The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-11-29 00:00:00

connts, the-important business of the verification of
Powers being still continued. We wonder at the
proloniption 'of this part of the ceremony, seeing it
stated in the same communication', that Austria,
Prussia, Russia, England, Bavaria, Wirtemberg, and
Hanover, are all that are to have decisive voices.—
In a letter of a previous date, it is asserted that the
Rossian Minister had handed in an important De-
claration, said to relate to Poland; and we perceive
by the accounts now before us that the precipitate;
departure of the Grand-Duke CONSTANTINE foe,
Warsaw is supposed to be connected with this note;
which note, we suppose, says, " I have withdrawn
my troops from Saxony, to make way.for my very
good and firm friend, the King of PRUSSIA ; and in
their way home I mean that they shall take up their
quarters for a time in Poland, which, I think, will
look as well annexed finally and fully to my
Empire, as Saxony to Prussia, er Italy to Aus•
tria," to'which all the congregation must &Glides,
say Amen, France being placed out of the pale of
decision, and my Lord CASTLEREAGH being well
aware that the Emperor of RUSSIA and the King of
PRUSSIA are the very good and firm friends of the
PaiNce REGENT Of ENGLAND, from whom, and his
subjects, 46 after what has passed," as they usually
say, they can never, never be disunited. We wish
it may be so—but things do not yet look well. Out
of small things grow great ones. The smaller Ger-
man States are evidently deeply chagrined at being
shut out from these deliberations ; and even Bavaria
is stated to have joined France in a protocol or re-
monstrance against the great enforcing armament me-
ditated in Germany. France, we fear, is in a state
bordering on open insurrection. See a subsequent
communication from Paris. •

GOTTENSURGH, Nov. 14.—Charles MIL was
proclaimed King of Norway on the 4th insiint.
VIENNA, Nov. 14.—1 t is at length:decided that.
the Empress Maria Louisa is to content herself sritb
the sovereignty of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla.
tier Majesty will soon set out for her dominions.—
It is still fit oily believed that Napoleon will be re-
moved from Elba ; but it is uncertain whether hit►
mother seems resolved to remain with him.
It is supposed that Noce rand will return
to Paris before the end of this month.
It is remarked that Prince W►ede, the Bsvarian
Minister, does not live on the sawe terms of inti-
macy with the Ambassadors of the Great Pokers as
before.

141iwisters at home appear to he thrown upon the
horns of a very awkward dilemma, by the conduct
of certain Ministers, abroad. It is now the fashion
to settee things, and explain afterwards. To com-
municate intentions, or take advice, in high matters,
is beneath the dignity of great Statesmen. 46 Are we
not the deliverers of Kurepe," say the partitionists at
Vienna ? " Did we not (dotaznenti4,the elements)
overthrci* that wicked enemy of liberty, Bos.t.
PARTE ? And have we not a right to divide his gar-
ments, and array ourselves in his spoil—and
as to telling our friends at home how gor-
geously we meats to deck ourselves—They will
see by-and-bye what a dash we will mike in
ous splendid apptirel ; but let us wisely make sure of
it first." The scramble has been begun for some time
past, and whilst we are amused with stories of
negociations being on the point of opening, in which
justice and moderation would shine pre-eminent, all
appears to have been negociated, in the provisional
style of occupation, and by arguments of this sort,
6 6 you seel am possessed, dislodge me if you can,—
but remember we met to make the people keep the
peace." In this manner that part of the Continent which
has lately become disposable, or more than usually
liable to seizure, has been appropriated in the
midst of Treaties for its regulation, and those who
were at the expence to send Ministers to Congress
to talk over' the matters before-hand, now begin to
find out that they might have saved themselves and
their Plenipotentiaries that trouble. Our Ambas-
sador has lately laid great claims to the title of an
able politician, but he seems to have had very little
to say at Vienna ; possibly he has not been able to
`make himself intelligible to these lligh German
Doctors, or they have talked and acted in such a strain
that he has not known what to think or say of their
proceedings. Certain it is, that his colleagues appear
not to know what to say of him, or the arrangements
in which he was deputed to take a leading part ; and
political soothsayers augur from the cloud of igno-
rance in which the Gentlemen on the Treasury
Bench at home are disposed to take shelter, what is
aptly termed a complete blow up ere long. The
situation in which Ministers were placed last night
in the discussion which ensued on the subject of the
transfer of Saxony and Poland, was one that re-
flected neither honour on their judgments nor dignity
on their stations. Mr. WHITBREAD .expressed the
wishes of the country for some information regard-
ing the shameless transfers and partitions that appear
to have been made and resolved upon by the Conti-
nental Potentates, which he justly characterised
as daring and wicked robberies, and asked Minis-
ters, if, after Prince Itseetres note and the solemn
proceedings which had in other respects taken place
indicative of these spoliations, they could pass the
subject over by saying they did not know any thing
about them, or whether the British Minister had
given his country's sanction to such acts. Thus pressed,
it was necessary to say something, and Mr. VAN.
strrAwr made a declaration, to which we refer, and
which we would entreat the public to 'mph" resew.

