The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-12-15 00:00:00

LONDON': TuESDAT, MUMS, 15, We this morning received the following letter frost Our Correspondent at Dover : Doren, Dec. 14.—A Spanish vessel arrived in the Downs last evening from Gottenburgh, in four days, aihl brings an account that BONAPATCTE bad been shot by wie of his own officers. A vessel has just arrived itt the Roads from Ostend, and is said to confirm the above, the news Of BONAPARTeg death having ay. riled a few hours before this vessel left that place. She will come in next tide. i -•mliim.iw. 'We have this day to lay before our Readers &copy r,' the Message, addressed by the PmesprNr of the [ I . llPt (IStates to Congress, s usual, at the commence.: , meat of the new Session, which is highly interesting.' It commences with congratulating the nation upon i thc healthy state of its inhabitants,' and the great abundanc2 with which the earth has rewarded their labours. It complains of being compelled to !Aye recourse to war, in gaff Se oppose $ system of 'UK . saitice and aggoession which had been long persevered i, by Great Britain, whose Conduct, by engaging the savages to assist them in the war, had greatly ag. i gidrated the hostile feelings of the United States, a. it had been their Wadable polloy to re. I cornmc:id peace and civiligation amongst that 1 wretched Portion of the human race, and to ands*. Tot:: to dissuade them from taking either side in the wit . ; but the English had not scrupled to toll to t!.v:r aid a rut hl ess f eroc i ty , arme d w ith th e h orror s lii those instruments Of carnage and torture which b-1 b'...crt found to spare neither age nor sex. Such /was the spectacle which the deputed Authorities of a twine, boasting its religion and morality, had not beet, restrained from presenting to an enlightened 2 ge; aLd which could not be mitigated by calling it a i self.defence against men in arms, as it embraced the most shocking butcheries among defenceless families; hor could they pretend not to be answerable for the atroeities perpetrated, since the savages were em.• Ployed with their knowledge, and even with menaces, I:rouwing a fury which could not be controlled. It then states that the national spirit had risen in pro portion to the pressure on it, and that the loss of their brave men had inspired every where new era dour and determination. The Message likewise states, that the United States, anxious to abridke the eras of war, bad lost no time In conveying to Abet - _ vo , l o. Witn more than •ne nation we have se. • 0 rod unsettled coaireteipi4s; - .kith • 6ne ri.) „rful in the means- and habits of war, we r re at war. The spirit and strength of this na- ore nevertheless equal to the support of all its ri ,, hts , and to carry it through tall its trials. ri l l can be met in that cdnfideace. Above ,It, we have the inestimable consolation of know -44, that the war iu which sfe are actually en is a war neither of ambition nor vain glory ; ';: i tt is waged, not in violation of the rights of 0001 , but in the maintenance of our own ; that it 0 , pr eceded by a patience without example, under wa g; accumulating without end ; anti that it was i i„ a ai not declared, until every hope of averting it ~a s estingnished by the transfer of the British s,r)tfes into new bands, clinging to former Coen -1 an d until declarations were reiterated in the ; hour through the British Envoy here, that the b oo edicts against our commercial rights and our alar itime independence would not he revoked : nay, t ivt tin,' could not be revoked, without violating the I Obligations of Great Britain to other Powers as well ni; to her own interests. To have shrunk under such ; rircatnsla""sl from manly resistance, would have bee a degradation blasting our best and proudest a lows . It would have struck us from the high rank Iv ; re the virtuous struggles of our fathers had r i„rd us, and have betrayed the magnificent legacy I iv t.ich we hold in trust for future generations.—lt „. 0 .,;,1 hive acknowledged, that on the element s oic,i forms three-fourths of the globe we inhabit, o d where all independent nations have equal and to ntrou rights, the American people were nut an in toodent people, but colonists and vassals. I t was at this moment, and with such an alterna: tire that war was chosen. The nation felt the stems- . s ;tv of it, and called for it. The appeal was se:* enriingly made in a just cause, to the just and po*- erful Being who holds in his hands the chain of greats and the destiny of nations. It remains only, that faithful to ourselves, entangled wit* no cou . sections with the views of other Powers, and ever ready to accept peace from the hand of justice, we prosecute that war with united council, and with the ample faculties of the nation, until peace be so obtained, aad• as the only means, under the divine blessing of speedily ebtaiuing it. Ist?. .IA4F.S MADISON. TO THE PUBLIC. The Alfred Newspaper haring been discontinued yeecrdag, we are requested by several of the. Plcws Venders to notify the sans*, and to assign that as a reason for their substituting the Sr4ra.s- X4Y in lieu of it. Statesman Oflice,Doe.ls. An. Maga: Ilse 0 . Dot Aio • 3 Waterford . . 