The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-07-23 00:00:00

i r I. I hen the English and French Paper., published that letter with the answer to it ; and more than that equity or justice did not require. After these and other proceedings al'read'y known to the Public, we venom be surprised to 11n4, to this moment, articles inserted in the public Prints that falsify facts. In Proposing, therefore, '-olely influenced by a regard for truth, and supported by the published documents, to correct those mil-statements from time to lime, we courtiee we were to accomplish one of the purest Objects of public Journals. Awn - Newspaper, for instance, contains thus (Na. 56 of this year), a paragraph from the Upper Rhine, in which it is as serted, that 66 at the approaching meeting of the Monarchs, the new form of Germany would be com• pleted, and that for this purpose the demand of Ba varia, to be indemnified by Baden for her cessions to Austrie, would be decided." Now we do tint exactly roderstand what this author means by this 66 new form to he completed," although it must be, no,I doubt, a desirable object for the citizens and States. melt of Germany, if a wools he completed which should never have begun in the way it did, and if, in the midst of peace and of t i lle federative act, which should guarantee the possession of states, rumours and a cupidity fur forced cessions no longer existed, which undoubtedly are as foreign to the spit it of the members of the Holy Alliance, as their basis, which only rests on arbitrary power. The writer of the above article however adds, " that Bavaria had received from her cessions, com paratively speaking, but a very smell indemnity, and that she is therefore now to be entirely indemnified for her losses." To this we have to remark, first, that supposing this to be a fact, it would net follow that Baden were to supply this deficiency by means of her own territory—an act, to which she cannot be deemed to be More' bound than all the German States that joined in the national alliance against the enemy In the year 1813, and for which, besides more than sufficient means offered themselves in those Ger man Provinces which France had possessed herself of' on both sides of the Rhine, bat which were after wards retaken with the blood of the sons of Baden. But who could be bold enough to say, the wise Mo. march., if they had thought the indemnity of Bavaria as trivial, would have given away those conquests, as the recently-published maps of Germany exhibit them, on the party.coloured Left Bank of the lthiete, to be bestowed on various petty Princes ? This, however, could not be their intention; for AP need only refer to the exchanges that took place, accord. ing to sources of equally statistical value s and accord• log to which official calculations were also made. Vivaria ceded to Austria, in 1815 and 1816—. lit. The Tyrol and the Voralherg, a rough, dreary,iii.d rained couutrs hou g h ‘,l great Importance to Au.tria, with . 403,851 inhabitants ad. The greater part of Salzburg. the bailiwick Vily the Hausruck, uud the lon Viertel 387.031 do. Total 790,8135 iuhabiteeb In return she received:— • 2st. The Grand Duchy of Wurzburg, in the same slate us wilco it belonged to the Grand Duke of Tuscany 345.001 inhabitaots 2d. The Principality of Aschaffentnirg 91.zSti do. 90. The present circle of !tarnish Ilii.aria 3138,057 d a. 4th. Ainarbach, Miltenberg, Ilcutsuch, and Alpeeinn 21,661 do. 3th. Several bailiwicks of the Principality of Fulda 26,301 do. Total -875,51 d inhabitants All excellent Provineec and Dktricts, capable of high cultiva tion, tt..d pails of them known as the Paradise of Ger nun). Thus Bavaria remained a gainer of 84,433 itifia. bitents, as to numbers, independently of a superior state of moral cultivation of the population she re ceived in exchange for what she gave up ; and this was called a trivial indemnity 1 What then, we ask, could be called the offers made to the Grand Duke of Baden for demanded cessions, to which he is boond by no compact, nor does any other Treaty bind him to the equivalent exchanges, but that of ail the rest of the Confederate States, and which they have the audacity to quote in the Public Prints in ti falsified, incomplete, and perverted manner? Is the Grand Duke to be silenced with a share of the Rhine-octroi, which Bavaria will receive like him. self; or with the bridge-toll at Kehl, secured to