The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-07-20 00:00:00

:rt 7 '. • • :. - - - f "_ r_ .. - -...- . . ,- THE -STATESMAN. 'As official charactV. His private concerns, his personal affections, his indlildual feelings es a man, ought never to be mentioned, never to be alluded to ; fur this plain reason, that one or other of those consequences must follow—either that the. Parliament would be placed in the ungracious at. titode of opposing or thwarting the inclinations of the Father of his People ; or else .those incli. nations must become the measure of their own cotittet.--In the one case, a sort of alienation between the Crown and the other branches of the Ic4islaturts must inevitably take place, an evil, hich the difference of their stations, and the scenting opposition of their interests, appear. al. ready but too much adapted to promote; and in the other, complaisance to-the will of the Su. prone Magistrate, and the responsibility of Mi. sisters h•io4 incompatible, the Monarchy of England would in no wise differ from those arid. trary systems of Government upon the Conti met, under which their Diets, ur Parliaments, f.rmerl) popular assemblies like our own, have aside even die forms of deliberation, and be. own only courts of record for registering the spontaneous dictates of the Sovereign. The beneficial effects of this most salutary rcgu. laden are great and manifold, and universally felt. Without entrenching upon that respect, which is naturally due to Crowned Heads, it gives the full. est scope to the freedom of debate, that ever was pojoyed in any legislative assembly. ' As the name of the King is never allowed to be mentioned upon the one hand for the purpose of giving a bias to the lentintenis of the Representatives of the People, or Ito those of the Peers, so, let the measures of Eo. ternment be ever so odious, no aspersion, however slight, can in any case, be cast upon the Royal Person, without exciting the indignation, and drawing down the resentment and animadversion of all the members, wherever it may have occurred. Thus this salutary fiction works real benefit to the Constitution, and in fact nu personal altercation can ever exist, within the range of moral probe. lity, between tho Soveieign and his Parliament. Nothing is likely to do awaythis happy security to both, except the Servants of the'Crqvin giving themselves the habit of obtruding the name of " the King" to cover their own mistlemeatioers, and en. deavouring thereby to identify their interests with those of Majesty. For instant*, when a motion is made to produce the narrative of Lord CUAT HAIII, so indispensably necessary to the inquiry upon which the House was employed, what was thcribjett of' talking of its being a confidential . • pansiation between the " King" and the COM- Otander.ll.Chlef l but to pClliate the misconduct of the Ministry its withholding that document On such a matter, no confidential intercourse can be septiosed - Welist between tit: King and a. sub. pet, without admitting r alortof farouritises in. Coinpiitible with the British . Constitution. P the J(ing has no "private escrut(Are," and they ieho assert that he has, are nut the friends of the King, however they may lay an exclusive claim to that. title. Nsitliing could be more insolent, nothing . • g more overbearing, than the professed respect for the rivale affairs, while under that ilene., urination was included such a transaction 'as that to which we are adverting. dill declaration that, if the motion' was carried; kinisters amid not A O= where to look for 14c 'papers required, itt ) V Oerhaps, without parallel in parliamentary ry, aid; if admitted eat precedent, will serve the tint of any Miuister,',who .does not wish to lay particular doetiments t heford the Ogbil'ature; as effectually as le Roy s'apiserfs expresses tits ocie . tioa of any measure by the CroWn. tro be Continued.] HE Letter, signed A SoursswA RIC EJ.CC7OIII, shall appear as soon as possible. The "abject is important, and 'meat to be lavestigaled. - Ai? Wed. Ni id is. • VAIN, • , 1 • ' Dui)lilt . 2 6 4.. .• Wale'Nrd • ••••...•:•11..•• 1 0 Ctittokhurigh • • •,.. • 1 • 0 Liihwi lest 0 0 . q CAtdis .. TWICE OF STOCKS rill IS DA AT ON E O'CLOCK 3 Per Ce n t. Mg- 68 . 1 1 . 