The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-06-29 00:00:00

i• V ~ 1 ~~ , `il ~' 1 TO COIiRE9IPONDENTS. TIN I Va qeery is answered by an aisurance(from our own know ledge), that during the fever, we may say the phrenzy, of the French Revolution, every vestige of Royalty was dtetually detmved, and the titles of King and Queen interdicted in the game c Chess, and in all garnet at Cards, by substituting in Ilea of 'GI. King and Queen, La Nation and La Libel., and in that of the latter, Courage and Virtue ; but the emblems of bpyalty,s 9 ch as Crowns, die. even on :•aclo of fire-grates, llyere made to,disami4r by turning use reverse side to view. --------•------ AIL. - O Newland - *-• J • r O ''Clotteilbv rgb ...... . ... 1 • Cadiz .... . ............... 1 • Lishon ........... %..... •1 . ' l▪ ithlta . ...... ;.. . 4.•••• ..1.11 9 .. Sr. PETER AND PROL.T.Rotiolay u thr Plibik THE _STA TtSIVIAN.,. LONDON: TIIZSD4i, ?U NE 29, 1813. Paris Papers to the tBth instant - are arrived, by which we are info i rmed of great preparations for it' . , pacific ne,zociation, but of no actual step taken to- , wards its operation. The very place in which it. shall he held is not as yet fixed upon. It is plain that BONAPXRTS wishes it might be at Dresden. The article dated from that place, speaking of the arrival there of tl:e Count de NARBONNE, with some per sons of his legation, inclines us to believe that it will be proposed as the seat of the General Congress. There is no doubt that the French EMPEROR is very desirous of hastening the.commeneement of the con ferences, to which the Ministers of the respective Powers are quickened in their movements, by the Dresden Intelligence, that " the different Cabinets are %cry actively employed, and there is a constant exchange of couriers." The rumour we noticed yester day i r. pecting Calais being fixed on for pacific negocia tion, is eyiag away ; indeed it seemed absurd, that a place so rc'note from the great Powers, whose inte rest forms the chief concern in the business, shonlil , be spoken of as the rendezvous. If Mr. FECTOR I . of Diver, that respectabla mercantile arid money ii,ent of so many great personages abroad, were to name the town, we are sure he would prefer Calais to any other place on the Continent, which view be would be seconded by all the packet-boat owners of the Cinque Ports, and by every innkeeper between there and London. But no, we *may safely con clude that Dresden will be the chosen spot : the place, as well as the Sovereign of it, has the good opinion of all the parties concerned; and moreover it is peculiarly convenient in situation for BONA.. PA RTE. A Mail from Heligoland arrived late on Saturday evening, from which we gave our Readers but a short article yesterday, as the letters were not sooner de livered. We find in them the further intelligence from Hamburgh, to the ISth, and from the island, to the 2'.tl instant. The following communication corroborates all we have before said of the severe exactions of the Frendi, from which they do not ap pear to relax a dolt : cc %ND, JUNE 22.—The first payment on the 48 rui!licns (21 trillions sterling) not having been toado, the Prince of ECEMUML has ordered, that 34 Gentlrmen of Hambu•gh should be taken as hostages for the punctual discharge of the demand. The following respectable persons bare already been sent off to Paris, in obedience to this mandate : GEORGEWOVIM ANN, CHAPEAROUGE, J.M.ScKuLDT, V. BERGEN, B. Booms-, Jacps ALBERT, WALLACH, KILUEGE.P. Osy, HERTZ, LIBEKT, WESTPHALEN, N. W. ULLMANN." The taking of hostages for the payment of an im position or fine on a town, of wnich the exacter re tains possession, civil and mili'lry, and carrying them to his own very distant cai,ital, is a measure as unusual a 3 it is rigorous. In the number of these hostages are three mer chants, reputed to be the richest in the world, except the Horn. These Gentlemen and their connections might necessarily be Interested in the definitive mea sures of a general, or, at least, a continental peace, as the only way (except paying the full sum) of their teturnieg to their peaceful and lucrative concerns. In withdrawing our eye from the