The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-17 00:00:00

TIIE STATESA

morning in your Paper, of the Duke of OrttAwro
to Prince MaTERNICH. Happy, indeed, will it be
for Princes and Nations If such calm and dignified
Addresses can obtain, in any instance, their just as-
cendance over hostile and vindictive Councils, to
the evils of which no human foresight can assign any
limit, while against their natural tendencies, past ex-
perience, and our actual and impending circum-
stances ought abundantly to warn us, and every
Government in Europe.

If the great majority of FRANCE were not de-
cidedly rciih BONAPARTE, where could be the want
of these immense confederate armaments ; and if it
be, as I think, manifest, no armaments aught, or, I
trust, can prevail to displace him.

It seems time now for a private individual, whom
the awakening voice of such a crisis has called from
his retirement, to close his addresses to THE runtrc
on this all-concerning question.
As an ENGLISRU Of, I am deeply interested for
my COUNTRY; her honour, her liberty, her welfare,
her principles of internal and external relation, in
comment and action; that they might be such only
as are worthy of her. As a man, I wish the
peace and concord of human society; for esta-
blishing of which a most peculiarly favourable open.
ing has presented itself. As a friend to national
independence, to the diffusion of literature, the Arts
and Sciences, Liberty and general Knowledge, I
think with extreme repugnance at England being in-
volved in such a confederacy, and in such a conflict,
against France and hergreat Leader. Bat I fear that
no warning voice but that of experience, more dearly
purchased than ever, will avail us !—May HeAvom
mitigate those evils, which I fear the impetuosity of
human passions, and the delusions of prejudice,
will not suffer us to escape! At all events, Heaven
will eventually, in its own time and manner, con-
firm that good, against which, ultimately, all human I
farce, passion, and prejudice can but war in rain.—
I am, Sir, your's sincerely,

