The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-09-05 00:00:00

. „ , . ^~ f , ; ! .) )/ i , !• r r ; 41 • • e`' • • ' e i„ .• • • • Ilse decision of the competent authority, to be re. stored no more. _ In the mean time, , es Congress only have the power, under our Coustitetidn, of deckling war, end had made no such declaration al l ainst'Spain, it Isrettnirrittood that the President does rot conceive himself at thmrited to retain the Spanish posts, inn'. leech es Mich reention would be an act of war. ft is sto this amend, we understand, that • the resolu tion haihren taken to restore the posts., and 40 de. WIPWITIP 117WIF , ‘ officers, whose improper conduct led to their piston , . The President, no doubt, seem in yeomen 'glib', ihiaglatentr,msta,thegrekt advatitages which the United :States would derive frorithoestite possession of the '.4 4 lerida• • bet , confessedly greet as. hern adventages • oteeld be, he is noewilliog to gain.thm bet by the sanction of an Act' of Congress. To.lSave retained tkeat posts, eerier puniest circeastencep, would ter.' itaissiy have had the eclat of being a strong measure; Int we hope 'peer tone a President of the United States aivesed to be stronger than the Constitution of his country, fat that is the palladipm of interests 'far inure sacred, and of idfinitady higher import to the general ("sae of human liberty, : than any acqui. Attlee of territory, however vest or advantageous. • Notwithstandieg this enespected collision in the **WM.,. we treat that the relations et amity between Viet*o nations will be preserved ; nor s can we *ban. lien the hope, that their differences may yet be settled, -en fair and honourable conditions. We can even in. 'dote the hope, that the Incidents which have grown Alive the Seminole war, however adverse their ten. deity may hive appeared to be, may contribute eseetttialty to produce that happy result: Spain most eee, auditors practically confessed, her iticeespetency to maintain her authority in the Floridas, against the "Seutinoles, end foreign adventurers; and we hope she wilt-see that it will be much wiser for her to cede Orme provinces at ono., than attempt to hold them ott tke impossible rendition of fulfilling her treaty with as; or on the condition now brought home to ter, by experience, of subjecting herself to perpetual tollisens, and eventual losses, which she may now ovoid with *sae and hoarier to herself. [crow 7111 TOIMMIRCI AL AVVERTISSR or A IYO. 101 Enos Aux CANSI.—By the arrival this forenoon tor the schooner William and Mary, in 17 days from Ass-Ceres, we learn, that three or four days before 'she sailed,`an order arrived from Port-su.Prince for lin the Mops to repair to that capital, for its de. ifienciegeinst ChrlatOpite, who, it would, was in full march, frith. all his force, to attack that place. The *deli wSsliessediately complied with, and the militia lit'S.Wg.Cgieb were enmpolled to do garrison duty. - FLINDERS MIIL. • ',' kat-t.a.CitatheraM, Au*. 29.—His Royal High. mess the Prince Chancellor of State returned here to day, and has taken up Ms abode in the house of Xkllendorff, in the great *quern, where he will reside (Whig the whole of the conferences. His Excellency the Minister of State and High Chancellor Beyme is arrived at Cologne. Among the new arrivals here are, Count Harden. berg, Brenda', Privy Councillor to the King of Denmark, Mr. Rothschild, George Smith, Esq. )4. P., ke. A, Ames. W.—Prince Blocher, who is at Carlsbad, begins to recover, and there is room to ihope that the use of the waters stilt restore kite to BOOMS, Auo. 93.—We learn that General Fres/Wet, who resided some time at Antwerp, ar. vived on the 10th af May at Buenos Ayres, on hoard the American frigate Aurora, Captain Warner. It is affirmed, that he is going to join the Insurgent General San Martin, who has already in his army another very well-known French Officer, via. Gen. Brayer. Atm 31.—Lord Stanhope and his family hue ar. rived here from Spa, on their way to Paris; Gen. Baillie, also from Spa, and going to Paris; Lord Pon sonby and family, from London. A letter from the Hague of 29th of August says— " We have just received here the news, that General Mendell, Governor of our possessions on the coast of Guinea, has died suddenly in an - apoplectic fit." A letter from Ais.la-Chapelle of the 28th says,— " A report is current, that his Highnesi Marshal Prince Blocher, of Wahlstand, has died at Carlsbad, where, by the last accounts, he arrived much indi.- .posed."— [The Aix-la-Chapelle Paper of Aug. 30, does not mention this report.l STRASBURGII, AUG. 23.