The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-21 00:00:00

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N4VAL INTELLIGENCE.

EXPEDITION 4O4INSI' Nrir ORLEANS.

sincerely wish oar frigates bearing our Treaty may
wafted• witti-the utmost quickness, and prevent
snips we cannot but- forboda. lis this projected
pedition to Now Orleans now consitutes a pointef .
thel i
reatest interest to the public, we shall at a fu-
ture time lay before our readers some further re- 1
marks upon it, for the present only adding, that if it 1
ha, been undertaken with no more local information i
then oar quondam attack on iluenos Ayres, and no 1
pre-concerted plan has been adopted congenial to the
state of the country, Ministers are answerable for its
results, as they are in the other points of the Ameri-
can war, for they have had a large scope, if they
had only known how to improve it, as will in all
probability be evinced in the approaching Session of,
Parliament.

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It is certainly curious to bear the various and con-
tradictory opinions which agitate the public respect-
ing the peace with forth America. F.tery body
seems to have his surmises, but, among all, se great
degree of anxiety reigns on the subject of our eape-
dition to the Missitsippi.
By this last accounts from the coast of America
and the West Indies, many persons are induced to
believe, that this expedition will have reached its.
destination before the signature of peace is known in
the quarter to which it' is bound, or at least that it
muse have taken ils final departure tram its general
rendezvous and plea be In Itskilddle passage. It is
natural that Goiernment' should hitte.sent out ad-
vices of so unexpecled.ati event as peace, in the first
place, by running down tire trade *winds, passing
by some of the West 'lndia islands in hopes the ex-
pedition still lingers, yid then in a direct route to •
Slit,—As small causes often produce great effects,
the Gulf of Mexico. The copy of the Treaty car-
ried Ey this conveyance, might reach New Orleans, an instance of which we have in the Mile-end Phi-
With good luck, in 45 ditys, which would possibly , lanthropic Society, I beg leave, through your meal-
Yesterday evening Mr. Siaw, the King's Messen- be as soon as 111 titlier conveyance reaches New ; respected Paper, to offer to the consideration of the
ger, was sent off with dispatches from the Foreign York, in consequence 'of the north-west winds pre-
`benevolent, the situation
.of the numerous Children
tblice, to Viscount CAsreettsaett, at Vienna ; eon. jailing en the coast of America at this season of the of the Charily Schools in and about this Metropolis,
siderable importance was attached to these dise'l year (barring all accid accomplishing the distribution of Bread to thoseents). . The Treaty, when ar. ; I'M'
patches; they were supposed to be in reply to dis.l rived in the United States; will,be submitted to the children on Sundays, which, in course 'of time, I
esicl•es brought by Mr. BROWN, the King's Mes- i President, and then to the Senate, and. in all the natter myself the funds would enable the little
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some time most be expected to elapse. If the Treat, :•nocents to carry home sufficient for them and their
ranger, a few days since.
• A change is said to be about to take place on. thelis ratified, fifteen days ere necessaittor its notificag. (I fear in many instances) almost famished 'parents.
nut:ober of children under that denomination
Bench of Judges in India. Sir %Vier-rem Boeotian., tion to reach New Odeon s We have theate cal. I The-
the Jailer Jere at Calcutta, having given in hie culate two good months, from the time the ltigates, ,amounts to about 10,000, which, at a moderate
sailed from ate calculation, reckoning six to a family, Including
eesignation, one of the Junior Judges from Madras bearing copies of the Treaty,
!lathes and mother, ,would give. bread to 60,000
will, it is understood, be sent up to succeed hits; , country, before the Mississippi expedition can sus-
of our distressed brethen, and what heartfelt sertis.
and Sir &ammo STANIAT will be promoted from the ! Petid its operations, since hostilities are to continue
faction it would give to see any of those children
Rerordershiaof Priure of Wales Island to the vaunt' till the ratification is effected, and by the last ac.'i
seat on the Madras Bench. - -•count% from the West Indies this expedition was este i carry home such seasonable relief.
