The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-08-19 00:00:00

trtm gr. same to to the Court to be established by virtue bt this ful in prison, for such debt or damage, for the space of five years before the time ohm; such pri soner shall apply for his or her discharge under this Act. That no prisoner against whom any commis sion of bankrupt shall have issued and shell remain in foree,and who shall not have obtained a certificate, shall be entitled to be discharged by virtue of this Act from any debt for obit* such prisoner shall be detained hi custody, and which might have been proved under such commission, unless such prisoner shall have been so &quilled in prison for the space of Jive years before the time whoa such prisoner shall apply for his or ler discharge tinder this Act. , And wherries debtors duty, with a view to defraud their creditors, sell, transfer, Convey or assign their estate and effects, or,some part thereof, but it - may be diffi cult to prove that such sale or transfer, conveyance, or assigument, was made with a fraudulent design, that whenever it shall be proved by one or more cre dible witness or witnesses, or by the confession of air prisoner, who shall apply for his or her discharge by virtue of this Act, that such prisoner has, since the time of Contracting any debt of or from which he or she shall so seek to be discharged, sold, transferred, conveyed, or assigned to any person . or persons all or any part of Ids estate or effects subsequent to the t me of his imprisonment, without just cause for so doing (to be determined by the Court to be esta blished by virtue of this Act), and • such sale, intoner, conveyance, or assignment, shall' remain In force, so tie' t the creditors of such prisoner cannot hese the hellcat. of such estate or effects wider this Act, without suit at law., or equity, tottery.* such prisoner shall lose all the benefit end a iValitage that he or she might otherwise have • claimed under the authority of this Act, unless ▪ ihe creditors of such prisoner against wham svck prisoner shall seek to be discharged by virtue of this Act will Consent to sucledischarge. Prisoner Jodie.; money to the amount of 101. in one day, or 601. in the whole since his commitment, by gaming, mot to hair bene fi t of this Act, unless with con volt of rr dors, or unles he has been confined five years. Prisoner who shall have made conveyance of ells estate in trust for particular creditors not to have the benefit of this Act. Assignes may apply to the Court to have the prisoner who has obtained his dis charge, further examined. Assignees, with consent Alf majority of creditors, may take composition from the debtors of prisoner. Court may hear complaints against Assignees, end gray remove them. In case of death or incapacity of Assignee, another to be appointed. Assignees, &c. not paying over balance of estate initieir hands to be proceeded against.— Persons committed for contempt of Courts, in not paying costs, Sze. entitled to the benefit of this Act. Affirmation of a Quaker to be taken instead of au oath. Proceedings iu Court may be amended. No person who shall have taken the benefit of any Act AMERICAN PAPERS. heretofore passed for the relief of insolvent debtors shall have the benefit of this Act, or be deemed to • • REPUBLIC OF MEXICO. be within the intent and meaning thereof, so as to The following is a hasty translation of the princi. he discharged under the same, until the expiratioes; pal parts of the declaration of independence by the of the term of five years from the time of such for. , Province of. Texas (a Member of the Great Mexican tiler discharge. Crown deloors, or persons commit. i Republic), which has been politely furnished the ted for offences against the Revenue, sot entitled to ;.Editor by Colonel S. Koniper. It was proclaimed the benefit of this Act. I .on the 4th of April, in the city of San Antonio de No person who shall have been at any time.dis... Behar, when a provisional form of Government was charged by virtue of this Act shall again be entitled adopted. The fall of San Antonio may be consider to the benefit thereof within the space of five years ed as having decided the fate of that country. It is after such discharge, unless three-fourths in number understood that great numbers are flocking from all and value of the creditors against whom such person I quarters to the revolutionary standard te ,shall seek to be discharged by virtue of this Act shall I "We the People of the Province of Texas, call signify his, her, or their assent to such discharge, or iing upon the Supreme Judge of the Universe to wit. it shall be made appear to the satisfaction of the ness the rectitude of our intentions, declare that the Court to he established l y virtue of this Act, that , ties which placed us under the domination of Spain such person bas since his or her former discharge en- and Europe are for ever demolished ; that we possess deavouretl by industry or frugality to pay all just the right to establish a Government for ourselves, demands upon him or her, and has incurred no untie. i and that in future, all legitimate authority shall ema cessary expense, and that the debts whiols such pee. I irate from the people, to whom alone it rightfully be. son has incurred, subsequent to such former dirs.! longs;and that henceforth