The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-05-04 00:00:00

l an d to commit some act of hostility, for the on ;, , purpose of placing the responsibility of war on f ew • country; this f most particularly recommend to the cousideration of Ministers. The dread of oppo sition. and of the loss of popularity.; will certainly ', o n) tie ruling party at Washington inactive. They sill IA any thing but the loss of power; and they 001 l aware that their power ss ou!d pass away with ti' ti:st calamity which their measures might bring ur ol the common people (from whom that power emu% ites), unless indeed they could find a sufficient eiCT-2, it' the conduct of Great Britain. This im vr.ion cannot be too deeply felt by his Majestv's ' liohters: nor too widely spread thtoughout the !iritish nation. It will furnish a sure guide in every ..sicr that may be adopted towards the United States. I have the honour to be, &c. A. B. No. VI. Tin%ton, March 5, 1809. am favoured with another opportunity of criting to you by a private conveyance ; and think p.Jbable at this season, that the frequency of these Rill render it necessary to write to ) ou in cypher. It does not yet appear necessary, that I should discover to any person the purpose of my visit to Boston ; nor ig it probable that I shall be compelled, for the sake of gaining more knowledge of the ar rangements of the Federal Party in these States, to avow myself as a regular authorised agent of the Bri tish Government, even to those individuals who would feel equally bound with myself to preserve, with the utmost iuscrutability, so important a secret from the public eye. f have sufficient means of information to enable me to judge of tho proper period for offering the co-ope ration of Great Britain, and opening a correspon dence between the Governor-General 'of British America and those individuals who., from the part they take in the opposition to the National Govern meet, or the influence they may possess in any new order of things, that may grow out of the present differences, should be qualified to act asn behalf of the Northern States. An apprehension of any such state of things, as is pee-supposed by these remarks, begins to subside, since it has ap peared, by the conduct of the General Government, that it is seriously alarmed at the menacing attitude of the Northern States. But although it is believed that there is no probability of an immediate war, yet no doubts are entertained, that Mr. Madison will fall upon some new expedients to bring about hostilities. What these may be, can only be deduced frem what appears to be practicable. A Non-Intercourse with regland and France will probably supersede the em bargo; which, by opeuing with the rest of Europe a partial legitimate commerce, and affording strong enytatious to that which is illegal, will expose the vessels to capture, detention, and embarrassment — will justify the present policy, and produce such a dsgree of irritation and resentment as will enable the Government of this country to throw the whole blame and responsibility of war from its own ahoulders upon those of the British Ministry. If in this, the party attached to France should calculate' with correctness, and the commerce of New England would greatly saer,—the merchant, being in jured and discouraged, would not only acquiesce iri the restrictive systems, but even submit.to war. On the other hand, should the small traffic per mitted by a Non-Intercourse Law be lucrative and uninterrupted, the People would be clamorous for more, and soon compel the Government to re etore the friendly relations between the two coun t ries. 1V Idle I offer toy opinion upon this subject, I cannot express but a strung hope, that if any terms should be proposed by either Government, tow Welk the other might think proper to accede, that a prin. ripal motive to the adjustment of differences should be understood to arise from the amicable disposition of the Eastern States, pi!rticularly of the State of ?Massachusetts. This, as it would increase the popu larity of the friends of Great Britain, could not fail to promote her interests. If it could not be done formally and officially, nor in a correspondence be teems Ministers, still, perhaps, the Administration the Parliament of Great Britain might take that ;round, and the suggestion would find its way into Papers both in England and America. Although I have frequently repeated, that this country cannot be governed and directed by a ver satility of opinion ; as there is nothing permanent in its political institutions, nor are the people under any circumstances to be retied on, when measures be come intsonvenient and burdensome. I will soon write again, and am, &e. _ A. B. fTo be Continued.] Art. Malls. Dar, 3 4 Dublin I • • . Lisbnel ......... .... ... 1 0 • .. •- Malta ,. o o 1 - Ilellgoland . . 