The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-15 00:00:00

• ere at peace with her, is considered sea pirate. This yaistaorilinsry provision ,of the treaty mast have escaped the attentiott of that power in oar Govern ment which makes treaties, or it would have been rob , . jested, as tell for its cruelty as because it is an Act of Legislation to define and punish piracies, and noto power confided to the treaty-making setbority. To eiti i sefhothing mono of that law, however, Mr. R. ob. served that. be d. seed it 'tapestry topcoats/4*o • Bens of thii U. rota* from punishment, dee only 1.1 piracy, vibes teasid\with Comniimions in their hands. 'from any Gocarameniat war with Spain. Be wished le set °art:blank at perfect liberty to lecerse;citi• sees of what Dodds rhey chose,, on sink tarns as . that nation shoeld prescribe. It week' llPPeire 1111) " . Orrf, Yrom'irbet be had's.* 'Mr. 11.. 'remarked, that - there sail not that iteutrittify alts oar conduct lower& . - the two parties, le the twat betwtess Spode IA her Col o nies, which we allroiem.' In dela.respect the • parties were certainly not *Ns 'the siege footing; since a chisets of tile United *Ws is the employ of Spain agaiostitse Colonies Is not coneidexe d es s pirate, bet. *egged is tbA servir's of tbe . oofooles ••against Spain, he is. He did blot. kuselithah.tizilfect would batiladuced his to have brounbt•theqiiittion • before the noose, bat tepid* deep inipeeeslow he Celt, of the justice and propriety of adoptiog thapilociPte, abstracted from the eastingistate of thine Bat it was the more necessary toredesothe prim:44 to Le. gustation, bermese of the ateetion in which the tient ' -of it has placed as its regacf.ts foreign stations. . The roetion of Mr. ilitbortatu was' adopted wkle - snit oppositiony'aird Ofthett ailikiion. r • . I + • A privets" hitter from Wialtiestots 4 lho 1214 ell.. Rivas in tonScterit aerosol the cisesiou dile Fioridat io.the Vatted States. . • . , • Ncw Ynnx, Dec. 117.—The following is eh es-' ,Aract of a letter fiom Washiogton, dated the 14th •- . ; inst. :--- 64 It is stated here with apperenteethenticity, —the*. the British Minister, -Mr. 'Begot, Imo, by cow. r.jseesi of his Government, -entered a protest against our coming into possession of the Floridas, by per ' abase, or otherwise. i• state what I hear, not what 1 brow. Such ioterferenci can inirdly be expected. I ; 1 ; 44 The United States Meat Coeit, for the third , iciriteit, commenced a Special Stall/so, at Philadel • -Ode, tie Mouday last. • The Coed hes been specially • cameened for the trial of a number of British Officers, who stand committed on a charge of Misdemeanour, • iwiiolating the neutral relations of the' United States • with the Spanish Colonies In South America ; and for • she trial of certain persons ow charges of obstructing the Deputy .lifershals in the eseastion of process for militia flues, Oudot . sesstencosof Courts-Martial, and for 'obstructing the Officers of the Calcites of this . podia the dilatory/ of their official duties." Mt IN 01111017:10 MS COSIMITUTIOS. "-The Leg's. lative vf South Carolina has conclurred in an mash& anent to the Constitutihu of the United States, sop gusted by the Legislator*, of Kentucky, which re quires that no Congress, boteafter, shall make any • law, fining the compensation of its &Umbers, which shall (sheeting until after the election of a new Con• gross. .• Doe Gum—The following paragraph we copy from the Aurora. We glee it without comment : • •r Whit tersilers the intrigues of Don Onis most as tonishing to every thinking 'mind is, the humble • etaaderd of his intellect, and the abuse which he has . constantly cast upon th e United Staten, We have a letter of his before es at the moment we are writing, in which he describes Congress as a clamorous mob in a tavern ; and the country requiting only a few thousand Spaniards, entiliritish.ships, to divide the States into threg petty Republics; but we shall give -a translation of the letter it large in a future Paper." Uri NG . 111 AmeoTus.—A Paper printed at St. -Louis, in the Missouri territory (America), an •nounces, " that living mammoths bare lately been oesln Wear the Rocky Mountains." MI LLEDG"Er ILL It (G NO it G I A), Dsc 2.—The march ing of troops to the frontier, and the other hostile, preparations that are making, give to the approach. log conflict with the Seminole Indians, all the pomp end ponder or war. Within a few days. several com panies have passed through here, on their way to the place of rendezvous. "l'he detachment from this State, amounting to nearly 1000 men, assembled ati Fort has kins yesterday, and will resume their march in a day or two: 500 friendly Creeks, headed by their distinguished warrior, hl 4 lntosh, hive espoused ear cause, and are hastening with alacrity to the Wan of battle. General Gaines has with him at Fort' Scott, 700 regulars. The whole, when suited, will be a formidable force in 'lndian warfare. On the other hand the strength of the Seminoles has beets also considerably increased by reinforcements; ell the disaffected Creeks and Cherokees, and they are net a few, having gone to their assistance. A bloody conflict may therefore be expected, if the Indians de termine Usti?