The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-06-13 00:00:00

• An unfoundA report was attempted to be Circe- Wed yNterday afternoon in the City, that Ministers had resolved to recal the Orders in Council, and that notice to that effect would be given last night in the House of Commons. Whatever may have been the object of this, we now .learn, that so far from Ministers busing any such intention, they:pub licly declared, at a sleeting held at 'Fife 110.1180, o n Thursday, against the repeal of these Orders. 4.— Otr this occasion there were present-h-Lords VFRP OOL, Ross, and CarrtiatAan, end. Mr. VAN4ITTAIST, on the part of Ministers; and. Mr. StmoN Wsbttn, with five other Gentlemen, on the part of the Deputation giving eeklenca jn Parliament against the Orders in Conneil.er.---- A Jong eodversation took place, during ;Which Lord C.tterxxiteaou, who was the principal speaker, defended the justice and policy .1 those Orders, and the conclusion, observed, " that if" the Admi nisiration, now formed, were supported by the Le cislature and the country, the Americans would be under the necessity of passively submitting to these regulations."—We earnestly hope that net. ther the Legislature, ner the country, will give their support to an Administration who entertain views so hostile to the real interests of Great Britain. The United States of America are, to be sure, very remote from this island, and certainly not very well known either to our Government, or to the People. They seem, indeed, to be held in no estimation by the former. Yet this very same Republic consists of about eight millions of inhabitants, and was in use to take from us our Colonial produce and manu factures, to the amount of at least twelve millions sterling annually; and would again take them, pro sided we discarded the preposterous notion of mak ing a monopoly of commerce, by assuming the he. terogenous and incompatible compound character of belligerent and neutral, and permitted the Amer-- cans to carry on that commerce which experience must have convinced every rational man in the United kingdrens, we cannot carry on ourselves. So muck for what this iusignificant nation would take fronti us, and thereby afford immediate relief to thousands I of our manufacturers, who are literally starriest' besides affording a vent for the produce of our West India Islands, width are almost in a State of ruin, the planters beinl without a market for their rum, molasses, coffee,. &c. and, of course, without the means of paying for the bread provisions width their plantations will not produce, and which they must either receive from the American States or starve. Let us now attend to what this country, our colo nies, and our Allies, would receive from the United States in return for these advantages, and which, uutier " existing eircumstances,'• it is impossible we can do without ; because, if that were possible, ao set of Ministers could be found in this country hardy enough to continue such importation as is done, from a nation which, for more than twelve Months past, ha= refused to receive from Ll 3, or our Allies, to the value of even a razor or a mouse-trap of our manufac tures or produce, and accepting in payment nothing but the precious metals, which have completely dis appeared in our circulation. It cannot he disputed, that our imports from America amount to at least four milliOns sterling, in naval stores, pot-ash, cot ton, timber, itc., which are indispensible to our manufactures, and which we cannot produce our selves, nor procure elsewhere on equally reasonable terms. Whenever this importation diminishes, it is an indisputable ,proof of the decline of our trade, whatever attempts may be made from Custom-kouse statements of **ports, &c. to shew the confr' The imports froth the United States, consgente of provisions of all descriptions, into Lisbon, Cadiz, Oporto, and Gibraltar, from the Ist of October, 1810, to the Ist of October, 1811, according to the Custom-house books of these places, amounted, on a very moderate estimate, to five millions sterling.— The supplies wanted for the subsequent year,-say from October, 1511, to October, 1812, every one admits must be much greater, or else the inhabitants, if not our army, must perish by famine. Every person who has any idea of the supplies of flour, I rice, corn, beef,: pork, live stock, lumber, &c. which the West India Islands, Nova Scoga z and even the Isle of France, require from the United States cannot estimate tke whole at less than four millions sterling per annum ; making goy. tiler no less a sum than thirteen millions, moat it. which, as already stated, we have to pay fari - Idt. _in the produce of our own iudustry, but, as far as we have the means, in the precious metals, the only; genuine basis of the circulating medium of an chip., try. this statement we are more than borne, out by the evidence adduced before the Committee of Parliament on the Orders in Council.. Let us take . a glance at the state of ear aftry is Caslaia• We perceive by the measures taking by .11miGniretiorrii that he at least considers it its chump. 