The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-05 00:00:00

" was killed u. . the spot. Rh widow wrote along, , falsome, sad false ac:oval of the affair, wbkli was' translated entirely and published In theTieses News. paper. Colonel Da LA FATE treated the libel with — contempt, " bemuse," said be 64 every one knows ' • - ft is be false." The matter; however, is nom peeper to be developed. The Count nt"" St. MORT% who wore a maiden sword, sod the bravest o f the brave us protestations of dying for his King, tr ie. and whose inviecible courage was displayed in a • e'llistioguished manner on the Nairn of BONAPARTE, r,:gken be valiantly sheathed the sword he had sworn 4 . ...,,lienc to lay down, until he had revenged the insult to . t i.)m o Majesty by plunging it in the Corsican's heart, and i '' . tan away, like several other great warriors, to Ghent. . " '" this hero of the aoti..chamben harassed and vexed W 'Colossi DS LA Faits in every way possible, becaese (4 lie week* not give op the national property his father bed purchased, and which bad belonged to the family' of St. Moats, before it so pliantly ran away I. the i 'beginning of tai Revolution. •Col. La Fief% as ea . ' 44 hunt's. officer of Botarants, was not well at the Court of Loots, where St. Mo SITS was Mareekal• i . de-Camp; bet he resolved personally to punish the Welts of St. Moats, and challenged him. The brave Corot tboeght his Court influence would screen him, • , be applied to the King, who would not interforp.....to •'the Princes, the wan resell— to the Marshals of • ' °Frame, they ordered him to fight. Colooel At LA .. FAYE having received a sabre wooed, which disabled ' the of three fingers of the right baud, chose pistols. ST. MOSES insisted Os swords, knowing his adversary could not wield one. DE LA FATS, however, would . not let the coward escape, thus be accepted the dee' with the sword, and said, the resisk shall be the mat; t be fought with the left band, killed " the lower of chivalry and loyalty." AU Paris was glad at the event, and the Public learns, with Indignation, , that on Thursday last Col. DE LA FATS was takes op and imprisoned in La Force, as the...sale of Coast • Ss:No*ll ; his Prosecutor tithe Colorless St. Moats. Thus the scandalous Ultra. Royalist faction triumphs for a moment, but it will soon be over. Col. DI LA FATE will be able to prove, on the trial, that he did i not kill the Count Sr. Moats, beta bastard of the •_ family, by, it is said, a washerwoman. He will also beetle to prove that there is no Countess ST. Mores, willow of the man he killed, but that the Lady who asieminsates herself, and talks so finely of religion , , * A morality, &c. is merely the kept-mistress of kb ad . -e;leereary, and living with him in en open state of coo., I ,tAiliage. Other anima secrets will, it 4 said, be db• ' ' t tined on the trial, which will dhow the resolution ;..:.. saick whit:k the Emigrants and Priests persist la de-, sanding from the tenth porch. sir even the mediation . of what they call their property. -Tie affair et Lyons in June last, to which se mod, importance els given, as a conspiracy to effect a re volution and massacre of the Bourbons, now turns out no be a conspiracy organised by the Ultra-Royalists • themselves, to have an excuse for murdering sad 4.. livering Over to the sae of the guillotine, the par chasers of national and ail those evens them. be iesirectively rellerred"to— , e. greet dent to elecidats ear own national le roper--a great deal of experi mental wristlets both for Balers and People. • The yaw .eematesseed very inaespichtesly. It ' 1 &sots very imp portion of elif moieties to ems log miseries which le their and variety bad Nog beefs unkno"tin to us : bet it towed es also as. lively engaged in calling forth all the resources of our autlotral helmet:lame: directing them to the allot elation of thole wants which we ws. eld not reisoveov . The year also found os disturbed by the violoweelt men, driven by necessity to despair, and needed Ily the canning of spies. Bet the great body of the People were mind. ' Amidst such feelings and dispositions did the Par liament meet. Its first deliberations were not seepl doss. The alarm arising from popular comanotion, gave a tone to