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_Wane,. Mr.V. was of opiairm(thotigh every thing seems
to militate against such belief), that the fate of
Saxony has not and cannot have been decided,
because the Congress by which the decision was to have
been made has not yet met ; much less could he
believe that any British Minister could be a party
to any such decision as is supposed to have been
rode; and as little had he any reason to suppose that
soy British Minister would be a party to the subjuga-
fdon of Poland. What then has Lord CASTLERRAGII
sdone ? "He who allows oppression shares the
, crime." Has not Prussia taken military possession
r orSaxony, and have not her Generals proclaimed it
' annexed to the Prussian territory in the face of the
negociations ? Has Lord CASTLEREAGII become the
silent abettor of this moral infamy—of the spoil of
Europe—this is what we want to know ? We have
heard of the protests of the French Ambassador—
i Lord CASTLEREAGH looks on, it appears, for silence
gives consent, and says nothing. ,
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t • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated the
' amount of the Sicilian Loans guaranteed by this coon•
try to be 150,0001.

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Sr SAIRIZL ROINILLT also brought forward
the motion of which he had given notice, relative
'to the Militia, and which proved to be a resolution,
declaring the retaining that force embodied after six
t
months from the ratification of a definitive Treaty of
Peace to be contrary to the Act of Parliament,
and a violation of the Constitution. After a long
debate, the motion was negatived on a division of 97
to 32.

Our Readers may be assured that the following
Letter which a French Gentleman in London has
favoured us with, is genuine. Qn the sentiments it
contains, we make no comment. We give it as we
received it

