The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-08-26 00:00:00

1111.1.1N111 A4:4*-S • - •o 1 . 'Rum STOCKS Bank 219 • S per Cent. Red. Kit S per Cent. Conk 4 per Cent'. 7211 per Cent. Nney - Sie Lenit. Ann. 14 9:14 " 4 . • 'Due 141410.111449fte •• • r •• t. A G:• ••:• • . 1 DAY AT OAK O'CLOCK. India lgrods t Exchequer tilito 210. Ditto par l d Y p ()militia 66:p Consols for Met. 571 Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAN. ‘ 1•61 4 /DO TUITittDAT, • AUGUST 26 1 ISO. To our politicians, whether on the Royal Ex thange, at LLOYD'S, or elsewhere, it will appear surprising that no confirmation of the renewal of the ' Armistice is arrived in London, either :theough the French Papers received last night, or those other , few channels through which we communicate with the Continent. In the first place, it lust be ac knowledged (and it is with pain and hymiliation we say 4), that the conduct of the British Ministry, for long time back, has let down the highitharacter of the British name. Formerly, not a iihisper relat ing to - the political affairs of Europe could be con veyed from the mouth of a Foreign Minister at a Foreign Court that was not made known immediately, through oar Ambassador, to the Court of_St. James's ; now a.studied reserve seems to actuate every one of the party ►ikely to assist in the approaching Con. greys. We are treated as if we were meddlers and inarplots in continental affairs; and oar Ambassadors abroad are not only not mentioned by, name in any of the proceedings at the chief Courts, with whom it is desirable we should be in intimate alliance, but their official presence among the other diplomatists, or their apprehended arrival is very seldom alluded to. 44 A British Ambassador is expected in a short time," or some such phrase, is the only intimation we have, that those personages are in our pay, although, perhaps, they have been on the spot whence such round-about unmeaning announcement is made, for a month or two. If such men as the first Earl of aIIAM, or CIIAILLES Fox, were alive, and at the bead hr the English Goiernment, either of them would order such Ambassador home immediately, signifying that, the next they sent to the same Court should be better received, and more eagerly distin- gui:l►ed from other strangers who might resort to such Court. But the proud times we speak of are gone by, alai it is melancholy to reflect on the change, for nothing can be more certainly concluded on, than that the estimation a country is held in by foreigners, corresponds exactly with the deference paid by them to its Envoys and Ambassadors. To return to the impertant subject of the so much-talked of CONGRESi, our opinion (being liever taken up on light ground) remains unaltered, viz. that it will absolutely take place. We are sensible that the belief of all those nho implicitly confide in Ministers, and consider them as omnipo tent in all they undertake, is on the other side.— These certainly wish for a renewal of hostilities in the North, and strive for it, as the vulgar saying is, to )th and nail. We are persuaded, however, that not withstanding the great, the unusually great, CONTIN GENT bill of expence of that political corps, denomi nated by the Earl of CIIESTERFILLD pricitcdged spies, yet can they obtain no satisfactory assurance of the British influence bringing about that desideratum of the present Cabinet. To view the activity of our main enemy,in drawing corps after corps to the seat of treaty or conflict ; his callieg his friendly and tributary Kings and Commanders to swell his Imperial Staff of Offi cers, an idea might be twitertained that he saw the unavoidable approach to a conflict. Not so. 130- 21APAIITE is one of those beings who has been as well practised in mind, as in body. He is a Ge neral of that mg who prepares for the worst that can happen. If he fails in his present attempt, be is never without resources of mind, which have always repaired his physical deficiencies. It is this quality which we dread in an inveterate enemy, and which makes us regret and lament that we do not make the smallest attempt to find it in some part . of the United Kingdom, so as to be able to cope with,' and finally to thwart him in his_ taltimate, projects against our 'stiff enviable and once flourishing rout'. try. These ultimate projects undoubtedly embrace nothing less tban the subjugating our Isle to the sway of France. NAPOLEON'S design, in this regard, cannot be less than was that of Louts XIV., XV., and XVI., nor than would be the aim of the XVIIIth Louts, were he set upon the throne of the Bouneosts,—should he outlive the ordinary period of gratitude to those who might lend him a hand to ascend that throne. All the former Potentates, one , after the other, strove to gain the maritime as cendancy of the Channel, which might, in process of time, have exposed our arsenals to their annoy. ance, and in the end to utter destruction; which would at once have laid us under the Consulate of a Bouanoc, as will be the case' under a new dynasty, if the HEAD of our empire does not take very good care of the body.