Continent, where, probably, the fate of several States will ei ther immediately or remotely be definitively pro. pounced dpon ; we direct our view to the measures sittorne, which may be supposed likely tobastr or retard oar own downfal. We shouhl be sorry to .be, considered and denominated croakers: but Wheli we reject on what was so lately and so prodigally dome ' with respect to the Swedish•subsidy, and behold, in yesterday's procredlngi 'df "Parliament,' that the FaiNcE REGENT has, by a Message, demanded a ._Vote of Credit for ME 11114101 M to counteract •the designs of his enemies, aid meet all exi gencies during the recess ; when we duly contem plate by what kind of Ministers he asks this enor - sum, through what feeble, wicked, or corrupt so stupendous a mass of money is to pass and ppliod ; we cannot help declariog our firm belief; the fate of our own abused country is decided. destined to fall ! And we fear that from the ule of the men who have had a too long and a inlimited sway, that a very . small part of Fu still less of America, will deplore its subjuga. ! Neither the knots :of, taxpjfer# in the two louses. of Parliament, mg thy elicit/ er clubs Orangemen out of it, can now same re. adversaries, more wicked than artful, by the INTELLIGENCE. charge, may again, if they please, vourably disposed to the enemy ;we .., - convince the sensible and the sincere friends to the country of toe malignity and , falsehood of the insi s , nuatiorj : in the' mean 'dune we declais, thit tiara appeari to us no effect following cause in the order of nature' more inseparable, than that the measures stow ponying by the Constituted Authorities in the country, they will subjugate it to that very power which, a few years ago, would have sedulously culti vated, and gladly have accepted, a beneficial alliance with us. In the one House of Parliament is a Mo tion for a confidential grant of Fiva MaLions of Illosiev,,for merely contingent purposes; a try to i tinswer petty expences—a something to help or eke lint the NINETY MILLIONS regularly spent; and that something being more than was spent in an y one 'year in the Government of the Uuited States of America, till the apprehension of a war, although that country was, with less than that expense, made to grow in strength and wealth full as fast as our un-. . happy country has fallen off in those respects. ' The usual Message from the fiance REGtNT for a Vote of Credit, preparatory to the termination of In the other House, then, have we a n y obj ect to .the Session, was brought down to Parliament yester cheer us? There we notice a gentleman who, in Ire- 'day. The amount is to be 5,000,0001. land, was once mentioned in the same breath with The Ministerial Papers persevere in their ations of the Duke of Sussex. Having struck his denunci constitutional freedom, and friendship towards Rhyal Highness with paralysis, they follow up the the democracy, the best, because the surest, or strongest, ,pillar of the State, when all is in cony. blow, and bleed, potion, and lotion him svlthout mercy. At length, they say, he was permitted on motion :we see this gentleman persuaded, we w ill , not guess by what means he has been persuaded to i Sunda y to take an airin g . Now, on Wednesda y , : last his Royal Highness presided as Grand Master of propose a Bill respecting the price of Corn ; whose Masons at a Grand Lodge. On Friday he was at a I object, to all intents and purposes, is to pre v eut.; numerous musical party; on Sunday he dined at Hol bread from beComing too cheap I.! Heavens • and , land House, and yesterday he went down the river earth ! is this a time to express apprehensions, that 1 to dine at Green wich:—pretty well fora person given the price of Corn will ever become too low in pr i ce i over! His incurable malady is, that he is a friend to civil and religious freedom. to to enable the farmer pay his rent? Does Sir H. I . Nicholson , in 4 n Cold-bath-fields prison, is rapidly PANNELL think the people of England are too blind ! recovering from his wound. He is strongly ironed, not to discover, that by doing what he is about to do and watched day and night. He eats and sleeps well , 1 with one hand, and