0 .1 1 3 ICI: Ot STOCKS lIIIS Rank 1 pee Cent. Cons. 69t por Cent. Red. 61e1 4 Iwr Cent% 750 A r vi. Clem. Vavy 94/ Inn, Li n-16 DAT AT ON} O India Bondi 3 4 p Exchequer Hilts par 1 pr. I)ittn 36 6 6 p thallium Commas fur Acct. 61* Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAN. LONDON: MONDAY, MAY 4, A Heligoland Mail arrived in town this forenoon, hr v4ich we received the following communication : II liI.I6OLA ND, A PRI! 34. By an arrival from the coast yesterday, we have been informed, that a native of this Island, who, with swo of his companions, were seized on the other side, had heels shot, and his companions sent to the fleet, ►n pursuance of the decrees of BONAPARTE : which prohibit all intercourse with this Island. In namburgh the most profound secrecy is observed in speaking of any subjects of a political nature. They liver of the movements of troops, but of these move feetbts they are perfectly ignorant. THE STAMMAN, Paris l'apets have reached us to the 29th ult. ; their contents are not interesting. BONAPARTE was at Paris on the 26th.—We hare given some extracts in a preceding column. It k said, in the Ministerial Prints, that the two last Flags of Truce came from Boulogne and Calais, and were merely sent over to explain and apologize for the beat conveying the answer of our Govern ment to the first dispatch, having been fired upon at 'Calais. This may be true as to the second flag, but we do not think that it applies to the two last, as one surely was sufficient to convey the apo logy, if llo:sAr.traz considered one necessary.— Lilt whatever may be in this, we never entertained a doubt that the object of the FRENCH EMPEROR ) in opening a communication with this country, was that of peace. It is now rumoured, and we are inclined to consider the rumour probable, that IIoNAeARTE had yielded to the wishes of the Emperor of RUSSIA, who, it is said, proposed that another offer shoutd be made to Ministers of a pacific nature, which, if re. fused, would determine ALEXANDER in favour of Napoleon's anti-commercial Decrees. He adopted this policy on a former occasion, and the circum stAnce of his continuing at Paris, after the great body of his troops have advanced so far on their northern route, induces a strong persuasion in fa. your of the report. A Morning Paper states, that a Deputation of the principal Merchants were to wait upon the CHANCELLOR of the Exeneouvt, this forenoon, " in compliance with his requisition. —lt is conjectured that be has some propositions to refer to their consideration, respecting a more ex tenske commercial intercourse with the Continent, as tendered by the French Ituler:under his late Flags of Truce." The intermediate Documents laid before the Ame rican Congress respecting the charge brought against our Mluisters by Mr. MAnisos, having reached us, we have given as many of them to-day as our limits will permit ; we shall endeavour to give the rest to morrow. The National Intelligencer, the offi cial paper of the American Government, when alluding to the development of the plot, observes, 4 6 This whole affair is one on which comment would be superfluous. It sraks in a, voice of thunder, which the very deaf shall hear. Instead of applying it as a stimulus to party fervour, let it become a bond of union against a common foe, who, whilst she was making lavish professions of friendship through our Minister in England and her Minister in this city, was perfidiously stirring np rebellion and compas sing disunion in this land, by secret agencies ; at the moment she was pretending to hold out one hand hi fellowship, with the other she was feeling for the vitals of the Republic, to which she migl.t in the dead .of,night direct her poisoned dagger, Whatever may be thought of the past, the public will not fail pro. perly to appreciate the views of him who shall, after this disclosure, trumpet forth the justice, cle mency, and forbearance of Great Britain to the United States. if such a one shall be found, let him be marked as the foe to freedom s as the parricidal enemy of his country !" MANCHESTZII ) APRIL 30.—We are all quiet here i at present, but are still anxious to see what may hap• I pen the next two or three► days,as the general meeting of the Luddites is said to be fixed for to-morrow, but the place we have yet to learn. Be that as it may, i we are folly prepared, and so far I do conceive there is not the least danger. The Bolton Rioters' Committee, or rather the Delegates, had planned a secret meeting, at which some important matters were to be discussed. The fact became known to the Officers and Police, and it was deemed prudent not to prevent it from taking place. The consequence was, that last night the whole assemblage, consisting of 25 men, were taken by surprise, together with all their correspondence. A man has also been appre : hended at Eccles, in attempting to seduce the Local Militia, by offering five guineas bounty and 15s. per week to all that would be tizisted in (the term for swearing is). Many of the delegates are going round the country on the same service.