The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-08-01 00:00:00

7.11177' , "7-7 . .r ; - i;^ IC HIT TUESDAY LOTTEItY DRAWS.—TWO OF 1.30.0'0. T4O OF Z 2,1 OJ, 2.000 SOVIAIKIGNR, CiAt!rr. PORT, 11ADEIRA, GOLD, ONLY 8,000 TICKET 3. .--- - PRICE OF cTOCKS . TfOS OILY Al'. ONE O'CLOCK 'Rink stock Iti; I per Cert. 96i 9 per rent 'tel. 77;l 5 per Coat. Nary 1051 S per Cent C0n...t.'771 77 Indus floods 94 p '4lper Cent. 813/ LonK Ann. Sti 1419 trusols for Ace. 7741 . Exchequer Bids 19 90 p 1 :. fr CE. STATESMAN. . : LONDON: SATORDef. MMUS'? 1, 1/11 S. ,••••■60••••-• We are et length enabled In startis funs Official Decla►ation, the motives thnt have -Induced the Voitell State.' General to take possession of Pensa. _cols. New York Papers► to the Bth ult. remelted ns st a Iw►a twor this forenoon, one of which (the New York Gazette) contains thb follotsing imputing t OFFICIAL. GENERAL JACKSON. Wu have been favoured with a New Orleans Paper of the 12th ult. containing tire Articles of Catpitulation of Barrancas, approved at' 'Fort St. the 'Nth of May, and signed Wy JrotEnt IlstalloT and AIDREW J ACKSON. We have no room 'so-day for these article., but the substance is est. inaceir iu Ate following GENERAL ORDER. Heed-quarters. Division of the South Pensacola. May 23, Md. Major-General ANDREW JACCSOII has found it necessary to take possession of Pensacola. lb has .not been prompted to this measure from. a G ish to extend the territorial befits of the United Slates, or from eny unfriendly feeling on the part of -the Amer titan Republic to the Spanish Government. The Seminolian Indians, inhabiting the territories of Spain, have more than two years past visited our frontier settlers with all the horrors of savage maie "acres; helpless women have been %withered, and the cradles stained with the blood of innocence.- These atrocities, it was especial, would have early attracted the attention of the Spanish GOvernment, And, faithful to existing treaties, speedy measures adopted for their suppression. The obligation to restrain them was acknowledged, but weakness was alleged, with a concession that so far from being able to cciatrool, the Southern Authorities 'Were often compelled, from policy or necessity, to issue munitions of war to these savages, thus enabling, if -not eliciting them to raise the tomahawk against us. —The 41.mutahle laws of self-defence, therefore, compelled the American Government to take posses *ion of such pacts of the Florida, as the Spanish Au thority could not he maintained in. Pensacola was . • found in this sit unainn, and trill be held until Spain can furnish military strength sufficient to enforce The existing . treaties. Colonel KING will assume the command of Pensa &a, as military and Civil Governor. (Signrd) ANDREW JACKSON. Major-Gerserni CAtmmai•rt lenbatiou. It thus appears that the atrocities of the Seminole Indian;, alit' the unw illingnessor inabilityof the Spa. inish Government to fulfil its Treaties in adopting tneASUrPC to repress the outrages of these savages on their American neighbours, are assigned as the grounds for this act of the United States. It still seenn; from the American accounts, that the capture 'um; p:Pcipti by storm. Intelligence .from the Ila vattnah, communicated through -tha medium of the Baltimore Papers, and received this morn. lug by way of Liverpool, gives reason to es. pect that the capture of Pensacola would occasion the detention of American vessels at the Ilaystratah, *where the Spanish Governor and bis troops had ar rived, and a considerable sensation hod been ea. cited by this event. The following is au extract of the intelligence thus communicated : " Office of Baltimore Patriot, Jetty 6. 1 P.M. " The schooner Colonel George Armstead, GATE arrived here from Ibiannah in nine days. The slay she sailed two cartels arrived there from Pensa. cola with Spanish troops and the Governor of that place. It watexpected that American emelt wield be detained, as a stop was pet to loading them. As might be expected, this affair created considerable The Papers from Paris (which we have received I to the '29th) bring some interesting accounts of the proceedings of the French Court, bat we have as yet no notice of the idol of the Royalist Conspirators.