1111#,Y, gtculating medium in that country is gold and sil ver. Our Batik-notes; valuable as they are at home, will not pass there even among the troops ; and it is a fact, not generally known, that for upwards of three years past, we derived our means of paying these troops mostly, if not altogether, by negotiating Government Bills in the United States, receiving dollars from them, and transporting this money to Canada. Tnis source is cut off from us, at present, by a late law of the American Congress, prohibiting the exportation of money out of the United States. Now, we would enquire of - the 44 war in disguise men":—the men of 64 energetic measures"—the men who Would trample down neutral rights, and neutral i commerce, by what means they, are, other than by a total and immediate change of system, to avert the Idifficulties and dangers which, it is agreed on all hands, surround this devoted. nation) We are not among those that despair. ' 4 If the fire is too hot, 1 I or the window too cold," said the eloquent Cuait tm, 4 turn not your back to either." Let not the nation be lulled into fatal security by the hireling journals [ 1 - of the day, who would persuade the people that 1 there is nothing to fear from an American war. It is pregnant with danger, and if not avertedi will i most assuredly prove the finale of 44 our last and ! greatest calamities." To heal au evil, we should iprobe it to the , battens;, au& 43 imee,:danger, the 1 people sliouldlMged af Its bear'ings - and extent.' . The following litiaet Of a letter, dated Washing , ton, April the 30th, received by a respectable merchant , in the city, discloses some important facts respect ing the hostile views of the American Government : , 44 We understand that the mind of the Executive is 1 Ifully made up to war, without any further attempt? l at negotiation. A Cabinet was held, and the Seers/ ' taries constated.—The Secretary of State was fat ' WAIL immediately.—The Secretary of the Treasury was ready with his Ways and Means.—The Secretary of the Navy with his small but gallant force. The i [ Secretary of War wished for 60 days to strengthen, 1 &c. and to arm the frontiers. The PRESIDTNT re commended the Embargo for 60 days, determiniel, We presume, to cut short all further negotiation; not I to wait till we could hear of the effect of the Embargo on Great Britain, but to go to war within the 60 days. The House of Representatives came into this view.— • The Senate would not consent to an Embargo, the friends of war, the friends of manly direct opposition 1 to the wrongs of Britain, wishing for a little more time to burnish up our arms. The measure of the Paestomr is, therefore, a stronger one than that of the Senate ; it bears unequivocally on its face a deter j mined resolution to cut matters short, and wait no longer for news front Pump. The measure of the Senate bears the other aspect without in, 1 tending it ; it permits us to bear the echo of 1 the Embargo from the British shores; but this was not the motive of the delay, whatever weak and suspicions men may choose to say of it. This delay has subjected Congress to an inconvenient alterna tive; if they remain, it may now put things too far forward; if they prorogue, too far back. It is pro bable, however, they will have a recess for fifty days. We have the utmost confidence in the integrity and energies of the Executive. Their plan of the cam paign was at first a much bolder one than the one sub stituted scorns likely to prove." The following statement has appeared in. the dif ferent Journals in the imMediate interest of Lords GREY and GRENVILLE :--" Itt consequence of what passed last Thursday night, itt the House of Com mons, and to obviate the misapprehension which may arise upon it, we think it necessary to state the two following facts, which we will reature to pledge ourselves will be proved beyoed the possibility of contradiction in the discussion which we understand is expected to take place in the House of Lords, in the couse of next week. " Ist, -That though nearly three weeks were spent in what were called the late negotiations, no inti mation whatever was given, either by Lord Aim RA, Mr. SIIERID IN, or any person who they could con ceive to have the slightest authority on the subject, either to Lord Gave Er Lord GRENVi US" of the intention of the Officers of the Household to resign. " 2d. That having beena!tiered by Lord f l io i RA, that 1 he had full powers, It warnot necessary for them to 1 propose any previous stipulation to be lissented to I by the Palm: on this subject. What these Noble Lords desired was, that the usual changes in the Household should be included in the new arrange ments to be agreed 6n, it! order to' spew the neces- I sary connection of these Offices with the Political Administration in its first formation. This they un derstood Lord MOIRA to express his determination to resist, and on this determination—so stated on Ithe part of his Lordship—all farther discussion be. came useless. 