3 0 . 6 6 . Wig°JAM 0 . Got eaburib • , 1 n • • Malta A Jane • I 0 _ HICK OF UOGILS TWA, !ea AT ONK O'CLOCK. 1141.1 k Bead, par 4`6 tits. 3 per Cent. Rcd. :61*11 • ezr 8116 30. 1 2 pr. 3 per rent. Cols. - Ohio*_ 2b p 4 per Cetat. 74 Ahseium ii pr. 4 per Ceat. Navy_ 'Consols for Acct. 61 11 61 Leag. Aaa.ls. 3.161 Lottery 'Tickets iti23 91. • • .7 THE STATESMAN. 'l'llE STATESMAN. British Government the terms on which its pro grins* might .be arrested., and that the terms re spired were, that the Orders in Council should 'be repealed, as far as they affected' the American States, without a revival of the' hhickades violating acknowledged rules. That there should be an im mediate discharge of American seamen from British ships, and a stop to impressment from American .chips, with an undertaking that an exclusion of sea men of each nation, from the ships of the other, should be stipulated, and that the armistice should be improved into a definitive and comprehensive ad justment of depending controversies. It goes on to state, that it would be unwise in them to release their measures in any respect, in a presumption that Great Britain would view, in a favourable ; light, their accommodating spirit. It then further notices the propositions made by the British Go i vernment, though their authorities at Halifax and Admiral IVARILEN, which had been rejected. After this it states, that their affairs with France retain the posture which they held on the last communication, and that the only intervening occurrence meriting attention was, the promulgation of a French De cree, purporting to be a definitive repeal of the Berlin and Milan Decrees, which proceeding, al though made the ground of the 'repeal of the Bri tish Orders in Council, was rendered, by the time and manner of it, liable to many objections. thrviewing.the w hole of this unfortunate conten-, tion, ive confess that we cannot join our War Mi . : nisters and their partisans, in their exultation, on bearing of the further aggravations of the war, and the barbarous slaughter of our American brethren. It is a source of gratification in which we cannot, either from principle or policy, participate, knowing, as we do, the consequent misery that is daily result ! ing from such an unnatural hostility. It is Lilly la mentable to see how lightly the interests of milli n a are treated, when placed in competition with the unfeeling avarice and ambition of a corrupt few, who, gaining by the conflict, share in the plunder without sharing in the danger; who tan smile in security while their country is sink ing into the most deplorable and distressing con dition; who can issue forth their destructive man dates, through every quarter of the Globe, while the burdens of the Wan, TAXES', and an innumerable train of miseries are falling with a fatal pressure on the Heads of a suffering and devoted PEOPLE! ! ! " Polish Brethren l do out weary, stlpptitt to the end, this, to you, so glorious contest : then you will infallibly succeed in the wished for object, and in it find the merited recompence of the numerous burl , fires you shall have made. WESTMMSIWR ELEGT'OitS. --euees. The Electots of Westminster dined yesterday et the Crown and Anchor Tavern, for 'the purpose of Celebrating the Election of their present Representee fives, Sir Francis Burdett and Lord Cochrane. The Chair was filled by Mr. WISITART, 'who, after the cloth was removed, stated the object for which they were assembled, and observed, with how much reason they had to congratulate themselves on hewing returned two such Representetives as Sir Francis Bur. dett and Lord Cochrane, men who had signalised Yesterday, at two o'clock, his Royal Highness themselves in asserting the rights of the people, and the PRINCR REGENT held his first Levee this season, who wou ld use every tetertion to preserve t hat por e ; at Carlton-House, which was attended by the D u kes Li on o f our invaluable Constitution sihich yet re of Yoaa, CLARENCE, Kerte, CUMBERLAND, Smote, mained. All the events which had lately taken place CAMBRIDGE, GLOUCESTER, and BRUNSWICK. The proved, in the most convincine manner s that stithout • Baud of the First Regiment of Foot Guards, who a Reform in the Commons Houseof Parliament l how. were attending in the Coen-yard with a detachment ever we mi g ht li nger o n fb r some ti me , .therecould of the same regiment, played God ,vaoc the Kin „ , ' en be no salvation to the country !! lie then proposed their entrance. There were also present— The Sovereignty of the Petiole, The Archbisho of Canterbury,. the Lord President of the which was drank with three !lines three. Council, the Lor d Privy Seal, the Carl Marshal, the Lord Stew The