—Quere— where does the money come from ?" By accounts which left Manchester after the post, ! we learn that another weaving manufactory had been burnt down. But where is not stated ; and that a woman who has offered to give evidence against some 'of the rioters, had been killed whilst the military were escorting her to a Magistrate to make her de positions. Mr. Hoareas.r., who was shot from behind a wall I by four ruffians, in the vicinity of Huddersfield, we are sorry to say, died on Thursday night of the wounds he received. A deputation of the trade ar -1 lived in town on Saturday, to lay the melancholy stfair before Mr. RYDER, and to consider of means `or the better security of persons and property for ithe future. Saturday night's Gazette contains Proclamations offering, besides his Majesty's free pardon to the in formers, rewards of 20001. for the detection of the person or persons who shot Mr. W. HORSEFALL, of Marsden, ou the 28th ult. ; 600 guineas for those who shot Mr. W. TREWTHAM, of Nottingham, on the 27th ult. ; and 100 guineas for the person who fired at G. WHITHEAD, at Huddersfield, on the 15th ult. The Towashend packet is arrived from Jamaica sailed the 10th March—mail will be up to-morrow The Manchester packet sailed the 24th Feb. and ka s not yet arrived. The fleet from Portsmouth arrived at Jamaica the 16th March. The Mary Ann packet from New York and Hali fax is arrived; sailed from New York the 18th of March—mail will be up to-morrow. Upwards of a hundred vessels are shortly expect ed to arrive at the different out-porky, with grain from the Baltic. The New Zealander is arrived in the Downs from the Southern Fisheiy. She touched at Port Jackson on her way home, and brings atcounts that the co lony had been very plentifully supplied from India with wheat, rice, Cc. Governor Marie . %attic was preparing to go to Van Diemen's land, when the above vessel left in October. Captain Ai:Am, of the larincible, had a Tory nar row escape a bliort time since: he was in his Large, reconnoitring, near Tarragona, when a French ride man, who had concealed himself behind a sock, took aim at him ; the bullet passed close ever the Captain's shoulder, and s!iot his coxswain dead immediately behind him. Exchegver Bills , bearing interest three pence half penny per diem, are now isioing. It is repOrted that Ministers Lave reFolved to offer to the Catholic body three great branches of their present demaaili. 5. The removal of every exPating impediment to their promo tion to the highest ranks in the ariny.—'2. A similar extension of tbc oppononitie• of acquiring promotion with respect to the navy.- -3. The same advantages fn the profession (gibe law. The Address from the Inhabitants of Manchester and Salford to the PRINCE REGENT. or rather to his Ministers, passed at the Police Office, after having been handed about the town in every direction for signatures, was sent up last week. This popular Address was signed by 410 persons out of a popula tion of upwards of 90,000! ! At a late grand Court party, the wife, it is said, retired before the husband made his appearance.— Fine field for Grottor Rosa's fancy! !—What o two buckets in a well ! ! • To distinguish the pod three-shilling Bank tokens from the spurious, observe that they have all a range of pyramidal points round the edge, which have dots between them. In the genuine pieces these dots are found only on the head side, while the counterfeits have them indiscriminately on both sides. Mr. ROSE, we understand, feels greatly hurt by the shag) and pointed hits at his drowning men in a bucket ; but be ought to recollect that there is no Rose without its thorns.—About 10 years ago, Mr. Rose fell into the Thames, near Westminster-bridge, when a waterman, perceiving the accident, pushed off, brought him up from under an old barge, and having landed him safe, GEOIIGE shook his ears, and gave the saviour a guinea, one pound notes not being then in fashion. Now surely this chews, that Mr. ROSE did not consider drowning so horrible a death as those writers of puns and epigrams affect to consi der it ; and, therefore, as he has thought so lightly of it in his own personal case, he cannot be fairly charged with selfishness, in not being horror-struck at seeing others inn similar situation. Boxras.