— The day is not even yet named for their General CAmuct. is still in prison. M. FERRET, the Editor of a Paper which espoused the cause of the exiles, and reflected upon CanvEr. some time ego, for which he received a very severe sen tence, has, upon appeal to the Royal Court, had bis sentence mitigated. His Counsel, In defending him for taking the part of the exiles of France, said, , they were not treated with the same kindness as exiles from other countries on the French territory, and that a Treaty (misted between four Powers to send the French exiles to a small number of towns, the air, the language, and situation of which were contrary to their habits, and fatal to their existence. —The King left St. Cloud on Moeda . ) , for Ramhouil let, a NIRO which he is said not to have visited for 1'. 4 0 years. The P/111C2S had rersored before biol. . • • r THE STATESMAN: Prussia is making great exertions to fortify her new acquisitions against futures inisasion from France.. We could have imagined that FRED/RICIE might bare ; been taught by recent events, theabsordity of plating trust alone in fortresses; but it Is not easy to teach some Monarchs wisdom. Even experience often fails to have this effect. From Mayence a detail is given of the measures adopted, and in a train of execution by Prussia, for the purpose of forming a line of for tresses on the Prussian frontiers. A fortress of the first class has been constructed at Minden, on the Weser, which is intended to cover Lower Saxony, and con,- mud Westphalia. On the side of France the works of Saar-louis have been repaired and st rengt hened, arid at Luxemburg works are carrying on to make it one of the first fortresses in Europe. Juliers, the works ..! which are very considerable, is to be a grand place (Vannes. Three large fortresses are also to be erected on the hanks of the Rhine, between Holland and Bingen, forming a tine with Mayence, Landau, and two new fortresses which are to be formed on the Upper Rhine. The three principal Prussian fortresses on the Rhine, are to be Wesel, Cologne, and Coblentx ; the last. mentioned place is to become a fortress of the first class ; the Works ire to be extended so as to include all the neighbouring heights, and it is to be further proteited by the fort of Ehrenbreistein, which is to be completely repaired.—Cologne is to be rendered a fortress of immense extent. The ancient wi lls o f the city have,been adapted to the present state of military science, and surrounded by a number of bastions, which are again protected by new towers, as advanced works, sod further by the little town of Deets, opposite which is to be made a regular fortress. Wesel is to be protected on the opposite side of the Rhine by Fort Blucher. This is an very fine work for the engineers, and May look very wet upon paper; but Fort Blucher, and even BLUCHER . • himself, with his terrific whiskers, would oppose but feeble obstacles to the power of the French armies, -were 'NAPOLEON again at their head, Great preparations are making at Aix-la-Chappelle for the 4proaching Congress. That celebrated, but deserted city will perhaps be the only gainer by this meeting.—A chateau (that of Rohe, situated without the gate of Maestricht, a league from the city) has been taken, at the rate of 25,000 franc., for the Emperor of RusetA, and several other houses for his suite, which was expected to be very numerous. Minya had also been taken for the Emperor of AUSTRIA and the King of 'llausstA.—The King of Paussix, it is said In an article from Betlin, was ex pected in that Capital on the 29th or 30th ult. ; but the period of the arrival of the Emperor of RUSSIA was dot known. The Duke of WELLINGTON, we bad by the Flanders Mail, has at length succeeded in his appeal against the judgment in favour of the Editor of the Joarnat of East and West Flanders, who imputed mote in. fluence to his Grace in the French Councils than he is willing to allow. The Court has decided, that the article published in that Paper against his Grace bore the character of calumny, and condemned the Editor to one month's imprisonment. costs, &c.— These Papers speak confidently of the presence of Lord CASTLEREAGU and the Duke of RICIIELISU at tha diplomatic negociations of Aix-la-Chapelle. The trial of Hussey, at the Maidstone Assizes, for the murder of Mr. BIRD and his housekeeper at Greenwich, those acts of uncommon barbarity which have been enveloped in mystery, and excited the anxious feelings of the Public so long, is of such in terest that we have devoted a great part of our Paper of this day to a report of it. his Defence, as spoken by himself, is detailed at full length. The trial finished last night at half-past ten, after lasting 12 boors. Hussey has heefound guilty. The evidence appears to have been chiefly circumstantial, but sum ciently positive in its character. We