9, MB. • • By the arrival of the Nereid from Trinidad, we are enabled to submit to Our Readers a variety of irsteristing details, 'letters, and documents, relating ' to the affairs in Venezuela, and the progress of the patriotic armies in the Southern States.—An import ant action seems to have been gained by the troops under General PAS; in the neighbourhood of Nutria, 'which place is on the confines of the provinces of Varinas and Carthagena. The organization of a Go vernment in Guyana, the want of supplies, and the dissensions of Generals Pita and 111Ausmo, had re, tarded BOLIVAR'S operations for nearly three months, but fie has at length set sail, with 1800 men, to join General SARAZA, and the other parties assembling near Calabozo, 40 Waggles South of Caraccas, near which place or Vaiencia, it is expected the de cisive battle will be fought...-A Council of State was formed in Angostura, on the 10th of No vember, for the administration of Government, ac cording to the act of Installation...—General BOLIVAR, as supreme Chief, opened the Sitting with an appropriate speech, and the various offi cers were named. This Connell is divided into three department's, State and Finance, of - which the President is Don Awroma ZIA; War and Marine, President Admiral Baton ; Interior end Jestice, Don JUAN MARTINEZ. A Board of Trade has also been organized. Gen. fdoxaoas bad ban named Governor of the Province of Barcelona, and Gene. ral BERAUDEZ of that of Camara. 'lle bleed of Margarita was under Generals An:swamp' and Go. man, and the provinces of Varian and Canners, tinder Gen. PARR. Gen. CEDENO commanded in Guyana. The organised troops belonging to Vane. sues amount to 14,000 men. TT Paris Papers to the 6th instant have been received "ince our last. The burned des &diets of Thursday last states that the news from Algiers, which was . too horrible for belief, is nevertheless true in the principal circumstances. The details thus given and which we extract, are the perticolan said to lave been received by Admiral Sir &Duey Smut, 'end published by him in a Report to the Anti- Piratical Institution, which we believe has as yet done nothing but style themselves .tbi 4 . 4 Knights &Worm of Christian Slams." • THE STATESMAN -, of January, above a week after the day on which the grit dreadfal tidings were dispatched, and whicli t teere totelly'slient upon the subject of it, a letter has been exhibited from the tonsil-General of Saidinia in London, stating the arrival of accounts from Genoa of so late a date Intik 26th January; eleven digs subsequent to that of the article @erected from the French Papers, which contain no mention whatever of the facts; and the Sardinian Conielate lass.sreary reason to hope that the rumour is:entirely unfogioded. It is to be observed, that no accouot whetever has reached this country of the above trans actions, except soc.h ti 'Owlet to a Genoese aura tire u its . soaree. -"- The Law lO W Recruiting the Army was discussed In the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, Tuesday, and Werineedity, and will probably engage the atten tion of the Asiesibly for some days looter.- Among the amendments which the Project has undergone, the service of the Contingent is to expire in five, instead of six years; sod the legions are, on the expiration • Or their period of service, to be disbanded the last day el every year, except in time of war. The Pro. ject proposed by General Downer has been rejected. The veterans, or those who have passed their 32d year, or who have actually served it years, are, in time of peace, to be exempt fron;hosne service; and not liable to be organised into companies. On Tues day, the Minister at War touched a string, which was sure to vibrate. Bespoke of the certainty, that a Re serve of Veterans would " repair defeats and restore vidory," Ile qualified the introduction of such matter, so as to gender it not absolu!ely a challenge to the Allies; he represented, that a knowledge of this power might prevent a necessity for battles ; hat the Cham. ber understood him, as be wished, and received his hint with " Bravo, Bravo 1" A powerful stand appears to be making against the sixth Title, or that branch of the Project which regulates, by cer tain provision, promotions in the army. It is contended that the principle goes to the extinction of the Royal prerogative, is contrary to the letter and spirit of the Charter, and is likely to lead to conse quences destructive of the constitutional rights of the Crown and of the safety and. happiness of the People. The Minister of the Interior, however, maintained a different opinion, and the question con.' tinsel ander discussion. The Anyallits hate. op. posed with vehemence the Project of Mjniatera t for ;• the formation of legionary veterans, and dim Army of Reserve.; because they dread. the recal of the re!. voletiosuiry soldiers into active service. The Mini sterial feeling on this point seems to be, that the old soldiers being already in existence, on the contin gency