44 It was then on the necessity of actually matiall the change that the difference arose, and we will venture to say, that if in the matmer of doing it .any means could have.been soggested,either by the vo luntary resignation of these Officers, or in any Qtbet mode which might have obviated the objections felt by Laid MOIRA, it would have been most readily and cordially assented to on the part of Lord Glue and Lord GREW VILLE." disconcerting Mr. ROSE'S strange and most unprece dented attempt at preventing Mr. BROUGHAM from bringing forward his motion on Tuesday next, upon the most important of all subjects in the present state of the country—the Orders in Council. Mr. Rost finding that this motion was certainly to come on up-' on Tuesday, gave a notice on Thursday, that he should, last night, move to have the evidence on the Orden in Council taken into consideration next Monday se'nuight. A notice of a nature quite new, . and liable to such imputations as we are unwilling to give it. The evidence dosed last Wednesday se'n night—it was all printed on Wednesday last, and Me. BaorcilAbl had put off his motion for a whole week to give more time for considering the evidence ; , so that there will have been about a whole fortnight given on next Tuesday, since the evidence closed---; and still Mr. Rosa and the Minister pretend, the ! time for discussion is not arrived, and endeavour by a most novel device to prevent the discussion so ge , ne , •ally called for by the .suffering country. We trust it will fail if repeated to night or on Monday, land we are glad to hear that the motion (whatever , Mr. Rosa may do) comes on certainly on Tuesday. A recent National Intelligencer contains the fol lowing notice respecting the spy, HilsaY:--"- 46 The New York Evening Post, of April 14, contains an article extracted from the Montreal Courant, pur porting to be a copy of a letter from Joni HENRY i(the Agent to whom we are indebted for a develop- , I ment of British infernalism) to his friend in Canada, dated at New York, March 6, 1812. This article is so palpable and gross a forgery, a manoeuvre so I contemptible, as not to be worth a remark, but to awaken our vigilance, and put us on our guard against the incessant intrigues of the British Govern ment and its satellites, and their unretnitted attf , mpts to sow dinention throughout this country. IlEsey's disclosures had paralised the British interest in this country so greatly, that a desperate remedy became necessary, and forgery is resorted to, to weaken their foree—a fit agent for the purposes of those whd had sacrilegiously dared to lay their profane hands oe the holy ark of our Union." The new system lately adopted for carrying oe the recruiting service in the Gloucester District (baying been found to be productive of great ,advan; tage) is immediately to be extended to the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridge, and will gra flatly be introduced throughout Great Britain. The French prisoners at NormenVitiss have lately discovered much hilarity, and have appeared to be animated by some intelligence which they hawe re ceived; but no overt marks of turbulence or insub ordination have taken place. • Among the remarkable oiCarieniet of the year 1812, may be noticed the Address of three Dissent ing Ministers, of Sunderland, to the PRINCE Re cern, on the assassination of the late Premier. — These gentlemen, with an unaccountable deviation from the main object of the address, squeezed in the expression of their " perfect satisfaction with the measure of religious liberty theti enjoy," We trust that should any Bill be brought 4orward in Parlia ment for a further extension of liberty to the re spectable body of Dissenters, n clause will be intro duced to except the reverend trio. A footrace' was yesterday Motning decided. fetH ten guineas, in Hyde-Park, between a man of the 1 name of Nicholson, a boot-closer, and tt_gentleman'e groom, of the name of Ginger. The: parties started from Grosvenor-gate, to run the distance of 100 1 yards, When the boot-closer, being , a light-heele , 1 Mercury, beat his opponent hollow ; he wascheeraL in triumph. A great concourse of persons were at.e' warbled, and many bets were staked by the know ing ones. Another race for Ktguineas a-side, will take place this morning, in Lord's Cricket-groetid, i between the boot-closer and Mr. Budd, the cele brated cricketer. Item am*: favour of the boot* dew. • - t; t • •?