him by' the Peace•of Paris, in 1815 ? Is be to be silenced for the cession of hereditary Slates by a pecuniary equivalent, collected from sources already his own by other rightful titles ? Bavaria estimated at . Vienna her losa in revenuer', after a computation of the coon. tries offered her at 5,035,756 florins ; but this compu tation must be liable to a great deduction ; for in the Secret Articles of the Treety of Munich, of April 14, 1816 (which the Journal des Details published al ready on June 13, 1816), the indemnification yet to be given to Bavaria is valued at ati income of 100,000 florins, which we should suppose Baden would bard. 1y be called upon to find. Our reporter goes on— " From the Grand Duchy of Baden news is now in circulation. according to which it should appear, the wishes of Bavaria were directed to the union of the Rhenish Palatinate with her other States." It is un cloubtly known, that negotiations took place last year, at Frankfort, on all those subjects and wishes; but from whence can that secret intelligence be de rived, that Baden had there declared, she would not 'kid one square fool of territory ? Little enough, to be sure! But the all-disclosing hand of time tnight l hereafter show, that such a harsh declaration was never made ; that Baden offered, by way of ac commodation, and for from being under an obliga. tion of right, not square feet, but square miles, of a tract of country containing a population of 5000 souls, which she was ready, should it be persisted in, to put on the balance of exchange against terri• xial indemnities, though the latter might not be complete. The above writer continues..-- 44 Baden was not to be curtailed during the life of her present Sovereign." On this subject we refer our Readers to the letter above-mentioned. Peaur eel q:ruti diserlurn fucil.— it Grand Duch'. is nut a farm, or a possession held fair life. The State and the People are one; and, like the head and the members, they form one body. A prospective arbitrary power wouttl.be, in point of fact, as bad as in actual one; for time can never con. siert wrong into right. When about 30 years ago the consent of the Duke of Deux-Pont, was to he :ed, to eaehaoge his hereditary States of Bavaria, aich were on the point of being attacked, against Royal Crown of Burgundy, the whole of Eu rope b•-:!ame • agitated, and- Frederick the Great crated the confederacy of rho Prince, I.n order to - - force whic the I rope Ctlllll . •r. ..• • • • " _ legal opinion, mean to petition against tbe• Sheriff's return. It is expected that if a new election be or• dered, consequence% will take place.that at first were not getieialty anticipated. It is thought that, is such mite, the lion. Guy. PONSO!iIIY will certain'? appear as a Candidate, and with pro%pects much imp proved, aabis principal motive for declining the con• test the other day was stated to be the Wessels of his registries at the Mamoru Sessioos.". 7•:.%,4 0 '; prOw* - ils4 insnis to ig been si DR Cuthbei I er husl ! , ~ , T :y ~.: ~., , ,ZAAAA.II :° . . ' c. -- ' J ,-- vL •. A ' _ -:, .71 , `r 4711 . .. • . V" , ,,, ,. , . \ , ... • er escape .lion follows, a le but proofs of extortion aad I Ultras, lujustice to the eetimunity, whose\ comfort, i t dirarni , ape 011 It is made te` fell Itelth the depr4ed l i me of TO Till . to J Ink of a diet. manufactees and commerce, outfit ri se Stn,.--W 6 'b e e tin with their 0 -asperity. The justice of thi s . . oli tong to ea h ilt entertains d 0f proposition is self . e viden t ; there canno t be two the prOtectio ii h s s t aw wn modes of reasoning up on such a ques t ion -4a,, • t cnspi and . should not be one kind of jus t ice t o the;geseaeria an d g eneros , iteof all 4 and another to the master—and the chsrge of illibers , the enlarged have .... and Irrational .ettictoct Mill much belliti appl7 , a those who deny t a long line hiyhan to the poo! men wh Europe, oa• • board, and s Wrenn abuse aid m i srepresentation as well p i tr before now 5 g 1 Althoogh a privation . , . . . , ..- be made . fete the Pu treason. Tile Quteie.