Pari. Nov. 19, 1814.
"It is almost impossible to describe with accuracy
4he real state of the public mind in this country.—
So many parties exist, and so different are they in
their objects and prospects, that human judgment is
too weak to anticipate the future with precision.—lt
is certain, that the returned Emigrants, the old No-
billty, and the Clergy, are endeavouring, by every
means in their • power, to restore the old des-
potism, to its fullest extent: The parties opposed t 6
them are, the old Republicans, at the head of whom
IS CARROT, and many ether very eminent men, and
the Btmapartean party, to which belong et least
tWo-thirds of the army, taking into this calculation
the Marshals and .other superior Officers. 'rhe late
restoration of unsold emigrant property to its oiigi-
nat possessors has created much alarm. So general
has been the change of lantle,l proprietorship since
the Revolution, that it may he almost said that entire
France has changed ownership. No better proof of
the apprehensions which are entertained by the pre-
sent possessors need be named, than that it is im-
possible to sell or borrow money upon mortgage,
upon any one estate acquired since the Revolution.
—The Republicans, who were in a degree satisfied
under Bowiteiltra, because they saw thae.the glory
of Fiance swag his chief object, and that even his
ambition was but one of- its effects, are deadly
haters of the new system, because they see, or think
they see, the old regime of priests and feudal lords
about to be re-established, which will create, instead
of one, ten thousand tyrants in the country. BONA.
PARTE, if he was one, allowed no other but himself.
Every man's fire-side (foyer) was his own—it was
sacred ; and if lie was not called upon to serve his
country,' he was as independent as the most
perfect Republican could wish. Thus it was that
the old Revolutionists were at least tranquil,
I but it is quite another _thing with the army which
BONAPARTE had so completely identified with the
great mass of the people, that the whole nation had
become military. Here it was that BONAPARTS
had founded his throne; and had .he not been sur-
rounded by traitors, who had sold themselves and
him, could he have had sufficient resolution to have
seen Paris in flames, which he apprehended would
have been the immediate consequence of the envy of
the-barbarous hordes which were marching upon it,
little doubt remains, but that lie would ultimate-
ly have succeeded, and would have now been
Emperor. It is absolutely ascertained, that had i
NET and MARMONT carried into effect the orders'
which he sent them, at the time when lie threw him-
self between the Austrians and Russians, that a
most signal success would have been the con-
sequence.' The army still idolize him ; and the •
cavalry are not yet considered worthy to be
trusted near Paris. The French Princes are
doing their utmost, by. cajolery and flattery, to
ingratiate themselves with the soldiery—but they •
have hitherto advanced but little. France cannot I
forget what BONAPARTE has done ;—the high pitch!
of glory to which he carried its military faine—un-
exampled in the history of the world !—Men are
astonished at his abdication when he had so great a
chance remaining of retrieving his affairs ; but it is j
now known, from those who were about his person
at that period, that the apprehensions he entertained !
for the safety of Paris were the great causes of that
event. He imagined, that while Paris existed, a j
monument, " perennius sere," would remain. of his, i
magnificence.-, The wonderful improvements he I.
made—the assemblage of every thing in Europe va-
luable in the Fine Arts—the magnificent additions!
he had projected—the public buildings he was
erecting—the stupendous monuments of national
greatness he had in contemplation—to see all.
these perish before him, was worse than death itself, I
or even personal humiliation! He preferred sacrificing
himself, to these superb works of his creation ; and
he had every reason to believe, that not a vestige
of them would exist, 'twenty-four hours after the
entry of the northern hordes into the Capitol.—lt is !
an authenticated fact, that an English Newspaper was
sent to him (that same one, which is universally be-
lieved at this moment to he in the pay of the Mi-
nistry here, as it is the accredited organ in Ettglattd
of the sentiments of this Court) the Times, in which
a paragraph was inserted in the most conspicuous
part of the Paper, announcing to its readers,' that at
the time of its publication, Paris probably no longer

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existed. Thns, it was thin that BONAP
, .
act. I upon, and he gave way But can
posed that France will.forget hire for thi:
ken notion! depend upon it, he possesses
the most powerful in the country, and
flame is once excited, it will overwhelm
in its progress! •
46 That the Bounnoms feel this fully
from their conduct, Not a single regiment
iilvested with Ili Royal guard—the mos:
measurers are adopted at the, Thuilleries—t
mounts with loaded arms, the sentinels ar
and of different divisions of the National
Swiss corp is organised as before the
and every thing shows. pat the Royal F
not ,consider itself sate,' in the hands
troops; the Imperial Guard is daily dissio
drafting little by little into miter corps, a
every measure which precaution and ai
can suggest,is hourly adopting; tile press
more watched and its liberty curtailed;
espionage, more active than ever, is esta,
every thing shows fear in its as orst'forni.
and the old Republicans are decidedly ,
hostile to ,the new system.. They posses,
splendid latent. of France. To oppose
there ere the imbecile old Nobility, wh,
danger, am/ have returned to feed upon
try they had not the courage to light fn,
indeed but an unequal contest ; and ierey
little sagacity to prognosticate the reset,
struggle should arise.

