The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-10-17 00:00:00

1 ° • I n 4 • , I b:. i 431ERIG'A. rttriets from a Memorial, addressed to the Pre. &dent of the Unit,4l States, by more than 1500 of tie inhabitant.; of the county of Rockingham, in , New };trop-hire, on the sth day of August, 1812 64 %ire h ave ‘ citu t ss.ll, with sincere and deep re- I Fret, a system of policy pursued by the General Go vernment, from the embargo of 1807, to the present time, tendieg most obviously, in our view, to the xlestroction of the commerce of these States. " alarm excited in our minds by the favourite! 'end lung continued ' Restrictive System,' is raised rill higher by the late I)2claration of War against Great iiritaiti ; an event which, we 'believe, in the present defenceless circumstances of the country, 4111 be productive of evils of incalculable magnitude. The impressment of our seamen, which forms the most plausible and popular of the alleged causes of war, we believe to have been the subject of great 1 misrepiesentation. The number of these cases has been extravngantly exaggerated. Every enquiry on I:,e subject strengthens our conviction, that the re puted number bears little relation to the true num ber. We are among those to whom instances of im pressment, if they did actually exist to any consi do.% able extent, must be known; yet we cannot find them out. Some of the Members of this Meeting have been constantly employed in commercial pur suits, and have had ships on the ocean from the peace of 1783, until the ocean became unnavigable, as to us, by the embargo of 1807; and yet during all that time have never suffered the loss of one na tive American seaman by impressment. Other Mem. bens of this Meeting have, as masters of vessels, long inhabited, as it were, en the seas, and have been visited hundreds of times by British shio of war, and never had an American seaman taken from them by impressment. " If so many of our seafaring fellow-citizens were actually in bondage, they must have been taken from the inhabitants of the Atlantic coast. They mould be from among our brethren, sons, relations, anal friends. . . . 44 It is well worthy of notice, that the greatest am meta feeling on this subject of impressments, a•al tae greatest disposition to wage war on that ac count, are entertained by the Representatives of owe S ates which have no seamen at all of their own; while those sections of the community, in wvic m 're than three-fourths of the mariners of the Unit d States have their homes, are, by great majo rities, a„aiost that war, among the professed ob jects of vv hich, the release of impressed seamen forms s o paiucipal a hgure. " It is well known that England pretends to no right of impressing our seamen. She insists only that are has a right to the service of her • own stiljnts, in time ct war, even though foul d serving on hoard the au rci.ant ships of other tin'ions. This claim we sup rose to he neither haulm& d nor hovel. It is re co;ttized by the public law of Europe, and of the ci vilized werld. Writers of the highest authority maintain, that he right belongs to all nations. For the same ref is n , •py the), t Mit the father of a family may &mond the %id of his children to defend himself and his house, a nation may call home her subjects t. her v!efencc and protection in time of war. '• But A . this were not so, is our nation to pluuge into a rviltous wai, in order to settle a question of relat:vo ii,;ht between the Government of a foreign nation and the subjects of that Government? Are we to li. ht the battles of British seamen ? Nay more —are we to espouse their cause, in opposition to the Cause ocr native mariners? " Fatal, indeed, would it be to the important interests of the navigating states, if the consequence of this %% ar he, that the American flag shall give the Anievicati dm vector to al! who sail undo it, ;Ind thus invite thousands of foreign seamen to #oter into out service, and th. ust aside our own native citizens. . _ ‘‘ England has always