— This idea being first thrown out by us, may enrage some of those who, par preferance, call themselves the " King's friends ;" and it may, in a measure; offend those squeamish ears, who have been unac, cnstoined to hear wholesome, though rugged truths. iregardful of-the character 'than uncandid reasonen. i t the " King's friends ;" and i , f ) offend those squeamish ears , 1 customed to hear wholesom We are, however, more disr t cf being thought unpolished . . N • • But we shan . taseoceasionh sad much on this topic, ere many more on our head. Since making the observation, that hid been entertained in the Cabinet 'whole of the disposable force out of the kingdom, with the view oPmakink ont grand'effort t 6 raise our army in Spain to a superiority in number over that of the enemy, we have been informed that a meeting, professedly o►► this subject, has been held at the Office of the Commander in Chief, when, after much discussion, it was resolved, that however desirable [ it might be to aid the General now at the head of our troops, in his glorious career, by send ing him the twenty thousand or more men pro posed ; yet the opinion of the inexpodieitcy of such a departure from the usual course of reinforcing troops en foreign service, prevailed ; and we have reason to suspect, that an observation was made, that the jealousy, rather than the gratitude, of the Spa niards themselves might .be occasioned by so uncom mon a measure. Such counteracting and clogging circumstances must ever attend the conduct of a war not well defined in its object, and of a system adopt ed by Ministers who are but half politicians. Our Ministers ought to have foreseen so probable a di lemma. We have given in this day's STATLIMAN instrliou to a long but most interesting article upon the Water" of a case or,llNdrephobia, tbd most afflicting etelht. tempers to which mankind is liable. The successful treatment of a disease which has generally been con. sidered, and with great reason, the opprobrium me. dicorum, cannot be a topic of indifference to the least learned of our Readers ; and will necessarily excite reflections in' the minds of the other classes of our favourers, which may be turned to a beneficial per. pose whenever the like calamity may fall under their view. Yesterday evening, about four o'clock, the Ad miralty telegraph corresponding with Yarmouth,' commenced working, hut, from the lateness of the. hour, the intelligence could not be fully made out► ` It is not improbable, an arrival from the North may hive taken place. Sir ALEx. CeefllttNE had yesterday a long inter: view with the Lords of the Admiralty; on his return• from the West Indies. Au additional number of Officers lend seamed ern to proceed in the /fetus to Halifax, 'to be employed on the lakes of Canada. ••• Captain Mamas, of the Pelican sloop of war, Is promoted to the rank of Commander, for his gal lantry in the tapture of the Argus. Captain htaltsaLt. is appointed to command •the Pelican. • _ IMAM OtITIkA 1)(1. stip ; Foremau, from 'Malta, lest from the irest.--. aeons - Pr ens and' dggy oAd Mary have arriv. ed from rford.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Ethelian, dyruion; Strift, and Hyena, .with the outward-tin nd for Newfoundland, Quebec, and Halifax ; and the Cadmus and Purl/ties on a cruise. Fetwomt, A on. 23.-:--Arrived the Roe, Berry, from Liverpool, bound for Madeira.—The Mergiana 'packet,.with a Mail for the Windward Islands, is ;gone into the Itonds.—About a dozen sail are as. sembled here waiting to join the Mediterranean con voy. GUATESEND I Ana. 25..—Arrived the Hope, Gal loway, and the Neptune, Robinson, from Greenland; and the Fame, Gregory, from the Scieth Sins, a ;'- • • LzoTn's, Amore 26.—The Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty have been pleased to inform the Committee, that they have given directions to their Proctor, to institute, prosecutions against Mr. F. Randall, Master of the schooner Caroline; and Mr. S. Baotou*, Master. at the schooner Industry, from Martinique ; for having deserted the convoy, which sailed from St. Thomas's, 3d 'ultimo ; under charge of Captain Dashwood, of his Majesty's ship Cressy. • l o . 