A •
[FROM THE GIJALIN EVENING POST.]
The London Papers, for the last titre or six days, ,_
have beeu preparing for a formal Decliratiors of War, As this Officer bat lately Been raised to the rank
on the part of Great &Raiff, in concert oith the
' High Allies—the slang phrase Of the Ministerial of
Maarsehail by
lionaliaerte' "lamina" of
his hating
Press. The Faction In England have beets blobs's% S6::tutPft-let; fa.nvotrolfintghe-11("rtsul.ltbletietits.n:iurircites cssfisn'tsi headed
the the blast of War, until their eheteks are ready to
r:eine ,sketch of
he the Disc d'Attpultones the Asti
•crack, and, strainieg on the Matt, they already his lift may not he onintereesing :—Grouchv is a
devour, in imagination, the rich prey which the fair (*oust of the ancient eetime_.,his sister ,t;,!, stifse ng
fields of France present. They gloat "el' the the celebratid Condnrcet.
smoking ruins of the Capital, and give evei.y milie- When the Retrolutinn
broke out, he was Sub-Lieutenant in the Klee.; body
rent to the free Government of Borreeeute to the guards. tdtored q his brrefair.irela u; les * ee•
gibbet. or to the stake. Still no declaration is corn- like him, beanie a violent pert isan of the Revolailon,
lag; and, we opprehend, that some time will elapse which procured him tepid prolbotion in lb • (Leases,.
before any shall !nave. In short, if the Reader will
ethiesainolinr,Yr(indrinwy.as employed i ening the Royalists in
please to consult the Parliamentary Notice which lie In 179 T. hebetense GeHend or pia
will find under the title of ' Private Correspondence,'
he will perceive, that to a question put by Alr. tia,nV:glieoe,g,• o,So,smbeitj,(:.tassargtferrerhteedn: ans.v.iltillitlitieleraeredi,,n,l4.
WHITBREAD relative to the issue of the Alenifesto, When the Etecutire Directory, in 1798,ivent an army
Lord CASTLEREAGH replied, that he could not give into Piedmont, :sellout any previous Declarntion of
en explicit answer—that the Declaration lied not yet
returned ratified from Vienna, and lie was not pre. %Vat', C en. (;touchy tommanded in chief, and art:.
tered ratio. A tea months after this, having Iwo
pared to say how long it might remain in the hands in the dreadful engagement fought between Mac.
ief the ` High Allies' before they should deem it pro-
donald and Su was row, en the Toner:, tie ose nutria
dent and polite to sanction it by their august signs. prisoner liy the Russians.
tures,
The fact seems to be, that there is considerable When Bonaparte became Consul, Grouchy having
tconfusion in the camp o': Agratnant. The parties shown sonic opposiiion to the usurpatiou, Hsi not
tio not appear to entertain sentiments of mutual re- employed for many years. Le 1805, howeser, he
ciprocity. Some of them prefer the chances even of was again taken into favour, and had a command in
!air entertain peace to the hazards of a certain war. the Gland Army in Germany. Ile was 'afterward*
—Austria thinks that site can add little to her al-
employed iii Spain, and was second in command on
ready extensive frontiers, by entering into a cru- the meinaral" "of M'Y' 1838'
side against her Son-in-law, though, doubtless, she We hear but very little more or him from that time
would wish him at the Devil, if a wish could pro- till the Russian campaign, in which lie was also
(duce a consummation so devoutly prayed for by all employed, as it 'presort by the 29th Bulletin, where
the good wives and gentle Tax-gatherers of Europe. lie commanded abet is there termed the'` Sacred
On the contrary, she has so often felt the power of Squadron," wader the orders of Aiurat ; and, aca
his arms, and he has quailed so often under the force
of his talents, that we doubt, now that she bas cording to the ,statement in that memorable Bul.
letitt, never lost sight of the Emperor. This stmt.
obtained every thing her heart could desire, in point dron was composed of six hundred men, all cells
of territory and aggrandizement, whether she would cers, and who were the only Mounted men at the con-
I like to risk the sudden destruction of those be. elusion of the retreat. Ile was afters a rda appointed a
I nefits, by exposing her dominions once more to the Colonel-General of Hussars, and was in almost alt
fortune of War. What can she gain by such a war ? the engagements up to the day of Bonaparte's Abe
Certainly not an acre of land, unless, indeed, she dication. On the restoration of Louis XVIII. he
and the High Allies succeed in dismembering France., was deprived of his commission of Colonels General
but of the facility of such a scheme some fair doubts of Hussars, which was transferred to the Due de
—slight ones, perheps—may be cherished in a few Berri, upon which Grouchy remonstrant], pleading
sceptical bosom. Now, what in case of a reverse, the King's promise'ef the cotifirmatiou of his rank
pis she likely to lose? Her Italian Provinces are in to each Officer. Violent words took place on this
a state rather unsatisfactory; and if Naroetos should occasion between Grouchy and the favourite, Maces,
send 50,000 or 60,000 men to the North of Italy, for which he was ordered into exile.
the present temper of the Italians, co-operating with
Joecloo, might, rob, her, altogether of the richest A few days hatk,Wiilism Whitineres of Stratford
gems in the Imperial Crown of Ffteects. t.
was driving a cart along the road when sue of the
It is not necessary to take a view of the other Ilford coaches was passing, and In endetvouting to
States ; the Reader will see the parallel himself, and arodwhich the poor man was throwp under the
lie will, doubtless, perceive, that every one of them
hones,s
might have much to lose in the event of hostilities, * when
the
wheels
passed over his hotly and I.
was killed on the *pot. A Coroner's inquest was
and nothing at all to gain. held on the body on Monday, and the Jury returned
That there is some hesitation in the Confederated
..,.,
a verdict of—Accidental Micah
Cabinet, and that the hesitation amounts to some- - ' ' s
A dreadful accident happened a few slays-op hi
thing bordering on indisposition, every circumstance
seems to indicate; particularly when we can sepa_ the vtcinity of Shadweil, at a suger.boiler's; the man
who was attending the hailer unfortunately .fellio,-
rate them from the passion with which they are sue- who
was so much scalded, although he ersta instntiori
Mantled, and from the error in which the London
taken out, es to linger in the most escroslatitik pile
Press endeavours to involve them. Asa specimen of
until yesterday morning, %hen he died in the greets*