professed a willingness to adjust this subj. ct by amicable arrangement. lihe has riveatrdly called on us to do our part towards effecting such adjus:ment. She has reminded us of the facility, we may say the falsity, with w hick American protec tions are obtained ; of the frequent instances, in which Irishmen, anti even men that cannot speak a word of our language, are found with American p:otectio:ts is their pockets.. She has expressly and cflicial'y offered to prohibit, by severe laws, all itn m nt flout American vessels, if the American er ,meat would etutct laws prohibiting American °Meets from granting protections or certificates of citizenship to British subjects. She has, also, through her Minister, offered to restore event native ewar.n that our Government could name, as being under impressment. For years preceding the Decla ri.f et , of War, our Government Las been, in a man tle , sil •t on this sul j et. When the arrangement was oh t.e wilts Mr. Et skint., the present Administra tion themselvos did not consitlor any existing ott the subj..ct of impressment as insuperable o sticks to peace. " l'he blockade, and Orders in Council,—the other causes of sar,bear no better examination than the •illy t e.l of impressment. The blockade, now so g! onu• to be endutud, we know was regarded, at 1:;C` time it was laid, as a measure favourable to our ititt..e,ts. We know this, upon the express declara tion t-f Mr. Minroo, then our Minister in England. '',V e hate his own wools, that it would be regarded 4 in 9 hut-unable light, and that it ' promised to be •uti-fac:oty our commercial interests.' " by utast Itain of reasoning this favour is now turnqi into an Hui v, and an injury of st!ch magni tude a: to justify - war, we arc utterly at a loss to emapi _ _ " We are cg.r.ily unsatisfied with the arguments nceti, to prose that the Th.:rees of France were re p a.ed in Novmher, 1810. Against such supposed s... i scal ths: French Decrees,' we have the express ci.a...taratiuts of the Finch Government itself, as late as 'March, 1812, aging that those Decrees did shell exist. We have also had daily evidence of their operation, in the destruction of our property; and souse 'Members of this Meeting have convictions of the existence and operation of those Decrees, down to the very moment of our Declaration of War ; which uonvictions being produced by great and repeated I , ersotsal losses, in the seizures, detention, confisca r I,n, and burnings, under those very decrees, are not likely ',.. , Rmoved, by any ingenious comments .t 1 s'FA'I'ESMAN. --•- on the terms of an ambiguous, deceptive, and falla cious instrument like the Duke of Cadore's letter. 44 The conduct of France, in relation to the repeal of her edicts, exhibits to our view, a segue of the I most coutemptil►le fraud and juggling, that ever dis graced the Court of any nation. 46 The British Orders in Council, ,we are inform• ed, are revoked. We cannot but lament, that the I declaration of war was forced and hurried, as if to ; put us beyond the benefit of favourable events.— Every attempt at postponement wag ineffectual ; and the question was taken, at a moment, when, per. haps, a month's delay would have removed the principal ground of complaint, and averted the awful calamity. ' 4 But although we lament the present war, on all accounts, yet do we deprecate it most of all, as we view in it, as we fear, the harbinger of French alliance. _ . " On the subject of any French connection, either close or more remote, we have made up our minds. We will, in no event, assist in uniting the Republic of America with the military despotism of France.— We will have no connection with her principles or her power. ff her armed troops, under whatever name or character, should come here, we shall re gard them as enemies. No pressure, domestic or foreign, shall ever compel us to connect our interests with those of the loose of Corsica ; or to yoke our. selves to the triumphal car of the conquet or and the tyrant of Europe." PRICE 01' STOCKS THIS oAli AT ONE O'CLOCK * Rank 216 15 India Bonds 2 3 dis. 3 per Cent. Cons. 59* Exchequer Rids 30. 