The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-08-01 00:00:00

j o tters received yesterday from Gottenburgh r sti t tei that suedish troops wero.embarking on an Rxpedi4 tio„ to Pomerania. A u order was 'Seine titineSim* received in this country for clothing for 7000. Swedish troops, of new levies, who, it is seid, 'a z * onzaaised in order to Wet an army of reserve... • extracts of a Letter from Smyrna, June 4.--A By scoots just received from Constantinople, ire Nara t h a t t he GRAND SVGNIOSI has refused to ratify,the ' treaty with the Russians. The latter . have with. d r awn all their troops, except 12,000 men." -j-g 4 Th e y , *rite from Alexandria, tliat the town ofAntal has been I u tterly destroyed by an earthquake ;- and I am.soni; to ad, that our accounts from Persia ate of .a, core dreadful nature. These state, that by repaat.,; etl shocks of earthquakes, not a building has been: left standing in seveu or eight largo distriets."-r-" The; P lague has again made its appearance here for the last time these many years, and.this misfortune: is grea tly aggravated by the high price of provision, a lmost every kind. They talk of Gen. AN attioasq the Count of the Empire, being expected at GoV44. stautinople." The 3lembers of a certain House have appeared! uithin these few days very anxious, and we think ve ry naturally so, to get rid of their Sessional la. b oa rs. On Wednesday last, the Seneee was sap ported in his important functions, at four o'clock, by sr. GEORGE ROSE and Mr. Loo only; both of * h o w, it pas understood, were engaged out to din per, and yet neither, in complaisance to the other, wonkl be the first to quit the House. This gave oc casion for a wag to observe, that Mr. Rose's meta phor of the bucket was, in some degree, realized in his own person, with this difference, that its ono cape the contest nas for who would dine first, and in-the ether, who would drown first. At length, however, other Members entering, Mr. LONG rose to depart, and his Right lion: Friend was not long ere he fol _ lower! him. Beam' Fence.--The following state. Dent is abstracted from the official returns, corrected to this day :—At sea, 91 of the line, 8 fifties, 119 frigates, IU9 sloops, 8 bombs, 142 brigs, 32 cutters, 5 - 2 schooners; total 557.—1 n port and fitting; 23 of the line, 9 fifties, 32 frigates, 2S sloops, 17 brigs, 10 cutters, 13 schooners ; total 132.—Guard.ships, sof the lie, 4 frigates, 4 sloops ; total 13.—Hos! &c. 32 of the line, '2 fifties, 2 frigates; total 36.—10 commission, 154 of the line, 19 fifties, I 137 frigates, 141 sloops, 8 bombs, 1-19 brigs, 42 ; tatters, 66 schooners ; total 738.—Ordinary ;ad re pairing, 71 of the line, 9 fifties, 61 frigates, 371 sloops, 5 bombs, 13 brigs, 1 cutter, 5 schooners; total M.—Building, 33 of the liue, 5 fifties, 16 frigates, 7 stoops, 8 brig s ; total 69.—Grand total, 1013 ships ; 258 of the line, 33 fifties, 237 frigates, 1:45 sloops, 14 bombs, 160 brigs, 43 cutters, and 71 schooners.—Of this force there are in the Medi terranean 105 vessels-33 of the line. Oif Spain' sod Portugal, 95-30 of the live. In the Channel, 40-11 of the line. In the North See, 81,40 of the line. In the Dawns, 43. At Halifax, 30.. The registers of the Civil Department at Paris pre. for the year 1811, '21,168 births ; awl 15,772 laths. The number of meninges has risen to 4524. 'fl thermometer of M. CIitYALIER was, on the 22d nt one o'clock, 18, 7.10, at three o'clock, 11 -1-10. the first division of the Jamaica fleet has arrived in safety at Greenock. .5.1T11, JULY 28.— TUE &uric FLET.r...-Sevetal vessels arc iu sight, supposed to be part of the Baltic tivet, which lately sailed from Geottenburgh ; twenty six sail of them are destined to the Frith of Edin burgh. An ingenious mechanist, who had discovered a new mode of washing linen by machinery, com menced his advertisement thus. —" [flashing exploded, or crery man hie own washerwoman." A grand and extensive undertaking is now carried en in Dean Foreit, for the purpose of transmitting its valeable productions of coal, lime, and other arti cles, between the Banks of the Severn and the Wye. Mr. WARNER (who died suddenly at the Hay market Theatre, some few days ago) was