all allegiance or subjection charge, have been necessarily incurred for the main- to any foreign power whatever, is entirely re. tenance of such person, or his or her family, or that inoonced. the insolvency of such person has arisen from misfor- i 46 A relation of the causes which have conduced to tune, or from inability to acquire subsistence for render this step necessary is due to our diguity, and himself or herself, and his or her family, or from' to the opinion of the world. A long serious of oc debts incurred prior to such former discharge to ; curreuces, originating in the weakness and corruption whic. such discharge did not extend, or from debts ' of the Spanish Rulers, has converted that country incurred subsequent to such discharge in consequence into the theatre of a sanguinary war between two of engagements entered entered into or acts done contending parties, itself destined to be the prize of prior to such discharge.—Act not to Wend to the victor, and the miserable wreck of its Govern. Areigners, except on such terms and conditions, as ment in possession of others, it appears to have lost to the said Court to be established by "hive of. this the substance, and almost the form of sovereignty.— Act shall teem fit and reasonable. Li any objection Unable to defend itself in the Peninsula, much less shall made to the discharge of any prisoner on the to protect its distant colonies, those colonies are ground of any misconduct of such prisoner, and it abandoned to the caprice of wicked men, where there shall appear to the said Court that such prisoner exists no power to which they may be made respell+. might not have been aware of such objection so as to sible for the abuse of their authority, or for the gains be able to answer the same, such Court shall allow of their rapacity. Self-preservation, the highest law such prisoner sufficient time to answer such objec. I of nature, if no other motive would have justified this tion ; and shall also, if necessary, require such *vb. step, would have vindicated our conduct; but inde. jection to be stated in writing ta sucternisouer, so pendent pf thie necessity, you candidly will ackn.ow that such prisoner may be fully appriSed thereof. • ledge that we have cause sufficient in the Sititiaing In case it shall appear to thesatisfaction of the said oppression which we have so long endured." Court, that any misconduct which shall be'attributed; After some further details, in which the destruction to any prisoner to prevent his or her discharge, al. of their trade is exposed, the instrument concludes though strictly within the intent and meaning of this.; in these terms — Act, was nevertheless attended with such circum. " The Spanish Colonies of South America have stances, or the injury thereby done was to so small long since declared their independence, and the an amount, that it may net be fit that such prisoner Uuited States prove to us, by the experience of thirty should on that account be deprived of the benefit of i years, that such a separation may be attended , with this Act, it shall be lawful for the said. Court to dis. national and individual prosperity. chacge such prisoner, notwithstanding any objection "We conceive it a duty we owe, as well to our foended on such misconduct, either in the same man- selves as to our posterity, to use the moment which tier as if such objection had not been made, or on now offers itself to shake off the yoke of European such further terms and conditions as to the said ' domination, and to labour in the cause of the itide- Court shall appear reasonable, in consequence of 1 pendence of Mexico, taking the authority into our such misconduct. Debts contracted fraudently not i own hands, framing laws, and placing the Govern to be discharged. if any person who shall at ment of our country upon a firm and sure basis, and any ti:oe be a prisoner., shall be or become' by these meatus, assuming the rank which belongs to of unsound mind, and therefore incapable of us among the nations of the world." taking the benefit of this Act in such man. Ilacuetoeto AOAIS TaAmstfir..—We are happy to suer as he or she might have done if of sound mind, I state, for the information of our country readers, the gaoler or keeper of such prison shall forthwithl that Richmond is perfectly tranquil again. From require one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace! the force already collected and constantly increasing for the County, to attend at the said prison, and en-1 at the camp below, and from the martial activity of quire into the state of mind of such prisoner ; and our citizene,whose morning and evening, tralnings till thereupon, and in case any such Justice shall receive I goes on, the idea of a hostile visit no lone; alarms information by other memo that any such prisoner is us. Our volunteer companies are full to overflowing, of unsound mind; and if it shall appear to such Justice and no where can be seen finer looking corps than or Justices, upon such enquiry, that such prisoner is the cavalry, artillery, and rifle of Richmond. The of unsound mind, and therefore incapable of taking British outrages at Hampton hairs fired every heart the benefit of this Act in such manuer as a person of ; wish indignation, and nerved every arm with strength. uticl miud might do, such Justice or Justices shall Let the invader now approach, and be will matt with forthwith make a rccord. of the filets anicestify the the fate he deserves. 