—the only tegular account yestee. the deprival pardon. der from Kew of the mats of her Majesty Wes-. pi us t,isos I is King's " The QUEEN continues much the same is pester. lion with hit day. The Duke and Duchess oil GLOUCESTER vl. repeats frien sited her on Tuesday evening, on 'their way froas domestic col ' e e rn r tnit ' g:—.. Windsor, where they had been on a visit to the Print' • nch Peo- cess SOPHIA. St. Helena, •ights and Yesterday afternoon, abont leer. m'clock, 111 W pine apnea o f a . m . PRINCE REGENT left (olio for Kew. . himself of Viscount CASTLEREAOH had an audience of the ed to rob . • II , kept under PRINCE REGENT yesterday. . : Itevolu- to e ff ect Major Ferz•Cr.aaerecc was not so Well yeStEr4r . 1 and the day before as he had previously bete--he is attribetei o to do his I I success. ordered to de kept quiet. plot was Letters have been received from Cadiz to the Ist of the insets appears, on he agents of July. The convoy arrived from the lievannah some of th had an englgement with an Insurgent sqaedron off tw ig been si the 20th ' the port. The latter, consisting of two , brigs and. , ' . rivete ad- nth, -;What the a sloop, were beat o, after an action of four hours. esday the The Loan MAYOR has. appointed a Wardmote t o the Jailers I !hey were -he held at St. Bride's Church, Fieetsstreet, to-mop- point him a Majesty's row, at eleven o'clock precisely, for thp choice of an- without see veils. It Alderman in the room of Sir CHARLES Petca, Bin. rest, profei deceased. . , back, but u Majesty's Even in the evenings now the Thermonseter is gene. mice his hoe ing of the rally at 76 in London. •In the sou it la upwards sit fain liberty do July 80—West India heat. 'he King Senuctiont.—BurteETT v. Drzosr...-We find, oot., so many qua very day nithstantling the statement made by Mr. JARVIS, the have procnii Plaintiff's Counsel, in (Tenure this cause, at the last . d euce i n a ilarly the Ox ford Assists , and which was referred, by the re- p id ate d bar r'E. Gm. commendation of Mr. Baron Gatutoar, that after a and very ap la charged close and very strict examination of all the witnesses 'cted with by Mr. Pr.tze, the Referee, which took up five ' fare. list . 101.! b een hours, the damages awarded by him were only The indi although laid in the declaration at 10041. - "" • months toss . wiss togs- Yesterday a Court of Directors wis held at the 'tremor, bu mend on East India-House, when the following Commanders . timidation I took leave of the Court previous to departing fur . O'MerattA i at attend their respective destinations, viz.:—Captain P. Mr. - aid Sove. LEY, of the Regent, and Captain S. LEE, of the he has toe ill be re. blotTatt, for China direct. despot, wilt MEC, for A Commission has just passed the Great Seal, sp. dependence pointing a Board to enquire into the best means of From tl I taken in preventing the Forgery of Bank Notes, to purities . beg leave t, evidence, and to receive any plans that shell he oT. . lured. The Members are—Sir Josue' RANKS, Sir opprohrion 7 11 tof the ‘VlLL.talit CONGREVE, WILLIAM COURTENEY, EMI. . England." We know M. P., DAsiES CILBERT,, Esq. M. P., JEREMIAH -- 64 Reigning „ usnatasr, Esq. Governor of the Bank, WILLIAM •• am courier to so brief if ~YDE WOLLASTON, M. D. end CLIARLEs iIIATCHETT, I certainly Esq. From a Board thus constituted, the Public ' forgot the Throne; A h of their may indulge a hope that something will proceed • would b e t which will diminish • crime that has been increasing . the Crows, in a most frightful ratio, during the last few years, to join in and which, if not checked by preventive means— • They do, i l ou E a sT CC ytt n a ts s punishments having proved unavailing—threatens to • had NAPOt yesterday, crowd with felons every prison in the Metropolis. i e s s i t nc rda eth y : The first sitting took place on Tuesday last. t t l' of sagacity. chte seems The whole of Devonshire has become a acne of i. co rdially I lenge does festival and rejoicing, in consequence of what is attributed Lwe fear styled the " Triumph of Devon," as achieved in the his confine , return of Lord EBRINGTON to Parliament s in place LEON had 'he Plys, , . o f • the late Member, Sir T. ACLAND. 