The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-17 00:00:00

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has been under the necessity of hazarding a rewire
to get away. We are not aware of the nature of the
arguments his Lordship has been using in protest; •es
'Or opposing, as he is represented to have done, ti,;.
unprincipled pretensions of the Royal abusers of
the pbrase " natural rights" and " natural limits ;"
but we do think there is something palpably base in
one Power's requesting to be restored to the stater 71.0
ante helium at the expence of the rest, and refusing to
admit the just title of the others to the same at gual..et.
If all the other Powers would agree,or could be brou,,4.t
to return to the same stains, if they would I,ace
thernselyes, or could be placed in the sitticiou is
which the Revolution found them at its commence.
ment, then indeed there would be something like jt.s.
tice in the claims of the Demanding Po n er. : but
there is the reason or justice in the scntidaions and
inflated desire of those Powers, who, profe-sing to
be the restorers of right and liberty, use clew ofd;
only, and invoke nature, and Heaven, to sduction
wrong and robbery ; and who seek to rebuild
their greatness, lost by their cern ' cupidity, on
the misfortune of others. A conduct like this can
lead to no good. It Will change *iteration into
contempt, and pleasure into grief and indigna.
tion. It is observed in the accounts that siree
the discussions between the principal Powers hare
assumed a serious ocharacter,. the Sovereigns
are not disposed to dance and drink as they
used to do.— —Prince M ETTEUNICH, the Am.
trian Minister, the best bottle companion of any
of the diplomatic corps, prepared a
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entertainment on the 26th, to which the Sovereigns
were invited, but they did not accept the invitatioe.
If these accounts are true, we may expect, in verity,
speedily to hear the report of the breaking up of the
Congress confirmed.

LONDON:

.11JVIDAY, JANUARY 17, 18.15.

We stated yesterday that affairs at the Congress
of Vienna are assuming a serious aspect. Those
Sovereigns who proclaimed themselves the guardians
of national rights, and the renovators of national
liberty and law, wh'm ee supported in their march
to conquest, :Ind stilt support with men anti money,
ere now fw,Alitnirig to give us the proof d their dis-
interested pro fescions. We have mentioned that
Our confiding i4linister had at length becamealarmed,
nest warm, and filially had drawn a furious quill of
remonstrance ag rinse the system supported by Russia
and Prussia. which the very consistent Courier so
mach commends. There are various versions of the

cootenrq of this Note presented by Lord CASTLE..

REAcn on the VOL It is now asserted that his

Lordship peremilorily insisted on a decision of nil

the great questions at isgue, within a fortnight, and

that he had limited his departure to the expiration of
that period, the 11th inst. The discnssion of this