the proceediege el Podium* wbidt it ,could net cast of tiering the whole Sessiesi; and, a* a consequence, the &whilst** attendee wee more occupied in the oppression of those evils which pub lic distress aaa duceef•at had ezcited, than in laying the tonodatioe fee soy orderly wad determinate vs- Sam if hopreeement, which might at taco 'emote the of the estateimitous, sod silence the kle mourset the toriseisnt. Contemptible projects * when they became the ob. jests of Parlisineotary investigation, assessed the character of formidable plots against the safety of the State. Day after day was employed by Secret Committees I. deseloplag their *hardly ; still, like objects sees through a fog, they appeared of appal. liug magnitude and unlimited *strut. Doubtless there was a detainees spirit lurking amidst a smell portion of the People; not fortunate enough to be wise—and rendered by misery insensible. either to imps or fear. An oserthrow of the Government was contemplated by a heedful of man, without money, itieswir. Of talent; of a Government, that was armed with a military power stress treemagh to put down a scattered loserrectiou of half the People.— l i b* dee cairn of legal proceeding in all cases where guilt could attach (for it cannot be now sup posed that soy tresses' of the past year remain to be, developed at the bar of justice) must cause as to look back with doable pain upon the power which has been placed in the howls of the Ministers of the Crowe. If the Plots of Spa.fields, and the Plits et Derby aro the only accusers of the loyalty of the British nation, it is miserable to reflect that for 'some months we hese beets all subjected to the risk of imprisonment without trial. This odious right has been esescised to the role of many ; yet credit has been hamlet mercy tines dispensed. Whenever we are pleased with justice or mercy dispensed by power, the foundations of oar liberty and greatness are crembling to rein. If the Trial by Jury were sus pended is. the same mintier as the Law of habeas Corpus would It be oily consolation—would it not rather be a IMO r to e'relleesing etind--that the dida of Judges, which bad been sebstitsted for the vet ! dict of tarts, sen t sd been esiftently just and im. partial ? Arbitrary pewee esenot at first pot on his+ hideous foams asumpot a powerful and high-spirited Peeple-toit most play time hypocrite, and assume a mask, sad Wit music eel inseams and gentleness; " for letriineee is poses Ambitiew's ladder." We may meadow them Oho., that our countrymen, in their Nee end simmity, and Christmas comforts, may res elect that they are mot wholly living ender the plasm* sod tote authority of those equal laws, w hoer spirit lee made us what wears, sod left use much still to be proud of, and S. be happy amidst. Parliament Wear& little daring ire sitting fur the relief of tbePeople. Itseparated more aespisioasly thin it had met. The imprimis( cognate= sad Improving temper of the sosotry teem, before this, have taught oar Legislotoes, I. the eaperimme sf their summer-re. thements, that the People may be testored to their ac. customed goatee, whitest any iefringement of their, Rodent liberty; and that the hoses& practical bent totems of the powerful and the wealthy may efect a more lasting end mere universal good, than any els moroas ebullitions of hasty discontent on the one heed, grapy nettles' of obeosioss authority on the ether. Time object which steeds most prominent in the Retrospect of the year is the recent loss of one who premised to realise many of the bright visions of pies happiness dear to the English People. When the bisterian shall tract the then indistinct records of the lest two mouths, he will gather the best commentary epee the virtues of the lamented Princess, from the' universal grist of a greet and manly People. lie will be et a km to understand how a Nation so warns in its attachment to goodness in high station can be stig. unitised as sazioas to destroy those distinctions which eatto cherish the 'zeroing of the nobler virtues. foreign events of 1817 will not require any, eery esteiniad notice. Europe has been tranquil ; but is France the People ere becoming moo alive to their political interests. As political discussion be. won general, sounder principles will eaqeestionebly dittoes themselves ; and as a consequence, two or three contemptible Ultra factions will no longer speak what they presume to call the voice of the na tion. property, . to the system of restitution of Church !Ands. By tiumerrow's post I will seed you an authentic ac count of the discovery of this plot, written by a coosstryotan of ours residing on the spot; from which Eagiss‘d will be able to judge the merits of the mess she fostered in her bosom so long—these &Anode , amsrders, robbery, sod assassination, which wield pet to the blush seen Roaavicaus himself. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. • •DZAL, J. 4.—Sailed for the River, b ibs Isaac . Todd, Smith, from (liebee. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 4..—51111114 yesterday his Ma• . jesty's ship Tike, on a cruise. Facuouvir, JAN. t—Arrived tie Pallas, Jacks, from London for the Isle of France.—Sailed the Princess Charlotte packet, with aMsil for the Leeward Islands.—Put back yesterday the Fox and Elias transports bound to Cook. lisawtot, JAN. 4.—Arrived the Henry Freeing packet, with a Mail from Holland ; the Castlereagh and Lord Nelson packets, with Mails from Celibates. DONS*, JAS. 4.—The stem of a vessel drifted use shore yesterday, about a mile to the westward of this port, basing on it the Friendship, of Newcastle, the word Newcastle apparently lately been written over 'ghat of London; also came on shore a cask of lamp. black, and part of the deck of a vessel, apparently the quarter-deck of a foreigner. , ILFRACOMBE, JAN. 3.—The Concord, Crosscombe, 'from Bristol to Biddeford, with a general cargo, was last evening at low water run on shore et the entrance al this harbour and sunk. Part of the cargo has landed, sod the vessel is expected to be saved. GRATURND, JANUARY 4.---Arrived the Generous Frieeds, lialgesy, from Bremen ; Mary, Elsworth, from Norway • sod the Limlies, Biotin', (roe Ostend. -- Saile d tbe George 111. Fisher, for Cal. emits ; Ceres, Matthew, for Jamaica ; Constantine, Wetherell, for lie yti ; Selime, Patteoger, for Marra. Rambler, Knight, for Malts; Crown, Wilson, for Trieste • Esse:, Robertson, for . Bourdeass ; Drake, for Antwerp; Neptune, Shanach, for Ostend; and Duke of Wellington, Martin, for ditto. • The German nations appear to have gained little in the way of domestic liberty by their orogen for adrenal freedom. Still they are persevering in their claims, and their rulers are only evasive in their de aisle. This must aid as it ought ; for Governmeeb. cannot long resist rang spirit, moderately and just ly exercised. The furies of war have been coefined to another hemisphere. In Soak America the cause of lode pendeme has *dressed with rides' success. Great Britain has acted in this contest with great caution.— Her first official smite of this warfare is so recent, that it becomes unnecessary here to enlarge upon its pro- priety. The subject, however, is one which concerns us deeply—es regards warlike •peration, the inter. minable contest between the Seed' Americas Colosies end Old Spain, claims the first comideration. Of Lillis war mach as we hear of it, and neweroes as are the details which are given as by all parties, it is Mi. cult.t• speak with recision. Bloody battles thee. The Thames, from London to flamberah, was lost in the Fib. on the 19th alt. She is stated to be Insured for no less • seer t h in 100,0001. The cargo consisted of indigo, dm. mit had the eftwftetfoo . egoilibries thellontiChto r egigN tai4dwrillikiliksi prove favourable to *it radio of tint New World. Her spirit appesrt 111 be ellseteisl her i t i re=hz;la t i ly me th rt Ferdinand, of theswaleiseers whom he inn dispatched with orders f spry and horn Moo, oboes he has yet. the Maples, to call Ms sobjects. During the last row Chili has *mews or the adieus yoke of the nleisition—a great pert of Pere 'has meolted..6. Easemsela has again been libetated-bwbile, en the eMe of Notice, - a doebtfel warfare bee been eise. vied on between the Royalists and lee Republique*. • • The miser* of Monte Video by the Kieurrf Detail, for we shaft sot use the 'legitimate misneaser of telling John IV. King of Porterd, has givens new teeter, of interest to the groat Soothers Cosa*. sent ; an