'On Saturday DE LILMI re was the last, a public dinner was given to his Lordship by his ' eof Ines- friends at Plymouth—and there have been also simi. NAPOLEO ler meetings at Ottery St. Mary, Totness, Harberden, . he practise and Dtrtmouth. Three thousand three hundred and . The Peep re thrown ninetv . seven plumbers voted for Lord EDRINGTON ; . this parse tunes that for Mr. 11 ASTARD, R 97; for Sir T. AcELAND, 163. • Dor NAP( Of split votes 693 voted for his Lordship ; for Mr.. pelted Sit ufacturing B ASTARD, 3532; for Sir T. ACLAND, 3639. If we victims, s are said take two split votes as one plumper, Lord Enema- • : iployment TON brought 3743 Freeholders to the Poll ; Mr. J st 4 temptible berate N are un. BASTARD, 2 0 6 3 ;" Sir T. ACLAND, only 1984; giv. rag would ing a majority of Freeholders to Lord EERINGTON, Jul! 20 , l above Sir T. ACLAND, of 1759; above .Mr. Wu- a purpose. TARO, of 16/30. f the tea. The expellees of the severelGendidates for the County g his ill.. of Wexford-ere estimated at 8001. a day. According ?, and all to this estimate, the contest will cost each of them not DEAL, r ,- a s- we ll less than 12,0001. .5 - the Broil . object fa- Saturday se'rinight the Election of a Represents. -J. with the tire for • the . .iforctoghts of - Aberdeen, Montrose. ''•! ' the 10th, a hut ed. - Breem ,, , Arbrosth;Jaed Bireie; took place in the )1 Town-hsll of Montrose, when JOSEPH-HUME, Esq: last from The pa- ' emberket labouring was teturned by a majority of three votes to one, the Barracks t th em ,— Delegetes• from Montrose, Arbroath,• sod. Brechin, the corn- voting for Mr, Hume, lied the Delegate from Berrie . -John Btr voting for M'r. FARQUHAR, the late Represintative. .°' and the I t all times Owing to the disfranchisement of the town of Aber- Postai is it is vu- deen, nn Delegate attended from that Borough.. v. Carlile, I hich time Provost BARCLAY, Delegate of Montrose, then ad. which is bit s w hi c h dressed Mr. Hume, and after mentioning to him that :counts we he was reierned In Parliament free and unshackled, a week. recommended to him not to support Ministers in the FALM 4 - condition system of profuse espenditori which they had adept- • Wallece i ed, Mr. Hume replied in a seitable speech, in the our menu- the Blucl able trade course of which he distinctly ihipressea his disappro- ie-bye, we hation of the profuse expenditure of Ministers an d• attempts & Hann le-bye, of Standing Armies in time of peace. After the Orange from pro- Election aft elegant dinner was given by Mr. Humc Henry } to the M..igistrates of Montrose and several othec Cowl t the ex- Gentlemen. Manches. CORK COUNTY ELECTION.—Tbe Water ford Mir. Dauby, of trade, ror snys—" At the proper time we mentioned that down CI ins of sub- the Sheriff of the County of Cork refused a Poll to back, bi most coin. Mr. RoyLE, of Cork, because three days previous notice had not been given. .Not only Mr. ROYI,S i , The I pest more but many Freeholders, supported, it is said, by bight from Ni le ground legal opinion, mean to petition against the• Sheriff's goods ft y of the return. It is expected that if a new election be or- She kart it to the I dered, consequences will take place.that at first were venue. . erred„ eed ; not generally anticipated. It is thought that, in Susan ATArrk BMA /4; prevent in future such events in Germany. And could•it now be imagined of the German Confede racy, thal one of its priritipal Sides should be dis membered, because a neighbour took a fancy to part of them, and that all right should be refused to the lust inheritors and to the People? Here the Re porter concludes as follows: — " it is said that nei ther Austria nor Bavaria do acknowledge the right of succession of the Margraves of. Hochberg, they not being eligible on account of inferiority of rank;" more eligible, however, we trust, if even no family regulations had been made on that subject at the time of the marriage, 30 years ago, than the descendants of Esther of %Vitzleben. consort of the Count Palati nate, John Charles of Birkenfeld (who died in 1704, and who was the head of the family of t ‘ he present Dukes of Bavaria), and of so many ancestors of reign. ing Princes of this day, not to mention the mediatised Princes of equal rank. But how can an article in a Newspaper judge so decidedly and so boldly, of an :obsolete controversy of the old German private right of Princes, which formerly the Aulic Council used to decide quite in favour of hereditary rights of equal rank, which our writer questions here? Every one knows that even the elective capitulations of the German Emperors precluded from the right of suc cession only mes-alliances of notoriety, and even this only in the case when they were opposed by the relations, but that no legislation pronounced on this 'any farther, but many other similar cases might be quoted, if ever Emperor and empire still existed. — Who can impose a belief, that now, under the ac knowledged independence of the German states, where besides no