13 p 3 per Cent. tied. 57* 7 Ditto 30. 4 6 p I per Cents. 7.2 i 3 ()inning's 4. pr. 5 per Cent. Navy 89fif Consols for Acct. 59 1 11 • Long. Ann. 14 13-16* Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAN. LONDON: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1811. Gottenbnrgh, Lisbon, and Malta Mails, arrived this morning, and also Commie Papers to the 10th inst. from which we !lave taken the following ex tracts. They likewise contain the principal articles of the treaty of Peace, 16 in number, concluded between Russia and the Sublime Porte, which want of room obliges us to postpone. GOTTCNRURGII, OCT. 10.-Trit is very currently re ported, that General WITTGE'ibTEIN has defeated General MACDONALD, and that General TORMAZONV is advancing towards Smolensko. JASSY, AUG. 22.—The Treaty of Peace between Russia and the Porte is now carrying into execution, with regard to Moldavia and Wallachia. The Govern ment is the hands of the Divan and the Boja rg, and the military department only is directed by the Russians. The Russian General SKARrAT STuasA, brother-in law of Prince MURUSI, is nominated Governor of the Provinces ceded to, Russia, laying between the Dniester Pruth, and Danube. The Russian troops ate marching in columns towards the Pruth, but their march is rendered difficult from the wet weather. Messmt, A (JOUST 26.—We learn from Palermo, that the Parliament continues its labours indefa. tigably, and makes great progress in the details of the new Constitution. The articles at present under its consideration respect the division of this country into Departments, the election of Representatives, &e. &c. The Parliament holds its Sessions three times a week, and almost always continues sitting till a late hour in the evening. PALERMO, AUGUST 31.—A vessel bearing the Spa nish flag, has arrived in the port of Messina, which brings advice that the crews of 22 Barbary vessels, consisting of frigates, xebecs, and launches, landed in the Island of Santiuco, adjacent to Sardinia, and attacked the three towers, situate in that island, which, after maintaining a brisk fire for six hours, they took, making 150 prisoners, partly soldiers and partly peasants; the remainder of the inhabitants fled to the heights. Two English frigates have also arrived there from /,ante, with troops and horses belonging to the British army. LISISONT. OCT. 4.—General Hut. is at Oropesa ; he has detached from his army three Portuguese re giments (4000 men), to garrison Elvas. LisaoN, OCr. I.—lt is calculated that the French from the time they abandoned the siege of Cadiz till they reached Seville, experienced a loss of 5000 men, and that SOULT'S actual force is 28,000 men, which is not conformable to our opinion.- On the 21st of September, General troops had at tired at Talavera la Rey tta. The EMPLCI• NA Do was with his division in Requena. CADIZ, SEPT. 26.—They write from Rues, under date of the 16th instant, that JOSEPH was in Tor tosa. Intelligence has just been received, that Vit.- LacawrA has taken a convoy worth 30,000,000 of reels. The Regency Gazelles, of the 211 and 24th, con tain three dispatches from General BALLASTEROI. In No. i, l i e states, that Brigadier BASUTEL at tacked two of the enemy's corps, near Haero, and caused them a loss of upwards of 100 ,men.—No. 2, states, from his head-quarters at Paul l that the Castile regiment of hussars, commanded by Don CASSA-MATOR, had routed the enemy's troops situ ated in Atendin and Gabia.