—1 n the course of this month the last operations will be proceeded in which are ne cessary to fie definitively the demarcation line of the Rhine between France and Germany, from Bonin. guen to Lauterburg. It is not expected that there • ill be any difficulty on either side, as all the preliminary operations are already terminated. The two officers oppointed to settle this demarcation are, on the part of France, Lieutenant. General Gullleminot ; and an the part of Baden, the able Colonel of Engineers, M. de Tulle. The entire regulation of this part of the frontiers is to be completed before the winter. COLOGNE, AUG. 28.—A letter from a merchant at 'Vienna says—" The shares of our national Bank are always In great demand; people convert into them alt the kinds of Vienna currency which they can spare for the bank ; though it has arisen only within this half year, from the provisional adminis. Vuitton, it may rival, in respect to solidity and cre dit. the Banks of Paris and Amsterdam. What proves the aboodance of specie at the Bank is, that It lends money on bills of esehange at 5 per cent., and upon gold and silver at 3 per cent., without being able 'to pot out ill its funds ; for this reason it enjoys credit abroad ea well as among ourselves." • o FRENCH PAPERS. 1 / ARIM, Seer. I.—lt is said that the Allied So vereigns will make a public entry into Aix-la-Cha pelle. The number of troops there will be more considerable than was at first announced. The Doke de Richelieu sets out on Saturday to vim some days in the country. A most violent storm from the sooth•west was ex perienced on the 12th ult. about noon, in the ter. Atoll? of Villenouvette, in the arrondissement of Lodieve, and department of Remelt. lllail•stones fell of the size of 2R egg, buildings were unroofed, sad the whole produce of the harvest destroyed. v., .__r... li, TO CORRESPONOENTS. fi lP. A CO/MUM READER'S fternarka. frum Birmingham. 4 the Ar‘ize of Bread. +hall appear nn Monday. A REAL PATRIOT'S .OIIIIIIIIIIIeII ion, trust Cheltenham., 1 the Cora Law, m ill he attended to. PRICE OF STOCKS THI I Rank Stock 5 per rent. Rea. 3 per Cent.Cunwls 75M Sliver Cent. ' Gomel,' for Acc. 761 75616 4 per Ceut. I/AY AT OM: (/'CLOCK. 5 per Cent. Na.! 101111 India Bands 71 71 p Lon; Ann. 411 9.16* Eerie-quer Milk 19 p (Minium • LONDON: SATURDAY. SETTETASSR 5, 1618. STATE OF TUE FUNDS. The Funds advanced full 1 per Cont. yesterday afternoon, In con'equence of the pacific character of the American Papers received during the day.— They continued upon the rise for some time after the opening of the market to.day, but have since declined I per Cent. At one o'clock yesterday, Consols for the October Account were 74f. This morning they were 76}, and the present price Is 75k —Two o'Clock: Another wholesale and pompous statement Is put forth by the Government Prints, of the flourishing state of the Revenue. Whilst the Funds are lower than they hive been for a considerable period, and confidence seems to have been unhappily lost in re. gard to financial affairs, we are told " the excess of Revenue in the present gender, beyond that in the corresponding quarter of last year, will be near one , million and a half." The Papers that used to con sider the rise of the Funds as a proof of the internal prosperity of the country, now afford no information whatever respecting the cause of the depression of the Stocks in the midst of all this increasing wealth to the State. They are quite dumbfounded on the subject. Did they possess any candour, they would now as. iume the opposite of their former argument, and tell us they are mistaken, for it is of the nature of inter. nal prosperity to lower the Funds, seeing an increase of trade demands an augmentation of capital, and that in proportion to the prospect of a wore profitatale chan nel of employment for money, the salt% in the Stock market nil> , be expected to increase. The rise of the Foreign Funds too might account in some degree for the depression of our own, and be made to show the growing extent of our foreign commerce; but it 'is an awkward predicament for a Treasury writer to be obliged to acknowledge that Capitalists will naturally prefer an employment for their Funds which yields five or ten per cent: instead of that which gives but three and a half; or that capital should be under the necessity of seeking any foreign investment, to the disadvantage of the do. mestic sources of our profit. 