The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-09-07 00:00:00

~ ~~- -~ . i while they are secured ; bet unless some considerable reinforcements arrive speedily from Europe, they„ most in the very nature of things be annihilated. " On the other hand the Patriots have suffered se verely aim, particularly in their infantry, and emelt the arrival 61 the Admiral, there was an absolute want of arms and ammunition ; they have, however, the poesession of all the plains, and the navigation of the'Orinoeh an Apure. lam confident that no force which can be sent from Earepe can drive them from 'the strong military position of Guayana, covered as it is by those immense rivers. Now that awns and am• "monitlnn are lirabundance, the campaign, as soon as the rains mill permit, will re-commence with vigour; and not a shadow of apprehension del entertain of a favourable result. ,Religious liberty is inseparable from civil. Universal toleration exists wherever the Venezuelan banner waves, and a Missionary from Eurnpe might exercise his functions without (tenger or .moletitation. The influence of Priest craft is gone for ester, ;Lod the trammels of superstition are fol lowing with rapid strides. " Not withstanding the highly indecorous conduct enf several of our countrymen, who in leaving their JlOlO,ll seem to have left behind every thing that ought so make a men respected and respectable, the British Character is admired in preference to that of every ether nation, and is on all occasions held up as the most brilliant proof •nf what a people loving their country can do. Britain is considered by all as the natural protector of liberty, and I hope to God that the cause of freedom and tiro best interests of our belt.ved• native land will for ever be inseparable. " Much obloquy. I have no doubt, will be thrown en the Veneznelert.Gowernment, by the disappointed officers and others reternerl to Europe; most of them never made their appearance in the Independent ter. eitory, having giving implicit credence to the malicious stories related to them in the Islands, particularly in the free ports, loth as St. Thomas's,-St. Bartholo mew's, Trinidad, &c. In those places interest bears a mighty sway, and well do the inhabitants know, that when once Amesican Independence is established, a direct communication with Europe will be the im mediate consequence, and then adieu to the Depots made with them, their Commissions, Smuggling, &c. ". The General in Chief has always : declared his derided resolve to fulfil every eneagentent, and I do most sincerely believe he will. If I can rely on my own judgment, a man of more honourable intentions does not esisr; and in all my transactions with him and the Government, I have acted on that principle. I have not as yet had the slightest reason to change Iny opinion, and feel confident that eventually every shilling will be faithfully and folly discharged. The charge under my care is of a very important nature, and the fact itself is a decided proof of my reliance on the honour and integrity of Bolivar and his associates. " Some of our countrymen, as above mentioned, have conducted themselves most improperly. Drun )tenness end insubordination have been persevered in, and many disgraceful excesses committed, which they durst not have attempted at home. Many pre tend to be officers, who never saw other service than I that of a tavern, standing behind a counter, or quill- driving at a desk, and withal ignorant of the language totally. Many others, I am proud to say, are an Itonour to their profession, and to the country that gave them birth. Some of them, and indeed all who pave had an opportunity, have given brilliant testi . monies of British valour. At the battle of. Ortiz, on the 26th of March, a Colonel English having gained the approbation of the Supreme Chief and the brave General Paez, the latter rode op to him during the action, and embracing him, presented him with his Ism, saying, Accept this from I'aez, as the re wind of valour; with it I have destroyed more than 500 enemies of my country; keep it and remember toe.' fhe following day, General Bolivar sent an Aid-de-Camp to Colonel Euglish, appointing him a Coluuel of Cavalry." • BUENOS AYRES GAZETTE. . ' . ,ft toy OFFICIAL DECREE. Department of State. June 3. • to order to support the enormous charges upon }he State, the funds of which have been applied to effect our political emancipation, while the arms of `he enemy have intruded into our most productive provinces, and with the wish to pay off as soon as possible the National Debt, increased bythe.genero sosity of the inhabitants ; also to avoid as might be 'the evil of direct contributions; —for these purposes, on the 13th of January, in the last year, I carried into operation the ditties on imports which are now 'imposed, adopting