In the meantime, the old natioual
enmity towards England are more sad
loping. It cannot be forgotten, that by
trigue, end by -English gold, the last gr
Lion was effected, in which the power or,
so reduced, and that of the Northern M
encreased. Time only will show, whet?'
herself has not raked up a more formida,
herself by thus aggrandizing Russia.
France would have berm----but still Eagle
this. In her ati%iety for the
she has crippled the . naval power of
there ii no doubt, but that several yet
quillify must pass. before the Fretreh
reach even its former power—but lull t
rivalry exists, and will encreasti, and
bable that all the Conlitient wi:l one
in endeavouring to arrest that ma:
riority which enables Eng!tind almost .
mend the navigation of the neema, and to dictate
terms on which alone other nations shall liv'per.
mitted to enjoy it. .11.ussili rill soon be mixings to
enjoy her share of it, the prOdigious extent of coast
she possesses. her UniM Wolfed reSINEWPS in Piety
article of necessity, will croon enahle her to create
a fleet more powerful than that of England, and her
geographical position, Banking e. she does Europe
on its northern and southern frodnilary, gives her
great advantaes at the enniinoneement of a war,
w hich would, in all probalaisttv„ increase during its
continuance ; her making extent . f terriory, more
than the half of Europe, nat./ills her inex-
haustible meat's, and the.despetic nature of her Go.
vernment, affords her the aucontrouted disposal of
them. S:Jould time and circumstances ever product
an effort by these great Northern Potentates,
against the nations of the south, to trance aload
can England lock for succour. 'lt will then op.
ear what she has gained by a war ortwenty year‘
waged at an incalculable waste of blood and tow
sore ; exhausting, as she has done, all her resources
and creating, from necessity, rivals to her in every
article of her hump manufacture. It will he that
seen, whether, by these sacrifices, she has ensured her
own eventual greatness, or whether she may net;
from that period, date the commencement of hertlr
cline iti the scale of nations, approaching, as it Id
do, if it once begins, rapidly towards a fall ;"

General SMITH, it is said, is arrived in this*.
try.

'f I:e Duke DE GUICH a rrivedE on Saturday Ng
Perk.

The Duke of l'onvLANo and several English of
distinction are at Bourdeaux.

The LORD MAYOR hating inspected the bled.
weighers' Returns, ordered the 'price of Bread to
be reduced half an Assize, or• Ons Penny in the
Peck Loaf.

This is the last Day for purchasing, as the whole
of the State Lottery will be drawn To-morrow, sail
Thirty-two grand Capitals must be distributed Wall
the Public.