66 Nothing," we are informed, "can be more promising than the general im. provement of the national resources." This state ment, be it remarked, is made at a time when the manufacturing population of England are declaring that they cannot live upon the wages they are receiving for their labour, and when their employers are solemnly protesting that the prices received for these goods are not such es to enable them to afford any additional payment for their fabrication. It is a moat mortifying considera tion, though there is nothing new in it, that whilst the national resoorces are thus improving in such a degree, that " the produce, this quarter, is expected to be near Fourteen Million: and a Quarter, being almost A i. 21 , 401: i++' a Wn%•74ii Tim SPAT!SMAN . __~ 4 • • a Min h:nava a n ai l more than iu the corriespontleot thrll,olpattil of tail year, and only a Million si *felt TrftitslS those of 1816. which included nea Titre* , MMons of Property Tait," no a melioratio , whativer should be showed to take place in condition of iudividuils, whose comforts, if not tett ilereffacteally worse, have certainly not been much segmented by all the improvemeets that are said to have taken place in oar national aff airs. But all this 'cooly the newel effect, the happy consequence of the twinging system—of excessive taxation. The state of Ireland is at present, as it has too long been, far from affording a subject of congrate latiou. The condition of the mass of the People in that unfortunate country, exhibits but few proofs o prosperity, but the evils of misgovernment are lamentably conspicuous. Commerce sod trade alai talked of, but the nation does not appear to reap tito benefit of them.—No, whilst we are vaontiogly told tbot all other States are advancing in prosperity, Ire. l laud feels herself rapidly increasiog in misery. Her Giatry, Traders, almost entirely bankrupt. Her valuably Peasantry, and bumble classes of Society, the victims of a raging pestilence, the effect of impoli tic imposts to create a visionary appearaoce of increase of Revenue. Her Poor, confined by the humane iu prisons by day, in order to prevent their infecting the rich; or their number and wretched appearance from shocking occasional visitors. These are the appal ling facts of Ireland's condition. But this state of misery and misgovernment cannot always last. The Perishes of Dublin are actively employed in endea vouring to obtain a total repeal of the Window 'fez. A Meeting of the parish of St. Catharine was held en Saturday, when a Petition for that purpose was unanimously agreed to. The exposition of the state of Ireland, which is given its the Re port of Ibis Meeting, which we insert, will be reed wish deer and melancholy interest. No one will doubt, after perusing the Report of the ob. - servatioos made at the Meeting, and the document, so respectably signed, given from the Fever Hospi tal, that the disease and distress which prevail to such a lamentable degree in the sister kingdom, are chiefly occasioned and aggravated by burdensome taxation. Ventilation, it is thus declared (and pity it is that a fact so well known should require such aothOrity to establish it), is essentially necessary for the preveo tion as well as the cure of typhus and many other, fevers; yet, though the ravages of this disease are shocking to contemplation, and the Revenue Is nto• claimed to be increasing beyond all former precis., dent, no attempt is made to repeal the tail which most contributes to the spread of this dreadful calamity. It is not the " wants of the State" that prevents the repeal of this odious 'fax—the State is acknowledged to be prospering—it most then be, as justly ob served at this Meeting, nothing but the wants and necessities of the Placemen, Pensioners, and Sine curists who support the Minister and consume the public money, the system that profligately abuses the fruits of starving industry,and oppresses the People, that stands to the way of Ireland's happiness. We observe that the change of the Chief Secretary for Ireland is considered as a fit opportunity for bringing espectation into play, and that a more li. beret system of Government is the prospect suggested by the change. Never certainly was an alteration in Government more necessary.