3ES MA N. Act ; and thereupon it shall be lawt rtor stitifesibits at the instance of any person or persons on behalf of "SATIN AT TOtettiz, JUL! 20.--Scarcely his I such prisoner, to order notice to be Inserted in the arrived at the Baths, where I have come to endeaa London Ga:ette, and in two or more public news- Your to re-establish my health, and already do you, papers usuully circulated in the neighbourhood of f my friend, overaviselm me with questions.s.Atthougat„ such prison, and in the neighbourhood of the ? seal near the hewn 'Whetethe Plenip9tentieriei from the residence et heels pristine' before lie • or' she was Continental Powers are assenifiling,• I cannot any comniitted to such prison, as the said Court shall ! more than you foresee the result of that assembly see fit, and shall in such order specify and direct i which appears to have to regulate the destiny of the that application will be made to such Court for world. In the absence of positive facts public ca the discharge of each prisoner, on a day to be sped• riosity is exercised in conjectures. " secret Wen= fled in such order, being twenty days at the least • lions of Courts is attempted to be discovered in the from the day of publication of such one of such choke of their representatives : their private lives— Gazette and newspapers, containing such notice as their moral lives are scrutinized ; in their known shall be last published; which notice, together with characters they look for the proof of the good mitten service of the like notice on the creditor or credi- tions of their Government. tors at whose suit such prisoner shall be detained in If the Emperor of France had not already proved custody, or his, her, or their attorney or attoraies his high magnanimity in arresting the car of victory, in such suit, shall be deemed sufficient to authorise the choice which hehas made in the Duke of Vieenee the said Court to proceed to the discharge of such and Count de Narbonne, would be . an unequivocal prisoner, if otherwise entitled to such discharge, ac- proof of his wishes for a general pacification. These cording to the true intent and meaning of such Act ; Plenipotentiaries are invested either with the first em and such Court shall proceed accordingly, and shall ployments in the State, or the internate confidence of discharge such prisoner, in case it shall appear that their master; their ranks, their moral qualities, gua such prisoner might have obtained his or her dis- rantee to France the care which they will take to charge under this Act, if of sound mind; and there- I support the dignity of their Sovereign, and the noble upon such Court shall direct a conveyance and as- I efforts they will, in his name, make to ensure the re signment to be made of the estate and effects of such I pose of the world. prisoner, and engagement for the payment of his or I Austria honours herself, and is honoured by the ! her debts, according to the provisions of this Act, to i Belligerent Powers, by the choice of her Ambassa. be executed by the Clerk of the said Court irrthe i dors at the Congress. ' l'o the respect due to the name and on the behalf of such prisoner. Commis- well-known intention of her Government, is joined • stoner of the Court to appoint offi I cers. ' that of their illustrious names. One of the Judges of one of the Courts of King's •, The King of Prussia has chosen his Plenipoten. Bench, Common . Pleas, and Exchequer, at West. ! tiaries from among his statesmen. The long delay . 'muster, ,shall be nominated and appointed by such which Russia employed in her choice, seemed to be Courts on the first day of every Term after the piss- justified by the importance of the men to be chosen. ing of this Act, to be a Judge of a Court of Appeal , —The annals of Russia also afford glorious names. from the Court to be established by virtue of this . The title of Plenipotentiary to a Congress, the Act ; and such Court of Appeal shall hear and de. results of which must affect the most distant poste-1 termine all appeals from any orders of the Court toe rity, could and would, have flattered the pride of the jbe established by virtue of this Act, except such; ancient Russian families ; this honour has devolv- ! orders as are herein specifically directed to be final ,ed upon strangers. It if asked, It is wished to be I and conclusive, and such Court of Appeal shall have knows, if the Russian Plenipotentiary D'Auslet- full power to affirm, reverse, or alter any such or.. ton, is the same D'Ansletton, born at Strasburgh, der ; except as aforesaid, as to such Court of Ap- whose father was a clerk in the Intendances of Al peal shall seem just and reasonable, with or without save ? costs ; and the decisions of such Court of Appeal It may he recollected, that some ordinary talents shall in all cases be final and conclusive. procured for this individual the situation of a copy- This Act shall continue in force until the first day ing clerk in the Russian office of Legation at Vienna; of November, in the year One Thousand Eight ; that rising rapidly by his assiduity, Count Raze. Hundred and Eighteen, and thenceforth until the : mowski made him Secretary of Legation ; that be end