raising the rent of farms with the and his agitation of mind is considerably allayed by other, that they are not likely to be ground to powder as being much occupied in reading. effectually as the Corn itself. Metaphor apart: we beg A MELANCHOLY CINCENSTANCE. -- This morning to assure t..: Honourable Baronet that long suffer- as a Gentleman belonging to the Bank of England, who had been spending the evening with a party, at ing has sharpened the feelings and the discernment ' the Cottage of Content, Lock's-fields ; was return - , of the People of the United Kingdom, and that ing home about two ,o'clock, and passing through theylcan_discover under the well-devised and honeyed White Hart-court, Walworth, where he accosted phrase of " A Bill to encourage the growth of : a young woman, and whilst conversing with her near the residence of a person who lives there, who, on Wheat," &c. that it is nothing else in effect than a hearing them, imagined that they intended to Bill to ensure the growers of Corn the means of ' break into the house, immediately got up, paying an enhanced price for their land. A mi- and being accompanied by a young man, came nimum in the price of bread-corn is as hostile to . down stairs, and proceeded out of the premises, the Merchant, the Mechanic, the Artisan, and the when they were observed by the Gentleman, who in stantly attempted to go away, but was ordered to stop Labourer, as a maximum would be to the Land - owner. lor he should be a dead man. Not regarding what Neither of the measures, though sanctioned by lam, i I was said, continued to go off, on which the man fired can be called just. The maximum was a revolu- ,at him, lid, melancholy to relate, shot him in the tionary measure to favour the poor in France ; the , body, on which the watchman, with the assistance of minimum is one to lacier the rich in England, and' others, repaired to the place of alarm, where they ap which we solemnly protest is, or we fear, is a step to _ I prehended the culprit, but his associate escaped.— The Gentleman,.. who lay weltering in his blood, was wards a Revolution. It is a topic so fraught with ' i mme di ately di taken to Dr. Dixon's , whereon examin mischiefs of the direst hue, that we will resume it, ! hug his wounds, it was discovered that two balls led and treat it in that temperate manner it de- I entered his body, and which being lodged in his serves ; as a measure originating in that branch of ! kidney they are not yet extracted, nor is there any the establishment, which should have the interest 1 hopes of his recovery whatever. and the comfort of the people in an especial manner I On Saturday morning, at ten o'clock , the sen tence pas , ed on Lieut. Dela!) was carried into execu in its view. As the wealthy part of the comma. 1 lion at Portsmouth. All the Officers and men at nay, whether patrician or otherwise, will be almost quarters having been ordered under arms, Lieut. DE exclusively concerned in our observation and stric- . LAP was brought from his room, in custody of the tures, we hope and trust they will not charge us . Officer on guard, and placed in the centre of a hol eith the desire of milking, or pointing out, invidious low square, which the troops had formed. The distinctions, declaring, as we do, that we have not s e ntence was then read by the Judge (Li eu t enan t and Adjutant PATTEN), Advocate and the the most remote idea of. awakening more of their Drum-Major cut the epaulet from oft' his shout apprehension, than we think is consistent with the der, and his sash from around Ms body. Ge purest patriotism and regard to the peace and neral WINTER (the President), then addressed the prosperity of the whole ; and which it would be i corps in an impressive manner, and pointing out hypocrisy in us to say does not appear imminently ; the evils of insubortli . nation, adverted to the endangered by the concurrence, at this time , of a the a case they had just witnessed, as a proof that no rank was above the reach of the law. He number of sinister and unpropitious events. informed , Mr. Delap, that it was his good conduct in ction between the Jar/ and Constitution, that '— -- iceful elrcum- • DEAL, June 28.:—Came down from the River the Adventure, Rossi John and Sarah, for Gibraitar; the breptsule, for Cadiz ; and the cumbetland, for Quebec; and sailed - ender convoy' if the Folkestone cotter, for Portsmoutite—Also came down from the River the Dorset yacht and sailed for Portsmouth, under convoy of the Rinaldo sloop of war. PotressioUtu, June SS. , --Sailed bfs Majesty's ships Nymphets, Savage, Unicorn, Weymouth, and Serapis (the twolast store-ships), with the whole of the convoy bound to Spain, Portugal, and. the Me. d i ter venom. _ _ _ FA [MOUTH, JUNE 26.