rights of relationship come in con tact, such obsolete nonsense wouid weigh down the balance, if the question were about the welfare and security of a sovereign monarchical state, about the tranquillity of Germany, and eternal right, if the upholding of the first principle of state were ques tioned, that the Prince belongs to the People, and that the latter have the first claim on his poliri al ex istence, on a filial care for the race of its Regents. to prevent national calamity, and woes of serious de. scriptions? Amendment is slower in its progress than error ; for it is easier to assert than iovestigate but calm investigation, anti the love of right, are proper ties that belong to the Germans. PR/(a? OF STOCKS Tlll' Bank Stock Vi :1 per Cent. Red. 7E% 3 per Cent.Consols 77ii So per Cent. SI Consols for Ace. 79 THE IS HAY Al' ON IS O'CLOCK 4 per Cent 911 5 per Cent PtillYV 1060 India liondx Long Ann. ti 9.161 Exchequer liiflc 19 40 p STATESMAN. French People,. Thus France has had Doodler from, the fury of the fanatic and ou i perstitiout and consequently from civil war; and perhaps greater subjugation. What are we Id tr Court which countentinces such piojecti hi the French People think of a King, who, insti being fit to govern France, cannot govern his family / The guilty attempt' of the Royalist raters is more and more 'transpiring, in spit endeavours to conceal it. Powerful efforts ha will be made to screen the plotters ; but ► with the crimsoned picture of NEV. fate ever its eyes, demands that examples may be of the authors of this new and undeniable The offence is one which the King cannot It was one not merely directed against the authority or life, but against the only solemn , rantee, feeble as it is, of the national liberties. These wicked men wish to deprive the Frenr pie of the Monarch's pledge to respect their rigs properties,—they wished to restore the reign of stition and a bigoted Church—and they wished the owners of property purchased during the lion. Fortunate it will be if all attempts this horrid revolution shall meet with equal That much alarm has prevailed since this plot discovered, and the names and character of thr known, is evident. The French Papers to thi which we have received with a variety of pri vices from Paris, confirm this. On Wednet five per cents. were at 78; on &stonily tht 761. The precautions, too, taken for his MI snfety indicate strongly the feeling that prevs. is reroarka We enough that the safety of his M ',ergot' at St. Cloud is entrusted to the keepim Notional Guard, who are called upon to there instead of the regular troops. TI contioups to transact bUsiness almost ev , with his Miri•tros at St. Clout!, portico! D. ke of RICHELIEU and the (;punt DE CAZ DoNartyu, who, it will be recollected, um in h ome of the private letters as being conoet the recent c..nipiracy, it.now 'stated to It charged by the King to review the 4th Sw men', and to have arrived at Clermont-Fet th e 1:h inst. Tt•e King of Fu NCE, it seems, will no' the approaching Congress of the Continent rPigns at Ais-la.Chapelle. His Majesty vit; presented there by the Duke of RICHEM whom one of the plincipal Hotels has been ' that city. The 'recounts privately circulated last nigt, QUEEN'S health were extremely alarmitig. W not for what reason the Bulletins are mod( and unmeaning. The British People have still a most anxious concern for the health QUEEN, and we cannot conceive that there' , any impropriety in giving the fullest official of her 111.uevry's condition. tier hIAJI more weak and seriously ill the whole of by the want of repose, than she had been commencement of her indisposition. Medici' to have lost its effect, and if some rapid chr not take place in the course of the week, that great danger may be apprehended. The clans are constantly in attendance, and there whole of yesterday a constant intercourse 'eager' between Kew and Carlton house. We cannot believe the insinuations that are out with the view of uscribiug all' misfortr may at present happen to, or in manui establishments, to the labourers who to have voluntarily ceased their emi for the want of higher wages. We willing to believe that any reasonable being voluntarily become an incendiary for such a Every one possessed of the smallest share of soning faculty, and desirous of exercising dustry, knows well that acts of violence, such atrocities, produce an effect generally, as individually, the