3 per Vent. cow. 661 oil . (Minium; 11. Cs. • THE ASTArES4AIV. LON Ott:V*4 - , . iatnAl~'ill.Ll , *o9 l 18100 • • • WE MEI Veil yesterday i 618 of 4twericaoPitmms to the 21st ult. We have inserted some - Egtracts, • among which is a portion of Ole ans wer of the , house of R,cpresentaCi es of Massachusetts to the speech of Mr. GER RY, the Governor of that pro. wherein various comments arc made on the conduct of great Eritain and France towards the Unity(' Stales. It is now said, that there will be so extra call of Congress, and that there is no idea of soother Embargo or Nutt.interconrse Law. • TAN remainder . of the Antedate Correspond - ogee, published this day, will astonish more than the kreeding rikrt, if any thing• dune by the Imtach Government tan astonish. We Shall briefly sam up its ttundtsct a as detailed by General . ANSTRONG. First, the Americana are allowed aid cm bolted, to taste with Spiv Naples and the States dependant upon.,France; and'then, without the slightest notice, all their vessels in the Continental harbours arc seized, and the car goeiat least (as, it does not appear what becomes a of the rest) are sold, and . proceeds given to BoiLteittrx and Itinakr ; and this, though the produce seized is acknowledged to be American, and not English. It requires some new name to th;siguate this act: Piracy will not do, nor will the mere term rubbery suffice : it is, as a public measure, a tion-descript kind of iniquity, never" executed by any Government possessing civi lization or humanity, from the foundation of the wurid. The justification given of it by CHAMPAGNY is, that it was a reprisal upon America for her Non-Intercourse Laws. But herein consists the absurdity of this reply, that the vessels were seized in February and March last ; whereas, BONAPARTZ had known of the Non-Intercourse Law nine months before, and had apparently approved of it : so that he might as well haveurged the American Act of Indepen dence in justification of his conduct. Tun last dispatches which arrived from France, relative to the proposed Exchange of Prisoners, and which were brought by a Misgauges on Satur day sc'nnight, cutitsined s , instead of the expected dcitniiive arraegement, * new psnpoial, chid is understood to be, that elf. the Spanish sad Per. tugucse captives should be sent to this amsetry t , instead of being transported to Frieem---e-' The effect of this alteration would be, that they would be received here in estate of beggigh and must be fed, cloathett„ and supported, et the expcnce of Great Britain. Ministers have bad . several meetings upon this subject, ,and it Is as. bested, that from motives of humanity they wucid not object to this new requisition, if they could suppose it to be the last; but they appro. fiend BONAPARTE will rise in his demands in pro. portion to their condescension to his wishes, and that be has no serious design of coming to enrol. timatum on the business. It has been supposed, from the &dui; thatlift.' MACKENStE has been employed, during his resl.l donee in France, on some uegociation unconnected with the avowed object of his mission, but fur this supposition there is no foundation. I Tuts being settling day fat the . Stock Elebangi ) we are sorry to announce the.failure of five pr siz very respectable brokers ; which, we undentaud f is occasioned by the general failures in the city. There was considerable variation in the fu,nds, during the day,; butthe Ompiont eff;At about if per cent. discount. - - - We arc sorry to hear, that another mercantile failure took place yesterday in the City. ' • Two Bath •Bankers have increased the list, of Country Bank failures. • It is said that a sum of six millions in Bank sir, England notes has been transmitted to the countr . y t . for the purpose of supporting the credit of several Country Banks. It is also said. to be In the coo:' temptation of Government to indemnify the Bank in the issue of three millions, to be lent on Colo.. uial.l►roducu or other property-,'as an accominoda. tion at the present conjuncture, when public ere. dit has received so severe a blow: Thu recent advantage obtained by the Russians over the Turks, seems to have infused new vigour !Win the former•anny. The important fortress of ' Readmit is invested, and the main army has tnarehed against that Of the GRAND VIZIER, for the perpose of bringing on a general engagement. Tau Queen Charloite is ordered down to Chat. ham, to be copper.hottomed there iu duck with . all possible dispatch. In addition to the gun-boats lately fitted out at Chatham and Sheerness, 20 more are ordered to be got in readiness, making In the whole 73. • The Duke of Sussex is confined with a severe asthmatic attack. The Earl of BtaxeLEY was on Wednesday con. sidered in an improved state. Mr. I'. SDERiDAR is relented from Sicily; bet; we arc sorry to add, not .much..henefited id health by his foreign excursions.' Ait y .t 4 , • The holders of. Ontniunt appeared