—Sailed the Lord Hobart placket for the Leeward Islands. PENzAwcE„ JULY 26.—An open logger, under American culours, was brought in here last evening, prize to the Hope guu-brig. She had 32 men oa board s with swivels and small arms, and was calcu lated to row 20 sweeps. She is called the Young True Blooded Yankee , and was formerly the Chid- IMO! gun-brig, out Brest only five hours. AUCTION BILL. It will be seen by the parliamentary proceedings of last night, that the Report upon the Auction Regulation Bill is postponed until to-morrow even ing, when it will, most probably, share the same fate as its predecessor last Session. The Auctioneers could not have had a more able advocate than Mr. WHITBREAD, and the respectable authority upon which his interference is grounded, must have great weight in the Rouse. Indeed,. It ft astonishing that Ministers should be disposed to diminish the revenue of the country, at a time when it is in a very de ranged state, and an additional outgoing last year of thirty-eight millions in the War Department alone ! ! !—Mr. WIIARTON said, the Auctioneers • , With whom he had conferred, approved of the Bill. ~We are, however, unable to conjecture . wbat portion of individuals are likely to approve of a measure so contrary to their own interest; and we can hardly suppose there are any, except such as are chiefly occupied by the Sale of Government Property. It is well known, that the business of an Auctioneer has increased almost ten-fold since the war com menced, and which may beattributed to various causes, which it is unnecessary to enquire into at present, as many of the most important circumstances are ex explained in the Letter which we have this day pub lishedupon the subject. had alone averted an additionally disgraceful ci, stance that would have been included in the sen tence,—that of having his sword broke over his Lad. Mr. Delap was then led out of the barracks.. It was stated in theHoese of Commons, on Wed. • nesday night, by the Hon. W. BENNET, and not denied, that our war expences, in the last year alone, had increased• thirty-eight millions of pounds !—This, said he„ is a system that most end in destroying the people, if the people do net •distrify it. - Mr: BAITE.ES said, it was *ell known by those best acquainted witk the finances of this country, that this .war could not be carried on much longer, at the presentlnte of expence though it might exist for, three years. JAMES EVAN BAILLIE; Ert . of the Albany, has been returned Member of Parliament far the town of Tralee, in room of Colonel HERBERT. The Loan MAYOR having inspected the Meal Weighers' returns, ordered the price of bread to continue at ls. 6-1111 the quartern loaf. 'rbe Bedfordshire Militia marched from Reading yesterday morning, on its road to Ireland. Tga.6 7 -Dr. MoyEs, in his unpublished lectures, has the following curious observations on tea Having mentioned this substance, it may be prone'', to observe that this plant has generally been mis taken by naturalists ; the green and blaem (a • spelt in the lectures) teas are said to differ ' not ' only in the time and Manner of gathering and dry.. ing them, hut, in fact, they are two species O. 