* us battle in an open and spirited man ner; bet if they seek refuge in the impenetrable swamps and ether biding places with whickthe coon try they inhabit 'abounds, or if the progress of our arms should be checked by an usiwillingness in the Commanding General to enter the Spanish territory, the chastisement these savages merit, and whit* other wise awaits them, may probably be averted. _ ftirasixemmimilL—w • Tax MEDIATION oil SPANISH . AFFAIRS. It is endeistood that the preliminary Conferences In the. Mediation between Spain and South America, have oemesenced at Paris. We bare, of late. had bequest occasion to call the attention of our Read ers to this subject, in which it was for a long time expected Ministers would not have interfered, from various reasons, aud because, at this late boor, no mediation can be effectual. It however seems cer tain that they have at length been induced, not to commence, but to join in afresh medistion,as if they wore unaware of what was passing in America, bad mistaken the character of a seven years' straggle, and forgotten the resale of their three int *attempts to mediate. What these attempts were, sled how they tesminated, it is important that the British Public should resnembtor. The kit mediation was proposed to the Spaniards early inJuly,lBlo,at the solicitation of tire Deputies tont over here by the Supreme Junta of Veneaeela. The terms of this mediation, and the answers of the Marquis Wellesley,then Minister, we hare already noticed. The British Goterament laid the propeials • • • • r. it -1 if i. . blifolow.the.lipauiskagescp s glum established in IM lain f ti4s4ele timal ; of thii-lirstbers of 001 CPI Jain Pia laapiablltl..- This *illation suss tets ' rejictid' : ota tit of mush limit h (31sly Na - thundering Decree of blockade /as loosed *kW Venesweiwityhthe . Illkildilata of which provinees by another actsdirest Inhelnesly de clared rebels and eitlaWs.. In the Course. of this translation thi.real spirit .of the fouisk Gesebtautt was evinced. Early in 11111, Greet Britain prepaid a titWtid' lariliatioa.te the Cortes, - and the. answers given eve ciintained in a Decree of „nine Artirlei issued by the seidCortes its 19th June, the selistence elk- which ' 'was dint the South Amertessa alkoold aelurowiedp the Seiereignty of Spain befit* the mediation; took Riau, which wu, in fact s the male point in Map's,. and chiefly called for the Menai* Proposed. -- C,sorernmerst declined carrying. through a ammjit: thin aft it buis so objectionable instil its parts. h Towitsie the close of 181 t,the British Government etelo wildertook a mediation, dad Messrs. Cockbirs, S) .. denisiii, and • Mosier; were warned 'as Commh sitmers:'...lt man of wee Wte Sited ave. at a coma. doio6iis ezpeace, sad pv;aaided to wig. The affair wow said before the Cartes. After many es_preasions of erntrust respecting the view's - of Greet Iffrilliw*. this repeated *attempt to interpose s it was ..- ' s ~.,: as: -; that only a 'Naha Mediation mold' we .. •4 . .4 Me*** Mosel" isteledid, as it ins sheid• - h .sir, give *cost Istb• British. On ilintlila • h. e-- ) . : trent -refused tit fetish:we, so d the ate sigesia,tistoi . , . :., ..., I, V ' '4, erigibeett7 ell•thrislevi.eway. , . . .. Thos ended the thin distinct' attempts on the Ott 'of ow Government to arrange she dissentious swim- Wig between Spain and her Ultra.miarine kifosinies,at a time when mediation was practicable, 'shank might here stopped the effesion of blood, and hien service. able in the contest in which we *ere then engaged. But, what. can be its object in 1818, when nearly all: the Wised has been spilt; when the South Arriericaus have gained the object for Which they hive been so long contending; and when they are on the eye of reaping ail the fruits of their labours ? We have had three positive and ignominious rebuffs from the Spaniard"; do we now seek one from the South Americans? What caw be the cause of this subser riency-to'Spain, after pastexperience ? Besides, are the South Americans riot to be consulted and heard ? Is England to join iti the imposition of a disgraceful yoke, which they ban struggled for seven years to dish' ? -- midge Every Briton, no doebt, in his owts heart, will fiod'etrinswer to these questions. On the sibject of the -"loth American contest, On public mind daily becomes more enlightened, and Will .he more so, as the views of Spain and the Allies in the present ne. pciations are made manifest. Already every one Lknows, that Spain seeks to enjoy the benefits of a me. diatien, beaten she has now seen the fatal issue of iser avenging expeditions, *hid wbkh the is no longer In a statist° repeat. In this meaner stle seeks to se pia whatotheraise would be last to her for ever.