'Yesterday being to 25th of August, the anneal, lay fer the' changing quarters of the brigade of Guards mapped in . Londen, the first regitherit wet removed from'town quarters into Portman Barracks.; the Second, or Coldstream Regiment from the Bar racks at Knightsbridge in town quarters, and the third regiment from Portman Barracks to Knights bridge Barracks. Two more troops from each of the Hussar Regi. ments are ordered to be held in readiness for foreign service. The following British regiments of infantry are now at Strilsund or in its neighbourhood :—the 54th •Regiment, 4th battalion Royal Scots, 2d battalion 25th Regiment, 2d battalion 73d ditto, 2d battalion 91st ditto. The Pembroke, 74, is under orders to proceed to the Alediterryneen. --- - The late Cept. DUBORDIEU, of the Royal A:VW lery, who fell by the explosion of a shell its the breeching batteries et St. Sebastian, atthodev young Officer, was highly esteemed for his profel sional talents and gAllantry. Ile had distinguished himself daring a series of ten years' service in the %Vest Indies, particularly at the recapture of Marti. nique, and had just arrived in Spain, to take part in the battle of Vittoria, and the siege of St. Sebastian. He was son of the Rev. JOHN Dueottofeti, of the north of Ireland ; another of whose sons, Capt. DUBORDIEU A of the sth Regiment, lost his left arm in leading the grenadiers into the breach at the storm ing of Ciudad Rodrigo. The detachments of the Ist battalion of the 6th, 7th, and 82d regiments, now sewing with the 24 battalions in Jersey and Alderney, are ordered to , Portsmouth to embark for the Peninsula. The detachments of the Ist battalions of the 32d 40th, and 61st regiments, now in Ireland, are to be conveyed immediately to Passage. The 70th regiment is expected in Cork in the coarse of this week, for embarkation for Spain. o The Wheat harvest is almost finished in the Isle of ; Thanet ; finer corn, and more abundance, have been seldom known. Barley is almost all cut, and a few I days will house it. The hops in Kent have a most i favourable appearance. IThe Regency of Spain have lately carried into ex- , ecutiou the unanimous vote of the Congress, which ordered a Brant of land to be conferred on the Mar quis of WELLmeroe, as a solid and enduring mo. nument of the gratitude of their nation, -for the transcendent services he has rendered it. Three royal estates have accordingly been submitted to the ' British Field-Marshal for his choice, and with that disinterestedness and taste which are known.to tern. per the splendour, of his military fame L. he gav e' the "preference to that which wag-lowest in actual valfre, but which came recommended to his fancy by Me beauty of its situation and the amenities of its see nery. It is the royal estate, called the Sifter) di Roma, situated on the river Xenil, in the kingdom of Grande. Its annual produce is estimated at 30,000 dollars. NEcEssmuts AND SUPERVLUITIES.—A dramatic piece, under this title, has been performed at the Theatre de Vaudeville, in Paris, with success. The object of the drama is to show that the mind con. Mandy rises in its desires, from what is necessary to what is superfluous. The Caliph, Aroun.al-Raschid,' is attacked by robbers, and saved by Harlequin.' In recompence, he says, he will give him whatever he wants; Harlequin first asks for food--then that his miserable but shall be furnished—then that it shall be turned into a fine house--then he wishes for a beautiful wife—.then for a palace, a park, gardens, baths, &c. He then desires that an humble cottage, which interrupts his view, may be demolished; but here the Caliph refuses to gratify his insatiate de mend, and the piece concludes with• the moral, that our desires are without bounds. It appears that the Wyndham transport, at. Port smouth, under orders for New South Wales, was so full and crowded, that after an examination of the danger of disease by the Inspector of Hospitals, a detaclintelit of the 48th Regiment, on board, was • obliged to be disembarked without delay. ran EDITOR or rtes s ta ,—lt not infrequently happens that the glare 'a -splendid style, and an impesihg mode of argil. prevail over common sense and honest inten. to the great detriment of the public and of in. dividuals ; and, in my opinien,tids is no where more .evident than in the wri ings of Venn. Without the forcible compression ofJ u ants lie pinsesses a consider. able power of language, suihcient to dazzle the minds .of the public, and to draw after hiirstpapx partizans, whether right or wrong. For my. own part I have Aft agreed with him, and often differed from him.; but on no part of his writings more than on the l'policy of invading France, supposing it to be in our power ; for I am, in my own mind, so fully convinced that the French people submit to BONA. rart7c only from the most rigid necessity ; that bait proper means been used to giie I,hem liberty, they would gladly hate co-operated in ridding themselves I , of so detestable a tyranny ; and if our Ministers are convinced of this, they are culpable to no smut ex. tea for - not availing themselves of such a disposi. / Hon; it they are convinced to the contrary, they !.netitt tt,the nation and to all Europe to declare it; tat - any 'site, it is their duty to ascertain how the V.French people are disposed towards BONAPARTE, for' on tint depends the policy of attempting au in vasion of France. rit4ea r soning of VETUS, however specious, dots „notsappb , distinctly to the present state of thing , . FrinCe is not now what she ever was at any former I . pelitid,-:either under the house of VALOIS, or of 13ditectw. 