We bete the satisfaction to state, that no defaulter ipectedte sail forthwith for its destination. The Treasurer of each School would, I should
has appeared on the Stock Exeltange,althongh yester. I . Sufficient grounds consequently exist for a two .suppose, readily receive any donations that the well-
day was settling day. It is true that all the accounts that the treops may even he previously landed, and • disposed might be inclined te give, and kee
of suchp en ac-
were not as usual dined, but it was becaase it was that the liostileparties may have come into some Con. i count,and appropriate the animal income mo-
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required that to a large amount the Contractors ' tact, of which,' all we have to hope is, that no re.l flies to that particular purpose and if the Trustees
should deliver the stock, instead of merely equalizing' salt may be anticipated at the city of 'ashington.— I
preached for that use, together with any gifts and le. It has been stated that S.> our Air, the Nabob of would he so kind as to have a iermon occasionally i • -
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the differences, as is customary in Lich engagements, I Whatever be the. Issue, however, it cannot fail to
and the situation has been such that the stock could ;strike even the suPerfreial observer, that our people gacies that might be made by the charitable and hu-, Oude, " has left between seventeen end eighteen
riot be procured before the termination of business. will act tinder every disildrantage. i mane, think it highly probable that funds may soon ! millions sterling of specie in his treasury. " 'There
As usual, after the settlement, the Public Funds ex- I New Orleans is a point exteriorly "needed eta: be furnished for the obtaining so desirable an end; is a dispute between his ' tieo sons about the woe,.
perienced some rise. • !no part of the United States, but by the navigation ' also if the Editors of the different publications Plea to nhis.tlerstne, in which.. Laid MQINA lit-tO
Irish lintels which, from the late political state of of the Mississippi, connected with some of now the , will favour its publicity ; and if any whoapproves arbitrate.; avid the Above 'ltittlense sties: ii11.1,11:10
Europe, had obtained a successful competition, cud most populous and most hardy States of the interior. : the plan will advocate the cause of those poor chit- ' said, ".be offered .to ' the Bast lota COtispee• y,
very much used in Spain, are, in consequence of the By this means, every thing west of the Allegheny dam, they will greatly promote the accomplishment %whose debts it would shnott pay off," No rat
enormous duties enacted, now precluded from the • mountains is connected with New Orleans, since ,of the work. is assigned why the East India Company 4.0614
SpauWineeket, the pressure falls heavier ewe' them ten days sail brings them together. The hardy nature' If this meets your approbation, you will much thus have their debts discharged : !Wipe property
than the •%, ()Wiens. It is a known fact, that the of these backwoods-men is will known, and by tee oblige me by its insertion. of the Nabob of ()One is to become t perquisite 6f
Spanish Government promised our Ambassador, returns of militia, communicated to the Senate in ' I am, Sir, your's respectfully, . I those who want it most, might' sot lie British' Mi.
about three months since, to form a new Tariff for 1806, Kentucky alone is stated to contain 15,567 , L Won, Jan. 40, 1815. A FR[O OTO THE POOR. • nisters at home as well supply themeell.ee 'Out o'f'
English manufactures ; it is possible this will be rides, and that arm is congenial to all the inhabitants.l ars I with a year's Income-tax, of which they stand .eit
mach in need? And while we are debitieloWlllSil
finished this day three years, if ever, and thus New Orleans, therefore, will be defended by the. 011 Sunday last,is St. Werburgli's Church, Dublin, -' m°
disposal of a property to which we have seoff*
France, in the interval, tempt the advantage. militia of the Western States, as well as its own, and the RI h tt
...get ..on..Lord Kt SGS LAND renounced tire doc. as.,
it may be but proper to bestow a thought litmte
A Correspondent reminds us, that in the case of that of Louisiana, Georgia, &c. since no diversion trines of the Church of Biome, and embraced the
Nutt, the swindler, who was convicted, the Recoe- 'is expected from the west, and all operations in the . , manner in which it .was acquired. The toles
R.efeeestel Christian Religion.