Private Saretary to the late Duke of MaNcinesvea, when I Ambassador to France, and received the usual gra- I tuity o n b r i ng i ng h o me the news of the rati fi cation of the Treaty of Peace in the year 1783. We have heard, that an eminent Solicitor has at this moment at his disposal, no less than eight Seats in a certain Assembly ; the price, under certain con ditions, is eight thousand pounds.. Thursday evening, about nine o'clock,as Mr. Stet.: ling, mate &an East trader, lying off Limehouse; was whin. on board, by some accident fell from the side of the vessel into the stream, but. was fortu nately saved from drowning by the exertions and hu sanity of a waterman in a wherry, who caught him_ by the coat with his boat-hook, and safely took him In shore, when the waterman was liberally rewarded for hi, trouble. At this moment there is exhibiting in Paris a very Wand panorama of the GHN of. London, which is slid to be very excellent and very attractive. A circumstance, which might . have been attended 'kith 'wry disastrous consequences, occurred at Bos ton on Sunday last. As a gentleman was • stepping into his gig at the door of the Peacock Inn, in the Market-place, with an intention to visit Frieston, the horse, which was a high-spirited animal, set oil at full speed down Wide Bargrae, in consetrience l of the reins breaking, to the imminent danger of the rider and the street passengers. In this perilous si tuation, notwithstanding he had to make several dingerious turns, and to pass two narrow bridges, by the-skilful application of the whip, the gentleman succeedtd in keeping the vehicle clear of every ob stacle until lie reached ililldyke Bar, a distance of about two miles and a half from Boston en the Spils by road, where the career of the animal was stopped. Mr. Pierre Heil, allavarlan Artist, has invented a new instrument of music, which renders the notes visible by means of colours, and which he has named llormonicon a tons risibles" (the visible sounds ilarrnonieon). A trial was made of thelastratment at the Court of Munich, in presence of this principal klusicians of the Chapel, who have expressed their approbation of the invention.--(Jeurnsol di Parris ; July 17). Yourueer. UNION .--- Tuesday was married, at Manchest er , William Shelmerdine, aged only 81, to iliss Taylor, aged 91, both of Safford' • to ab th , te bi Pt II( ta Pu t! of 01 at Ic to tc ft 5 - t} 11 Pi It I ft t 7 II tl II Tilt AN ADMONITORY ADDRESS TO THE INDIXENDENT ELECTORS OF THE UNIT. , ED KINGDO*. FELLOW AND Diurnal. ELEcTOn% AMldst * the multiplied consequences of the deg. racy of the timesi and the effects of corruption, non forms a mere prominent feature, *Gone more to le lamented, than the stipineuess and apathy it eteterate upon Subjects of national and indeed vital interest. t• Strongly impressed with the idea that the anima , Lion of the people to their own interests, and coustitu! 1. timid& manifeeting-trle4tin' proper dire6tiensis the parent and preserver of all that is nationally dear and :valuablc, and op l e ss as the contreul of the ditty terested many, .104 the interested few conceivini the public welfare ought to be paramount to :Mist" . views, I have been induced to submit the follow* ::sentiments to your most serious attention. As it 14s I been say anxious wish to promulgate priucipits foundniern the purest public virtee, and the soundest and most constitutional docteine,l trust I shall be •, acquitted of arrogance, in anticipating, that they *ill be allowed their merited weight, and operate on your !af pilling into action, when an opportunity ! sh ll occur, that most estimable of all your priti :liffrthe Ekctice Franchise. The opinions deliver ed (however imperfectly and butnbry attempt), l must meet the concurrent sentimeuts of all who 'are governed by the love of truth, andeeal iu superting the national happiness and interest. • I tinst, that neither my name nor principles will weaken the pretensions upon which I now rest my daitn4o your attentions to the truly important subject 1 of this Address; 'Monet 1 am : aware that my iodivii dual influence is too contracted, and the priticipleS by which lam alone actuated (the principles upon • which the #evelution