—ln No. 3,‘Getpral BA mon ids writes from his head-quarters in Gra nada, that he had entered that city on the 17th, without the enemy daring to fight, although, on the 16th, they made demonstrations as if they intended so to do, and that SotaT's rear-guard has ing been attacked, on the road from Guadax, by Brigadier BATUSAL, he resolved to evacuate Cia , nada, taking the direction of Guadax. I[FROM THE GIBRALTAR CHRONICLE, scrT. 26.] SOULT marched out of Grenada on the 17th inst. at nine o'clock in the morning, and took the !road to Guadax. Tie is represented in the Malaga ! letters, of the 22d, as l o sin g a g r eat nu mb e r of tom, On his retreat. Gen. BALLASTEROS, shortly after the departure of the French, stopped only a few hours, and set out again in pursuit of the re treating army. Carthagena accounts, of the 20th, assert SOULT to have effected a junction with Sucurr and JOSEPH, at Jumella, precious to that date ; but this must be •understood of the ad vanced guards enly. That of SOULT is stated, in the same accounts, to hive been at Caravaca and the environs, for some time past. General HrLL was, on the 7th, on the Guadiana. On the other bawl, ' it appears, that there are some of our troops in An dejur, probably belonging to General Cuent's divi sion, and this circumstance it was that gave rise to the report of General Hues having crossed the Sierra. The Address of Sir SAMUEL RoMILLY, on taking leave of the Electors of Bristol, is expressive of sen timents that must be grateful to the feelings of evert good and virtuous man in the kingdom. Were the New Parliament composed of men possessed of such sound principles and political integrity as Sir Sasteet. ItustiLLY, the country might soon expett to see a restoration of all those blessings which our Constitu tion, in its purity, is calculated to bestow. But, , under the present system of Government, if system it may be called, it would he in vain for us to bony up the hopes of our snffering countrymen • with any prospect of a ohange for the better ; and till such a change shall take place, the ea errion of every Member of talent and virtue , in the House of Commons will only tend to sanction the most profligate and ruinous measures of Mites ters, by giving them the appearance of having been fairly argued and justly adopted. A nouseof Commons that establishes its authority by prolonging its dura tion—that nominates its own Members—that accepts of In ibes—that subjects itself to the influence of the Crown—ceases to be a Parliameut, and becomes a oC nclace, or a Junto of self-created tools ; and a country so far lost to its rights, as to submit to such a breach of trust in its rulers, is enslaved. Nothing can be more absurd than to talk of the omnipotence of a Parliament so constructed. They possess no ! constitutional power beyond the executiou of the' trust for which they were formed. If they betray their trust, and deceive their constituents, they cease 1 to be the representatives of the people, and dissolve themselves. All delegated power must be subordi. nate and limited. If omnipotence can, with any sense, be award to legislature, it must be lodged where all legislative authority originates—that is, in the Peopt.t. For their sakes Government is insti tuted, and their's is the only real. omnipotence. An Officer arrived this morning at the Office of Lord BATHURST, in Downing-street, with dispatches from Lind Crritc ART, at St. Petersburgh. Ministers state them to he of a favourable nature ; and a Bul letin is expected in the course of the afternoon. A Gentleman arrived yesterdarat the Foreign Office, with some very important communications from the French coast. What the nature of these communications were, we have yet to learn; but from the silence of the Government Papers on the subject, we may very naturally infer that they are l of an unfavourable nature. Rumour states them to relate to some sort of tiegociation, or overtures to that effect, between France and Russia. It is said that, at the meeting of Parliament, a Bill will be brought in to allow the Regular Militia of the United Kingdom to be made a dispesalsle force, to be allowed to volunteer by regiments; an l extra bounty will be allowed to the men. PLAMOUTU, OCT. 15.—Came in the (been Char lotte packet from Lisbon, in eleven days. with a Mail, but brings no news.—Arrived the Fortance frigate from the Irish station.