— And seppesiog she was reinstated in her former :prier, who is to guarantee that she will not spin abuse her trust ? is it Russia, Austria; and Prussia? -.Or is it to us the South Ajaericans are to appeal, When their tapitulations hive been violated ? But, it is pertieeetly asked, what' is to become of the Russian seriadren'? Is It intended to carry out the negotiators?' Almost every arrival from the West brigs souse tidings of the successes of the lode. pendent., and their proves. in civilization and the arts of Government. Every communication from that quarter conveys some idea how a mediation would be received, and the effect it would produce. To the tune of their cities, to their widows and orphans, would the South Americans point, and esk whether they could again trust to Spanish promises sod pledges? They would remind the negociators of an oiliest 'conquest,. and 300 years of the most galling oppression, and ask them whether it Is to this they seek again to sedate• them t No—whatever may be the anxiety of Spain to make her cause that of the Allies—whatever may be her exertions to create a party in Zapped of her own weakness, we derive a consolation in thinking, that her efforts to subjugate caunot, et this late hour, meet with suc cess, though we regret that, with such prospects be. fore as, the British character is in the smallest de. gree implicated in furthering an object which can be attended with no other than ignomini-ous resells. PRICE OF •STOCKS Tills DAt AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rank Mock 110 3 per Ceat..Navy 1030 3 per Cad. Red. Slit . Pada' Wade 101 p 9 per Cent. Consols rifle *--- Sleek Cann& for Ace. 112 i LaligA an. 10 13-16 11 4 per Cent. 991 • 42sikequer Rill. 19 29 p THE STATESMAN. . • LONDOri : - 11113111111alrg 3A3111/ARY 10, lsls. The intelligence fries America, which weoontiase frisn'the Trans-italaatic 'moats, is stiii AI most interns** which we hereto sebmit. The pelitical of. fairs of the Northern and Southern Heielstiberes are fordo( themselves upon the serious notice of Es ropeasinatione.The Ualted States on already deeply -involved in Der European concerns, and already it is impossible not to feel a Moog interest in the volution of the Soothers- Catania', and a concern salaaming to apprehension for the consequences which the momentoes changes is that immense por tion of the Globe must necessarily prod ace in the salaam; syites of public affairs in the nations *resod es.. This country, from the nature of Its power, and Its'geographial position, will, of • necessity, be the first to ezperiesce it; bat If met by an enlarged and liberal policy, it may contribute to promoteeer proiperity, and to advance the general. happiness-of mankind. Previous to noticing the contents of the American Papers thaLhave reached as, we shall remark,Ahat it is stated in a letter from Iran (in Spain), .of the 15th ult. ) that the ospeditioo l 'thick is abut to pro- [N io the C4oll_lll pdpo of a Rs laisW alsks propoodirto Sooths Americo. , isdreo, *id be , iirsorruir, or to e seine hostilities, eccording to eirtemstenClerc . . Clelland 'Military Commisitoners are Ti cempay it, who' will offer terms of arrangement 'waxily: advantageous to the Inhshitaate of Speesibh 'kettles *sod to tho-Modet Country. What these adsastsgeoes terms ere, we are tint specifically given fakimdentand. Bet it wettid appear, that even Spain an, disposed 46 proffer-mereliberat • teem et ac. esoinnodation to her Independent Colonies. Oa of the •sostitern contesting. taken peestilyt*ef' blm — bst every other topicln the ikon of RoProknes tlvits,ll the American Joereah, and. we map prawn* generally among the People of the UnitedStalett. The interference of Russia in the contest streetittnint cv petted in America.. It remains to be seem, what af fect the appearance of d. Russian stiatadine in the Ameriean seas Wiltbsveow.theeziating verYtiosbtill refetioniof lb* different Governments. It m ar cer tainly .ernsatitisie * preeedent*fOr interference,. end may afffsid aliadliciewtia#fieittion t o the United States oateadtheieerns of protection to the straggling IPetrietir, or to make further appropriations' of ter yiterey, for the purpose, or on the; pfea of protecting themselves. .We certairly woo* mach rathresee the, interference of such a rosier is tint Government of she United States exerted 'to 'give 'hunianity the as, *unlace of her righlo, 'amidst the dangers of internal commotion, and the horrors of foreign sobjugatiou, than hear of Russian ferocity and Spanish revenge rivetting the chains- of despotism and 'sperm WWI, on' an onfortestere community striving to be free.... Amelia Island and Galveston are probably :long since in the possession of the United States. Amelia . bland is reported so have been captured without. firing a single shot. Accounts had been received et Savannah from Ameliai that A WIT and his band were making preparations to evacuate that place, having heard that the United Stites were about to drive them - oat —by 'force. question of she Florida. will, in all probability, be decided by this step of she America!) Government.