Inn judiciously observed—" he was too clever to .north have ceased from the rigour of the winter. says—" The Nabob of ouos, who has actually
died, as is stated, worth money enough its spede to
I Accioster —About six o'clock on Friday evening,
remain in this, country ;" and asks—ls that the reit. ; The attention of the Americans consequently can '
the Chatham and Brampton stage was overturned
son our Ministry remain where they are :2 ibe called to this single point, since in the rear aed to alp. .d discharge the debts of the East. India Company,
or
to supply Greta 'Britain with a year and a half's eu.
fps, e, as we understand, through the (Asti-
Very sangeine hopes are entertained behind the flanks they have nothing to dread, not eveOffeet tkit z a coal.waggon,
thf by which
o a wod. come Tax, is that same poor Prince whom Lord
scenes, from Miss KELLY'S rehearsal of Juliet. The Indian tribes, who now begin to alienate themsetveitS "-el °witted/tall
trohewn horses;
the
killed,
ahn .
strong and favourable impression lately made by from our Interests. Can our Abject be to-labels* i are itter, faettc•l ' wasw
hleeseds
.beggary,
Weeetsesw was said to have reduced to such remedi-
ttiahtoisfi:etomhceede,tulsedhhneeenvseisomo.oTzAthartnir.ldeencop his
'another Lady in that character, renders the under• destroy or retain New Orleans, if eapterid? ' • Te_ fatting n. was
• liege of them trampling,on its head. The mother ways
Wit, eamweejebraised s- ea - was a mane also an the g„er
teeing, at this time peculiarly arduous. The real toww, as wee Readers 041 kaww,-is-situatedscua -- ' - •Thoeet
er that
admirers of the drama will, however, anxiously en. east bank of the Mississippi, which mile admits f
t outside passenger.
courage talent, without suffering themselves to be in. feet water, but the bar prevents even the_ on. I !.great distreas ; and it is under the arrang6lllolllol'
A ludicrous teeceretemee took place here on Thom. ,
Ileenced either by prepossession or prejudice. trance of frigates, unless their guns are landed. Our I the Marquis Weeeeseew that he has risen to .
in the hanging of one Baronet in effigy, %potence." _, , _
'Miss O'NEILL% engagement at Covent-garden attack must, consequently, be effected in boats.— I day morning •
. in mistake for another. The •
authors of the mock i
Theatre has only been concluded within these few From Fort Belize up to the Detour des Anglo'', al ' • There are two more reghielts . t, or of
-*AA - • lis
days.—We understand it is for three years, at 151. distance by the river of 80 miles, nothing is seen execution meant by it, to express their disapproba- point of being Tainted,. which will sOes ant fel' fie
tion of any alteration in the Corn Lowe; but not
a week for the two first years, commencing with the but low marshes, generally overflowed, with inter- number of distinguished military" che lethere, et i.
much in the habit, we suppose, of reading Reports of
prevent season ; and 301. g neck for the last year. . veuing thickets to be feared as ambushes. The cote nounced-nn Tuesday tektite had intertiews with U.
Parliamentary proceedings, they placarded the figure , Duke of Yoke.
A'n official letter has been published, explaining rent in spring runs equal to five and six knots an
the intention of the Lords of the Privy Council, nith hour, but in Autumn considerably less, the bed et, (wbich was suspended in the course of the preceding . A considerable reduction has eirekdy, bette tarried
sight, from one of tlie windows in the house some into effect in the edablishment of the Adjiitant.eirti-
regard to the early restoration of the American trade, the river being then shallow. At the Detour des,
years ago burned, opposite the Exchange) with a
but it has been asserted very currently in the mer- ' Anglois, the river forms a large circle, and on Mat neral's Office, nod arrangements are made Ir. ie
name evidently not intended, although the name of speedy confeemity. to the peace ,effectire. in
candle circles that this letter concedes nothing which side there are forts bounded on one side by swamps,
a Parliamentary Baronet. The populace in the other depertieeeis connected with, the army die e _a
is not a necessary consequence of the approaching and on the other by the river, so as not to be acces-1
termination of hostilities with the United States. On Bible on foot. From this New Orleans is 20 miles evening vented their indignation, by dragging the reduationsrare meditated. Two troops-more of ei ,
There was
figure through all the streets. no meeting regiment of cavalry are to be reduced,and all tthhee
the contrary, it convertt into a certainty, as to the ac- distant.