— Mr. GRANT, the new Secretary, is known to have before now expressed wishes extremely favourable to the Claims of the Catholics ; but for the fulfilment of these wishes it will be prudent to look for something more substantial than their past, or even their present existence. At every new phasis of the political us tom it has long been customary to perceive some symptom or other seeming to betoken the near sp. proach of happier days ; but it has been the fate of Ireland to witness, in the sadness of disappointment, the decephous nature of the illusion that promised the long-sought tranquillity. It is not promises that Ire land wants—give her the real benefits of sound and rational legislation, the - indispensible attentions of justice, and we shall hear neither of disappointment, distress, riot, nor complaint. Without this a priuci pal part of the British Empire moat continua in a state of misery and disorder. The accounts received from Manchester yesterday, which will be found in another part of our Paper, are of a very unpleasant description ; but we are ►ed to hope, from some private communications, that the affair narrated in these amounts wee not so serious as described. The Spistnerv, it seems, had been joined by the Weavers ; but some accounts state the latter having thought proper to retire, tranquil. lily was soon after restored. We hope this latter statement will prove correct. firse is some reason to believe that the accounts from Ceylon of General BROWNRIGG being sur. rounded in a mud fort, are not true. Letters have been received from Colombo, of the 30th March, which make no mention of the melancholy circum stance. The event was said to have happened in the middle of that month, and if it had really taken place, it must of coarse have been known at Co lumbo on the 30th. On the contrary, these letters state that the General was strenuously following op measures to subdue the insurrectionary 'forces, and from his confidence its the troops under his command, had ever/ hope of being soon able to subdue them. It is added, that there are also Finite letters of the same They Sovereigns tree in e t . ter Aix-la Chaptlitt in great pomp and solemnity Th e number of troops to be assembled on the eteisin will be mach more considerable than wee at ftnt tended. Nothing, it terms, can now be dope witbeet the pomp of military attendance. Loris XVIII. has been solemnly enewatalsted vi t deputatioo film the Royal Academy of Sciences, ei the re-estaillishment of FIEVRY (lustre's monstras a statue. Lord STEWART . , our Ambassador st - ifironn • passed through Bamberg, on his way to visit Prince bistitancu, at Egra, is Bohemia. Accoores fros t Rome say, that the King of NAPLES is etpeclfd is that capital in the month of October. Preparsiiaas are making for hie reception.—The number of sick persons in the hospitals at Rome is still consid era b le, but the mortality is proportionally less than sit year. The French Funds left of on Monday at got,. Bank Shares, at 1627 f. 50c. Mails from Holland, with Papers to the mi ng. have also arrived. The public mind is P rma b aka still mach agitated, and various opinio►►s prevail as to the expediency of the political ameliorations iard hence have arisen the contradictory rumours whin. have so repeatedly been circulated on the subject. The Government, in the mean lime, reposing on its military strength, appears to take no interest in As conflict. This is called a dignified attitude; sod it is intimated by the Journals, who advocate the cause of the Government, that its deni. sion will be delayed, until the 1 ' vertigo of Constitutions" is over, and things may be in manner arranged of themselves." The Prussian Go. vernment, we should conceive, is not so unwise as to postpone the redemption of its solemn pledges, upon the principle here suggested. Such an experi. ment may come to be rather hazardous. The D.puties from the Swiss Cantons to Rome had refereed, with. out accomplishing the of ject of their mission. A Papal Nuncio is expected at Berne, but the Diet wilt not permit him to exercise any ecclesiastical js. risdiction. The King and Prince Royal of SADO arrived at Christiana on the 11th alt. sod were te proceed to Drontheim on the 22d. emmi....11 The Flanders Papers mentlon, among the arrival' at Aiz-la-Chapelle, Messrs. ROTHSCHILD sad G. SMITH, M. P. Earl STANHOPE had arrived at Brus sels, on his way, it is said, to Paris. Ilis lotdship cannot espect to be received as a welcome pest in the capital of a country which he ',dowdy proposal, in the British Parliament, to dismember. The following is the official Medical Report fie eels's! from Kew yesterday morning : " Kets Palate., Sept. 4. " The Wort/ continues much In the game state as )esierday, although ber MAiltaTT'S night has been but tut iudil.run pot. " F. MILNIAN. H. HA LFORD.ri KEW, SEPT. 4.—Yesterday evening the Palen RECENT left this place for the Stud-house, and the Duke of YORK for London. Sir F. MILHANendSir H. lIALVORD were in attendance all nip.. This morning the Duchess of GtouCesxxa and Prince* Auousv.i, attended by Gen. TAYLOR, walked in the gardens. The PnINcI REGENT dined with the Prig. cess AUGUSTA this day. A letter from Dover states, that Led CAMS* REACH and suite arrived there on Wednesday erect iiig ; and on Thursday embarked on board tie Chichester packet, Captain RuTrEa, for Calais, under a salute from the guns on the heights. Lard STEWART, thP AmOe4sadet IS the Court of Austria, -passed through Bamberg ea the 22d last, on his way to Vienna. 