the general system, as to their col lection, which has been resorted to by the most po lished nations of Europe, and incorporatidg with the arrangements the judicious provisions of the Decree *of the Slgth of March of the same year, as to public Sills, and the eight per cent. redaction in the Bth Article of that Decree (this diminution is in favour of American merchants, by whose assistance the pub lic bills were pufin circulation). Notwithstanding these prudent and moderate regulations, conform able with equity and justice, considerable clamour has been raised against the eitorbitancy of the duties, the complainants not attending to the urgent Imes. :sits which required them, in the form of an indirect contribution, emending to all classes of consumers, and under this tale pretest of exorbitancy, a con traband trade has been carried on, in defiance of all the precautions that have been introduced to pre vent it. Linder these circumstance', to promote the in crease and prosperity of commerce, and to remoyp every obstacle to its success, I have determined on a very large reduction its the duties of imports, and have informed the Custom-house of the capital of the same, which is to take effect from the present time 'under the subsequent conditions 1. The payment of the dnties is to he made, two-third parts in money, and one-third in public bills; modifv:ng this pay ment by the first Article of the Decree of the 29th of klarch.ll4l7- 1. The Custom house is to receive for these two-third parts of the duty, also such of the public bills as have been issued by the Supreme Government, and on which is expressed on the face of them that they are to he current instead of cash. 3. Credit for the duties is to be given to the importers, on taking possession of the goods, twenty days for the half amount, and forty days for the remainder. 4. For the security of the Stave, the Cosiont•house officers are to have a guarantee, satisfactory to them, which is to be re quired w irtsnot distinction of persons. . 5. This Article provides for the mode of payment, when the importer neglects tht discharge of the duties. THE STATESMAN 6. 'He eight per rent. granted under the Bth Article of the Decree of tie 49th of March. in favour of the 'mikes in South AsScrim% redoeed totour per . ceitt.: not, also with respect to ethers to whom theism.. insmuy wn. extended. (A into Copy.) JUAN MARTIN DR PARYRREDON. ESTF:VAN AGUSTIN GASCON. tureen Ayres, Jailed, 1818. N.8.-111e redaction adverted to in the second paragraph of the preceding Decree, is to the amount of 25 per cent. upon ail the existing duties. PRltli OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rank Stock 5 Per Cent. Navy 104 i; 105 9 per rent. Red. India Bonds 72 7 p 3 per Cent.Consols 75j Long Ann. 3# per Cent. , Exchequer Hills 18 19 p Canso,. for Acc. 7.5im Onsniuta si dis. 4 per Cent. 1 -., .3 LONDON: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1018. —....isiw—. A farther arrival of American Papers reached as this.foreooon, bat they are still not of a later date thai the previous arrivals. They have, however, many interesting articles on the subject of the Flo. rides, and the state of affairs between Spain and the United States. The decision of the PRESIDENT, as intimated in the National lntelligencer, respecting the Floridas, which, after all, by the condition at. tacheil to the restoration, and the inability of Spain to fulfil the request, must have the effect of ren dering the consent of the American Government to the measure nugatory, is much praised in some of the Papers, on account of the respect which it seems to pay to the rights of the Congress, and the honour, as well as the interests of the American nation. The PR EST DENT, it is added, insists on the strict 'aeration of the treaty between Spain and the United States, by which Spain became bound not In softer her In dians to attack the citizens of the United States ; so that Spain must ultimately either fulfil this engage. ment, or lose the territory in question, for there can be little doubt that the Representatives of the Ame rican People will view the subject of their interests in this respect in the same light as their just and able PRESIDENT. One of the Papers in remarking on the Article in the Official Journal, makes the following just ob servations:— " In the mean time, as Congress only, have the power, under our Constitution, of declaring war, and had made no such declaration against Spain, it is understood that the PRESIDENT does not conceive himself. authorised to retain the Spanish posts, inns. much as such retention would be an act of war. It is on this ground, we understand, that the resolution has been taken to restore the posts, and to demand from the King of SPAIN fill , punishment of those Of ficers, whose improper conduct led to their