are happy to hear that the Friends of Univer. sal Freedom intend dinipg together on Tuesdaywevk, in honour of the venerable Father of Reform, Major CARTWRIGHT ; and to celebrate those principles he has so long and ably advocated. Several eminent characters, - foremost in that cause, we understand, have already signified their intention of being present. Indeed, all are anxious to pay that mark of. respect to their veteran Leader,:-and a most netnerons Meeting is espected. The es pence of the Tickets is to be on a scale of eco nomy, which we should like to see more generally adopted ; and we cannot avoid remarking, that Public Dinners, which ought, from the great number that generally lit down at them, to be the cheapest, are latterly the dearest, without having comfort or accommodation in their favour. Tug Qusex.--The account of the state of the Queer; yesterday was very favourable. "her MA. JESTY has had a very good night, and is meal better to-day." Princess AUGUSTA left her Royal Mother after breakfast, about ten o'clock, in a comfortable elate, and came to London and remained et the Queen's Palace till about four o'clock, and then re turned to Kew. A latter from Florence of the 14th instant says— " Yesterday night, his Excellency, Lord BunGneestr, Ambassador at the Court of Tuscany, gave a splen did fete to the Grand Duke and family, the Nobility, and principal Personages in Florence. At this superb entertainment, Admiral Sir TUOIdAS FaLEMANTLII was invested by the Ambassador with the insignia of the Order of the Rath." Last week a fish of the halibut species was caught in Lochfine, which weighed nearly four hundred weight, and measured in circumference six feet, and in length sis and a half feet. ft wail sold in the Gimp w market. FROEsifik TO TILIC EDITOR Orlw-TilO ZONIXIPI' STATEis Milli. • London, JOY gS. Ststi—ln looking o►er year Paper of the 21st imit. accidentally cast my eyes on an article ex tracted from an American raper, giving an account of the enterprise and public spirit of a small town is the Alabama territory, is ha►ieg at so early a period turned its attention to the improvement of its aa►igation.----This has induced me to communi cate another circumstance respecting that country, which I do not recollect having seen noticed, el though it may decide a question which has long agi tsted the commercial community, and by its result in. (reduce en important elle& to the abolition pf usury. An Act of the first Legistatore of that ter ritory last winter, wits the repeal of all laws regu rating the interest of money, except so far as to fit the rate, whe►e no agreement 'listed between the parties, thus leaving money the unshackled object of traffic, as other articles. The adjoining new Stale of Mississippi (of which this territory formed a part until lately) has adopted a aittiilar regulation; Fotl cient time has not yet elapsed to ascertain the result --should it prove favourable, no doubt esists that the other States will follow the example; perhaps, even Eitgland may not !puss the instruction of these inespriienced hut •daring Legislators. We should recollect that quarks have performed mores by the use of remedies , which the cautious Doctor would never have ventured-, The small communities into which the American Republic is divided, each possessing the power of re gulating its own municipal concerns, appears pecu liarly well adapted to experiments of this nature ; for should the result prove unfavourable, a small po pulation, compared with the millions of this coun try, will feel the inconvenience, and that not in pro portion to their numbers, but of the amount of their commercial transactions, which is yet veryincousi desable. T. F. The Boston Piper of the 27th ult. mentions, that Captain lltnciNs. of the Bellona, whilst on his pas sage from New York to Frenchman's Bay, bearing N. by E. fell its with three sea-monsters. The first about three quarters of a mite from the schooner was discovered crossing the how, and on seeing it directed his course towards it, and went upon the larboard side, where the Captain endeavoured to shoot it, but did nut succeed. Captain U. hid not proceeded more than a quarte► of a mite when he discovered another S. W. coming for the schooner with great speed ; he hove to, and when within thirty yards of the serpent, whistled to it, opon which he appeared to stretch op his head and look at Captain H. very earnest. Upon its not approaching nearer the vessel Captain H. bore away, when it followed him for about smile; mean time another was discovered