celeration of the intercourse, what would only be a i New Orleans being an island, is also acceessibleir St ' on the subject of theadditional
held. et this town on Thursday, . battalions (tribe Infatitreeregiments, with
(-Corn Laws, although one was called for that day by the exception ;Nile royals, the 110th,and 9
• matter of supposition or presumption; it saves the water through the river Iberville, which fails into .9. 6th, as
the Sheriff, in consequence of a requisition to them. soon as the ratification of the Treaty orGhint tall
duty of five percent. to which cargoes destined to Ber- ; the Mississippi, about 32 leagues above the city of here is violently against
The outcry of the populace be received from America. The regimentsserving
. muds, Nava Scotia, and New Brunswick would other. n New Orleans. From the sea you enter by !Ake
any change. in the laws as they stand atpresent.—
wise be limitle ; it urther excuses the party concerned Pontchartrain, which forms abite between Pensacola i abroad . are to_ bare devil commies, for, rectifies
(Galway Chronicle.) • recruits. ,
from a charge needy equal to five per cent. for unload- and New Orleans, through the pass of Massiae. The
ing, landing, and re-embai kingthe commodities which course is then through Lake Maurepas into thariver '` atio i . 151441411
DARING Roseznar.—On Saturday night, between ; The West India ee sat rota Gor en , r.
are intended for the AntericJii markets; and lastly, it Amit, and into the Iberville, which joins the Mil- tea and eleven o'clock, as a servant girl, belonging , A cause is said to he bet*. the Court- of Sessions
gives the assurance oughtvoys to protect the navigation. sissippl. From the shallowness of the Iberville, vet- Ilea house in Bridge-street, Westminster, was clean- in Scotland, of a very interesting, mew, in which a
The promtitudee sou by the licences, which had eels of only six feet go (tan go through, and all the in- ing the hall floor with the hall door open, three men young lady &arra her 111100 with moping her right
been applied for with so much importunity, will thus; ter vetting country is a thicket. walked into the house ; one of them seized the girl .to her paternal property for the rp4 of 18 years,
be acquired without the infraction of any public! Lake Pontchartrain again communicates with New to prevent her giving an alarm, while the other pro- during her minority. ,- rI u . . •
seeded to the staircase, took away the lamp, and re-
principle, as the news of the confirmation of the I Orleans by the creek of St. John, which comes into S.sint A TUANASIUS.=••nOrn 11111pe.• of owe of the
Treaty by the American Executive Power will reach I the Mississippi near the city. Thereon consequently treated out of the house, being, as it is supposed, Judges ,rot long since on the Watibre Circuit. The
aware that there. was somebody in a back 'sitting-
the three situations above referred to, as soon as any : three ways of getting to New Orleans, and it is a very late Chaplain of the Archbishop of Caatirbury, having
ship to be laden in British ports will be enabled to curious question, which will be the channel of markt- room, from a light which appeared through a small some time since been presented tea :Benefice, hap.