'the writer, in his last letter, August 1 114 yiumphantly asks, at what age of the full grown lATESM4N. Nionirchy of France was any invasion of that coun try successful ? To this it is easy to answer, that during the antient Monarchy the French were at tached to their Sovereigns, both from time and affec tion; they were not usurpers, they w.-re not tyrants, They *were not upstarts; they derived their rialit to govern from a long race of ancestors, distinguished - The superiority of the cavalry of the German Le- , - for their prowess or their virtues; and all at gion with respect to the care and attention paid to tempts to shake such a Monarchy, so rooted in -their horses on service, has, we hear, been repre -1 the affections of the peoi,le, deserved no milder 'tented in orders as an example to Light Dragoons. name than wickedness' or full But is the same ' Adtlitional Scene Rooms and Carpenters' Work 'shops, &c. to Drury-Lane Theatre, are now erect- I now ?—Do the French feel any attachment to the Ing on the space which has hitherto been walled in, I person of BONAPARTE—or have they been the bet 'forming the corner of Little Russel-street and Drury- , to• by his victories ?—Certainly not. These vireo. - fAne. The above necessary buildings will of course I tries have caused them all that They now suffer, 'extend over the large cast iron tunnel, which sup- I • plies the House with water. whether of personal or public calamity, because they I An alteration in the projected plan for the new are the fruit of unprovoked aggression, and of un streets from Carlton House to Portland.place, has, Fprincipled ambition. When FRANCIS I. contended his said, been recommended by the Comptroller' of !with CuAaLEs. V. it was easy for either of these So the Board of Works, which will include the whole ' 1 verei•ms to make their people believe that his oppo ' In one straight line (without any angles, as was at anent, was the aggressor; but BONAPARTE has no 'Aro intended). It is thought that the house of Lord , l 'this improvement. ostcos, in Cavendish square, will_ be sacrific,od to enemies on .the Continent to whom he can say— , - 1 64 You, wish to cooq,set France, and divide it -' . . PEntsvntsNism. 7 -Yesteratty.,moining, a man 0 I auto pg yourselres. ...--.--.YEZUS asks, where is now the name of Draper, forty year n of .age, undertook, 1 ' hi interest' of th e Iti m ni ssi e s ?__lt h a in th e . for a wager of 101: tor on. fotitl rons London-bridgo t I . 4es or , the ye _ _ ople, aid in their interests; they to South End, and back again, in. two hours and 1..' th* ! anew were that illustrious family restored to ten minutes, the whole distance being eighteen milees. He started at five o'clock, stopped to , h a l t at N ew : their . dominions, there would not be a tear shed, not Cress Turnpike, proceeded on his journey, and 1 a life lost in France. They have the word of a King reached South End in exactly one hour,. and after that there would be a general amnesty for all politi stopping a few minutes .to refresh, set of ,on his re- cal o ff ences ; and they know, that if . ever there was I turn, and arrived at the stetting post at four m inutes tyranny in France undor the Bounaoss, it was in rafter seven, winning_ by sin !ninnies._ _Odds were ; , the nature of the Government slid not in those who ' against him at starting four to tree. A good deal ; . , • d it. They know that no Monarchy in i . of money was won and Lost upon the occasion. administere The Argils American sloop of war, Jitely taken lEuroite was more mild than that of France under the lby the P e lican , sailed from New York on the 18th i BOURBONS; and . now that the vices of the Government 'of June, for Orient, where she landed an Mimi- are reformed, they know that even were they dis- I can Ambassador ; and made the following capture s S osed p, they Itween the Shannon and the Liffey, and near Lundy , could never render them unhappy.— off the Land's End, on the coast of Ireland , be- If Bourbonism has not been the fashion, it is be from the 20th of July to the 13th of August, viz.