seizure. The PRESIDENT, DO doubt, sees, in commoA with his countrymen, the great advantages which the Uoited Steles would derive from the entire possession of the Florida, ; but, confessedly great as these advan tages would be, he is not willing to gain them, but by the sanction of an Act of Congress. To have retained these posts under present circum stances, would certainly have the eclat of being a strong measure ; but we hope never to see a Presi dent of the United States disposed to be stronger than the Constitution of his country ; for that is the palladium of interests far more sacred, and of infi nitely higher import to the general cause of human liberty than any acquisition of territory, however vast or advantageous." The intelligence from South America is most pa (Vying. The cause of the Independents is every wheie flourishing. Ewen in Mexico, where we have ..- • 'MYR I - . ...• - , been iteralipeatedly told by the lying echoes of the *ankh Government, that ~the Insurgents Were flying before the victorious Irma of the Royalists, Ise find that the progress of the Patriots is Confirmed to a greater extent than was anticipated by their most sangobse friends.- - -The inte resting details which we give in ear other columns, iatisfactorily evince that the affairs of tbe Spaniards, spite of all their housings, are in arhad a state in 'the Interior u in the Provinces, from which inform. Wtion is easily obtained. The Congress of Ait.ll.. Chapelle, if they shall really prove so mad and silly as to embark with FERDINAND, their worthy Ally, in the contest against the Sooth American States, will J find ample occasion for all their power, in the attempt ,to subdue the Patriotic Armies. The conduct of Spain and that of its armies in regard to /his war, is Weed worthy of remark. Whilst the Court of Mu. drid is now every day urging a mediation, and pro mising to behave in future to the South Americans, if they only agree to re-acknowledge her authority, in the most merciful and conciliatory manlier, its conduct, as exemplified in that of its Commanders on the other side of the Atlantic,up to the date of the latest accounts, continues to be as sanguinary and ireacherous at ever. The Patriots, anxious to pot a stop to the unnecessary effusion of human blood, tried, by their conduct to some prisoners, to soften their relentless adversaries. The barbarous MORILLO. was not, beak. ever, to he moved to mercy by their generosity, but butchered, in his usual savage manner, the first Pi t trines who fell into his hands. What confidence can the Patriots or any other nation place in professions of amity and forbearance when all the dictates of hu mauity are so shamefully violated? The arrivals from the Continentsince our last con. sist of French Papers to the 4th instant, and Mails from Hamburgh. Not withstanding all the assurances we have had of the pacific disposition of the Con tinental Governments, military projects alone seem to engage their attention. The Germanic Confede ration has resolved on creating and keeping up en army during peace—greater than the Peace Establish ment of any Other country, in Europe, Russia ex cepted. The principle to be acted upon in this military organization is, that out of the whole population of the Empire, estimated at 30 millions, every hundred shall supply one man, producing an effective com bined force of 300,000 men. The pretext for keep ing up this enormous army in time of peace is the necessity of a defensive system (against whom ?), and preserving the public tranquillity. The system and the objects to be preserved by this 'armed Confe deracy, we can easily comprehend. 'l'he States who are to be made to contribute by the sacrifice of their population to its support, are already enjoying the fruits of this very pacific and liberal system of Go vernment. The obvious aim of this organization of military power is le repress the wishes of the Peo ple for Representative Constitutions. A curious in stance is afforded of the power assumed by Govern. ments that are not under this sort of controul, in the conduct of the Government of our precious and near relation, the kingdom of Hanover. A Pro clamation has been issued at Gottingen, In the name of the PRINCE REGENT, prohibiting the Hanoverian Students who had been at the University there, last summer, from going to any other Universities, with out special permission, under pain of perpetual ex clusion from all offices, and from the practice of their professions in the Hanoverian territories. We are not aware of the existence of any law authorizing the Hanoverican Government to carry such a menace into effect. This is, indeed, a very instructive instance of the degree of power exercised by the House of Br um:- wick where the Princes of that Family are placed beyond the controul of , Parliament. The