•:. _ .r - - A great ntrrnber of Addresses of Condolence on the death of Mr. Perceval were presented Among Misers, am-Asktress from Cambridge Uninosity-, front the county of Northampton, from the county of An •glesey, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Birmingham, Merionethshire, Bre. I Lord Glenhervie presented a Report to his Royal highness, and had a private audience after the Levee. At the Levee, Mr. Edward flitchins , .!tid . , or of Or.. ford, was knighted; on Ms presenting an Address. NAVAL INTELLIGENCIt PORTSMOUTH, laic 12. Sailed last night his Majesty's ship Furiotts; and this afterenoo his Majesty's ship Viper, both with convocp for the Downs. Arrived his Majesty's ship Fawn, with a convoy from Goers. sey. DEAL, Jyrra le. Sailed the Albion cutter for off Flushing; and the Transit fur Sheerness. PLY 11401.1 TA, Jost 11. Case In the Teazer gun-brig, from Basque Roads ; Neptune tender, from Dublin; and the Intelligent gnu-brig, from Fal mouth. Sailed his Majesty's ships Helicon, on a cruize; Fanny cutter, for Portsmouth ; Maria tender, for flelfaa; and the Ilot.pitr ft izat.-, few - Coro tins. The Freya frigate has come down the harbour, and Is appoint ed convoy for Lisboa and Cadiz. The .notine gun-ht tg is ap. poiatsul convoy for Ponsmouth. 'FALMOUTH, Jove 10. Arrived his Majesty's asp Orestes, from Plymouth. YARMOUTH, Ansa ° Arrived yesterday from the yore, the Thrasher gun-brig, and takes convoy to Heligoland. Arrived to-day his Majesty's ship Chanticleer, from the Nore. We are informed, that on Thursday evening there was a paper read at the Royal society,• Somerset. place, from Don JOSEPH RODERIGUEZ, shooing, that i Lieut.-Colonel MUDGE, in conducting the trigone. 'metrical survey in this island, has comitiitted some errors or mistakes, and thereby given theearth a dif• ferent figure from that which it is actually-known to have, making it a prolate instead of an oblate I spheroid. This is a corroboration of what we for. merly advanced on the subject, notwithstanding the ! assertions of an unblushing and grovelling sycophant in the Eclectic Review, for March last, who, by ! his indiscreet vapouring and ranting, has most un. fortunately rendered the subject of his panegyric an object of general ridicule and contempt. —Such. Iwretched encomiasts, -by giving into' flattery, with. oat the smallest check from discretion, are, in fact, the greatestonemies of those they attempt to praise ; ; and never tail to make the blunders and absurdities of those they unwisely extol, as conspietnans as their own ignorance, selfishness, and folly. To this point we will take another oppertunity of speaking more partintslarly. We shall, therefore, • only ob serve at , prksent, that we truly regret the existence of such mistakes, as discredit and reproach must, in consequence of them,• attach to the country, instead of Lemur as this modeit ranter wishes to make the publiehelieve. At a period when we have scarcely an Amhara. dor at a Foreign Court, and when the system of et pobuzge is-greatly circumscribed, the 'following ex • traordinary aerie appears under the bead of " Mts. coltaneout gervicell :" For His Majesty's Foreign and othe i lecriet *nices t 151,5391. 14s. 34.- - Private advice. from PetersbOrgh to the 23d ult. i• state, that BONAPARTI had made another attempt at negotiation with the Rnsaian Faitis ton, and that he lima offered to abandon altogether, both Prussia and .on the sip& condition, that Aix:taxon I sa - become party to the Conttnental, system, and 41fe his porta to .#ritiskitiviptimaili trnowares. . igGIGS . kr; • • • /kW 0 Of •• ratetld • ••• .1 o .. 1 wtICE OF STOCKS THIS 'tank per Cent. Con'. per Cent Ited. ssit 4 per Cents. 7A3 F per Cent. 'Wavy I.nne. %nn. I. 1-16 DA T Al' uNis crcuocki. lodia Bonds 4 2. 9 dig. Excliewier Bilk SO. 12 d Ditto Sid. 5 per. 0104111111T1 - Consuls for Acet.•s9{l Lottery Tickets 711 E S7 I ,I 7 TESIVi A IV-; - LONDON: IATInIDAY, JUNE 13, 11112. TIM sTAIT.4SIIO. `The Governor of Gottenburgh dined with Sir SAUMAREZ, on board the Victory, a few trays Lbefore the packet sailed. It has been decreed in the !•Diet at Orebro, that the law of 1799, respecting do miciliary visits for prohibited goods, shall be put in force. Recent letters from the Continent,'brought by the Anlicilt y mail, mention a circumstance which may be consid as of some interest:—General LESTOQ, a Prussiliti General of some celebrity, had quarrelled with DviterrE, the newly-appointed French Gover nor of Berlin, on the subject of politics. A duel was the consequence, in which the, French O ffi cer fell, and the Prussian veteran was , of course, im mediately obliged to abscond. From Buenos Ayres, we have been favoured-with the following communication :—" Our army has had three conflicts with the Portuguese, in all which the 1 Patriots have been victorious. In the last action the Portuguese lost, in killed, 300 men; a Portuguese Brigadier-General has been at Buenos Ayres eight 1 days, in the character of a Negociator ; his purpose 1 is said to have been to propose the retreat of the i army of the PRINCE REGENT, which is somewhat endangered by the situation of General ARTIGAS. Lord Moirt's manner of treating his PRINCE is not the least amusing part of his narrative. He first makes his Royal Highness consent to gi#e up the I Household and then tells him, it shall not be taken from him. Whoever has seen a person of adult age ' reduce an untoward child to obedience, has seen the very counterpart of this proceeding. The babe is ottkigried for some occasional witylvtuvinesi,, by being deprived of his playthings: at first he clamours, then whimpers and sobs, and at last ends by ac quiescing in the dispensations of his superior.