'leaves, growing upon different shrubs ; tea, proper. to called, has no : flavour by itself; but, in oh , serving narrowly any parcel of ,tsi s you will and two kinds of. !cares s , one. of Milk are those of the tea plant, the others the leaves of a plant, called by the Chinese, Qua-lti, which gives the tea ail its I agre4ahle flavour. This I Nitre tried myself; bar - I big carefully got picked .out ,all. ifte:iesee: Of the Qua.ki from a parcel of tea, I have infused the re. malodor s and found • the take only a disagreeable bitter. Thislam persuaded is the cause why the at. - ntiniqe to.prphce tea In othet • -countries than **-4 failed. * Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Forrign-offiee, which broke up at shoot a quarter past three. Aecouuts were receiwed in town. yesterday, from Bashey.park, stating_ that the Deke of ConsocE WAS worse. The PRINCE' AtFOOT sent off ex press Sir lazuny ilor.roan to attend hie Royal . Highness. Yesterday morning danetid g ifoitehartawlittpeOfew with the Duke of YORK, at York House. .. _ _. • AUCTION REGULATION RI . Mr. EDITOR,—t am inclined to believe Jive felt, in common with the public at' the Bill in its progress through the House mous, relating to Auctions, has solely for the petting down of Mock Andiont ; you I ever, be much surprised when I assure you, der the pretest of ridding the community of Auctioneers, the Minister has introduced ses as cannot fail to extinguish the profession Cher; from the specimen I shall presently f of these alterations you will see they are obnoxious than those entertained last Sess' Vansitsast, and who was necessitated ' It under the persuat t ion it could not Ilve. In the way it is now introdu venue mast suffer a deterioration can form % 300,0001. a-year, independent of the staMO-11. importancemyself. 'des upon Auctions, of which you to the profession) • more correct thanideae last the first clause (a:id compelling the proprietor of is an estate who has unfortunate as not to get anadequate b een so bidding for lila property, to give hoods of indemnity in three time; the amount that he will not sell , or even negociatc, Ifor the sale thereof for twelve months, under ; tore of the whole auction duty. I cannot f°r". i believe so monstrous a proposition will be seri ou in the house of Commons ~ y entertained ; but if it should , the consequences are too plain to 1r,.. , • mistak en : all eF.tate 'n ow offered for public sale will be instantly wit':.: 1 drawn, aed a Price .e Contrast sale sub s•t tci u en• • from this source i 1 a one 1 is calculated that the • defalcation m t take above us Auctioneers beton. • ' place; o extinguished; for who in their senses will trust hinaelf in the' ffi tr o ce, when , in fact. it is at once a bar to anc trece e for tzeelve months; again, how dreadfully severe and oppressive it will fall on those persons wits m, from the pressure of the times, are a little involved • an pecuniary da,kulty ; they will be compelled by this Act to sell at any price, or add to their misfortunes the heavy tax of 5 per cent. upon the amount. The aterutt dreadful l ' ou io the times for two or three years past has caused some diminution, it seems in the auction duties ; • let us trace the cause of. this to its proper source. All those who have given the b . su ject any snit of atten tion must be aware that it proceeds from the great sanity of money, arising from the ruinous state of our manufactories. Country-houses, where the merchant was wont, formerly, to retire after the fatigues of the day, can now be hit , i for next to nothing; they have, generally speaking, been re duced to the hard necessity of parting with them, and the consequence has been a depression of more than one half ; land is considerably less productive than it was, and houses in and about the metro ! polis much fallen in price; of course less pro. perty is sold, and the duty of necessity has dimi. nished.. But I apprehend Ministers are not war ranted in visiting so severe a punishment as complete annihilation upon Auctioneers for a fault that has Its origin in the long continuance of the war, and ; consequent' stagnation of trade; and yet I see by one ; of the Morning Papers of Saturday, that Mr. Whar f tan expressed himself amazingly surprised to Mr. I Whitbread, that the Auctioneers should oppose this 1 Bill, and assured him they were perfec tl y satisfied with it; this is surely adding insult to injury, be. cause it cannot blt supposed thtt a Cause (which I must of necessity amount to a prohibition of their pursuits, until the Minister, by the g •eat loss he subjects the Revenue to, Is brought to a