s .velas founded), I fear, are toe obsolete at present to warrant my indulging any rev sanguine hopes l'roni the assiduity of my humble la bours, however strenuously exerted and 'demonstra bly connected with your dearest rights as a free pee-' pie. But if I slid not feel myself warranted in the hope that I addressed a powerful body, of my coun trymen, when I thus call on.my brethren who consti tute the aggregate body of the Electors of- the Im pede,' Parliament of these Realms, I would not waste my labour on a desperate cause, nor profane the doc trine of liberty by discussing it to voluntary slaves. The freedom of election is the only solid basis upon which our liberties can constitutionally stand. Sim ple and obvious is the axiom, that the cause of the people is successful exactly as they are truly and virtuously represented, and •in proportion .to the energy of their original power. Such energy, acting through the classes of the Constitution, which the people originally made, preserves our constitutional: liberties as kpeeple, and our power as a nation; for it watches integrity, and provides ability in the per sons you permit to administer your affairs. Various and intricate, on the contrary, is that system which yQu havabitherto allowed to subsist by corruption : —ambition:, avarice, and intrigue, when unbounded attdenrestreined,, arc the surest engines to enslave. impoverish, and destroy any country.—Rectitude has only one direction ; but the obliquity of treachery is infinite. It has been said, with sound and, petaliar energy, by an unrivalled political writer, ' 4 That the direction in which the people of this country-act, when they act rightly, is through the Parliament whiclv,they have elected ; -to the throne which they have raised.—lf w:ckalness or weakness be found in the counsels or ,counsellors of the Crown,-Parliament is the instrument appointed to punish or to dismiss : but if the instrument fail, the laud will exert. her native strength.--The people, of original right as a free people, will vindicate the country, correct their Pailiament, and reform all abuses. I know this was not the law of Jefferies, I know it is not the law mt. cognised by meaty now ; but I know ' it is the right reason of the British Constitution.' " Public guilt being capable of such diversity, , it iii ,evidently the duty: of public virtue to exercise the most scrupulous attention to the several assaults that rosy be made by unconstitutional power, and will be ever made, in' . some degree, against the interests of the community at, large. One bf the principal causes of the peeient calamitelel state of this country, is the misapplication of the 1101 , timed revenues in pensions, unmerited by public enee vices, and lavished by the Minister in the Or*. an undue and corrupt influence in both Hoeserni Parliament. There it a current rdmeur that. * present Parliament will stem be &solved—the Oil , ful situation of our country is suck as .to require you not to be tai recollect ' will be period redress your if you fail, of returning , jority of true bers—men follow your Reform, indispeosible rights and can no longer tires, - but : into Abject keep constant!! will vary her as she changes not courage hope, by blasii - -el. of Libartin. ->~ ,~ ~.~ ak.." aid of one single quality of eminence as a public Mitaioter—withoutintegrity, magnanimity, politital virtue or capacity, by observing and cultivating the natural corruption of human nature, it is possible for him to accomplish the destruction of the noblest system of human freedom*. All the enemies:toll bprty possess the same object. But the silent 'pro gress of this insidious sap is attended with one peat- I liar evil ; that It makes Nonparties in the serreeiler of your Rights, apd strikes at your 'Liberty, through a blameable want of tenacity in the exerche of your most valttaftle constitutionally preventive .privileges. The calamities we have already suffered by the successful operation'of electioneering corrup. tion, and the undue intlueesee of office, are • too Whiny, as well as too evident,lo need enumerating. —Our misfortunes, in conquence, are now daily accumulating. We are Wont to enter on a wider, and,.l am afraid, more