'Else King of the Two SICILIES prertPl to shit Rome in the course of neat month. Preparatious are making in that city for his reception. The LOUD LIEUTENANT% visit to the Sooth of Ireland is intended to he private, owing to the ill health of the Costantess TALRoy. We understood his Kacellency has made commuoiailincs to the Cita Authorities in the different cities and towns throosh which he intends to pass, explanatory of hif ten'in't (Or doing so, sod stating that at a future period be will avail himself of the civilities intended him. The son of GUSTAVUS Anocritus. Fr-King Of Sweden, has taken the name of CPUllt f Atprhurg. The Prince 'IAELEYRAND has ertisril at Bateito, in order to use the waters for the benefit of his health. His Highness gave a splendid fete on the less live' of St. Louis, at which the Duchess of Diso presided. Sir,G• tIeATUCOTE, Burt. has left town for his watt NOM/1114On I'm k, Linco!n•hire. A private letter from Buenos Ayres mentions, that the Lautern, late Windham, on her return to pereiso, fell in with a Spanish transport from Talcv and captured her. On board of her were Gen• Osouto and about '2OO men, the remnants of the army that had escaped from the battle of Mairo. — * According to accounts from Lima, of the 23,1 of Jails the disastrous results of that battle were complete!, known there by the arrival of copies of General SO M A RTIM'S Bulletins. POPUILiTTOM.—We find by some statistical tables in the Washington City Gazette, that the state i.f INfvf York has increased in populatino greatly beyotidasy other State in the American Union ; and from baring been in numbers the fifth in 1790, she 1; at this 1 40 the first. In the )ear 1790, this State possessed 340,120 inhabitants.—ln Iboo, 589,050. ,In 181 0 s 959,049. The late Duke of Quporsemnit'•:, who very set• dom quitted London, eacept for a day to his vile at Richmond, was rallied on his want of taste by an in° "'mite friend, who asked lilm if be did not think Loudon very dull in summer? " Why I do," re' plied his Grave gravely; )i but not ao dull al the .country:' -•••• • .• . • 4 1 44 i< idistot date fitim Lidy 8110 .it who is et „ In a and who does not &davit to the rumour in near hut espress hopes IWO! settee will solo " et i scion the The Paris Papers to t 21 inst. heist reached i t . "rhey inform us that the litql Sovereians wega e. ~,.. . Nkr.7 • gro Letters from Gretna of the 19th sit., say, 44 This morning,the Austrian frigates Augpsta and &Oda, of .44 gens o 4ines Rio 'sheik*, ender the orally of thritheiralier Basqrselign„ catered this port, belting no board the Count &Vie, Ambemador from the Emperor of Austria to his Mast Faithful Majesty." Between the Mk end 26th nit, there entered Calais from Dover twentrnioe packet boats, ebb 861 passengers. The same number of pecket•boatil left Calais for DOlllt, with 540 passengers. -P . * Five per ()rare.—Mandan. Sot • Deferred st uc k of the '2.1 March, 1117. W. 9tie. 22d Sept. NIL 821 1 . 90e. 221Morrh, 1818.1 Y. 23.—Letteti from Berlin repeat the statement, that the Count de Bernstore will be ' come a Member of the Prussian Ministry. Rome, Aua. It —The King of thel'wo Sirilies proposes to be here in the course of October. Great ' preparations are Making for his reception. CaassaaY, Auo. 26.—The English troops, f rom 1 , all quarters, are in motion, fur the purpose of march ing to the environs of Valenciennes, end of this place. The grand Review, which is to take place ' in the plain of Denain, is to take place early in the ' neat month : it is impacted to be very brilliant. It is understood, that the opinion of the Duke of Wel / lington is entirely favourable to the departure of the I Allied Army, In the course of the autumn. His Grace regards this measure as the best calculated to • consolidate the present state of affairs in France; end there is no doubt his opinion will have greet ' weight with the Allied Monarchs, about to assemble ; et Ais-leXhapelle, and will powerfully influence their determinatiOn. t VitrINA, Ana 20.—The house of Iloff and Sine tans here has failed for 2,C-00,000 liming. AtX-LA•CLIAPELLE, Alva. 25. Resides the hat s Winn of Guards, eight battalions of Infantry of the Line and of the Landscher, are to he marched hither, to be in readiness for th e arrival of the Allied Sove r reigns. 3 7 4 11 E STATESMAN.