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II it be gap. $
911 apart_
id that
every aunt
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amed, than that it is im- 1 vernment, affords her theuaicoostrooted disposal of '
r money upon mortgage, ! them. Should time and circumstances ever produce • '
fired since the Revolution. lan effort by thew great Northern Potentates,
sere in a degree satisfied' against the nations of the south, to France alone
; they saw tittle-the glory I can England loak for succour. It will then ap. ,
abject, and that even his! IMlLuwhat she has gained by a war ortwenty year• 4 • _
•• its effects, are deadly•r waged at an incalculable waste of blood and tree- ' ''
because they see, or think . sure ; exhausting, as she has done, all her resources* • .4
' priests and feudal lords , and creating, from necessity, rivals to her in every .*ll
.:
which will create, instead article of her home manufacture. It will he theg. '•
sin the country. BottA- I seen, whether, by these sacrifices, she has ensured lii:
owed no other but himself. own eventual greatness, or whether she may net;'
ter) was his own—it was from that period, date the commencement of her de-
: called upon to serve his cline in the scale of nations, approaching, as it gill .1
dependent as the most do, if it once begins, rapidly towards a fall ;" • .
wish. Thus it was that 1
sere at least tranquil, General StstiTit, it is said, is arrived in this esti ---,
.
ng with the army which try.
°etely identified with the I The Duke DE GUICH arrivede on Saturday kit
adt the whole nation had , Paris.
it was that BoNisexturit I The Duke of PonrLa.so and several English of II
•el
ad had .he not been sur- ° distinction are at Bourd,,nug. I
had sold themselves and The LORD MAYOR haring inspected the Med. 'I
ificient resolution to have weighers' Returns, ordered the price of Bread to
h he apprehended would be reduced half an Assize, or• Onst Penny in the
nsequence of the entry of Peck Loaf.
i were marchjng upon it, I This is the last DAy for porebasing, as the whole
that lie would ultimate- of the State Lottery wit' be drawn To.morrow, sal
would have now been Thirty-two grand Capitals must be disiribeted lil4"
( ascertained, that had the Public. '.
d into effect the orders l - 4 '
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time when he threw him- • .
ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.,
is and Russians, that a
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d have been the con- FEMALE PRESENCE OF MIND. o ~,, ,
idolize him ; and the .
,_
country
evening last week two persons,• haying the
f
gentlemen, called at - m rchanes house its
ssidered worthy to be (scetare, the family being then a.t. their country seat, atalli,19
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he French Princes are miles distant from London, and the Itovse left iii the care Eifllif . ~1
ijolery and flattery, to . C,,liitonkm;.l::fliilhrsejalal• They represented themselvel to,IPI!!!
partp;ttith•uelacrotuletrnds
‘colfterethelistriaster S. ass, •
the soldiery—but they ; coming frottaintlaet country las -
it little. France cannot ' was, and that by his particular desire). gey were ter: , , •
is done;—the high pitch I during tahe t
nd, wo
coorntreeanitietost. their businesso detained
etrodiet:
d its military faire—tin- produced 14 letter as if from ihewfiei:ilemetti tart the one
euse Nille • •i,
f the world !—Men are : cook. containing so many orders and other matters, tilt ./a
entirely ignorant of. This at oti! it
a when he had so great a streratigvedesa%sinyndttioittstnlirse. m
ight hare on their minds as 18r"
'lug his affairs ; but it is truth of the matter. After they were shown into the paw,
.ow,, ofi them
mightga iilbl;t that he e had to go in transact some tt ve_o2 %.
ho were about his person
twelve at
o'clock;
heno
notreturned, to
stt up adding,
him, it'a si
it
0%0.
rehensiotis lie entertained not home before
e the great causes of that very probable his friends might detain him all night. Thepell i
t while Paris existed, a dvidenroetaciaoi„niecte, herldtir:lntd at tut.elve rllock fincliog hiltaftriat ,'
re," would remain of his ocaht go to bed also, as ohir fr elindnuoistitdn'ontd‘colimille.htnessei '''
derful improvements he l.night.
ille was accordingly show,, up stairs to bed. The r.. 7 ' •`
ter b‘i:atstinieot htoiuzimaatidd lialasomesointvicirravvlr;
rery thing in Europe vas aemsohemr onTit
the magnificent additions' easy that she determined at all right, and
to sit became
Soon lifie .'
italic buildings lie was I one o'clock she thought sheheard a noise above stairs, as "fr!
monuments of national 1 °X.:14)4 softly ing
i, haanrdefiloitti,.g. d4wen trekcattniilee•Ttte'fltiltioittioll.)l/! •
itempiation—to see all , stairs, she went up kith*• dark when she perceived the strata's
s worse than death itself I candleg Mous the drawing-room without his shoes, and 10
9 I in his hand. .`.i•eing him isdvinct to v rds the door,
i ! He preferred sacrificing ' she ran down stairs •as fast as she could, and % nutting mat I*
arks of his creation ; and candle, hid herself tinder the stairs. The st per came doll .
. astuadirsulteittleyti
tahnedhpallteditzhisntt candleo
kont
ieve, that not a vestigethlei Twee dtecga..:%
ity-four hours after the i a ;Intim 'nuking the IIIIIVIIIC;II cot-c. o }let :elen° (1-511)11.4neU tl the tila
Is into the Capitol.—lt is . Polv• Pad went out. The faithful courageouS itotrorniii4 el
a English Newspaper was ° to7aletaeldorfiZ4Osador o.hei'llsictili.ogroeidisafertAham‘:thiasritre_isitt'i:r all,";„; '
which is universally be- i and then set the alarm hell' ringing! :rliteioisk,itiviil,- W.O .'• p
;in the pay of the Mi- I veryi quietly sill the time, now cuiau. 'in seer. 11.14‘9,1117,:..r. i
retired organ in England .
trihaeratLau:ahsisiehLosetilellililllhn:tit:i to
urt) the T'imes, iii which ' rtibh••r, sialiit nu at• ly ti r.the.erds sit justice iglu tile kis eersK,'
n the most conspicuous kali" "hang b"lndhinallui RPktir of sh-ies. -
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LONDON I Printed siklod_,,ho4o,lo4l by ,D,. Lavas 6, 411,1,1
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