interest which is likely to bet felt in the Very centre of &rope. Of the political motives which induced this mime, this is not the place to speak ; 'of its emmequences, k is hinted even now, that there,. beginning to work on the Cabinets of Europe. Rem's, it is said, takes part with Spain ; Enlisted melt Mpoese the inhale of Portugal. An arbitration hes been talked of.;the King of .Brasil will listen to no arrangement instil the dispute lone-Spain and her Colonies Settled. North America is advancing in arts, asanufacteres, commerce, agriculture, end Nationality. She may be forgiven her frailties and faults, for she 'remit a secure asylem to the patriot fac t itive of every coon• try-s-she may be national, for she is free—she may be rain, for she sees all the world prostrate bet her. WC And, though she is only 40 years old, she may as well sooty" and lookbig, as an Old Ledy who has spent a thousand years itt wan, slavery, and blood. tell gy &de _ __ . bring ;roc:: believe this the King was Either the firit . ..: , et -the petalled actor it the sorry Wee of 110101oetkis even* whose they tepid not dishonest, of Mammies. men iritenttlsey &Hold net dispirit; which ins be. illeykstet 41riet !es seer t wentpria years. " Bet, tit Mt ikiteititiperseei *bee, they may, the ceilekteibielt Intelsat the alai b teat falling 'itedeceer Oa* and too I . sod I leipit iteln. attains per my v • thOisertlisiy heve s oust *Welly parker, linfeteallsteedlyi . deditlitall; - etto be table, at the open. . ' dl . lie. fleet net; .te mimics Bairn with Christien iltigeithillgoodovill ; for the detestable iinicill illisefosekste argil repasts, will ow obit** • lb Simla. Th e kontriedge the. the f 4, eerie* mfr./ yes tether owing to the will of the Stbeihdliebits eoibe itlimiii 011ie Idielotei jaws I r planes*. It stowed In a degree from . fty mind orte:on which I lied len reluctantly entertain. el lilr. Pitt bed always bee. oily . enemy.— did set espeat, indeed, that arty' Pinkie? would to eery sedan in piemoting a min wise professed and practised Perlionsentery end • porslnel lode .pendinee ; bet Mr. Pitt bad heels modes obligations to me, Sod -be bee* that I hod always been the wire% friend of kit want friend the Doke of Reiland; it'd I was unwitting to sepia* ideneopoirto of fotgetting either obligetibos or connections 10 the 'Outwit of his !ambition. • " At to the King's dislike of se, enlist his edtt cation lied otede him mote of a Wisig, it wee eaterat enough. My dratted oppesitles to the leeteesed and increasing influent. of the Ctown had wide lie greet ;tape/den on his klajfityli mind I for, ...the cloy I did homage, he asked the Ihlie 4 &Mead if his friend the Bishop of Lisistialt was not s gteet ewe my to the influence of the Croon 1 .say :ins, IL the sense thee, that he wished be had net oplaie of Mid azyoer to give sway. " I presume not 50 tptestion the troth of thisdee claming, of hi 4 Majesty ; ho; I 'peak with solos /pr• tainty of the troth 4 the Delte of Rotiond's ',pip —• That the Bishop 4 blatultif we: an enemy to the increase nt the indoenee o! the Cto in. from en apprehension that it won't! dna/mine this C3estile. lien.' This spnrelotesion was. not then eitteonded. nor has it sine. then been lessened, bet Wel, 441 g• mented, especially by 0, enwohliii‘weeselatioNß of the national debt." • K. Perhaps some light is thrown,., the anion in the above extract to the prededer, et thi placid pat actor in the farce at Ceert t in the renown% pas. The year which is passed is fell of easful lessons. We need net recapitulate them. We learn little from them but a keener sense of the errors of those who claim esclosige wisdom. We are distitsgeished for religious toleration; bet our political • literality is not guiles(' conspicuoes. Our internal eltuation, coutrasted with that of the last year, is cheering.