return of reason and consequent repeal of the Bill,) could be acceptable, or even tolerated by them. Personal property also is to be subject to a st 1 hig'ter duty -5 per cent. it is intended shall be_paie by every person offering his property for sale. 1e 11 up nose a case that constantly happens, on'y hat' h va ma of pro. perty is offered; a Picture, for i to ce, by Titian or Rubens, of the value of 5o • 1 ,00 'i. cannot now be offered, unless attended with a I expe•ice of five per cent. (5001.) in case it is b eight in ; 1•now it constantly happens, that !on.e reseivation is of necessity made by the Pr irrietor of Pic -tunes, because the sale of them is t.ncoriain ; this • Bill will prohibit any more being sold, save those persons who are on the eve of distrese or bank ruptcy; the Merchant and Manufactuier too, can no longer resort to this mode of upholding his credit, 'an:' it is only when their circumstances are so des perate, as to oblige them to make them dispense with any sort of reservation, that they will mina to an Auction. And why is this done ?—to put down 'Mock Auctions; than which nothing is more essy• Oblige every Auctioneer to pay 501. or 1001. for his Licence, and the happy consummation of Mt.. 'Wharton's wishes is acclmplihed ; and fortuttte'y without subjecting NI , . Vivian (the Sol;citor of (lad Excise), to the trouble of preparing Sevel al thousand 'litiods auttually, to find good and sufficient security, that no sale or negociation has taken place during twelve months. One would almost imatine, Mr. Vivian's comprehensive mind had suggested this grievous tax, for no one but himself can benefit by j -it ;—another clause had o nearly escaped observa t tion, any day when estates or property belonging a bankrupt, are to be sold, no other estate or property can be put up.— And what, Mr. Editor, do you think has pro duced this ridiculous clause? It seems, some country itoctinneer has introduced properly into those sake, and not paid :111114 1 duty upon them, or in other words, perjured hirnst•if. I ask. why has not this person been indfeted fur the offenet !--tby way of stopping so dishonest an attempt ; the oath administered to a respecable Auctioneer, hill always smart. ve 6oyernnutot against any imposition of this sort. Another rise close i , t•I ' thiS effect—the AlletiOTlCer must begin pre. iiely at a given tiro.% I u nder a pcual,,y of 10i. I presume Mr. NI turbos will ri%i 1 good ..u.tficient security in bonds to three times the =mutt of tix ; property, that t he com p an y shall always assemble at this liar if nut, it limy indeed be sarritict:d by Inch a ridiculous claase • Abe la*. that I shall troithleiou with, is one which prey.... • any sale c ontinuing fur more than one day, for if indicts a I.or 0- I. ataity of 1001. on an A tic; ioueer wise sells at the sage place, ' Widths one mile 11f , Auch side, for forty-eight hours aka . the Oist ' gay's . sale has ilapsedl.ttie•ohjgct of. tlfit,','it'is,littiossible to de •vlse, flows 4eaeoilkdlfielieve t o li*if*.i l . ll racket' his bra n. a nd taken these unnecessary p ains to make the Profes . sion , ti ,.a elk:tasting tint •ottprO.Rable i floistiateli -for , WM. Mi.. 'li; btOad. Mi. Fre n ta htle, M fish r. ltision . 41r. Peter Port. an "' . ti long list of lionoomble and.ehlightem.'4l,stembet Wow lets!! up the subjec: ; in sat h hands, and in so Aft , T i d .;.:ause. u sst lic e ,.; cannot Ise dogsled. The Ilitit (thrbogn the km Intern: as : 0 ; Mr. Whitbrtyl4l4; in* grimed ; add tiesivettfolly recoil v ro l . your prrosal of the same, ail you , :isinuot , belsupPosed 5 1_:,! tt i with luditereqW, thirtitio of moVektaestput tvUo haw coamuu vett largely ib theeprohts•ot the Distrait Pmts. . AuttOu istateeltselee tteeno:•• ,- . .1, -: JUirit3" ' \ 4, ;nous s \ bands be *pc that 0 It is tolsrul , too ut rope, s ' lion I Nano or 0, Our 1 ill • TlqWfaliAl4l. e. iay we are [al • NAVAL lo shall, ere long , _ e r l ß ier l e LL ll:at you at large, that Louse of Com. y for its object you will, how. e you, that o n . city of itinerant aced such clau- )farion antly give yea y are far more Session by Mel ed to ahan,doit of be p ro d b ,.. luced, the rf—s of at , [(IA