on the Stoat. Exchange yesterday with such very lo*ir. faces, that their barbers tkejUstiified in raising thw price of shaving one hastaretfi per cent. • • A sporting Gorreipcindent,. who salmi ,to:h01. Istpa keiooledge -Of Cotyliel THOZNUN I lIESUCER us, that his interfetence ts prevent the duel tween the two Lawyers, did not arise from any selfish motive•aboirt the preservatiOn.hf titledeeds„... as to/411140cl 4w'the Newspapesi,. but hots the Colonel's constitutional and amiable dislike to sunguinory conflicts of that abhorrent kind. . Yesterday was married I)y special licence, at Wruxton Abtey, in the county of 0211'04, by the Re*. J. C. Tovresuesn, Chaplain to his ,Lordship, the Right lion. the. Earl of Gum. reap, to Miss MARL % BoTcorT, fifth daughter of the late Tuomws Biiiicorr, Esq. of Rudge Hall, Salop. • Yesterday was married, by special licenee, at St. George's, Hanover-square, by the Rev. Mr. THISTLSWA 17E, Miss JULIA Suuestautto LEN (daughter and sole heiress to the immense fortune of the late Sir GEottoc &slimmer& &VT. LEN), to the lion. Mr. CHARMS CECIL JERKIN: sox, brother to the Earl oriateueoot. • The happy pair, after partaking of an elegant **toe at Lad y SKIPWOnTIefs, Kit off for Coos* O Oa 4 . seat of the bowater Lady taviseool.. Covent.g.irJen *Theatre, vie 'understand, will open on the Wth of September, by which time it A:1(1) is OCW' the propuseil tub}. be plcted. . FR:itiClilifiltDilt . . The following is a Copy oftbatettet free the Ecarronsof WaST3IINITIZ Wl* FiAl4l. ll-111 * - DICTT, inviting him iodine willittlismat the Crown . and Anchor s on .tho Slat instant; together with tko answer of Sir Francis :... -• • Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strad. • July 18, 1810. Ste;—The Electors of Westniimier having expressed an anxious desire to commemorate your Liberation from, the Tower, a meeting W 7411 held !alb's' place on Mondaylast, when It was resolved to have a Public Dinoer on that occa sion, and Stewards were accordingly appointed. In conseqoesce of a wish, universally expressed, that you would honour theta with year company, the Stewards at their first meeting have desired us respectfully to solicit lair at tendance on that day; the 91st Instant. We rennin, Sir, Your obedient humble servants, ROBERT HUTCHINSQN. GEORGE PULLER. Sir Fastness Butatrr, Bart: M. P. Genrs.tWest; Piccadilly. July 19, 1310. The Electors of Westminster do me great honour by this Invitation width they have lent to me through your hands, and I receive it with great pleasure. At all times. and is all placer. whether their Atepreseretative or out, I shall always be food reedy to do them say reasonable service in •Parlia menter son.—To yourselves, Gentlemen, whims I well and piermenlly know. .I beg te return say best thanks; and I bees imrabail spends plasma day together on the 31st of Oh beta* July, motets the Kin a, sad she Commas ego sot r Mier. and the BECAZTAIAt or Blatt shortie draw amt L 11011111111101 1 army with A train of artillery, to declare wain our Stittartielast'Roast Beef. 1 renutb, Geshanimes, .. • Your most obedieerrioll reel Walk fletwort, • • ,:traikitcits strkvirrr. Itr. Geo. PuLt.nft sad avrtca esteem. I I. .----- - 7V SIR PRdIiCIS BURDETZ • —.memo.— . .BI7IIIOIIT, the mom this willing tribute pay, • , • To thy heroic virtue ;--Itiend of th' oppresf, And fee to the oppressor, every breast Where freedom glows, fortby well-bets! prays. Their ardent hopes, on thee, a nation raise; Tby principles, long try'd shall stand the test Of calumny, and the shrewd Senate's jest selfish view thy patriot bosom sways. Go on, illustrious man; thy friends repose With confidence in thy unshaken soul; Those that are.tbies, ars toe thy country's foes; Thou liv'st Oct for d part, but for the whole; Thu like a streissa, thy course, obstructed flows— More wide, and deep, and powerful it will roll, I. N4r.1114 INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JULY IS. Sailed the Lion, of 64.guas. Captain Neatheote; for tits Persian Gulph, with the Persian Ambassador, Sir G. Ouse -1• , and suites, on board, who embarked at sun-set last nigh , under the *nest respect NI 'slates t the Myrtle, with dispatches for Lisbon; and the Initials, with courkts for New South Wale,. ' Arrived the Regulus liossis,ehlp„ from Woolwich ; the "Site, from the West Indies, last from the MMus. MILIT4ItY INTELLIGENCE. On Wednesday, the last division of the Lancashire Regiment of Militia marched into Worcester, where the whole of the Regiment will remain till further orderi. On the same day, the 4tl battalion of the Stith Regiment of Foot