— cause under every successive modification of tyranayi Mariner, GILBERT, from St. Croix to Bristol, burnt; from ROBESPIERRE to BONAPARTE, their tyrants have always dreaded and compressed the expression Betsy, MERRYWEATISER, from St. Vincent's to Bris ol the public feeling ; but were the votes of every jot, since retaken ; Gordelia, AVERY, from St. M ar- ' tin's to Bristol, given up to the prisoners, after de- man in France impartially taken, I believe that even stroying the cargo ; Baltic, ITa_AncasTr,E, from Barba. 1 VETSIS himself knows there would be ten to one for __ 1 does to Dublin, burnt; Susannah; Po nem, from Ma. I the restoration of the Bounnons, on the terms 1 deira to London, given upafter destroy ing part of the , prom i se d i n the. late Address of Loos XVIII. ; and cargo-; Matilda, from Pernambuco to London, since ' surely there is no similarity between invading France retaken; Salamanca, from Oporto to Newfound- i•to divide it, and that of attempting to free it from found, burnt ; Defiance, from Glhsgow for New- tyranny:: 'Two things so different ought not to .be foundland, burnt; Forney, M'Dosisicr.r.,, from Li- confounded. It is solely to be attributed to the merick to Plymouth, burnt ;* Lady Frances. BLAIN Government of this country, that the other So from Limerick to Liverpool, burnt ; Belford, Do. vereigns of Europe seem now to have basely ahan statosoo, from Dublin to London (with 16 / 50 9 done(' the unfortunate Bouaaows, and sanctioned the pieces of linen on board), burnt ; Ann, RICIIARDS, usurpation of the Tyrant ; for bad we boldly avow from Barmouth to London, burnt ; John and Sally, ed to all,the world our intention of supporting their and Dina , and Betty, from .Caine: 4e Ilfracombe, "Claims, both the people of France, and'the rest of the both burnt ; John and Thomas, from Poole to . Li- 1 Continent, would have given us their support, and , verpool, burnt; Elianora, from Poole to Liver - I the war would have had a distinct legitimate ob pool, given up; Whitby, Brous, from Gibraltar tol; ec t ; but now that they see them forsaken by I 4 rhe nation which has so long resisted the power Portsmouth, burnt; Barbadocs (transpor ), from , Cork to St. Andero, - burnt; Alliance (transport), of BONAPA BM, like the rest of the world, they will , from Cork to St. Andero, burnt; sloop Fame, i n t i m e 1 and unless given up.forget those who are forsaken by their friends; at the demise of the Tyrant his . seems- On Monday last, the belly of a male child, ap. sore should be weak indeed, they will quietly sub parently about five months old, was found at the mit to the new dynasty, and the BOURBONS be for -1 bottom of a lead-mine shaft, on Halkin Mountain, gotten in the BONAPARTES. As a contrast to the Cheshire. A woman was seen near the spot on the letter of VETUS, an admirable article is selected preceding Saturday, and suspicion falling upon her, I from a Russian Paper, in the Times of the 18th, in she was traced to Chester, where she was appre- which Paper the nature of BON APA RTI'S power is characterised in terms most just, forcible, and ap headed, and on her examination confessed That she had murdered it ! and at the instant of plunging it propriate. I feel myself unequal to express my ideas into the pit, she . stated that the little innocent smiled on this interesting subject ; but, perhaps*, with your in her face. She was conveyed to Mold, preparatory I indulgence may again attempt it.--I remain, &c. to her commitment to the county gaol. Hartlottl, near Murpetlt, Aug. 21, 1813. W. B. Sunday about two o'clock, as Mr. Cook was re turning to his house near Hampstead, in a one-horse chaise, the animal took fright near the Bull and Bush, and . ran furiously along the road, by which the vehicle was upset, and' unfortunately Mr. C. had his leg broken. At Union Hall, yesterday, Edward Early, a baker, residing at Peckham, overseer of the poor, was fined 91. 10s. for exposing to sale 27 quartern loaves and 21 half quarterns, deficient in weight 72 ounces. The bread was forfeited, and sent to the Refuge for the Destitute. Although we we differ in opinion with the respect able writer of the above letter, and especially es to the prppoition of sutfinges among the French for tho restoration of the House of BOURBON, yet are we desirous, by an immediate admission of the favour, of testifying our esteem ,for a Gentleman who his so much and so long distinguished himself in the repub lic of letters, and in defence of the liberties of his country. We treat, therefore, • disunion of mai! ment with regard, when we jtuow it arbell . fogs 4 consciousness of rectitude. , • 'i'll E grAI'ESMAN. • 11..••• occasions, to .ray NAVAL INTE LIG ENG To hairs are whitened DEAL, AUG.ls...—Came down from the River the s ig Lord Melville, for Portsmouth ; and the Sketchley I of ail that proposition for•Barhailoes, and remain. t let of sending the s); , aram -otpr s Atro. T.s.,Arrived the aldp.dlorit men, ib MI.. . •, %. 4 1 ~+. a ~