Students at Gottingen have displayed more ardour in favour of the principles of freedom than the despotic Governments of the Continent relish. and for this the People of Hanover are to be deprived of their rights of obtaining knowledge where they think fit, and a penalty inflicted upon them the most injurious and degrading, for exercising a liberty, which the same Proclamation admits they have hitherto enjoyed. This interposition of arbi trary power in the Government of the Regent of HANOVER, to aid the views of the despots of Germany, proves that the Sovereign may, when it suits him, not only prev,ent his Hanoverian subjects from enjoying the right in question (and that an old right), but that beton determine which of his subjects shall, and which shall not, procure a livelihood by their own in dustry, in their native country ! If the People throughout Germany are thus disposed of, it is not wonderful that they languish for Representative sys. isms of GovernMent. In the mean time the Duke of WELLINGTON proceeds in reviewing and keeping in proper trim the Army of. Occupation on the Lower Rhine. His Grace arrived at Ilaguenau on the 30th ult. and the next day reviewed theAustriao contingent on the great plain of Marienthal. The Wirtembergets were reviewed at Reichsoffen on the Ist instant. It is stated, upon the authority of an article from Nuremberg, that in consequence of the recent a rfival of dispatches at Vienna from Petersburgh,the Empe ror of AurrnlA was not to leave his capital for eight or ten days later then the period he bad previonsly fixed for his depa(toVe. If Ibis statement be correct, the opening of the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle will not take place until the beginning of October. The meetings of the Germanic Diet will be suspended FRENCII PAPERS. PARIS, SEPT. 3.--,Yesterdaythe King held a Coon. ail at•ihe Thaille:ries, which sat from one o'clock till half-past four. Letters from Dresden state, that the Emperor of Rwitiii has caused to be erected in honour of General Moreau, a monument near the village of Reignite, a league and.a-half from Dresden, on the spot where 1 1 the General Was mortally wounded on the 27th Accost, 1813. The number of foreigners at present travelling in' France is incalculable. The number of English alone is calculated at upwards of 60,000, whtise eapendi. turn is estimated at 50,000 sterling per day. Prince Augestos of Prussia.` travelling ender the title of the Count de Mensisfeltl, arrived at Paris yesterday from Aie-la-Chapelle. Five per Cents.—Virednevciay. 79f. 90r. Deferred Stock of the 444 March, 1811.trif. lie. 42(1 Sept. 11117. KM. 75e. 29d M4rrh„ 1818, Bit. 73c. Vrexrita, Avc. 22.—The Emperor and Empress of Austria returned here from .Radaa the day before yesterday. itiannetat, Auc. 27.—Accounis from Frankfort state, that the plan for the military organization of the Germanic Confederation is at length arranged.— The principle has been adopted, that one man shall be furnished for every 100 souls ; the confederate army_wil then consist of 300,000 men. 7.. TUE PARTNERSHIP which hog hPlin lately curried on by toe..the under•sitned, and Mr. JAMES DICKINSON, as Carriers, Leather-sellers. and Monufac towers, at Nn. 165. Alder.gute-weet, boa thin day become DISSOLVED, arcnrdint to notice given h% me, pingrinnt In it proviso for that pu►pr..e contained in oar Articles of Partner ship.; nod from henceforth 1 hove no concern whatever iu the ttid Ilniiness. Mord this fifth day of September, 1818. ELIZA BET/I BLOXA Witness—R. 111.0XAM, JNO. SECRKTAN. • % I J~,~~!~ , during /fie Coniress sit its Ministers, among wr _ and GOLTZ are named, hare received orde f rom their respective Sovereigos to repair to th a t by the end of September. A treaty has been nks i H rec i into between the POPE and the Ring of Nrietts f se maintaining the puhtic veat.a.,,and, toac4.o4tisiinos, hordes of banditti wilh which the frmtfeis 4.4b et i k eau n t r ies ara in reared.—Tbe French L'' u ads ket et a& Wednesday at 79f. 20c. • ht PO bi je Meeting of the Non-Represent e d habitants of the County of Middlesex, of which ill, oration was given, took place this day at 14 o'cloeia, in Palace Yard, pursuant to the notice, to (ski into consideration the propriety of nuking a po l, ik Declaration of their Rights, to adopt the most ef , „ fectual measures for redressing their wrongs ; le d to remonstrate with the Crown to remove those grievances which ere now become insupportable., A temporary eiviecrion having been made near thre e . trance into Westminster-hail, Dr. WAvsomappe ar yd , and stated the intention of the Meeting. n ew HUNT, Esq. he said, had been invited to m e the Chair, and had complied. Mr. Ilurr th" came forward, and addressed the crowd. D r . WATSON then read the Propositions, the most material of which was to call County %h o l m throughoot the kingdom, to promote the object in view. The Meeting was preceediog with good ot4 and harmony, and was pretty numerous. CITY, Two o'CcocK.