' ' demand had produced a greater degree of dissension ! Yesterday afternoon a King's Messenger arrived
than had existed previously; and some reports have at the• Foreign thlice, with dispatches from Viscount
gone so far as to state that, in consequence of the CA STILEREAGH, at Vienna.
avowed determination of Russiv and Prussia not to re- ! By the Dutch Mail we have advices from Peters.
lax in their demands, and this resolution of the British - instant. The Exhange at the former was
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burghto the 21st December, and from Hamburgh
Minister, to the sth who is joined in Ids resistance by the ,at 11 15-10th's. At'llamburgb cotton hail fallen '2O
French and Austrian Plenipotentiaries, the Cougress per cent. in consequence of the American Peace, and
had broken up. Another account says, that the the Elbe was frozen op.
Ministers of England, Austria, and France, have! Mee STUART,. lesq, of the Colonial D'partmeut,
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''contented themselves by recording their protests.—. ,is an kis way to America with a duplicate of the rata-
What ! are the representatives of the three
greatest ; find Treaty of Peace.
. The Palled Rtaawr bee. beets. graciously pleased
European nations, of England who is maintaining the
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toconfer the eacant 'Gram Ribband on Lord Ea-
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, menacing host, so far cowed by the bullying of
.two sKINE, assn mark of his special regard, that Noble.
Northern Powers, the one of whom was, the other • man having-been above 30 years in his personal es-
day, sinking to his Electoral insignificance, perhapsitablisliteint as Prince of WALES.
to nothing ; and the other was, by the vigour of a I It is 'nitrite that any application was made to Mr.
WHlM:tar 4,0 from any persons iu the town of Liver-
single strm, in imminent danger of being sent to : '
pool to represent theta.. It is perfectly known that
Siberia, or of taking rule from a Conqueror!—are
that excellent person is so invariably attached to hit
these late swoln Powers become so irresistible in their 7 en!). and consistent friends, the Electors of Bad-
borrowed might, that the other Continental States, ~ford, that no offer, however flattering to himself,
with Great Britain besides, must limit their objec- : would be accepted by him.
is,:.,_,The High Sheriff of Carmsrthenshire has appointed
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lions to whatever plans of aggrandisement theSe two
i a county Meeting to be held at the Town-Ball,
may form to protests? We cannot believe, re- carmarthen,
on Monday next, to take into conside-
ration as we have been by the most extravagant im-
policy, that we are come to this. Our new king- t-tha renewal of the Props arTax.
dom of H -- aeoverename it met. What will become A 'Meeting has bees calliel by the Mayor of 14-
werponl, te considet of the propriety of petitioning
of it if FREDERI (Ai, who lately did us the honour of
Parliament against continuing the Property Tea, en.
a visit, to see with his own eyes, as a Judge says,
what situation we were in—shall take it into his head 1 der any modification whatever.
1 A recent instance of the true Boroughmongeristet
that such an arondissement is as highly requisite as i system is now Before us. A Gentlemen gives a vie
any other-of the territories he claims for his indemni- I loable consideration for a close Borough, and the
fication ? This kingdom;this feather that now waves ' Proprietor procures for the Member's son the office
so proudly over the brow of English royalty, that , of Receiver-General for the County.
The Redoqbtabk, a fine new 74, gun-drip, built i n
has bowed to every blast, and hailed successively as
... i Woolwich dock-yard, is now completely finished ;
its sovereign Austria, possitt, and JEROME MINA. ire
t re are stages and booths erect lig on each side for
PA RTE, may be considered as necessarily and justly t the accommodation of the company expected to bo
coming within the limits of the Prussian dominion as • present at her launching, which, we understand, is
Saxony and the countries lying on the Lower Rhine, fixed for Monday next.
the Meese, and the Moselle, where the Prussian I By the arrival of a merchant ship direct from
Hayti, we have received advice, from Cape Henry
army have taken their positions. " We wish that , '
Prussia
, to the 29th of November, nearly a month more re-
may succeed in all her demands." says the i cent in date than any which had previously reached
Courier, without knowing any thing of these de- ! this country. It would appear that the general im-
mantis, or how far the gratification of the ambition I pression of an attack by the French on the king-
•of that Power may aim at the annihilation of our 1 dom of Hayti was still confidently entertained
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Continental influence, and at obtaining what Fat. at
:the above period. • The approach of a French
i foratefor that purpose was erroneously supposed
melee the Gitear thought his country, without a
will but that of its Sovereign, should be, the dictator defence
Ito be . near at hand, and adequate means for
were preparing in consequence. Some dis-
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of the Continent. Does the Courier imagine that I
, patches, which had recently fallen into the hands' of
Prussia needs this sort of pushing on to put her feet ; King Helmer, 'had left un doubt io his mind as to the
on the necks of the other Continental Priem over i real intentions of the French Government to make
What she has rime by brute violence at one I the attempt of gaining 'possession of the country by
, i forte, provided it failed in the way of negociation.
time, and the most specious arts at another r I
rile Commissioner Wawa, one of those seat
Is the Courier such an enemy to repreSentative Sas- Iby the Provisional French Government, to leans
tems that it could see with pleasure, not only the ! the disposition of the Haytian Chiefs, was not
independence of the German States, yet undignified I suffered.to depart from 'the island, •and remained
by the title of Kingdoms, sunk in the absolute me- iin 04 iiikuas of Pni Truustr- ife appears t& have
catchy of Prussia, but the Duke of CAMERI DC a and c."4"4eti himself with asj". bell imisalijSs his col-
his, league LAVAYSSE. The' rung . received him on his
Parliament put to the route by a detachment of first teed* with all the respect • due to an ambassa-
Prussians, merely because France, at a fulure.pe- or / bet (fading
t ; that the. Depety paid bias no re-
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riod, may quarrel with his PRUSSIAN MAJESTY ? ! spect itt return, hedeelinect entering 'into any, nego-
, Much as we are of our ancestor's opinion, that thel dation, with him, or hearing what he bad to say;
less we have to do in Continental disputes the better, ! "fid' on his wishing to leave the 'lsland, permissiet,
we should really be sorry to bear of the dissolution sit s refused him to depart.
of that system, of representation which his R I
al oyd
Letters have been received direct from Lima, of
the Ist of 'August at Which time-that place was in
Highness the eikixot
.REGENT of England has been the hands of the old Goveimmesit -witheettbe least
graciously pleasecrto 'vouchsafe to his German sub- [appearanee of 4(.44 widestre On. , the ..contrasy, a
jecti; and mniii- more to hear of another Royal :•Simish 74 a sloop, of war, -and sack ethic woofs,
Duke of oats boasted line taking hastily to horse, I had beta sent front Lima on au wspedltlen to Chili,
owl' leafing ids kingdom behind him at the sight oft t?'lbbd" the "Yrge,6lsin "II fibligt(ir' • .
1 A new Juliet, we understnnd, ie coming out at
an invading...oNp 6 4 A horse I a horse ! tn
kiseedons for a horse 11, My Lord . CAsTLEREAGIyi 1 ttutri)h-elfihnaes.nSei:erhipyeriftiZmedilinionilialnuytirsutaLge,Vbenbt belie,.
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end Mr. hard-hearted Courier, how could :you hear! spoken of with great confidence as pas easing ii
sweet and melodious voice, with iutellikuce and
another English Prince calling out this and nnt'give
parli'she,slflotten.tot
sensibility. '•
as somethisig very molting upon the occasion ?
Venlig, we are 'informed in the
Bat his f.derdship is now, it 'teems, inclined to [
Papers, is indisposed, and her recovery is ex.
bestir himself in the way of defence, or matters ..petted with so much the more impatience as she ttni
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have really become so very urgent et beset, that 'ha , bnorning every. thy more civilised.

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