arrived there also from Cirencester. • On Monday and Tuesday last, the Royal Cornwall Regi. meta of Militia marched into Exeter. This week, a young man, Clerk to the Paymaster of the Royal Westmoreland Regiment of Militia, absconded from Weeleyßartarks, with a considerable sum of money, iiitrust, ed to his care for regiTental purposes. . • A Court of Aldermen was t heis tyester , day at Guildhall, at which were present the LORD MA Yon ) 13 Aldermen, and the City Officers. Twelve bars of gold, weighing upwards of 2000 °t ' utees were sworn to as foreign for exportation. The Sheriffs electpSir WILLIAM PLOM lt, Knt. and 4 ADILI EL GOODBUIERE, Esq. Aldermen, at. tended, and gave a bond of'loool. each, for taking upon them the offices of Sheriffs of London, and Sheriff of Middlesex, on Michaelmas Day next. The Loan MA Tea:gave notice of his intention of holding a Court of Aldermen on Tuesday next, to finish the business on the paper. . A. Court of Common Council was afterwards held, ,at which it was referred to the Committee for General Purposes to ingeire into the receipts and' exPenditnre in supOortlng • the dignity of the office of Lord Mayor, acid to report what in their opinion should be the amount-it - an, -increased allowance, corresponding filth - thirakirition of . the times. 1 A few days ago a hawk;otilieliege - kind,mear ' Buxton . , very uncoreasosionety &alit from the IV: edits of . the.sky, antipept up4a si *wale; which 'ihi carried up. • Ist about* ilaiiatice .Iso ftitwk 016 1 0 , down faster than lie Tose ‘4lie *wale hiatiog fast:, .aced at his throat, 14110 his ia a itirjAihrt Agal. A w °Man, 74 yaws . ad s . . lately' huttiOptself with several pieces ofs packtttOlid, 4WlttOttolitt: thesi by herself, aidett.by party of ai bad-col; .in lief house, at Neilson, In the Went, 4 theshire. • Wfiat is very siogular, she deiired iser.hitcepeier. to omit bringing her every piece,of cordshe could find, as she would stand in need of it soinn'tlate— the need was therefore explained aiabove. ' • A fire broke out yesterday morning at No. 10, Pollard-row, Etethuall.green, by 'which the in. tenor of the house and the furniture were de"..' stroyed. . . ~ Coma Exonmsza, JULY SO.—The Market to-ttai sa t several fresh arrivals of WlTat, with COGlli4eroble no tine samples hardly at last prices; other qualities most tsay=' Nl ers.—live at less.4-Agaiu bet little •Baricy.—Malt lower...- White Pau likewise.--Beani of the two kiwis are cheaper. —There are emaldentble "applies of Oats, and this trade is cheaper, eacepting floe isaspfts.—Flostr nearly at late prices. CURIMNT PRICE. Wheat, - - 7111. 965. 110 e. Tick Ready -- .: 455. 51s. Fine ditto -- • = 116 s. lOUS. Oen, Rye, " ' 455. Ms. Pokisids - --. -' 3d.. 37.. Ud. Burley, ' ' " Sas. Ills. Potaloe ditto - ~- 41‘. Oti. Wak: ••-"'-'--- -.- 14s.'SOs. ,Rope Seed -' - - sfsd LOU -Peas(Boilets) Ms. 74.. Fine Flour- .- - - 95•. 100 s. Urey'reiss, - +-, sth. 55,1. Seconds a 1, 1199 , .. • . 55.:"N' . -, r SDAT'II PAPERS. , . COthtltsPos Dr,vcE. • ..reeesaA racial raw AMERICAN !Arlie). ‘.. Natio I tu r F rom gec a ,C4Cet garaOrdittery.] I . • agyatA4 .Alintllllllllio TO MIS IMITIL , • park, Feb. IS, 1810. ate a few Haas to you yesterday an . Bouncing the receipt and.;transmission of a copy ot the Dike of ( odssie'st note to me of. the 14 t h init. After much serious reflection I hate thought it best *War all police at present of the cr . rocs, is of fait as of argument, which may be.found in the , introductory part of that hots; to take the Minister at his wottl; to enter at once upon the proposed negociatiJo, and, for this pare pose, to offer him a project for renewing the Con. vantion of 1800. This mode *ill have the advantage of trying tie sincerity of the . overturecaside by him, and pe t . haps of drawing from him the precise terms Ott which his master . will accommodate.. If these b e such as we ought to, accept, we shall have a Treaty, in which neither -our rights nor our wrongs will be forgotten ; if otherwise, there will be enough both of time and occasion to do justice to their policy and our own, by a free eludes. Lion of each. I have the honour to be, Sir, with very great respect, , your most obedient and very isolable set.? vant, • ...( 11 .40 161 ) Hoo. Rebertaom. Zo4IN ILINISTRONG. • t IUtTIILACT- 9/-• =WS& TO titi SAKI, FROM TU - pasta, lOrit. WARM. I "see telrtft receded a verbal message In its, iwir to. my not. o) the Stst alt. It was from the Minister of Foreign Relations, and in the follow. ins words :—" flis Majesty hssdateratined to sett the American property seized in pajtt, but-Jhe Money arising therefrom Aall reniat in depot." This message has gives occasion to alettet trots w marked No. 22. (No.