of .public danger or confusion, it, might be more prudent to make an attempt at engaging them on the side of the Government, than to leave them • still in a state of animosity against The Ministers have at length resolved to give the discussion of the Concordat precedence of that on the Budget. If so, from the rate at which legisla tion travels in France, we need not expect much accurate information, with regard to her finance de- partment, at a very early period. The Doke of WELLINGTON had a private audience with the King on Monday, after which his Grace paid a visit to Monittun, and, in the evening dined with M. DE TA LLETRAND. . The four Marshals. Mrjors•General of the Guard, breaVasted with his Majesty on Tuesday. The Duc na BERRI had been somewhat indispOted, but it was hoped would be able to attend a Court dinner, to which the King had invited the Princes of the Blood Royal, on the 3th instant. • - mock more probable that the family' interests are new cementing in the " bettor 'telethon Dever" style of Hymeneal preeislea, acs Oiliiiinktion of the renewed bustle at Carlton-bone. * Lau d SIDMOUTU has certainly conceived himself in-great danger from one of his challengers, and if a bele should un luckily be made' in the Grain Beg; be may want defences of another kind. The noble and ',Went Secretary is indeed supposed. not to feel, eau tirely at Isome,sioce the loss of bissespendiug pownta 4 l ' bat - it is shrewdly surmised that he will not retire etit'' ill be can do it with safdy. .eserrihtitstion. For this event we must wait, like hisLorriship .we . believe,' until the private investigation-iota medic transactiose can produce the necessary conviction. We can assure oar Enders that, theagb it Noble Lard high' in office observed, that if theilmite agniast Oliver could hale been maintained, the: morn who were on their trial (be chose to forget Bran4reth's dying de claration) could have called Mr.- Oliver In thole defencet and, consequently, -that the accesed..Re.; fortneri were to Milne for not citing Mr. Oliver to criminate himself in their • Moor.* The Ministers and employers *of thii same Mr (Vier are itomanely, resolved aot to allow either him es rinji:iif his brother* Spies, in er out of office, to,,crisnierite theniselves be fore the Secret Board of Enquiry,' justly conceiving that the establishment of the guilt of these 'secreted 1 1 persons would he no defence of the crimes of their employers. Another circumstance may Nottably be adduced to account for the future non-appearance of this notorious Spy ; namely, if report be tree, his sudden departure to another world, in a way not unlikely to be adopted by persons of his character — and dead men,•they say, tell no tales. 'l'he Leeds !Mercury, received this morning, says, a rumour had reached the place of its publication, but that respect able Psper does not pietend to authenticate it, that " Oliver, the Spy, feeling himself incapable of braving the indignation of his countrymen, had re tired to the Continent, and that his dead body was found early in the last month, with a razor by his side, on the skirts'of a wood between Hambargh and Bremen." This is more than the 'People of this country could have anticipated, and, probably, than they will at brit believe. No Patriot weeps sates such villains die--so there let him remain, and we care ant. though the Suspension Act were suspended over his head,,as his most a ppropt iato epitaph. We have, however, bead 'from pretty good authority, that this pestiferous *Oat of wickedness was In Len- don on Thursday Ism. It is surmised In the private letters, that M. ac Gnus., hating been created a Peer, will take to him. self the Department of the Interior, and merge in it the Ministry of the Police. M. Want, according to public opinion, is again on the eve of his elevation to the Peerage. There are still some rumours of a coalition between the Royalists and the Ministry.-- A conferepte was to take place a few days ago at the hotel of the Dechesse Dlt Donne ea the subject, which tie Dukes of Riciistisu and WILLLINGITOX, With M. LAW"' mere to attend. .1. . :~ Mails from Flanders, with Brussels and lined Journals to the 7th inst. have arrived. The abolition of the Special Extraordinary Tribunal has been pro. posed on the part of his Netherland Majesty, to the Second Chamber of the States-Genera . I. Several new regulations and imposts are about to be adopted for the protection and encouragement of the manufac. UM of the Netherlands. We read in the el:lentil Papers received to-day, es pressions of the strongest congratulations on the Re peal of that Act which clothed the Governmen't with the attributes of despotism, and by which the People .were degraded to the level of slaves; as well as the' pouring forth of feelings which are the natural fruit of the most evident and daring acts - of oppression, at the flairaist disregard of public opinion and decency manifeste4 by Ministers in their secret manoeuvres to trump up a justification. of Alseir conduct, and