—Sailed the Armide, for the coast of France. . Jamas SQUIRE, Esq. received his appointment, this day, as Agent Victualler at Bombay. The outward-bound East India Fleet are ordered to sail, with convoy, on the '26th instant. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 15.—The friendi of liberty snit peace have unfortunately been put below the ene mies of both on this day's pc11; but they are not at all discouraged. Mr. 13aouGuast, amidst the ex ultatious of the enemy, delivered two most impres sive speeches, one at the hustings, and another at Clayton-square. The multitude assembled was far greater than ever, and the effect produced so great, that the whole people, in one voice, pledged them selves to come forward with new exertions to-morrow. The greatest hopes are entertained of the result. — The election will close on Friday nest at one o'clock. State of the poll this day 1 • canning - Mel Brougham . 1105 Gaseoyne - 1e76 I Creevey lOU Mr. STUART WORTLEY has, by public advertise ment, dated York, October 13, declined a contest for Yorkshire, in consequence of the exertions un expectedly Made by the friends of Mr. LASGELLES, to bring in that Gentleman for that great aad eaten sire county. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Letter from iirmingham, signed Commas SmE, in reply to PI7III,ICOLA, On " The Big) Price of Bread," s 111 appear Nlonday. Arr. Mails. , hue 0 i 1 0 1 I • 1 0 1 RETURN OF COUNTRY 411 EMBERS. Int , vcr.s . roN-1 ) . B. Palm, .1. Wog&11, Lim Nt , rrntrr (Com) —W . Not - they, J. halite, Lsto. Wecrstunt.tvu—Lord Mane:l4er, Bon. 11. it SUM ER 461 . %1111M—William Dickinson, %Valiant time La.,' Esqrs. ssithout oppe itt NormCk—Sir ./. 11. Asticy, T. W. Coke, Lsqrs, without ptosition. of Wt.:sibs( K- - lion. J. B. Simpson. C. W. Forester, Lsirs. sannesnittE- -.1. K. Powell, Jubn Cotes, Lip - , 11.tnNt:It -IL Price, Esq. LANC. , O4IIIR F.— .1. Rlnckburn , F.Sq. Lord Stanley. Dv it us st Cow:TY—Lent Visc. Barnard, Si! . H: V. 'Tempest. I.lNcht.Nintr.E—llon. Chas. A. Pelham, Chas Chaplin, Eq, CA3III:IIINikAIIIRK—Lord Charles Somerset Al:tuners, Lord F. G. Osborne. IlltinAm-FEnnEns--W. Pluincr, F 914. Ems; rantstr.—Sir Thomas Moos o, Burt. A YLK4KIi KY --T. Iluisey, Ls9.,ord Nugent. NOII - 111AMpTONSUJER—Lurd i-c. Althorp, Wm. R. ca r t . wright, Esq. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ---isess-- NEWNIARKET SFCOND OCTOBEIt 31EET1NG. FRIDAY, °croak:it IG. LAM I (melees Japan, beat Major Wilson's Erebus, Est. each. T. Y. C. 6t04 on Japan. !And Sacks one's Yonng rack, Rst. brat G. 11. Cavendish'. Bicrosa, e!st. Glb. 'l. .C. stol on Young }nee. rsiiardierip Sweepstakes of 30gs. ear!). T. Y. C. I and G. H. Ca ventlish's Ecelerton, 5-yrs old, Est 41b. 1 Mr. Lake's liritr.n:,ia, G-ym old, 7st. 61b. - 1 Air Shattroeprar's .. , o1::•r, 4-vri old, ist. 61b. - i 6tot on Eccle4ton. sto f apt Britannia. 3to 1 agst Jolter. Sweerstakes of figs curls, h. ft. I'. Y. C. Mr. El wes's c. by Orville, krt. Mb. - 1 am. Goiver's f. by Sorcerer, t4it. 'JI b. . - - oo Mr. Wyndham's!. by Gobano.., :it, - - 1 Gen. aroosv owes Vul peen !a, Est. - - 4 Il4g Was agst .4r. klittes's c. 6to 4 not Mr. ilyndhatn's f. Our Plymouth letter informs us, that on the 4th of Burg os, and made l' a workshe 91 t of h r t e h g e i r c i e , : s t t la instant, exterior entered the b reach of t.O Indgment, w Mist our engineers were procerling b - y sap. The batteries, according to Lor 1 W ti. t tutsc. 'roses last dispatch. were iumiedatel) , to op 'u open the enemy's interior lines , as so • ' soon as we had esta blished oar troops within the exterior lines. Our letters from lianno observe, that the fleet from the Eastern Baltic, consisting of about 130 • • sail, do,titted to Great Britain, had been conteudie; with sve , terly winds, so that, although it had - pre. ceeded :beyond Bornholm, it was under the necessity of returning to Matwirk. His 'Excellency Don EuStlßto BARDS - 3,1 T AZARA, the s ;xui ish Ambassador to the Russian Court, who landed its England a few clays ag o ft em Lisbon, ea his way ; to St. Petersburgh, will proc et 1 fr o m fen. don to embark for tha! place in the course of them. suing, W - C,ek.' 