of the then next Session of Parliament, and no , became the secret intermediary of the English Am longer, • Thir Act or any part thereof may be re- ; bassador Adair, that he understood how to skilfully pealed er altered by any Act or Acts to be made in avail himself of English influence and Russian this present Session of Parliament. power; that he received on different occasions consi derable sums ; but always beyond measure either to • merit his salary, or from that fear which emigrants ever have, of not appearing sufficiently ungrateful to that country which they have betrayed, he showed himself indifferent to the true interests of Russia, and little justified the goodness of his new Sove reign. The political combinations of cabinets are some times founded upon motives which it would be neither useful nor honourable to fathom ; but princes are all pledged together for the integrity of royal ma., jesty. It is abasing it, in delegating its represeW teflon to individuals whom public opinion condemns or does not esteem. Few foreigners in France have been called to the helm of public affairs : national pride repels them, and the State is but the better served for it. What can be expected from him who has no country ? Besides, my friend, here, as elsewhere, we are well convinced that the high destinies of France are independent of men. They are guaranteed by the genius of its Emperor. What a noble and solid basis ! Ensue; Jutat . 25.—1 t is false that the war un dertaken by Prussia is the effect of the national will : the nobles and capitalists of great towns are partisans of it ; but the citizen class, and the inhahitants of the country groan under it. In the small towns and villages the most profound sadness prevails. The half of the militia in the Prussian army was con ducted there by force. By the confession of the inhabitants of the country, the Royal Prussian Guard, at the battle of Lutaen, lost nine out of every ten men. 'there is in Prussia a reserve of Land wehr, said to be 5u,000 men, a number which appears to be ex tremely exaggerated. The meu are taken from be tween the ages of 15 and 40, so that this reserve pre sents only children, or fathers of families. For some months the Prussian army has not been paid. Two officers of the guard, which the Prus sians regard as their second bulwark, said, in the beginning of May, 66 We are not rich : the King • wishes us to serve him, but if he does not pay us we must retire." They had only been twenty-five days ender aims. [The same Paper contains an account of the cele ration of Bonaparte's birth-day. .4 dinner was to l, given to all the soldiers, at four. o'clock, on the 10th of August, on the bastions and along the ram peel.] .. lIAMBURGII PAPERS, It is the humour of the British Army in the Pe ninsula to give 6 ' noms de guerre," to all their divi sions. The name of 66 The Fighters" is fixed upon the 3d division; which title they well sustained at Vittoria ; where, being attacked in front and flank, by an enemy infinitely superior, and supported by a ' numerous artillery, they succeeded, after O. combat of Many hours, in driving them from every position. In'this arduous struggle, Major-General COLVILLE (the only General Officer wounded on this glorious day) had tiro horsei killed under bias..• • • The Duke of BEDFORD and the Marquis of BUCK.. I INGRAM, are among the recent fashionable arrivals at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight. FottaEs, Esq. late Secretary to the Marquis WELLESLEY, is appointed a Commissioner of Trans ports in the room of Mr. BOOFllalf. .• 'We understand that DANIEL ISAAC EATON has been lately served' with notice of air ex-officio in formation, for'printing and publishing a work just completed, entitled Ecce Homo ! or, a Critical Enquiry into the Life of Jesus Christ. This is no Tess than the eighth prosecution against Mr. EATON for different publications, and he is now a state pit. goner in Newgate for publishing , the third port of ?ain't dige Of liaison. ~~, . r+~ as. Oyip. • STATE OF MAMA •111) CHARACTER, OF BO4APARTg, go ?Lk coscramczna compact of tag mison m i w R. cater.re v t o r b t l eo ei n s t ini We calculate on the discontents Slid division s f V a ri a n c c e o , u n a t n e d r. s r e e e r k oi tion to beu. be s tow u o ptsn her h whose favour ? In favour of the Hous e of Bourbon.t And where is now the interest of the H ouse o f B or . bon ? What hold have that fatuity over the g enera. tion which comprises at the present moment all the energy, ability, and practical influence . of F • Mee? The man of five-and , thirty in the present year, wa s in 1793* a boy of 15. What, then, were the pas. sions universally prevalent amongst the French Jong of that memorable era ? - Were they ant revolutionary passions? But were they transient ? Did any gener a l movement of the national mind ever at any pe r i o d since the year 1793, bespeak a crisis favotrrable to the restoration of the old Dynasty ? If so, with what spirit has it operated, and in what form has it appeared ? Amidst all the changes, caprices, and revulsions of public feeling,—froin the Girondist to the Jacobin—from the Directory to the Como. late l —from democracy wild and savage, to the glittering and cutting despotism of the sword the single eccentricity from which the mass of the French people seem