— An averegelartest a partial revivalof . unprecedented confidence in Public Securities, and a return of mercantile credit,fornish assay topics for co n gratelation. Bet, on the other hand, Pestilence has stalked through the land—Spies have been openly de, fended and encouraged, the liberties of Ettglishmee, hare been annulled—then have been tried, centime eel, and esecuted for High Treason, and the Press woCld have been destroyed but for the spirit of THREE SPECIAL JURIVI sage 46 In the 'steatite visitation et my diocese, which I made this year (1809), I went over the mountains (roes Neath to s place where no Bishop had aver held a confirmation before, Merthyr 'Fidel!. We cannot help expressing our deep regret, that * • • • I was, whilst there, most hospitably en. the Son of the virtuous Bishop of Landon* should tertaissed, and lodged by Mr. Crairsitay, 'one of the have thought fit to withhold from his countrymen most intelligent and evident iron masters in Europe. any part of the valuable legacy which be bequeathed I was delighted with the knowledge I acquired from to them. *lf any thing can rouse the People of this. his conversation, sod im my tern, took - the liberty country to evert themselves to stem the tide of tor. to suggest to him sere hints for further improves 'option, and political profligacy, which, in the meet in metallergy, fie. This Gentleman, in cow. course of the present long reign has been extending anon with many others, not only of the Clergy, but its influence from year to year, till at tett it hes ac- of the Laity in my diocese, summed Ms astonish. stoked such strength es to threaten the extinction of meet at the manner in which .1 had been neglected every thing like probity sod independent feeling by the Coact; and makisig an apology for his frank. among us, it must be the warning voice of this pious ness, told me, with evident concern, that be was sure and truly patriotic individual. Teat any consideration I should never be translated. With equal frankness whatever shield have induced the Son to deport from, I !mused him, that I wield never ask for a transit. the strictezecation of the trust reposed in him by his ; desiring at the same time, to know thee/solid Rasher, for the benefit of millions. world be still of his opinion ; he said that be had bete informed, more deeply regretted by us, if we thought the evil by the best authority (which he motioned), that was one which did not admit of remedy. We trust, I was considered by the Court at a man of fat h owever , t h at we shall yet b e ena bled to s e e the too independent a spirit for them, and had long Anecdotes of Bishop Wstsoo. In the state in which been put down ix the Queen's Black Book. A few they were left by himself for publication s that the days before this, another Gentleman wise bad dined eager desire of the Public that no part of the in- with me at the visitation at Galleon, acquainted me, 'traction destined for them should be withheld. will that yet be gratified. Tub distinction with which this the the King had once made enquiry of him (It the Levee) concerning me, end had concluded his volume has been honoured by those of whose apr inquisition with declaring that I was en impracticable probation its author, if alive, would have been most man• fesprodieabk!!! I acknowledge the justness ambitions, from the moment it issued from the press, of the impotation. I have never surrendered the may easily convince the Gentleman by whom it is principles of Government which I imbibed in my youth, from the works of Mr.Locke,theegh practised peblisbed, that the general desire proceeds from a higher motive thou a mere wish to gratify en idle upon by the Courtly artifices ceder which the honour curiosity ; and from the proof which it at the same of political cootistoecy usually secenebs; though asssiledby the repeated fluttery, and dishonoured, se time affords of the high regard for religion and vir . tee, which, notwithstanding the baneful influence of some may think, by the *Afore neglect of the King. Court corruption, atilt esists among the middle I have through the whole coons of my life never classes of this country, it warrants the consolatory scrupled avowing my Whig pried** eail Perna. hope, that the dying voice of the virtuous Prelate of rapider, independence; and at it Is erg unnetoral Llundaff will not base been raised it; vain. • for Kings to suspect men of messing more than they are willing to avow, I was net serpeiseder cheesed Conscioes.of his great talents, and the essential sec• at his Ma j e sty's n neglect me. 