destructive system of war fare; and all the consolation (with this prospective view of our accumulating burthens) that we receive from Administration, is an assurance'that the justice of our cause Improves, as our 4tnation grows more desperate. In the mean time provinces are lost— just quarrels succeed to unjust—the powerof our inveterate enemy increases—alliances, the most un natural, are sought and purchased—while our, re sources diminish; wisdoni is a stranger in oar Ssoutt ,cile, end a sort of accelerating calamity becomes, as It were, the natural condition and habit of our af fairs. When, tkerefore, the period again arrives—when the grand and legitimate prerogative of redressing public grievances reverts into your 'own hat t icis (as nothing political can claim your attention more seri ously than the choice of HONEST Itepresettatives), it behoves you to juard against bribery curd corruption, as you would against a plague or a pestilence. It was this evil (allow me to remind you) that dissolved the greatest empires in the universe, acrd sunk them us' to the most abject state of poverty and slaver) , ; it Is from this evil (unless' speedily repelled by your public virtue) that England has to dread the most tltal consequeitees. The venality and corruption of the times call-alOnd on the virtuous for resistance — far correction. {To be particularly circumspect in chalet men of approved• independent princides— mei who despise corruption, and who wiliplace their greatest glary in promoting tke true interest of their cosntry ; employing the power delegated to them as a real bulwark of the Liberties of the People, re stoiing Parliament to its original parity, by shorten- Welts duration, and perghsg it of those LOCUSTS, Placemen, Contractors, and Lows Jobbers. The profligate manner in whiCh the Sacred rights{ of free Election have been hitherto-violated, cannot fail to excite the indignation and serious alarms of every patriotic uncorrupt Elector—for what City, Bo rough, or County is there, in which there are not a handful of bribed hirelings, creatures of corruption, ready at all times to be forced in upon the undue mandate of an aspiring Individual, and who has got virtue enough to resist the temptation of place t end peusion. It appears to me that in many'places, (and' which aggregately form a great portletrofthe Visited King doms,) in the • state of their representation, the dearest privileges and bittkiright 'of the freeholders , are degenerated into mere objects of barter. The thraldom, as to this respect. / in which these places are held, is most ignorniniouvand injurious. In this there is an obvious tendency to deteriorate the national spirit, to consider the elector and elected as equally dependent: in so sacred a delegation, therefore, as government, no confidence can exist, and each party betrays and is betrayed, and national benefit in consequence becomes immolated to situster and private views. The coppequences of this system are too terrific to contemplate, as representation, and the whole sum of. its right!, becomes a personal disposable property, not-the conslitrdional and con fidendel•truat or the representative. If any *dictate .for your suffrages act otherwise than on purti-viewt of principle, it is impossible for Ilium to represent a body of constituents. He repro- { sent hinise(f only, Ids family, bissonnexions, lad' ids interests, —go is a mere state automaton. -it*, ,• •, Ile an opposite system ?ale, that security can Its found stwhere theelaction (a the pure result of ap pribation, ems • uatini from unfettered choice, founded on disinterested and virtatbes principles. To dorruption, every principle %if the Ckinstittt ; tiok i ltpremr, of lite seems tolieid"; anal the tow et Velttteptes catching the epicittnic disease, tail, spinners - such depiseed principles, - ati oA6fktkiaa mono Mask imbibed fi'om their fathers; incompatible with true loyalty to a..Prinee of the House of Hanover, and conformable only to those false pritsciples whirr the examples and practices of a•corrtipt Administration 'have fatally imposed on thdir minds: ll ' l l4 ii in vain to expect from such men any redress Jf &Laces ; for where the - whole machine of GiiveAsiefrntli