con tinue• their machinations against the liberty of the People. Tb• country may welt express its surprise it the cirenseltenCe, almost as extraordinary as the concurrence' given to the unlaw f ul act itself , that the persons who have so unnecessarily atd . wantooly out raged a nation's rights, should be, permitted to justify themeless by such means as theSeeret Conimittres, EompOsed of Placemen Ministers: - That the Government is no longer . a Geveinment of will, bat of law, is undoubtedly a heart cheering con sideration, bet the People who bate witnessed the. arbitrary and persecuting spirit of this Government, its aversion to Reform, its eitravegcre, and the means it has put in practice to silence, the constitu tionally expressed wilt of -the nation, night net to , rest satisfied with the mere divestraiiiienf thehe trary powers. They know 'nothow soon thryimay be'ageirt put in practice—they kee - iiinillsovi soon, upon the evidence of Ministerial - fi'rektpuls, thrown among an injured and irritated psitstetiort, similar acts girlie hurried into esecation, and the cestntry 'ruled and eppolled- by all array of un. constitutional end armed 'power. tit :nii — have . the dreadful doings with which errantry was, and the Ministers now aria charged, sifted to the bottens.—lf but one 'Wirer was em. American Paper. to the Bth ult. bare arrived since our last, but their contents are unimportant. After repeating the former statement of the negociations between Spain end the United States having ended without any satisfaitory result, semi. of them in. klelge in a variety of conjectores relative to British interference, of which we are far from being so ap. prehensire as the Americans appear to be. 1•' There have been some fresh rumours in► circula tion of intended changes in Administration, but it is much feared they are not true. To say that there is no foundation for such changeiwoohl argue a total ployed in the way that there is too mach reason to believe he was, it is sufficient ground for the most serious impeachment. A hundred such men, prat-. rising spots r balt-tamishod population, would have created a civil war ! t: ~ i :r ..4 t ate eitikaav3tigpi, g SPENSION 4GT., P. .l (rso Tit;tirl7; The Act for ' ndiug the tai7ear i On t rp us is, pealed, and the Government is no longer a Gove rn , went of will bat a Government of law. To see r man, with the feelings of an Englishman i. thi szt be a heart-cheering consideration ; but to pabli • • who have opposed themselves' Its the encroaches.* of power, who have advocated the cause of Refers, who . have exposed the 'selective machinations of a pestiferous agency, and whose sense of public duty, even in a time of despotic sway, would not suffer them to compromise their principle', either by pro. striding themselves at the foot of power, or by sil ent pcqeiescince in the measures of those who had s us , pended the public liberty, the return of the blesvi r r. of the Constitetion avast impart enteigaed g rs , tification.—What may be other Men's feelings we cannot Say, but for ourselves we breathe tam freely this week than we (lid the last. ft must not, however, be supposed, that the protection of the law, which is once more spread over es, will induce us to write with violence, or went of proper respect for the institutions or Government of the country. As the teriors.of absolute power did not intimidate or lower mar tone, neither shall the happy return et that stets of security, which we now feel to possess, elevate it aboie the pitch of free and liberal discussion. Ilia same disposition that pronipts a man to be firm aid dauntless its the hoer of danger; leads Mm to be ten. petate and discreet in the time of safety, and nest to the honour of being superior to slavish fear, we would aspire to the reputation of using oar liberty widest licentiousness. As one of the first consequences of the repeal of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Aet, the Auurney.Gi. • rat has judged it necessary to move for and proem* the discharge of all the terognizsnces of the p ersons who had been immured in the different prisons of the kingdom sunlit that Act. Ministers have, however, a very setious account to settle, both with there individuals and with the country, for arrogating to themselves, by means of suspicious documents, sub mitted to secret Committees of the Leo Houses of Parliament, the powers by which these innocent men *ere torn fromitheir families, and incarcerated, for mouths', io loathsome dungeons. Innocent . 'we call them, because theta ors of this country presume that every man is innocent till a verdict of his country. men has pronounced him guilty. And though we can easily suppose that many of these victims of Ministerial vengeance ' have suffered their zeal in favour of Reform to harry them into improdeat acts, yet it is our firm conviction, that the crime of High Treason, under which charge they were all cost. mitted to prison, could not have been established. I against any one of them. Ministers may again prove, l to the satisfaction of their Secret Committees, °nevi. Idence of their oat) producing, and in the investiga.. 