'Ms Excellency at present resides wi4 the Spawish Ambassador to this Court,a t I • ' hishoe.e , in Grafton-reet. P . w--•It wag yosterda4 reported on 'Change, that a letnr ; had been ,received from Liverpool, by Ca• IV •pte . • ALa Lit, an A mer i can Genleman of considerabl • respen. that bitity, stating the arrival of a ves.el a t i i nt purl, from America, the Captain of which reports the iin. mediate repeal of the Non- Importation Act to have been confidently expected at the time the vessel sailed; and that all Amc rican vessels w . f.,i E t teems, carried into Halifax, had been released. Sedate accounts from G 'otteeburgh state, that an expedition of from 25 to 30,00 e taco had E,..;ied from I Rign, under the command of General Essex, sup ; posed to he.destiued ngainst Mittau, where the eneins's force consisted principally •of Pressians. The re. 1 ports from Riga mention, that great sickness pre. sailed in °ems:cies Corps, and that °comer him. self, and two other Generals, were dead. in the point of disembarkation for the reinforce ments for the Peninsula, we have been charted with !an error in stating such to be Lisbon, now that the line of march is open frora Coronna : we, however, repeat our statement of the fact, and feel inclined to `admit its policy from the junction shish has taken I place in Murcia between the armies of SOCLT and .: t!CiTET. '1 tie Election fo s s. Trinity College, Dublin, took place in that City on Monday. Dr. I . l,licti:e pro. posed the Bight lion. W. C. Ptusxhe, and was seconded by Mr. Bones, the Senior Scholar. — I There being no opposition, Mr. Ptostrr has unani. I mously elected. NA VAL AP pot termrviv.--Capoira RTRuit, to the Ausaranthe, Ottiag fur Cflant.ri servive at Plymouth. Lieuumant stags, to the Lublin, in the Downs. Lieutenant WooocAtr, t 4; tie i(ahorie. Lietiten2ut PaArr eed . II) the I:te,l7.tur. Admiral %V MUSED is to succeed Sir J. T. DOCS.WOII7II, at Newfoundland. General DOYLE is to have a command in the Pe ninsula, and is going oot immediately. Dispatches wete last 'light sent etf from tl:e Ad miralty, for Sir E. _ P ELLEW and Sit flume Poensm, in to Mediterranean. The convoy front Gottenburgh. consisti: g of about 9.00 valt,able siips, has arrived; and we tt'C not tet heard of any damage sustained in tae course of the voyage. A re-mount for the sth Dragonn Guards, sad other heavy eaval,•y regiments in Spain, is ordered' to march from Canterbury to Portsmouth without de'nv. C'JVENT.GARDEN.—A Farce, by the stroige name of Schneitbrkins, was exidhited for the First dais last night. The plot of a farce is seldom required to be of a very imp°, taut texture, and the aoher at ailed himst. , ll 4,f his full prisilege in this point. it was made up of some humble d evices to carr y ul i a lady in the•abseece of her hushaed, Capful+ , 1,u ,- - wood, by the agency of two dextrous persen-, of whom Schmeiderkins (M A.TTUEWS) Was one. 1 . 11 , ! actors dial what .they could for their virts; hot 01 its being found out that the c!iief pnrposo of L I STON: presence was to caricatnre a song, and of Al vt• titcwi ', to shew his skill in shifting a disguise, the audieace grew wearied, and the curtain fell in a clamour of hisses and applause. MATTnEws also tried a mist'• rable song, and Ltstost e ssayed a dull speech ; but ' they were hissed as they deserved. The piece is . scarcely worth a repetition. , Mr. M , who is now one of the greatest Stock-holders we have, takes a Iri ie in rela:ine in most companies that the first s'ep to his ine. meow fortune was owing to his purchasing a Lot. wry Ticket, which came 'up a Prize of £2,000; with that money he purchased Stock,, and makes it a rule each time of receiving his dividend, to purchase either Ticket or Share, and invest the pro• duce of them in the Public Funds. As the Stocks are ntow low, „and the .Lottery will be all drawn' next Tuesday, there never was a better opportunity to become a great Capitalist for a few peuuds. i i •a !it .1 1 I I~ 1 t i