-22.) Paris, 10th Mara, tem Si tc —I had yesterday the honour of receiving verbal message from your •Excelliney, stating, that • his Majesty hail decided, that the American pro. petty seized in.the ports of Spain should be sold, but that the money arising therefrom...should re. main in depot." • , On receiving this informatioe, teroisestisages; gestcd theniselees— , • tat.. Whether this decision was or wst.tudeit e tended to ships as well as to cargoes ? and , - 2r Whether the soimley arising from the ohs which might be made under it, would or would not,' be subject to the issue of the pendlogsnego, million ? • The Gentleman charged with the delivery of your Message•not having be§nlastricted to answer these., questions, k becomes upy. duly to Weed them to your . .Eacellency, and to mutat a soles,` lion of them. - Nor is it a less ditty .on . my part, to ehanshise thairotands on which his Majesty ha been pleased to take this decision', which I under. stand to be that of rcpPirat, eugpited for the first time in the note you did me the hoover to write to me on the 14th ultimo: In dteltiurth paragraph of this note, it is said, that " his dillajeety could not have calculated on the mamma taken by the 'United States, who, having no ground* of tea. plaint against Francs, have comprised her in their acts of exclusion, and lines the month of May test, have prohibited the entry into their ports of frock vessels, bysobjecting them to confiscation." It is true that. the Poked States have since tits 20th of May last forbidden the entry of French vessels into their harbours; and it is also true that the penalty of confiscation attaches .to the viola. thin of this law. But iu what respect dues thil offend 'ranee ? Will she refuse to us the right of regulating commerce within our own ports Or will she deny that the law io question is a re f gulatiun merely municipal ? Examine it both as to object and means—what does it more than for. bid American ships from going into the poke of France, and French ships from coming into those of the United State r s ? And why this prohibition ? To avoid injury and. insults to escape that lawlessness, which is .deelared to ;its " a forced consequence of the Decree of .the Bri. Web Council." If then its object be purely detest sive, what are its means ? Simply a lam, previous., ly and generally promulgated. opera ting solely 1 ,140in . ..the territory of the United Biotin, and punishing alike the infractors of it, whether CilL. '.ens of the said States, or other,. And whit is this but die exercise of a rigbt,• cointanta Ins#l nations, of excluding, at their will, foreign mall. . merce, and of enforcing that exclosion ? Can Oda be deemed a wrong to France ? Cast this be lev girded as legitimate cause of reprisal on the part r of a Power, who makes it the first duty of N anette to defend Abele sovereignty, and who even dena. tionalizes.the ships of those wise will cot subscribe to the opinion ? But it has been said that the " Veiled States had nothing to complain of against France." , Was.the capture and condemnation of a AIN. driven (intim shores of FranCO by stress of weellhars and the perils of the sea—.nothing ?- Was the eels. :•soreand• sequestration of many cargoes brought to ,France le snips violating Rik law, and admitted it ,"t'es_uler,entry. at the Imperial custom-houses- 4 w. al• thin Was the violation of our maritime rights,. •conse g c ? rated - as they hore.been by the solemn forms o(it. public Trcitly—nothing ? to a word, wait nothing that our ships were burnt oo the high seas without any other offence than that of beloogieg. ,to ate .United States; or other apology than was ips in found to the enhanced safety of the %Willett's.' tin.? Surely if it be the duty of this United Stales '.tie resent the theoretical usurpations of the British , lurderit ,of Nov.. 1807, it caonot be less thei r ty W • of the daily and practical outrages on thc. , part of France! •It is indeed true, that were the people of United States destitute. of policy, of honour, yet of asergi (Its- has been insiiiisated); they might ha" opted a 'system of diatirimination between .0 two great belligereuts; . titer might have dr aw! ilmaghtelty tinge between the first and second at' or ; 'they might have resented in the one a ...conduct to which they tamely submitted in the Other, audio this way have patshed up a colas . •-• • - • • • - • ~. , -. M4c. ~~ - lITr '. z-: wl• - 7 I _. , ;~: plEily• I • ei 1 _ 1 I 7 1 I • 1 in SI 6 ,T 1 la