—The Funds have improve! a little this morning. Consols for October, wen 754 at the opening of the ukarket, and advang gradually to 76; they are now I shade lA,* the latter price. No political rumours are ufloat,Gut the Public appear to he rather huyers.upon balance: His M 11 E.% LT/I.—Yesterday the folio.: jug Bulletin watkeshibited at St. James's Palace, at the state of the KING'S health :- 4. Windsor Castle, Sept. 5. 1818. " His Mll.lJeaTir trts been exceedingly quiet and comfortable through the lust month, hut without any alteration in Medal. of his 51.t.nmrx's health 11. H ALFORD, 6. WILLIS. " I3A 'LW E. It. WILLIS." • " W. IIEBE1tI)I?f, Lord ARDZN and Mr. GaEtivit.cc were the LA. and Groom it! It is reported . that the. Emperors of RUSSIA and AurratiA, and the King of PaussiA, intend to visit Paris, Rome, end Naples, after the termination of the conferences at Ai:eta-Chapelle. The King of BAVARIA has issued an Ordinance, for the stricter observance of the Lord's Day by per• sons in official situations. The King of HAYTI has introduced into the Cri., mina) Code, given by him to his States, a severe ea• actment against duelling—the combatants,. or the survivor thereof, or their seconds, or persons siding or abetting, or instigating the principals, or profit ing them with arms, are subjected to the pooisbmeat of death. The Adamant, Captain Iftrottrrsox. has asrifar from Bombay and the Cape, having left the latter* the 27th of June, nt which time the Union Fiat indiaman, supposed to have been lost, was safely at anchor in Table Ila Tr Ai zes t Cli Stit Ile; Sew , hom . Ay. Advicea from Corfu state, that a Greek Count had been apprehended at r d; ante, on a charge , of being concerned with t ten other persons of consetioence, in circulating fabricated bilk of exchange end counter feit doublonns, to a considerable amount. Letters from Italy state, that a Convention his been signed between the POPE and the King of the Two SICILIEO, relative to the means of securing the frontier Provinces of their respective Slates from banditti. The armed force of either State may enter the territory o 4 tin) other in pursuit of robbers, until it meets the•coriesponding armed force of the other contracting party. The American schooner Virginia, Anderson, Ras fallen in with the 24th ult. in lat. 49.30. long. 21.30. di.masted and abandoned, and being in ballast and complete wreck, was set fire to by the Hero, Small, arrived at Bristol from Trinidad. SEA SERPENT.—An Article from New York, of the 29th July, says—" An express arrived in touts last night to announce the appearance, at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, off Rockaway Beach, of 114 sea serpent and her two . young ones. Several per. eons were bathing in the surf at the time, who were so much alarmed that they literally flew over the sand till they retched a place of safety.— Prom the numerous large shoals of fish which of Ws Stare been hovering on the Rockaway shore, it is probable the monsters of the deep %ill remain some time about that place, and will be seen by Sony New Yorkers,who have heretofore disbelieved all the the Gloucester and Cape Ann stories." We are happy to announce (says a Correspoedent) That it is an opinion almost universally received. that Mr. BROUGHAM will yet eventually he returned is a Member for Westmorland when .PArliameat ate sembles. We confess ire shall net be surprised it this should be the cae, whoa it is taken into con sideration the vast numbers who p o ll e d f o r the Lowthers, whose Land Tax hid not been redeemed many days befeve-polling, yet who were unlawfully passed, independently of the numerous votes which were ab origine invalid: so that if a proper scrutinY takes place, there is little doubt but Mr. Bnoeon will be found to have as many plompers as the Lowther, lt-•e split votes. MTLITARY FLOGGING. (Communicated by CarreSpendelit.)-ome of these-scenes, so revolting to the human Iti art, was exhibited between e i g ht a nd nine o'clock this morning, in the httilding cnntignous toThe nocruit-house, in 11:0 Birdcage•walk. The unfortunate soffprers, *meowing to via, we Vlefein . formed, bloc to the ist Foot Guards, and their piercing cries (notnitltstatiditt4 the (arum accompa• ailment) were heard with horror by pasaengers on the l'agoda.bri.lge. We were led to believe that this brutal practice had been entirely abulishrd, and that trines ferring the delinquent to a condemned regiment had Seen substituted as a punishment sufficiently severe. CORK, tirrt. 2.—Arrived the Queen (trenepori), from at. John's, New Brunswiek with trnops i and sailed again for Chstham. I w .~ THE STATESMAN.