following toasts were afterwards drank: ord of the Household, the Lord Chamberlain, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Se- ! the "nee °f " ... II "' The Prince R-eetd. am! m v be reenclober the declaim ihm df that the Crown is held lii trust fur dot aviaries of State, the President of the Board of Cono:ool the 1 l atest or Site "'W e ' -Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Groom of the Siole, I M'''' the People .vlret their a wn Reprisenrftrives, mocild of the Muster of the Horse, Prince Castelcicala, the Comptroller permitting ewe Can lioln it, lo ea joie t hens. . of the Household, King at Arms, the Usher of the Black Rod, After this toast, a suitable song, Composed for their Execileocies the Spanish, Hossiaa, Hessian, Neapolitan , the occasion, was sung by a Mr. Besborougtis which Swedish, Turkish, and Portuguese Ambossadon, the 1 " i 1 was received with great approhation. • ' Mayor, the She;ills of London and Middlesex, Mr. Admo, in his robes, as Cl:ht,ce:lor of the Duchy of Carawall, and Mr. Je- 1 The CHAIRMAN next proposed the constitutioual . kyll, Attorney-Geoural to the Prtuce of Wales. lassertor of the nation's rights, . The presentations to his Royal Higness were very i . S r Fr•awit Borden. . , .., numerous. Tho Court was altogether splendid and i which was received with the most rapturous epplattee, brilliant. .1 Sir nets/els Benue-re said, it was impossible for • ' It is very strange, that the offers made by the Mar- i him to express the adequate sense he entertitintet of ''quisses of Itticxua mete and CAssneet, to give up to I the marks of approbation which they hid bestowed the public, &deg the mar, a third part of their emo.l on him. So far e.46tisciousiiess of having perste: - luments, as Tellers of the Exchequer, should remain , vered in endeavours to promote, or rather to re.e • - yet undecided upon ; so that the CHANCELLOR of the, cover the lost rights of the people of this country, KTCHEQUEIt, when recently questioned upon the sub- ! could entitle him to that approbation, he thought lie ject in the House of Commons, could not say whether might fairly, however, in other respects deficient, the offer would be accepted or not. Are they afraid ' consider it as deserved.—[Applause.]—At the same of the example? time, however, he. could not but regret, that his His Royal Highness the Duke of _CLARENCE le to . ability fell so far short of his wishes in promoting • hoist.the union flag in the river as Admiral of the' the success of that great cause for which they were Fleet, in compliment to the Russian Admiral, who; that day assembled together, !tamely - , the purity of is to be formally received in state by his Royal election. Their conduct no efforts of his could ever Highness. I possibly repay, and entitled them to the wannest Sir EostuNn NAGLE is appointed by his Royal thanks of the country at large. In the late appeal, Highness the PRINCE REGENT, to succeed Sir JOUN i so falsely called an appeal to the people, the ex- T. DUCRWORTH, in the command at Newfoundland. i ample which they had formerly set, and thee re- A. M. Fair, Esq. is appointed Secretary to Sir Fo- , prated, stood single and alone throughout the country. :KUNO. 1 !lough this undoubtedly had a tendency to cast 1 The Augusta privateer, of 14 guns and 150 men, I som e d amp or doubt on the cause of Reform, sailed from St. Makes 2 9th ult. with fear other prin. I wh ich t hey had so ably supported, it must hare teers of the same class. : convinced every person who was at all *open to The Aboukir, 74, Capt. PARKER, takes out Rear. ' conviction, that the fault lay not in the people them- Admiral Form and Capt. Boutteuen to the Medi- ' selves, but In the system of corrupt election, which terranean. I left no choice to the public at large in the returning ---- Lieut.-General Sir Jowl MURRAY, it is said, is of their Representatives.—Vpplause.]—An example CONCLUSION Or THE ADDRESS Of THE GENERAL CON- to proceed to Alicant; there to meet the new expedi- had been set b y them, which it was said there was FEDERATION TO Tilt POLISH NATION. tion from Sicily, and to take the command of it, if i hopes would be imitated throughout the couritr i •.--- (For the first part see the English Newspapers of the 7th and Lord W. BI sTINCK should not have arrived from He entertained no such hopes. The whole of 0 'c -Bth instant.] Sicily, or if his hardship should find it necessary to ! tion was, at presents a more farce, and in that elec. 44 There is the career which you have yet to fol- return to that island. i tion the body of the people had no choice whatever. low, you who have hitherto remained tranquil in The lion. Colonel MACDONALD, of the First Foot .It was a great argument in fivour of popular eke- I your peaceful habitations. You certainly will not Guards , is to he one of the ne w Briga d i er Generals : ti,°nss that in the city of Westminster, the capital ef tne empire, the seat f m the Government, wheee the in the Peninsula. Mier, you twill nut with,see e an indifferent eye, '-- • - Sweeiteteq, DEos 14.