'Mei in his hig h Mu. vice which by Mem of them, he was capable of ten • alien are peculiarly liable to fore wrong jegetente dining to religion and to his country, it can Never of p ersons i n ivory sksolos, and more especiall y of surely be considered as a matter of reproach that he sbo;bsirodero outflow , siskomsboo rarely moot with would willingly have accepted of that premed** in in the circles composing their .dortrts; but I can the Church by which his power of dein geed might with justice, in 1812, say totbe ging, -what I said have been increased. The change of situation , s o Mr. " as which in public justice ought to have taken place, 1 710, nefor7„;:e was a subject 4 paled refledion, and so:prised and sir it you s uppose 1 • ow, that Wroth, asset *steal dm. vexed Mr. Wilherforim, and many others ewe of sit; t o make the Deascraticetsade of the Comet Mr. Pint's warmest friends. What a seism:hely ration outwe i g h - the I 18 : anonarcensa. Not one jot of reflection, that the very eine** which. pitted Me wt.! prerogativen.v of die. Crown do I wish to see set as the fittest person for ecclesiastical homrs e, w e — not one tittle of the king's influence in were tie very ease why be did not receive them.—• , thssoso be . destroyed ,. inept so far as it is es. On this subject gaga light is thrown In the fellow. waded over the R eprooo Li os i geg of the people. , extract leg : pray God that neither of their Majesties, nor any of " I bad long inspected that I war, from I know their posterity, see_ rs xever know 'by experience, that not what jug came obaosions to the Court ; but I d ies e w h o m the adestoss ta d i str i see of Court; did not, till after la Archhishoptic of York had bean attempt tit stigestize•ae iedeptudent mad lelpraeri: gives to the . Bisksp of Carlisle, lowa that thad We able min, are fireboat s teppeettre ofs fimostitutiorret proscribed many years before. By a letter from-a 'Throe., think 110 ',eget' enemies at Walkout& Noble Friend, the Duke of Grafton, dated 10111.0 e. N o w a l e g eewow e t he mi c a, * ew e r 1 6, b egelis . cember, 1807, 1 was infopned that one of the most t h w ic e ata e d e es • respectable FArls la the Kingdout,who had bag Mange wv " .. " -• • my manner of life, on a vacancy of the Mastership of • . . . . - Trinity Coney, had pee of his owe accord (and This Wig floesk.Minathirir,almenSeg to embed Nitboat his ever Sectioning the circumstance to met 'custom, the GetOweett ItV Irma eteceed to to Mr. Pitt, stating what just pretensions bad to series* Comisie Conseil apeprof-Wordiagit the offer if it; that Mr. Pitt &material with him ; the Celt if Leaden far the • stew soars hot said that a tartan person would sot bear of it. tin before die 11101 t geseerable die Meywor,doe Ought I•to question the veracity of Mr. Pitt? Ito-- i Recorder, tied a Beek of Atiorgiiii i imt • the £d I !moot do it. What, thee, eight I so say of a s jostoed'Saliesset • LATE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF. • ?I ', ° .y i - • . 5. • TIM VILA -• . _ • try .Piti'Ars doßiglis . SLITROIPAPT Of Till irsda bidets those 'WM ybkt a j k faiseist . Peers. OM hsd formal., stealod •ta 14 1 gibleidott love *is ticcest WO Reprobative of et pulksHons t and had .s. " PseKAlleh la tors is again toy greet et eery satisfeetory wessitedebidirapidity Indy est ' hale Woe rspattedly heard to my to ethers, that the tr TO TIIR EDITOR OF Tag" STATESMAN. seiseethmstoss of ilte list yeec....111,401141 . Isileurspil kg assiss4sescse shit y sp. Bishop! of 'Amadei' had done ewe it sappart of tell. . Readers will recollect tit, dram- ims recalled 'oltiswpiplosd owsicstiow. iissomisiescb- r o ws . • • Oslo then any Bishop .n tbo Bowed I ought In say stances of the duel between the Count De ST. •MosTs *ldea Seed Nies si all Miles assedstisss 4-o . B * lu s o f or sitiosioreint with St , Paste Thee thditi mg 'Pak *WI of the Rake and Col. BA Rana nut LA Fairs, is which tie former of austil!!!ir aft sisLtotalle-ssith the nenelhoss t h e A d m . of ekb, Park' • waskilled dead on the spot. Ris widow writs a low. 441 . 11 1, 1 " 1178;;;;Zt r i7at -li srts "7"" rselilsiebat r----- strate fairannble to " Notir4thstaidiust this Itossedoto, dimwit bring Os . t 1 • • r i i . . 1 )It I , A . A t . t) 1 . . 4 . t • i . 4 ; . • • 4 .: 'E 4 ' t . / ', 4 ,? , . 1 . , 4 4 ~. . II ' . i . 1 , , 4 4 1 . . r { <~ ~_-_