—The anxiously looked-for boxing-match betwixt Maltby, one of the champions at Thissleton gap, and Cope of provincial fame, will take place to-morrow. The spot will not be fixed on until this evening, when a party of amateurs will meet at Greg son's for that purpose. On Saturday eveniug,•tbe 18th instant, as two men were re turning in their c .rt front the Liverpool Market, after selling their commodities, they were s'opped in Edge-lane, near El ®- house, by several men, who led the cart, together with the two men who belongtid to it, into an adjacent field. They there robbed them of a considerable sum in Bank-notes, silver, and other valuables, to the amount, it is said, of nvarly twenty °nods, after which they permitted them to proceed on their journey. it is believed that the two men in the cart had been overheard talking of their money in a public-house, where they bad previously been drinkingg, in com;.aay withthit robbert, which, it is supposed, excited thou to the attempt. DISTRESSED STATE OF TRADE. The evidence which has already been submitted to the Committee of the House of Commons upon this subject, by tho intelligent and highly respectable de legates from Birmingham and the neighbourhood, cannot fail to produce a striking impression. We learn, with pleasure, that many other Delegates are arriving from every manufacturing district of the country, to state at the bar of the House of Com mons, the sore accumulation of distress and misery which has at length visited the skilfuhand ingenious, but now sulrering artificers and manufacturers of this country. To the Legislature of the United King dom it is now the duty of all those who are labour ing under the distress caused by the unfortunate State of Trade, whether they have petitioned or not, to. submit their case, and leave the remedy to the wis dom of Parliament. By the Dublin Papers, which we have received to the Ist lust. it appears, that the Catholic Board were to meet on Saturday last, for the purpose of voting Thanks to those illustrious persons who so ably sup ported the Petitions in both Houses of Parliament. — ft was supposed that the Board would not confine themselves to mere Resolutions of Thanks, but that Addresses would also be voted to Lord DOIVOUGII. moot and Mr. GRATTAN, and as the Duke of SCS.• s‘x was the only Prince of the Blood who came for ward in the cave of civil liberty and religious free dom, that his Royal Highness would be included in these Addresses. DISTURBANCES IN THE COUNTRY. LEEDS ) MAY 2:—We are concerned to observe , that the street lamps have been within these few days removed from the sockets, and that the streets of the town are now every night left in total darkness. — We are aware that the time for ceasing to light the lamps has arrived; but these are not usual times, and a regulation that may be quite proper in general, is at present, we think, very ill-timed : we hear also, that the lamp finances are exhausted ; but surely there is amongst us public spirit enough to replenish them when the public safety requires it. We recome mend to the proper authorities the proptiety of directing the lamps to be replaced and light ,ed with as little dalar u possible. CAPTAIN iIANBE'S INFEATION: On Saturday considerable Dumpers Were att:tirlei to Hyde Park by Capt. MaNcx s experiments for saving the lives of shipwrecked persons. A little after twelve the Duke of Yosa arrived, and the ex , . periments commenced. Th:! apparatus was placed ou the south side of the Serpentine river, on the level bank near the new watercourse; a fort of the Guards were stationed round it, to keep off the mul titude; and the circle was filled with some cf cur principal chemists and people of distinction: Tho ropes attached to the balls were coiled in different forms on the grass. The first experiment was, wa presume, merely to shew the range of the mortar, which threw a shell across the river, and to a cowl , dersble distance on the rising ground to the north. A shot was then thrown with the rope attached to it, which fell with great precision at the water's edge on the opposite side. The shell was nest thrown in the direction of a tree, which was to repre sent the masts and rigging of a ship in distress. The . shell fell entirely over the tree, and left the rope hanging, as was intended, among the brandies.— ' I The neatness and obvious utility of this expeti meta excited great admiration. A young person, equipped in the life-preserver, thetv walked into the water, remained perfectly at his ease at a consider able distance from the side, blew a post-horn, moved 1 his arms in all directions with complete facility, land concluded by swimming across in the direction of the buoy which was fixed as the ceutre of operation. These experiments were exhibited to the whole extent of Capt. MANSY'S inventions. The light-bell, which on occasion of shipwrecks at night is used to point out the vessel to the people on shore, was thrown up Ito a considerable height, burst at its highest eleva. tion, and poured down a shower of stars, which, in the darkness of a tempestuous night, must have o thrown a powerful illumination upon its object.