--The Florida., from their situatiee, ore an arqnisitiow of the utmost importance tneompiete the Northers Union. In the hands of an enemy or a' rival Pewee they must detract considerably from the security end strength of the United States, most fetter their commerce, and controul their operations; but even these disadvantages, formidable as they appear, sink into insignifiCance when contrasted with the immense benefit. which the United States must cleave from • the possession of them. By conti nuing their empire to the Golf of Mexico, the Flo. rides secure to them the absolute command of that sea, and place Mexico sod its commerce under their direct contronl ; they give an increase of territory whine it is most useful for politicsi and commercial: purposes ; and, above all, thel free the Union from all apprehensions of an enemy on 'the Soother , ' free tier. The possession of these Provinces was also of great value and importance to Spain, but Spain wants money, and cannot retain them. Si; millions of dollars, however, if the raiment of Spanish spoils. lions on American commerce is to be deducted from that sem, will be but a very inadequate price for such .ossessions. The inhabitants in the Florida, ire not so numerous as might be supposed, but (nods of the lead is fertile, deriving from the climate such quoin. tie. as are no niters else to be found, and the'int dn. sic value of the territory k great. The Boom of Representatives has passed a Aril°. , lotion, which is likely to remove a frequent cease of dispute between England and the United'Staks. due of their Committees hashers directed ioenquire intethe expedieacy of providing for the a pprehensieWof foreign seamen, deserters from their vessels ki the North Allies: dean harbours. ' • • The Bill for repealing the Internal Taxes had it. ready passed the third reading in the House of Re presentatives by a majority of 1.61 to 5, and nvariery of 4er important business had been transatied t . for which we refer to the extracts from the'Papers.-- . The Bill for repealing the Tales • will maks some difference between this point of *fairs and the picture presented by the PlEst DEVI. We insert a Circular Letter from the Coannittee for the Suppression of Mendicity in the City. explain. ing the objects of the proposed Society: Their plan is likely to obtain the attention and-soceeas which it merits. The - cause has our cordial approbation.— The plan proposed is one which, though reqeiring zeal and industry in the commencement of it, may, when setebilabed, be carried on with little difficulty. The 411111Utiens for the relief of distressed Seamen, are sleet laudably unremitting. About 60 seafaring men were examined yesterday, and most of them sent to the receiving ships at the Tower, or to hospitals. The tempoory aid• also, of a fourth part'of i quartern loaf and thret-pence each, for the eight, was admi- Watered to about 310, at the end of the Poultry Compter, and at the King's Head. Our Readers weald observe in our Paper of yes terday the copy of a latter from Lord Serum to Mr. Wsrnman, on the subject of Mr. Hoses proseca• does. A sebseriptiee of a kindred guineas sitcom.' parried this letter. Oar praise of the-stotiments and' munificence of the noble•titinded donor was briefly bet strongly expressed, -as were the feelings and si tattle. of this truly respectable character by himself) a sick beilifrom This ode, Weal &meaty, his be of pessimist, :indlestios of shot we note " s \ might perhaps new egg. stee l reef of big alio irliPoiktifettbe hum" L Jul, cod ilosee, off which this Noblelianmgardo _.......reeidle. . he 4provid of Mr. floss's cesium, hnd Of thW dories wit* &equities! him, 'so high and re . i ettibie t i and so unequivocally expressed, conk. seentty ,conveying en. equity strong and 'weighty - , lien of the attempts made to destroy the natiasiol liberty under the mask of piety, could oat be ',erected to tress without exciting the centers of the hireddefender of persecution. Accordingly the Courier of last sight pretends to be " unfeigii. edly shocked" at the pirtasal Of the Earl's letter ; end thotigh ibewriter dates not trust himself with the impression of those sentiments which these few words eseite, Milt he strives to " speak as many dagger's" u bit malignant spirit can compress into the compass he 'nets himself for this attack. He, however, says little tOtte purpose. The religions horror of P . ate earlier which he has lately adopted, prevents his joining in the right view of this subject. We revel. lest this some writer took it into his head to imagine %bat tnioatabi„t-l.e feelings of e mirti.oo. sick bed, or about to eavress Ms dyirig sentiments on the sub. joie of the - offeoces cbatged in the tste reosecutioni. Ls this. like ' she' CouriEep , picture ?..