The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-09 00:00:00

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of the olollo6lentonme' and of the Illiffsfy
;241Nsva1ts, embracing sititalsinsnr
lon for fortifications and for the graduig hojea;.
TioAsvy, paying the interest of the Public Doha%
:aid esti/gabbing anon than 18 millions of the prim%
villa, within the present Tsar, a balance of SUM Milli
sit mato, of dollars,applicable to the current iervlce
of the ensuing year. The Government Joanna of this
coontry style the Message, a " most pleasing and
/ratifying doeoutent," and en it is; but these blinkers
of the trails will not point out by any allusive to such
'material points as these, why the Speech is so
satisfactory. It is agreeable to them, because it con •
salsa no declaration in favour of the South Ameri.
ems against Old Spain and other old nuisances, and
„Agora "the honest candour of the PRESIDENT." It
eviDres more than this, and they who shall peruse
It with equal candour, and consider why the infant
Republic of America has thus transcended in wealth
sad liberty and securitr, and general happiness,
.Thu ancient States of Europe, will be at no loss to
form a proper estimate of the justice and utility of
,me Administrations a Web pretend to make the
:tv of nations their care.

By the Leeward Island Packet, the arrival of
which we noticed yesterday, we have received a
variety of intefeeting documents and papers relative
to :Mars in Venezeela and the events passing on the
Spaeish Main. The letters from Trinidad and St..
Thomas's also supply some important communica-
tions. We have made as copious estrects from all
these sources as our limits will afford. We learn
from these that the Independent Cause is going on
seccessfully, 'notwithstanding two onfortunate in-
stances of dissension that base occurred.—General
PIAC, who had displayed the greatest bravery and

enterprise (iring the whole of the contest, has been
shot by order of a Court-Martial, for conspiring
against the existing Government, under a plan to se.
parate the people of colour from the whiles. PIAR
was himself a mulatto, and a Dative of Curacy.. The
Trinidad letters state, that all the witnesses spinet
him were person, of his own colour. It is generally ,
thought that the Spaniards had attempted to gain
FIAR over to their interests; and not long ego it was
stated he had gone over to them. This was, however,
by no means his object, though it does not appear
that the conspiracy had many partisans, as no others
are mentioned iu General BOLlTAtt's Proclamation.
This affair, deeply as it is to be deplored, we are
glad to find has brought no material injury to the cause,
though it has delayed the approach of the Patriots to
the Atlantic coast. The latter have, however, now
begaa to carry their new plans of campaign into ege.
cation. On 26th Sept. Gen. BERMUDEZ left An.
gesture with his division, repassed the Orinoko, and
proceeded on to Chaquaramas to join Gen. 'Liana,
who was advancing from that point. Oo the 17th

Oct. Tonne's division starched by the same route,
and on the 27th of the same month, Gen. BOLIVAR
was to set lot with the remainder of the army, and
proceed towards San Fernando de Apure, in the at-
tack of which place, a flotilla fitted out in Guyana,
was to co-operate. This flotilla cos►sists of '2O gun-
boats. Whilst these operations are to take place in
the interior, and along the iioe of rivers, Gen. Pau
is to advance his pnsiti on from Varinas to San Corlos,
in order to press :VI °alum, who had dismantled La

Guyra, and pocted himself in Valencia. The ship
Two Friends had arrived safest Margarita, and the
Captain had proceeded up the Orinoko, to we Gen.
DourAn and Admiral Baum One of our extracts
will convey a very good idea of the result that would
attend an attempt to mediate, at the present moment.
The Paris Papers to the 6th, which have arrived,
intone ■s that the Duke of WELLINGTON had set out
for Cambray. Ills Grace has probably by this time
reached England. Ile will, it said, return to the
French capital before the end of the present month.
The other statements is the French Papers are such
as we find is the Biomels Journals,which • Flanders I
Mail, arrived since yesterday, has brought as. It
is denied in the accounts from Brussels, that the',
Army of Occupation is to be withdrawn from France'
so eatly as the Spring, as at that time the Danish,
Hanoverian, and Salon Contingents will receive the
member necessary to their completion.—An article
from Switzerland positively contradicts the report of
the approaching departure of the Austrian troops
from France. This corps, it says, has received no in-
stractions which can give rise to such a conjecture.
Contracts for provisions have been made to ari ad-
visored period in the yesr 1818; and other circa's.
stances show that no change respecting this corps is

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thought of at present. On the other band, the pri-
vate letters from Paris to this country state, that the
Doke of WELLINGTON and Count WOZONZOR have
both declared, in many circles, that the foreign
loops are to be withdrawn in October next.

A Meeting took place yesterday at the Crown
and Anchor Tavern, for the purpose of forming a
plan for the relief of general distress at present in
the Metropolis, and also for the consideration of the
means of abolishing Mendicity altogether. Mr.
WILLIAIIS, the banker, was in the Chair; and after
the necessary elecidatory discussion, a Committee
watappointed to consider the means of carrying the
above object intro effect. —Several Subscriptions
were also received. A Report of the proceed-
ings is given in our columns. The Meeting, we were
Wry to perceive; au by no means so numerously