manages! by those who have deserted the prrneiples of their ancestors, and are determined to etnbractensey sen timent and rule-of conduct which may promote their personal interest only, no dependence cast be placed on the profession of such men. ' ft' remains diets ;.,,) he, ... ,Nr you, at this'eventful crisis, tormtve these well .intentioned truths in your miuds v , tad to think for yourselves. If these(necesaarily confused)ehservations meet your judgments, as founded iu a national re- • pedlar Nola- Golistitution's dearest's - Ws, you wiii. duly appreciate' them; and befere ,yti again ever promise your Votes to any Candidates itOpealing to you dr that purpose, you will require some security, before you again vest them with seven years' further authority, that they will respect the FUNDArtENTAL MAXIMS of the BIMINI COSSTITUTION, and ascer tain the just limits between the Pawns and Prins. oaxtva of the Caows end the inalienable Itiotera and PAIYILXGES of the Ptoroe. - r. • :Our•atieestors haie eisefy , vested us with the means 'of reformatiOn and defence in our elective power : innd stall we tamely persist in returning the same de scription of a m en, who have evinced themselves will ing.te make encroachments,- and pervert our consti tutional rights; and who, untie( a coafidence of more than p alish connivance, have employed, both► by themselves and!their emissaries, a most pernicious ,and unnatural influence, to corrupt the People, and to sap the foundations upon which the happiness of ourselves and our posterity absolutely depend T ' I have thought it my duty, as a fellow Elector of two of the most opulent and popular Counties in the Kingdoms to offer you these sentiments, merely ma the rumourpf a dissolution of part It mhit thewever near or remote that event may actually Kr - o 4) ; and that they may duly live in your minds, and contri- ' bute to rouse you to a suitable vigilant and tenacious . exercise of pinr elective functions, whenever that period may arrive, to the then existing danger of your . country, is the heartfelt wish and only object of, • • Gentlemen, and Brothet• Freeholders, • Your Independent Fellow Elector 'and Friend, • _ . WAI.TEIt IIONYWO.;1) Y&TC. 1 . 1:6.) I L r ''• . 2 4 .. . tit seriIiNSGOCUTION iErw elm FRANCA ' . .s . n atin ra is .COUNTR r ~ . • On the subjecCof the late Negeciation, Mr. She.. ridan, as us4l,•made ff splendid speech, in which ha took"occusioncto hap all manner of evi l eliititets oft the hiaA Is( Napojeon, and to itignatize all his efforts for ImactPits hollow and insincere. Mr. Whitbread replied; and detesting, as we do, vanity, and partisn. lady literary ' or political vanity, with all oire heart; *e monist but experience some 'portion of pleasure, when we find, that this true Englishman "of the old stock, has touched upon nearly all the topics which we advanced in favour of commencing a pa rific communication between the Courts of St. Cloud. and St. James's. Indeed, it appears plainly to us, that if the &Minuet' advanced by Mr. Sheridan, never to listen toFrance were adopted in this country, we must have biteintinahle war, for Mr. Sheridan asserts, that with the Prinoh Emperor we must never treat, unless beshould acknowledge, by a formal instrnment, our maritime rightt- , -rights, which, by the .viay, he has pledged himself, and ltiMbst sworn neverto acknow.: ledge. In the opinion which **ventured, uttsupport., ed by any of our contemporariist at the time the pro posal was first made known, to advance, namely, that Loyd Castlereagh, instead of having returned suchins answer as he had done, should have statedto Napoleon. that on every part of the'propositiou, saving Or' A ilieri , • regarded the Spanish succession or Dynasty, as it is called, he was ready to negociate—iu this opinion we find ourselves supported by the great aut , ority of Mr. Whitbread—and having such a tower of strength on our side, we shall not hastily surrender our, opinion. Allowing even, for argument sake, and only for the sake of argument, the Emperor of tins, French had only made the proposition in the expecta.. tion that it would encounter rejection, -would it not be prudent to disappoint him on this score, and to put'apon his shoulders the onus and the • Odium of contlimiog the war ? But, then we mighi-disgtist an& intimidate Spain. What ! by making the restoration of Ferdinand the bah upon which -we should con descend to negotiate at all We conclude toy reiterating to the strongest terms, that for a longtime to come Eng. lead will not have suthitn opportunity, and 'we std' dillettrety grieved -that the Government of the Re: " just has thought fit to reject it with such contumely 'sit rilo*a.