very reverse of any ciTT vourable to industry and welfare. None mina's by habit venture on such crimes. (knee and indtistry of the mass of the I Public repel the calumnies vented against The cessation of labour in any portion of merrily who cannot live without work is at to be regretted, ■nd to be condemned when luntary. It occasions a loss to society wi does not always repair, and engenders habit are not easily got rid of. But after the acr have had laid before us of the prosperous of our commerce, when we are told that nu facturers were never driving a more profit* than at present,—an assertion which, hy.thk must flatly contradict—for speculation and to find a market, are frequently very far fitable trade,—we really cannot wonder a, pest Lions and conduct of the labourers of ter and Stockport. In the late depression men were content to work for the bare meat aistence, and they certainly starved with a mi mendable grace. They now naturally expec t liberal terms. If there be no reasonable g mod for this expectation, and the majority of the community must and ought to submit to the same privations to which they were subjected in a less llourishingstate of trade,it is the highest mockery and falsehood to tell the country of increased and in creasing prosperity. The accounts put forth to evince this *roved slat; of things, if no seam! aoseliora. LONDON: THURSDAY, JULY 23, ISIB THE ENGAGEMENT 111..T1VEF.N THE SPANISH AND INDEPENDENT SQUADRONS. Letters have been received from Trinidad, dated the 11th of June, which bring an account of a des perate engagement having taken place on the 9th, off that Island, between the Spanish squadron and that of the Independents, under the command of Admiral Barom, in which the former was totally destroyed. Prior to the engagement the Independent squadron had captured a great many valuable ships belonging to the Spaniards. Such is the result of the expected bro.th het - Aeett these fleets, as stated in the Trinidad Letiors ; but if this account be true, it is singular that we should not have had a confirmation of it in the communications to LLOYD'S, where no such intelligence appears to have been received this morningin the letters from the out.perts, though these announce several fresh arrivals from the West Indies. Some doubt is also thrown on the accuracy of the above statement (though we are much disposed to be lieve it), by the circumstance that the Brazen, which brought the intelligence we communicated yesterday, sailed on the I Ith, and that intelligence stated, that the Independent squadron, commanded by Admiral Bitio,t, and a Spanish squadron of equal force, were then in sight of each other when the Brazen sailed, and that an engagement was fully expected to take place on the following day. There are accounts in town from Cadiz to the Ist of July, stating that the convoy from the Havannah had had an engagement with the Insurgent squadron that has so long blockad ed that of Cadiz. The latter, it is said, were beat off, after a severe action of four hours. That the Belligerent fleets above-mentioned should have met near Trinidad is extremely probable; as by previous advice, it appears that Briton intended to proceed for the Oroonolco with the supplies which ho had procured at St. Bartholomew's. It will also bre recollected, that the Spanish squadron had gone down to St. Bartholomew's to watch his movements; and that, upon two occasions, they approached him se closely, that he might have brought them to action; but, it was stated, that he declined doing so on sc. count of the incumb•red state of his vessels. Upon his return to the Main, life Spaniards would no doubt hover upon his course, and embrace the first apparently favourable opportunity of attacking him. We have also received intelligence from Jamaica Ito the Ist ult., brought by the Rifleman. • The King ston Pdpers supply us with nothing new from the .;patrisit Main. Two Spanish vessels seized by the Cherub, on the coast of Africa, for piracy, had ar rived at Jamaica. The trial of ligt4ll BELUCIIE, Captain of the General Arismendi, Venexuelian privateer, on a charge of piracy, took place at Kingston, on the 18th of May, and terminated in his acquittal. No one now doubts that the conspiracy in France was real, and that it was directed by the intemperate inteigaets against the Charter and tb liberties et the . .~ ISL a 0 I ien Co set: .lu. .00111 resi MC :I perm sl Apc ha rt I 7