— " Very well, papa, 1 don't want them, if you think l 'l ought not to have them."—" Oh," quoth the re rlenting parent, " now you are a good boy, you shall have all your trinkets to play with." Just so Lord MOIRA : " Is your Royal llighness prepared to part with your Household?"—" I am."—" Then (keep the baubles) you shall riot part cid& one of them!" No wonder his Royal Highness declines returning to his early friends, if they all treated him after this fashion. Mr. ATBUTIINOT succeeds Mr. W. POLE 89 Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Mr. W. PEELE is to be the new Secretary for the Treasury. The adjournment of the House of Commons last night, in consequence of there not being a sufficient number of Members at four o'clock, had the effect of THE PRINCE REGENT'S LEVEE. Yesterday, soon after two o'clock, the Prince . Regent held a Levee at Carlton House, which was very numerously attended. There were present the Dukes of York, Cumberland, Kent, Sussex. Cam. bridge, and Gloucester . ; the Archbishops of Canter. bury and York ' • the Earl Marshal of England (the Duke of Norfolk), with the Stag of Office ' the Lord Chancellor, the Cabinet Ministers, the Lord Steward of the Household, the Lord Chamberlain, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master of the Rolls, the Secretary at War, the Judge Advocate, the Lord Mayor of London. At the Levee, besides those we have already men. tioned, were— The Spanish. Portuguese, and Sicilian A mbassagort. Maas—Montrose, Athol, Beaufort, Mal .od. Manootscs —Stafford, Headfort, Wellesley, Huntley. Eaaas—Camden, Meath, Sandwich, Spencer, Mansfield, Winchelsea, Pembroke , MacclesfielJ, Moira, Chatham, Clan carty, Grey, Northesk,Harrington, Grosvenor , Moons Cashel, Guildford, Pomfret, Delaware, Ross, Hardwicke, Charlemoat, Harrowby. Viscot.sTs —Jocelyn, Palmerston, tetenhant, Mountjoy, Falmouth, Althorpe. Lassos—Arden, Glenbervie, Huntingfleld, C. Spencer. Oren. villa, Radstock, F. Spencer, Delava!, Burgherth, Britce,North wick, C. Somerset, Compton, C. O'Bryen, Kenyon, BLutyre, Whitworth, Bravbroke, Bayaing. Btsuors--Oxford, eath, Exeter, St. David's, Bristol, &c. &c. &c. CHAPTER OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER.--. After the Levee the Prince Regent held a Chapter i of the Knights of the Garter, in his Throne Room. —The Knights of the Order were assembled in the Robing-room, with the Officers of State s , and the Household, together with the Officers of the most Noble and illustrious Order. The principal King at Arms arranged the Knights in the following order:— The Duke of Montrose, the Marquis Wellesley, the Marquis of Hertford, the Earl of Wincheisea, the Earl of Pembroke, the Dukeof Beaufort, the Earl of Ilardwicke, the Dukeof Rutland, Earl Camden Earl Spencer, the Earl of Westmorland, the Earl of Chatham, ;he Duke of Gloucester; the Doke of Cembridge, thy Duke of Sussex. the Duke or Cumberlaml, the Duke or Kent, and the Duke of York; the Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Order; the Bishop of Salishaly, the Cksticcime ; e t c Deaa of I% ituber ' the Registrar; Garter, principal !(in ? . .rms ; Sir Thereas Tyrwhitt, and other Officers of the Herald's °lnce. A Chapter of the Order was then held in presence of the Prince Regent, which was opened by the Bishop of Salisbury, Chancellor of the Order, who also announced, that there Ira's a vacant stall, which it was the pleasure of the l'rince Regent should now be filled up. Garter King-at Arms retired, and in troduced the Earl of Moira, who was knighted by his Royal Highness, and then withdrew into an adjoining room. The votes of the different Knights were then collected, and the Prince on examining them, in structed the Chancellor to declare that Francis Raw don Hastings was duly elected a Member of the most noble and illustrious Order of the Garter. The.- Marquises Wellesley and Hertford, the two junior Knights, then introduced the Earl of Moira, who was invested by the Prince Regent with the Garter and lObbon, after the usual ceremonial. A Chapter of the Order of the Bath was afterwards held, at which General Paget received the honour of knighthood, and was with the ribs on of the Order. • . I ft. Jr ' ,t •. • • . • \t 1 : 1 ,T• • 11‘.i V .ll V r. • P . (l • (I ' • . $l l 'sl [ IL il -I ::: st ::, I ~~ ' I _ -7