* ...(l'itesolaw' a Jeureal, July 28.) • . . , ~s : A . ‘ ~,-, . minsier • .MON'rfil..t.4GßAlr'ifThrilitlL REPOign., I. -..IIIIIIIMAA .. Tk; Via:J r : l b* . 'vest: s scared) , yet taidwil la may aims the algeldo it as ever Immo, but. oast or k damaged, ang : ' ofindisier ea. The turnip leads ItalrefWerked well, but *wing 4.istyet.covapletlet 8 the &Maid tondos and cabins:fee iV ris = The fallow, iv p mellow sad friable state. All the island; minable of grown's; a crop of cara t _ bei f .bwo %vv.& i• ow rm.... . .. , ; 7mestoutest wheats have bee a good deal beaten devia . the rate and thunder stems, whilst the light crops am • . /pails base haws sippareaily improied : lliw awl am _ : hcaLq.i tt erarea l ibido the pet fortaAhd, with . a r of breads or burnt ean. The .Hde* L um = only ad asked nom the cars this lk m o n ts mil i i jii 4 Wet hat; as bar as the Hailed p.- enttisat Of 'the reporler has eittesded, ern hip Oben mare dm] and free free *oath' and Isparta", am* circu m stances, than in the present meow Ildslir p; - ?ltan :filtoi he agirihated to the anassetkallidnwa of the. - Eg=edit inlet/all of dandtloa; aleaseill r nsaas an* fittairrahldl.: usesosagsnl i • ° W. .-. . . :. • . CUM.( N. IL lAilds, do bole wr Tallftligllli j ' itaieb rdsti inwerot, which ca llit ais edhendle =t it a "Zrels v irsa"" ma d in faequr of a b:;11 at peered *lout*, mittvi• :Re vomge swat has enjoyed for More than a eMarr Anitto math of. its prownrity is-to he attributed. Ate Swig list et the Crops, sad It expeettdir Mathis fors. AVM fie ihrwardest mastics. . coal.e of Calved la tarells pow skiwiww*Wacifey., s ~~ . 4 ~~~ II 111: . 1 • aken by surprise--to recollect teat. [Amid Weil *toners on such depinved principles, nod in *lab the power toconstituti * till afr : ludittknothing bat . the -endow of pub4c virtue, urselvert i rreelf to y ou r own hoar; and as a ilia the most corrupt toots in the State me. I, when this . opportunity nest occurs, trigoilkt, by changing and scum- ng as your liepropOntolires a large ma: oit abOitaeettments.to the immediate and,bi- true and comfits' independent Met& iratal oioi lot thireziatimg -41 thentarde Hence i who will pledge themselves to you to is, that men, whosesecestOsiagindiSed thmogoiroa r instructions, and support that system of it the field and in the Clibisieti In thedelesco at the odispeosible to the preservation of your prfitleal and civil rights ofilteit courftryeseM; l inire maintenance of your liberties,—the fault istely become the strong*, 449jcitsi.Apir the;. Via.; nger be said to exist In your Repreeenti- mgatire of the Crown, this lOW tt: Wildlolllllike. t in yourselves, if you sink ultimately timid eatoodoo of !mob loaltogi t slaves. It' Is aeusoory tb*t you skald to ap arms 04 11 kot. Ada -Maid rii*PPost istantly in your Weds, that atabiden tiaO freebie - et, the pl.; ohs l her cosiducf And bar onion, as easily thMegb the. arm , miltavtilial-at' a aarrofig , Mingo . Those . , 414 bare 4404abirfor#0, both hail ihiAtf reilteek*Kgit.cle ke g - , age elmilt MIRY ban the laileoo , o l OlTlSfit dieetthlefiSPilgq. * O 4l their . a 6 bluing yolkvotes and corrupting your C0* 11 .6 11 0 witi‘AnalimPto ol l-mmolug 4 ",. of 'equally ultimately undermining your Ihne ir!-- -I "Y 4 without *hi ;' . PriasligaliboY soot Moe i . 1 4 " \ ' View ail siwat hive with a considerable elide* or bile mould this year, alihasigh perainni in. ded, ern hoe never id impurities, ender MOO. This is Fobs" s of due ff. R. winds, Moo/0 so frequent. satire to the crops di • we., Inane detracte4 '" , vise have been din( sny. These freqinie 4 trei ZOh *ow re p gr ellul a.' a, cento_ry, • sto attribute!. it • ; ristetedytthla a foga. - • 14 ' 111.110 4 .theril4 • , • • , 4; 1 r fl - ~fY ~~ I;