—This forenoon, Vic:aka- prevalence of luxury ght he supposed to bring your defenders, your sons, your brothers, who are . , s e along with it thesprevaletice of corterptionewhevesthe mire' Sir a 110 MAX accompanied by all • at an enormous distance from their country, who, the Cap tainsof I • Majesty' s WlLLlAMS , his ships laying at th i s , elution was in the heads of the great body of the after long and painful labours, are deprived of the port, went up to Salt Pau Reach to pay his respects people, the event had shown, that •thrruptioli was means of satisfying their wants, contend against at• to the Russian Commander in Chief.—The Russian impossible.—[Applausse]—Compliments had been paid to the efforts madethe town of Liverpook ht! three decker got aground on enemy and a bad season, with forces diminished by Sunday morning before i the cause of liberty. Though great credit ssas sin- - day light, but wa' got off without damage. reiterated combats. . doubtedly due to the iudisiduals who had made Poiersatouen. Dec. 14.--Arrived from the Downs, • 66 There are in your country a sufficient number those efferts, he was not sure bu t the rejection of an the Christian VII., 74 guns, Captain BALL; Mors,' o( brave warriors and chevaliers, but do net let 74 guns, Captain ROPER ; and Cressy, 74 guns, individual with such claims ohe puhllc gretitmlb , , ' *them want the succours necessary in the midst of the Captain PATER, to be refitted ; and the Mulgrarc, as Mr. Brou ',ham from his WO talents, add also . great efforts =tee by him in the cause of the peblie, fatigues inseparable from war. Let our Regenerator a new 71 gun ship, commanded by Captain MALIN°, , would not rather have a tendency to open more-the be witness to the fresh efforts we shall make to pro- on her way to the Channel Fleet. eyes of the people at large, .than if Mr."Rroageam Private leases from persons high in authority in vision and support them. Let our enemy be con- Sicily, dated 30th October, inform us, that the had been actually returned to Parliament—VA "it' winced, that we not only have the courage to coin- QUEEN had been ordered to St. Margarita, a retired P ljuse.l—He understood that tlieltighesecaudielte, ! mence and to undertake, but also that to execute s ituati on o n the southern side of the island, not hay- Mr. Canning, had not more than 1500 infra; while and finish, and by that find himself deceived its his ing any facilities of communication with the enemy there were above 30,000 householders sslsb paid taxes in the town of Liverpool. Hid not the electien hopes ! • in Naples, and that she was prohibited from coming • •r been in the hands of persons who were notorooli • to Palermo. In the summer she is to ' be sent to i Austria. The second division of the expedition to t 64 Your user:ors will one day return to their na- open to the infinense of corruption, there mold be tal ground, wad, in the midst of you, they will show Spain was nearly ready to Sail, consistingof 5000 men, ;little doubt but that the election would have fallen oh their boneurable wounds, and recount to you the chiefly Italians, in a very effective state of discipline. et i Mr. Brougham, and not on the other candidate, el() i - fatigues they have endured in triumphing for you. was expected that Lord WM. BENTINCK would take had ever shown himself hostile to popular •rights, and • May you be able to state, with the same confidence, the command in person, and accompany them to the lto the interests of the public. [Applause.] The scene of their operations in Spain. i sovereignty of the people, which had been 'drank that the sacri fi ces you have made for them. night, and which had formerly given great offence to The Cumberland, of 74 gulls, Captain BAKER , is -,,- 94 We cannot, and we ought not to dissimulate , a certain descriptioa of individuals, it ought to be ordered to Cork to take a convoy to the West n. loom you, that the ordinary revenues of the State dies; and the Ramifies, o f '.. 1 Sir Tif , borne in mind, was that sovereignty on which the s, re guns, T . Amino,' I sovereignty of the House of Hanover was founded. 'lre not su ffi cient for the pressing wants of war; that takes convoy from Portsmouth to the Weat India.' • [App l aus e .] The coro ll ary which was to be daluced The paternal Government to whom you are subjected Ships of the line are now appointed to take charge of ; - ! from this was, that as all power necessarily flow ed paust take extraordinary means to meet them.