bearing N. one mite Ms. tent, and on descrying the vessel, came direct to it till within ten yards, when a musket was discharged, loaded with a hall, at his head, but he did not seem to have received any injury, it went under the water and the vessel passed over it. Captain U. supposes the Not to he 80 feet tong. The Duke of Itolumen, who has, for the first time, been elected one of the Sixteen Representatives of the Scottish Peerage, is rim only Scots Duke, who is not also a P•er of Great Britain. His Grace is now in the eighly first year of his age, and his son, the Marquis of LicAtmorm, has just entered into his second! A letter from Rome states, that the Count de ST. LEU (LOUIS BONAPARTE) has instituted an action for divorce against his wife, before the Court called the Congregation del Concilio. Such is the secrecy with which the process is carried on, that silence is imposed on all persons concerned with the proceed hogs, under pain of excommunication. It is said that the Countess, who is at present at the baths of Pisa, will not employ any Counsel, but that the defensor ex•o/fciu will merely oppose the action pro forma. During the last ten years there have been but Thirteen Money Prizes of 830,000; yet, strange as it may appear, out of those Thirteen, no less than Nine have been Sold and :Shared by Bistr.—This, perhaps, accounts for his having a greater proportion of Patronage than usual in the Lottery which be. gins Drawing Nest Tuesday, as the Scheme con tains Two Prizes of 830,000 ; and it is no &Ott in the recollection of the. Public, that in the last Lqt. tory which contai►►ed Prizes of 4 30,0000, be sold Two in Thirty Shares. No less than 1,077 passengers arrived at Calais from Dover between the 6tb sod 21st instant. The re. turn' during the same period were 655. The MEETIVG of the Sovanzioes took place last Tuesday, when they were all closeted in the Cabinet of Fortune at Somerset-house, which will be opened at Coopers'-hall, NEXT TUESDAY, to dispense In. dependence by the Two Prizes of 230,000, Two of £2,000, 2,000 Sovereigns in Gold, &c. &c. in this grand but small Lottery of Caattotes, 7, Cornhill, and 26, Osford-street, consisting of only 8,00 Tickets, and All the Capitals floating, with the best Claret, Port, end Madeira in the kiugdom, to be chosen by the Adventurers themselves. Free.—Tuesday evening a fire broke out in a small house, in Francis-street, near the Asylum. Owing to the prompt arrival of the engines, however, and there being a full supply of water, the flames, al though the buildings are very murh confined, were fortunately prevented spreading beyond the premises where they first broke out. Buncr.xitv.—Yesterday morning the house of a Gentleman in Ilernard•stree;, lkussell-square, was entered by some thieves at the kitchen window, who broke open the butler's pantry,and stole from thence articles of plate to a considerable amount. The house of Miss Singleton, 14, in the same street, and many other houses in that neighbourhood, have lately been broke into, and sobbed of property to a very large samant. ~L . Th r ish . LLIGENCB. DEAt, JULT . 3l.—Attived and sailed for th e Ter the Mint, Drysdale, from Jamaica • G e Kidd, Mairne, from China ; Lord CLil e ," 4 . Ydunghustsend, from Bengal ; Neptune, n y from Antigua ; Wettborg, Meyer, from B remen to Rio Janeiro the latter remains.—Came down frog the River end remain the Perseverance, Measi f y for Nevrfoundtand • Lord Molgrave, 'f iodate, f o : Quebec; Newbery ' Port, Goodiick, for Baltimore. Ophelia, Proctor, for Gibraltar.—Also arrived foo t sail of the Spanish transports from the Baltic, which convened the Officers and crews of the Realise op of war from Cadit to Gluckstadt. FM4 , 101.1111, JULY 29.—Arrived last evening 4 this port, the ship Competitor, of Whitby, i n 4 1 thys from Jamaica. WHITBY, JULY 30. 1 r—Arrived the Aimwell, Bal. ter, from Greenland, with 10 fish, and brings di following account of the success of the Whitby ski p viz.:—William and Ann, S fish; Fisk, July 4,11 fish ; Volunteer, June 0, 5 fish ; Lively, June IL F.3h ; Valiant, June 11, 4 fish ; Mere, Jun e if , lio ; Ph,ceniz, June 12, 3 fish ; Fame, June R 9, 7 fih ; Resolution, Jima 28 1 19 fish—left the ire July 6. PoitTsiscstriti, JULY 31 —Came into harbour the Brazen and Meals n.