— The process of discharging ordnance without the application of fire is one of Captain MANitIN ventions, and one which will probably be of sig nal importance to the service ; but the conception I of the plan for preserving human life, and that per haps the most interesting and valuable species of human life, deserves a higher praise than our's. Alt., no country has a finer and more useful race of men exposed to the perils of the sea, there is perhaps no shore on which, from the peculiar nature of its difficulties, the invention can be applied with more entire success. The idea of forming a communica tion with the vessel when no boat could venture to sea, was of itself honourable to the person who con ceived it; but the subsequent arrangements, the con trivances at once delicate and durable, and the sim plicite which now makes the whole apparatus at once within the compass of almost any purse, and the ma- nagement of almost any hand, finish and complete I the merit of the discovery. There is not a shore of Europe on which it may not be established ; and we must hope that no exertion of wise and active hu t manity will be wanting to its establishment on every perilous district of our own. The day was cold, and the multitude of course comprehended many who were not philosophers ; but the admiration excited by the process was so strong, that they lingered through the length of the experi ments without reluctance. The su ans had, perhaps, O the greatest reason to complain of the exhibition; and ; the moment the lad in the tife-preserver plunged into I the water, a detachment sailed rapidly towards him to reconnoitre, or take vengeance on so_ singular and uttusal an ititruder4 NArdl, INTEI.LIG K NCR. PO !ITSMOU tf, APRIL 3. arrived his Majest)'s ship Brisk, from the West Gales. left her cons uy in charge of the Prometheus, oil tit. CatherMe*,:; awl the 'faraciati, from a maize. Sailed his Majesty's chip (iamu•tt, on a erui2e; Crr•sy. for thr lialti•'; letoe, st ilh a consny fur 6uernsey and Jersey on a cruize ; and the tiepins, with French prisoner,' fur Leith. PLY MOUTH, M.tc 2. Arrived the Vo!lute, Spanish brig, from Ciijon fur London.— By this sve learn, that the trench had evacuate 1 the province of Asturias. Sailed the Whiting schooner for America, sr lit' a ISineeMes wager on board, supposed to he the bearer of important als. patches. DOVER, MAY !T. Last night a French row-boat with about 90 men came clikze in shore ; she was observed by our cruisers. who immediate.' chased her over to the other coast—she had a narrow escape. THE AIL 1 R E COILN-EXCHA NOE, Mat 4, The arrivals of Wheat this day make but a /Ridding supi•ly 0 not much iu request, and sales is general dull, nearly at the lost quotation. Bailey and Malt fully support late prices. tl hite and Grey Yess , and Beans, of each description, at little vari ation. There tire oat many arrivals of Oats, and that trade is again named somewhat dearer. Mor without alteration. Wheat Fine ditto l4O 143 Rye Barley 6B '76 Malt 9B 105 White Peas (boilers) 87 92 tirey du. Ileaus ...... 70 76 'rick do. (new) 66 72 Ho. (Fine Old) 73 71 Oat, 5O 51 57 Pulsed do. Polator do. ...... - 14 - aii ISO SMITHFIELD M To %ink the (MI Beef 21. to 6, 44. %tattoo 41. to 6, 6 , 1. Veal ....7, 041. to 0 Pork 01. to 7.. (11. Laud) ... 6.1. to 8.. Ott. Rape Seed Fine Flour iieeundi !ARK ET.—MAT 4. per stone for WI.. !lead of Ciatlc this fla% I Beast, I Sheep Ca~" 110 figs. 574 LIOORTANT tACt TO BE KVOWN BY PARISH aFFICERS. At the Grantham St..iouS, W. Si-arson was indicted for ad AM. &auk apse Mr. Doubleday, constable of Culsterworth, while in the execation of his other.-- Searson, who was a pauper with a large family, had applied to the hlagis rates of Grantham, to direct the. Overseers of the Pour of Cohtcrworth either to pro vide him with work, or take him and his family to the Work ' house. The Overseers, in conseqecnce of the orders of the Ma gistratev, agreed to take the faintly to the Workhouse, t Searson appeared very willing; but upon the Paris' nrocee.diag to letuove his furniture 'n the time T;l:.ee„ id to their doing so, and suddenly seized a large axe. he was in the act of snaking a dhow at la c w s a d of day, wli wasstoopiag dime before him, bat brit ously seized by the atlas of another person, his per feated. These facts were most satisfnetorily made being the decided opinion of the Recorder, that a has no power to enter the house of a pauper to St without his consent, the above persons, by doing so, a trespass, and the pauper in question wakjustitied is law in the step be was about to take, mid was accerdiao quitted by the J urv. The Recorder further staled, tat ti rush o;ficers have the power to refuse a pnuAr every patuchial relief except the Workhouse; and, althoogh gistrates may direct it., they are not obligati to rsk ani uthar way. fen or the Ma. 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