—Free hot.. a teeli . th* Christisp il ,can look upon, Inge. even in the mirsteerfal• moments., Mirlilhitalm epprobatiem of e mind that eta make tlie heceisarallowances y - fur a helpl e ss iedisideal, " *ere alitsti.egaiost than sinning;" but Who can the same time detect-the hollow imposture of the proceedings sgignst Mtn, end fearlessly express his opinion-4f them, though it were his expiring legacy. The Earl of SErros, whose dingerooe state is itself a subject of sincere public regret, has by this timely sod undaunted ex. pression of hrineet feeling, afforded an instance of dignified views which has deservedly attracted the attention and commendation of no small part of his countrymen. His Lordship's 'sample will, we trust, be fonowesi by snore titled' personages, and those who have been accustomed to stand foremost in the defence of liberal principles. .The Resolution of the Pithife Meeting, that Mr. it. should be " permanently benefited,;' will . not we hope be allowed to fail in effect. Tho Public and the more powetfol friends of Freedom have a duty he discharge to the vindicators of public right- sod' the selbrers its its cause, which may milk with the most imperious obligations of bumpily, for without such aopprirt, the twitter of patriotism must sink, end the rod of oppression be 'attended over the whole community. ' . l'he repeated _assertion that the prom:cation of ,Mr. Hone was undertaken opooptinelpkithe most pure, unbiassed by political feeling, Wesel* with the view of ponixhing *wormier agelost video. 4gion, and decettiy, ought and will weigh nothing in every unprejudiced mind. The- public opinion is ton well established on this point to be It dueuced by any assertion of the Edith? Of the Courier. Tho totality of that print are- too dip. gusting to- asks ti::-essevort of any friths! of 40, cency.. But it 4 redly setting all shams aid ems. &latency at delieliiiisio thet -Paper thus to treat:. the matter of Parodies, when 'the most , libetlosic Mr) blasphemous Parodies a alt' parts of the Scripit4s7 may be found in the Gies of that Joureel. The Coi tier has ever considered these the moseproper methods of supporting hs priociples and its perify aad •Ike c,oeld quote from its pages more open, dent:borate. st!a• heinous derelictions from decency, morality, and re-. ligion, than any ► thing that has been produced oar the' side of opposition to power, which it lest all time* dangerous to espouse; it . is only wow, when the weapons of malice recoil on the pereecutors, that such perversions are deelered to bisinfol. Bat even contrition in this instance ieroneccompeoled with grace and the eecessary. besaltity. There eve those on earth who would be .dangerous keepers of this Celestial Paradise—they 'allow but one entrence to it, end that must be through their tenets end permi , .. sion. But every one will take his own way to the great object, in spite of such bigotry., The Courier access, Mr. Homes Committee of re. sorting to tricks to swell the list of subscriptions. — This, we believe, is a most unfounded charge. The Committee is composed of persons whose retpectabi , litrund characters ought to have secured them from such s calumnious insinuation. Some . persons hue thousht it enema, to declare that certain signatures, to the subscription are not theirs, and this the Cou. ricr calls " detections of- wretched espedients."— ft is, indeed, a wretched espedient to lay hold of such miserable disavowals to impugn the characters. and objects of those who are most actively employed in this benevolent undertaking. Yesterday, &bast half.paot two o'clock, the Doke and Duchess of Gtoccnseca arrived at their how,' in Park.lane, from ilsgshot. Their Royal High ne4ses-had a select party to dinner.. Yesterday a Court of Directors woo held at the Rost linlia.hoose, when Captain .1. STE:WART WSs sworn into the command of the ship Lady Mrlville, consigned to chino direct ; as was Captain B. KAY, into the.command of the Marchioness of E'y, destined to Madras and Urneol. Mr..lltdnoctc•, M.P., has arrived at Tre-Madoe, , Ninth Wales, horn visiting his Constituents at Boston. From the frequent advertisements for seats 4 g in a attain Assembly," and the number of Canaidstes for independent 13oroughs, there is every . reason 10 believe that the monied interest will be folly relw." anted in the nest Pattiameot. -, • . ..) . 1 ' . I 4 .1 • 1 P.ll • * La: 1 . ~ • ?: t. a. IP ~ .;} • . • • . . • :~, 1 ' . r • 4 1