—The Lord Cast leresigh,Yo us e husband, passed by from Bengal for Londoo—sailed the 23d February, left the Cave 'hp Otti Nlus , seta. Helena on the 11th June. The &sex, Mahon, sail on the Dth, and the Norfolk, Edwards, on itte I May, from the Cape for Bongs'. The Got Guise, —, for England, was le sail frost ti, Cave about the nth /o n e. The Kingston, Barlow, arrived at Spoond's Bay, the Sth May, (tom Bengat ; left at St. Helena, the Back worth, Phcatils, and Mao; glee, from &gland. The Anus, Robertson, and Cao..• fence, had hailed for England. Spoke a ship, sap. posed the Union, from England, at the eutrauce of Singer Roads. Linoleum., JULY 29.—The Kitty, Coiling, for Cork, received' considerable damage at Norfolk ~ the 23d ult. and most discharge to repair. -111 4 , Aristides, Carter, sailed from Liverpool for on the 17th inst. and has put back leaky. Silly, Clarkson, from Wilmington for Live i ll has arrived at Newport, leaky, foremast sprang, a having thrown her deck load overboard. DZATII OF Loan Axsos.—Yesterday ntorbingi about twenty minutes past seven o'clock, his Lord. ship breathed his last at his house in St. James's. square. His Lordship has been confided to his room for the last three months with a severe attack of the gout, which unfortunately reached his stomach s and occseioned his (loath. His Lordship was born the 17th of February, 1767, end married September the 15th, 1794, to Ann Margaret, second &svelter of Thomas Win. Coke, of Holkham, In Norfolk, Ecq. by Jane, daughter of Leone Napier, Esq. Hie Lordship is succeeded in his titles and estate by hii eldest son. Thomas William, now Lord Anson, bore October 20, 1795.—The peseta . Lord Anson is w the Continent. Espressos bare been forwarded t hasten his return. From Stockholm the 10th instant It is mentioned, that for a fortnight preceding-there had bean no rail s and the heat had beenetwost insupportable. A young man of St. Mawe's, a row days iliac., prevailed oum female servants 22 years of age, to whom he was about to be married, to accompany hint in a smell boat on a pleasure excursion. /he boa carrying too much sail, was upset by a sudden squall, between St. Mawe's sqd Falmouth, and the losers precipitated into the sea. In this situation, the man, being a good swimmer, supported his sweethetrt for a quarter of an hour, but his strength failing, the af. fectionate girl besought him to abandon her, and coo. milt his own safety. When assistance arrived, he was taken out of the water apparently lifeless, but after some time animation was restored. His compa nion perished, and her body was not found till the fourth evening. On Sunday last, being what is called Tide Sunday (that is, the Sunday when the tide serves (lowa and tit the river) about 2000 persons of both sexes mud of ail ages, took the air of a sail or row on the riser to Gravesend. The boatmen of that place, according to immemorial usage, went out in their bruits alongside t*e Gravesend vessels to bring the passengers ashore, charging them six-pence a-piece. Hot in consequence of some new order for a warrant issued from Water man's-hall, the inflexible and active Magistrate of • Gravesend, issued summonses to all the boatmen who had thus acted, and en conviction of the ot. fence. •h e fined the first four delinquents in the sum of 209. and Bs. costs ; and of the nest batch of It summoned, 16 were convicted in the mitigated pe. natty of 51. fine and 2s. costs ; and for failure of payment, the whole were committed to Dartford House of Correction. • • Damtriettwo.—Yeeterday morning the wate►men at Wtsitehall ! stairs, observing something floating in the water, went in ascertain what it was, which proved to be the naked body of a youth about IS years old. It way conveyed to the workhouse. Abraham Thornton, whose trial for the molder of Mary Ashford excited such deep interest, has, slot* his disCnikrge, been living in the house of his parent* at Castlehromwich. lie has not yet returned to ■ny employment, hot passes his time In a kind of moody inactivity, and almost *brays entirely alone; whilst his miserable father (a most respectable mins and steward to a Gentleman of property in his neigh. bnuritood) is fast sinki►sg into a premature grave, with a consumption, brought on by intense ausiety of mind. COURSE OF EXFIIAN Amsterdam, Sti 10 B. 2 U. Ditto, at 51005 4 Amsterdam. I L 6 C. F. Ditto, at sight, 11 3 Rotterdam. 11 7 2 U. Antwerp, U RI I' . mo. Garnitures, 34 2•21 U. Alfons, 31 3 2b . U. Paris, S da:t s's sight, 24 2J U. Ditto, 24 40 2 U. li.turdeaux, Yl 4t Frank on the M :sine:EC:lex .mo , Madrid, 39 effective Cadiz, 59 effective Bilboa, Seville, 31 Gibraltar, 31 GE. TUEsDA - 11 JULY is. Le g horn, Genoa, 4i Malta, 50 Venice, 15 Naples. 44 Palermo. In per oz. 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