to have been obstinately and even curiously exempt, was a taste for their f oruer mastersr-Bourbossism only, has never been in Ifad o s i kr About the date of the first coalition, it have been possible, it alright have bees* ea sy, fOr Pricings who acted liked men of honour, to re. vie* the fortunes of the exiled Sovereign. That gleam of sun-shine passed away, and witk it perished every seed of future expectation. The base cupidity, the shallow perfidy, of each, without exception, of the Allied Powers, unveiled the true character of their Imperial and Royal interference,—leaving a deep impression on the hearts of all who could feet or fight for the integrity of France,—and sealiug finally the condition of the House of Bourbon. But let us, if not from sentiment, at least from prudence, speak candidly of him with whom we con tend—since it is even more a dangerous, than a pi. tiful indulgence, to exaggerate the perils which en compass him. We are invariably prone to fancy that others feel as we do. It is not peculiar to the people of Eng land : Every nation of Europe which has suffered from the craft or violence of Bonaparte, has soothed itself by supposing that he was equally detested by the French—and tat any effort for the subversion of his Government would be seconded by the prayers of his subjects. Now fact and reason conspire to banish these dreams—and clear away this vapour of the imagination. Benaparte, the most ambitious, but the ablest of men, has been the most flagrant of usurpers. Ile extinguished every spark of liberty in France—but he quenched the flames of civil war whith had devoured her: So stands his title in the archives of French misfortune—Tyranny raised on the ruins of Anarchy :—Strange that the legitimacy of such a title should be most condemned—and the fragility of sech a power most asserted—by those those' fabric of policy rests on the single principle — that freedom is in all cases overpaid by revolution. Bonaparte is indeed a tyrant—but he is a tyrant who tolerates no tyranny except his own; no least monarchs in the distant provinces of his empire. The higher ranks who once exercised and abused the he• reditary rights (as they were called) of feudal exac tion, jurisdiction, and petty despotism, exist no longer in substance or its form. • The persons most exalted by this arbitrary legislator, have no shadow of personal jurisdiction or nathority, above auy other class of subjects ;—the laws are alike inex orable—bat open alike to all. Invested with well defined military power, the gaudiest Marshal is•com. pelted to practice the most entire military submission. Thepath of military eminence is the only one non-left for an aspiring Frenchman. Hence unquestionably the whole of that portion of society whose pursuits and attainments might, under a free Constitution, dispese or qualify them for political life, may be presumed to murmur against a specie* of govern ment which levels their pretensions with the dust.— Of that class, however, which under the gtereanto cracy of a soldier, could in point of moral influence be next to nothing, and in physical efficacy less than nothing, the Romberg. are dwindling, and. the spi rit is gone. the out-port merchants are equklly humbled,—the manufacturing' body in most of its members has rather gained by the Continental System, since it relieves them from the competi. tion of foreign manufactureiv. The loWer *wi zens, but, above all, the peasantry, have not only been made sensible of a comparative amendment its condition, by the fall of those privileged orders be. fore whom they once hardly dared to stand,—but they enjoy an actual release from many grievous anti detailed oppressions, annexed to the existeoce of the old nobility. The law of the Conscription is said to be a sword suspended over the head of Bonapartc.— But the Conscription, intolerable to s the oliluent soil well-educated, diminishes in weight as it descer.:ls in fortune. The multitude do not feel it much. It unfolds to the youngest son of the poorest labourer s the chance of plunder l —the prospect of promotion- • the most dazzling honours known to Imperial France, a Marshal's Staff and a military Dukedom. We greatly misconceive the present French chat: .c. ter, if we pronounce it insensible to warlike renowo• Never in the brightest ages of the ancient 11l ()- starchy, was the service carried on with a bctt: , r spirit—its fatigues endured with more exemplary pi tience—its dangers faced with loftier heroismOr its rewards more ardently anticipated. The army its France is decidedly popular. It is the study of the Government to make the French soldiery respected and esteemed by their countrymen. The private grenadiers of the line will enter into and converse in the first coffee-houses of Paris. They are not without money. Courted and elevated beyond every other class of inhabitants, they ire nevertheless con trouled by the most peremptory discipline. In fo reign countries the French-soldier is a merciless and remorseless barbarian,—a robber and a ravisher, without scruple, or punithment, or reproach. No contrast can be more extraordinary than between his demeanour at home, and when he passes the &each • hie a tirikiug article os thi..point in the Kditattrack Fle* slew t Icassat kara so OW mist tottahrr of dal Atimiva led w0r1i.:4,.1. it ••• -...•N 7'