649 of which only one side of the question can be stated, that the sospension•of the great bidwirk of our liberties was necessary ; but such proof wilt not satisfy thecnentry, eni we have no hesitation in says ing that the general belief IS, that he ordi-ary power's of the law were quire equal to the support o(the pot. tic tranquillity, and the putting down of every : CPA of •the disaffected. '-r• . Witsosou, FEll• •R .-- Friday the Duke ,of Yong arriied et the Castle on a visit to the QUEEN and • Princesses, from London. In the evening his itnyal Highness left for °Attends. Saturday night the Prince of iletse- Holism arrived in town from Brighton, andyesterday called to pay his, respects to the Palace REGENT, lli•; 1)4. of YORK, and the Duke and Duchess of Gsarogests*. On Wednesday the Russian squadron, Command ed by Rear-Admiral VON MuLgast, consisting at five sail of the line and three frigates, which put into Portsmouth on the 21st of December, sailed fir Cadiz. The squadron will not complete the voyage . to Cadiz, from Cronstadt,' in leis then five mouths. The names of the ihips are—Dresden (Admiral ,M ete Lza), North Adler, Lubec, Truse Swotertey, Nee. Inuenes„ 744; Mercurial, Afatroil, and Patrickey, frigates. • When they hate been delivered up to the Spanish Authorities, the crews will proceed home. ward in transports, which will call at Portsmouth for supplies to enable them to perform the ultimate past of the voyage. We regret to state that Wm. lioNewooo, Esq of Mark's-hall,, in &flew, end of Sibton, in Kent died at his home is Charles-street, Berkeley-square yesterday at noon, in the 5.9 th year of his age. He represented the county of Kent in Parliament from the year 1808 to 1812. . Wit:mast Pima , [Joey *ono, Esq. his eldest son, succeeds to his valuable estates in Estee and Kent. On. Saturday evening last the New Frienth Plik ssce-verrel, sailed frqvn Plymouth. with seven pew 'tenger", for Portsmouth., with every prospect of , ... Ireacliinglitat noon on the following dsy ; but, in th e rousselif,f Ise night, by a sudden charge of the wind, .k became necesssry to resolve, es the only . •chanca esOrseving the Uses of those on board, to run the tessiel on shore near Chapmair's Po,.lis, off the isle • a furbeck ; where, providentstly, they were all safely landed. Lieut. MALLANN it. M. a pass sengisrs who had given up his bed to one of the sick women-, jemped upon deck the moment the 'Master of the vessel gave the alarm of danger (shot six o'clock in the morning), and knowing the coast', head vised that th 4 vessel should be kept under sail a gear ter of an hour longer, as there was no possibility of escape there. His advice happily prevailed ; as, It afterwards proved, the vessel was row upon the only spot that, fur revere! miles, is free from dangerous , - rocks lying at a distance from the shore. .WreDsbit CASTLE, ,Flen• 7••••••" His MAJTITY MR . • i heinfant son of .the Doke and Diu-hers of Rol' continued through the last month in a very tranquil _ Ans Ty's bodily health 1, 4 7 ° i die4l and comfortable state. His 114 worm' , Castle . on Friday evening, at their Grace's seat, is good, but his disorder is undiminished." Mr. M sr. 1.31 se, the author of the Tragedy of Patio, &tardily night the Patrice itoncrcr, rather_oner- bar lately been appointer' to ON' Rectory of Reading. pected, arrived at Carlton-house about half-pat On Seaside) , the Glee Club had a very w earers* , eleven o'clock from Brightopv attended by Lord and distinguished Meeting st the Crown and Anchor STOIART• • • Tavern. STYPIIEN GROOMBRIDGE, Ego. presidedi Yesterday the Michels of.GLoncssasa visited her I .11)r. Goan was the Vice,Prosident, Mr. SALE as' Royal brother, the Rum?, at Ceelton-boose, upon Ms. LEETE were in their places as Directors hie-arrival in London & and eteweined with his Royal A new %Vrit" was -moved for on Thorp's', night, Highness several hour,. , . and ordered for Plymouth, in the room of Sir ii. ' • The LOUR CIIANCELIOR, the Earl afidonarooL, Broostercr.o, ...14 has accepted the office of Ks and Viscount CASTLEREAGH ) had audiences yesterday. of biz Majesty's Privy Pane. . . Thoogh the details in these Papers are sufficiently oblivion okeireseistances that can never be fosfet,' ' confirtnotovx sof the Serowe epees* front, GP4166, it * test, 410 *hick *ill sally . vsith.en @Wald Stan the' is with incressed . satisfeetion that we - refercto the pri .. hieing Otipei coretry.. Th. - 444, hp lweltibat se* advice. which' mid eensidershly . ditOvrilj Ihr. faeidel.tfuttet(4l"oed $1919v1 . • .wr' 4. _ to:!retire't aud atsriniiii news Oil: Algiers. BesidetlbiriniVite the snivel' of the Rieneritt entltonqtailb.lute been- 1 accounts which bps lima remised, behoisilinte AR ..IMPROI ed t o gi v e S tra i l th ' ta-tittl " lll446 - `-Bat, it is. I ._ _s.__ - .a.- ..L.... ....= err` am ow& nrdshahr; thai the fainiWriterests which 1