— these coevoys, its consequence of the war with Ame . i I f rom the people, it could not be honestly exerted rice, last* of smaller ships, as formerly. Masten to satisfy its demands with the seel of chi. i but for the bene fi t of that people. [Applause.] In Lord Middleton was last week elected Steward of , ,Sens devoted to their country I • . Rival each other in , ntstown of Sutton Coldfield, iu the room ofl the Roy expressing sentiments like these he was aware that consenting tb all the sacrifices which it demands, and . the lute Earl of Alyesford. t he was laying himself open to the malicions interpre. which it Omit yet demand of you! The, booing match between Lancaster and Co o p er, I lotions which had so often been put on his conduct ; but he was firm in the conviction • 44 It is. for this object that the General Coafede..l a navigator, was to take place this day, nine miles ! 1 that he was expressinff nothing but the Consti. ration now addresses to you this appeal, to deter. from London. Carter, tutional doctrine of th is country.—[Applause.]— i the pugilist, Is matched for a censiderable ' mine you to support Poland in the general cause. — sum, to run the celebrated Al,. Wood two miles. i They were aware that he had always pretested him- • • -16 is a most agreeable duty to fulfil, and . one In "The former is to receive 100 yards at starting, and .self a supporter of he t Constitution of this country, and maintained,. th e interests of the people Lad 4hich It is most certain of success. the match is to take place within a fortnight. the Crown were inseparably united. There were three 64 There surely is among you no person, who, Sixteen prisoners of war, confined in Edinburgh foundation, on which a Government could be said to with sang Amid, will expose himself to measures gaol for some time, on a charge of forging Bank- rest—on an aristocracy—on an army—and on the wilt of rigour, and lose, by waiting till' constrained by lin the Roads. notes, were oa Thursday put on board the . Adamont s of the people. When an aristocracy prevailed, the . force all the merit of the sacrifices he must make' ' Government was controuled by a set of individuals, ries' the country. It is true that these sacrifices, as i 9 A charitable , society , for thegratultous diStribution I whose interests were in opposition to those of the of blanket*, has been instituted at Norwich, which : country at large. When an army was relied oe, it well as your e ff orts, must be great and numerous, , has met with the most benevolent patronage. Up- ! seldom or never happened hut that some time or h and that your resources appear drained. But the . wards of 2000 blankets hare alreadyelbeen distributed . ' other, a Government felt the edge of the instrument' last sources of your means are not yet' dried up a it' to the necessitous. 1 whiSh it employed. The only secure Government alone depends upon you to employ them at this im- , Between nine and ten on Sunday night se'nnight a! was that which was founded on the atiscticeis of the portent moment, to deprive yourselves of many en- : meteor appeared in the air in a northern direction : people, without which it could neither he s t able, nor from this city, which created considerable alarm to ' glorious, nor happy .' With respect to the present jovinents, and of every thing that is. not iudispete: . t i numerous spectators, and was perceptible for - nearly state of this country, it was indeed most meteeseholy. . silly necessary.. ' two minutes ; to the eye it was apparently as large I —He would not enter Open any discussion 'V the " Direct your atteetion to those •vast countries, as a f u ll moon, and very brilliant, resembling a-ball ' foreign relations 'of ihe - cusatry, a subject on whicli covered with formidable armies; to the fields of battle of clear fire, and diffused a light that illuminated the I he might* possibly be mistakette - and on %chic', his 10. and the brilliant victories which have been gained on earth to a great distance, and emitted a sulphureoue i s formation nsestit be imporfeet ; but respecting the them; this sight .will not. only console and gran- heat ; at Newton St. Cyre, the inhabitants feared it internal! state of the. totory he could net possibly. quilise you, but thi will be a new encouragement would burst on them, as it seemed to incline down- -be mimistaken. It used foreverlyto'be denied thit(elie s wards, but it afterwards. took its course opwards, and House of Commons : was in that corrupt ltate -so for you, to make the necessary sacrifices, and you retired into a cloud.--(Exeter Paper.) • • ginerally believed,--tut that -which wal:_faimerly will feel that poverty in a freecouitry, is much ; Tlie report of a utueder near Sadler's Wells is um , denied wait siow - unbleshingly avowed and-defended. more sweet than abuttdmice with slivery. i founded.- .. - •• • • - ' I was new 110tOriClidy lennwe to be *irrupt:in its .... - • ' - .- ' , . e - ' • e • .1 .- - • • " Done at Warsaw in the sitting of-the Council of the General Confederation of the Kingdom of Po. land, Nov. 9, 1812. to. •' JEAN GOLASZEUSKI, Bhhop of Wigiers." . - • I lijr . • . 37 i 1 . i • Ii ~ 1 P. i . 1 . 11. 1 , 1 t . . I / . • -rI . t 4 '... • I ?• , , 1: ' .-.1 ' 4 : , , • l is i 1 , i :. s, sit• '? 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