this strange and rampant nonsense, we shall ex-agony at the London Hospital.
tract the commencement of an article in one of the
first, perhaps, in point of circulation and influence,t A CAUTION.—Orr Solidity evening, about eight
the very first Paper in England, we refer to the i o'clock, the house and shop of Mr. Thomas Chant,.
Times, of Wednesday last. The discreet and ele. ,' grocer, of the New Cut, Lambeth, were reload.
gent Editor begins his summary of the News in the , eusly broken into by means of a picklock key, by
following happy imitation of Bombastes Furies° : ; an elderly well dressed man, wearing a black coat
" Another Moniteur, totally barren of all intelli- ' and white stockings, in the view of a neighbouring
genre, at a time when the fate of the Rebel Govern.' shopkeeper, who was not well acquainted with the,
tnent, and especially of its bloody and perjured ; family (a young couple lately come to the house),
Chief, hangs trembling in the balance. This is good. i who had in the evening made anexcursiorrfrom home,.
This absolute sterility of fact proves that the impos. leaving no person in care of the house. Ott their
return they found their plate, one spoon *sly tors, who pretend to guide unhappy France, are
I eepted, together with all their mcrisey, and a goat'-
, a:-
even at a loss for falsehoods. The very printings
timbale of their politics stands still. ' Lying,' says
II thy of the shop goods taken away.
IM. Chateaubriand, io a Work which we hare had Accost:sr.—On Sunday last, the Dart opposition
the good fortune to peruse in manuscript, ' is rep.'
coach, from London to Woodford, was upset near
tarty organized by this pretended Government. It i Epping Forest, whereby several of the passengers
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lis an established part of their administration of af. i received severe bruises, and the coachman got his
fairs. They have lies calculated to serve a quarter leg broken.
,of an hour, others which will go, you an hour, others A hear, which has been kept for some time past in
a day, others a whole week !' It seems clear, that , the College, Edinburgh, broke loose from his colt.
the weekly and daily Napoleons are exhausted; and' &lemma on Friday, and endeavoured to make his
now the Rebels live, from hand to mouth, as we say, ' way over the paling into the street. As no person
opoe the small change of fiction, the hourly and fit'.' could be found hardy enough to secure the enraged
teen minute lies. But if they have nothing to re- l animal, it was found necessary to shoot him, and his
count, nothing to distort, nothing to invent, in the 'death was not accomplished tiil five or ail balls were
' shape of fact, what oan they stow rely on ? On lodged in his body.
hacknied declamations, and miserable appeals to a I A chicken was lately hatched in the vicinity of
patriotism, which, where yet it exists, must be their Glasgow without wings, and another of the same
bitterest enemy." I brood with two heads ; the latter died immediately,
This meek and reasonable man' who declaims so but the former is perfectly healthy.
grand.eloquently against hackuied declamations, and I Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated the
talks so learnedly against licentiousness of language, 17th of March :—" Congress have at length deter.
then proceeds to abuse CARROT, and the other mined to have a Navy—a Bill has passed tee Legit.
Members of the French Government. He then lature, appointing a Navy Board. Commsdorew
tells us that, 44 according to the observations of the Mee, BAINBRIDGE, and Rol:soca., it is expected,
most intelligent men lately returned from Paris, will he appointed Admirals, and put in commission.
titers is a total want of spirit in the Parisians, and a A very powerful force, ander the command of Core.
gloomy dissatisfaction very observable in the officers modore BAINERIDGE, is now fitting out for Algiers:
of the army. Both parties discuss political suejects it will consist of two new 74 gun ships, five frigates,
with freedom ; and the Citizens speak as openly in and 10 sloops of war. If I am not miatskee, the
favour of the King, as the Military do of their Chief. ' Algerines will roe the day elicit they provoke (
Distrust and doubt, however, are clearly depicted the vengeatice of nor tars. The Guerriere, under
in all countenances. It cannot be concealed that the command of MOROAK, sailed from this port
the vast military machine which Bonaparte once yesterday for New York, where she is to be joined
1 guided, and which was necessary to his glory, has by the Constellation and Java frigates, from the
now lost all its springs. Every means to rouse the Chesapeake, end the United Slates and Mc -
spirit, and to reader disposable the resources of the donian from Long Island Sound: these frigates, wish
Country, has been tried; and the number of con. six sloops of war, form the first division against Af-
flicting schemes that are going on together impede . giers, and it is said that 2000 of Baowries rifle v'-
each other's operation. Regulars, National Guards, ' terans will go with the squadron. The whole n -
Volunteers, Gensd'armes, Free Corps, all are tried ; ! tint* is decided for a navy; the Pennsylvania, a 74
even the corps of Mamelukes is re-organizing at' gen ship, will be launched at this place in the meek
Versailles. But, notwithstanding this vast parade of 'of May. Large quantities of limber are daily
force, it is the decided impression in France, that I brought down the Delaware and Schuylkill for olio
BooNeestrre is tot homme perdu. I building. It is no more extraordinary than tree,
It is surprising that such trash as this, repeated : with what dispatch their build ships of war la this
until the poor man who writes it believes in its truth, I country. The Peacock, of 18 guns, was to 't sir
should debauch the public mind of England—" the I Newbury Port, its 18 wnrkivg days ! The Wsso
most thinking People in the World." But so it is: I was built at New York, iii ttf'
with the experience of the last two months before I Commodore Ctiauecv's ll-
them—with the. Declaration of the Duke D'Ameou. Lake Ontario, took up one
LEM himself, who attributes the ruin of his cause to of her keel until she had it
the disloyalty of the country People, JOHN Curs, was ready for a cruize. It
most potently believes that NAPOLEON is indeed vn to have the frames of the
r the Atlantic."
Sinsne perdu..

GENERA!, GROUVIIY.

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