arrive on the coasts. There huh been much misre- tack, it case this is made. • 'window of it. The girl, upon being released, fol. petted to be in eiMpany with Sir B. D. and was
presentation with respect to the Treaty itself, by By die Report of the American Secretary at Was owed the man with the lamp, who, finding her close toinplaining how numerous he roma the sectaries to
including subjects and conditions in it, respecting , laid before the Senate, Dec. 1807, the project for the behind him, threw it over the bridge into the Thames, be in the parish Which he served; be menkioned
which there la no stipulation nor any reference what- defence of New Orleans was as follows : f Aid all three made their escape. 'A person home- different descriptions of them, tend stated the vett-
diately after went to look for the watchman stationed
eter. There are only two matters reserved; the " New Orleans will require the erection and orsee. ens methods he had' resorted to, with the hope of
one is the road from St. John's to Montreal, through pletion of the works heretofore contemplated, and on the bridge, soil found him seated. on one of the prevailing on them to attend Divine Service In their
The girl described t' we men as •
A distance ofabout 400 miles, which will intersect 30 ,now in a state of progress, viz. a strong work, at mew" hit asleep. parish-church. At last be found a set of avowed
somewhat above the middle size, with great coats on, _
• -or 40 leagues of the province of Maine ; and the only 1 Plaguesmines on the site of the present battery; a Antinomians spring op in :his neighbourhood, with
and said that the man whom she followed used the
-resolve with regard to th's is the compensation to the , battery at the English torn (Detour des Anglois),whom no argument or perseasion was of the small-
horrid imprecations, upon Gliding herpursuing
United States for the privileges of road-way, which 1 about 20 miles below New Orleans, with barracks I most est avail, and: who acting up to their prieciples,
'is to be adjusted by Commissioners ; the other is the ' and a battery and block-house at the mouth of Bayou! him. •
I • were spreading corruption and vice in every quarter;
possession of Moose Islands so named from a descrie. St. John, on the, margin of Lake Pontchartain.". EITRAoaDINAIIT ESCAPL—A daring fellow,
.of provoked et their. conduct, and dreading the most
lion of deer with which it formerly abounded ; with —These, with a given.number of gun-boats, intend. Dame of Denis Sweeney, made his escape on Mon. !Kneel. effects from the coutaming infitmece of
respect to this Commissioners are to be employed to tad .
to act on the Mississippi and the St. John, et I day se'nuight from the Infirmary at Cashel, in Ire- these people, he bit upon an admirable expedient
determine the latitude, in order to discover whether the lberville, are what the Ameriteuts had prepared I land, where he was taken after his apprehension, for diking dm whole set of them out Of tittepariali.
the portion of Passamaquady Bay, in which it is si- up to 1807. lin consequence of a cut from a sword en his heed, ! -e-Iltrat one and the same moment served every
tuated, is, according to the limits of the former The attack on New Orleans, from its distance from and a stab from a bayonet in his knee, before
himhe one of them, and .them only, With at notice home-
Treaty, within the line of demarcation appertain- any point . , .
of debarkation the difficulty of the inter. would surrender. The surgeon who attended (Natty to pay ikeii.Viiket in kind. Every mother.,
log to Great Britain or the United States. —Ac. veiling country, its unhealthiness, of which we have i was of opinion, that, in consequence of his wawa, child of them dettenut of the parish, as Est as they
in our history fatal experience, must therefore be ex. be could not survive. In the room in which he lay could get rid of their estates, and ire
.very short
cording to their determination this country is either _
d.B. .
to surrender it, or to retain the permanent occupation posted to meet with great t i ,
culues as it May sea- • two soldiers were placed near his bed, as guards ; lime not a single fl,nlisiontlint waste befletted amotig
sonably be expected, that no preconcerted scheme of these he contrived to make drank, and then lifting •, his.tiock. Qh! exclaimed the Judge, what a pity it
of it. •
of annoyance has been formed with the Indians, or any up the window, which was on the third story orthe was that mint isetweestui had not done the ssme!!
The following are stated to he the cantonments d t
ed to awaken the prejudices of the ori.l Infirmary, he leaped across a space of mere than ; About theekweekt ago a brickliyer sold a woman
our troops .in Belgium.—lst Guards, at Brussels; mieanisaop .
'lath Foot, at Bruges; 27th, 30th, and 31st, at gna inhabitants, .
respecting their late mercenary : seven feet, to a ladder which was placed against an at the New. Gross, Kent-road, with whom hs• had
and 50th at Ypres, transfer to the Americans. If the plan of the as pe. opposite house, the roof of which was repairing, anti cohabited for *wee length of time, to 'a journeyman
Antwerp; 33d, at !Benin ; 52d ,
by the didn't has been to revive the rights of Spain to foul- got clearly off. . baker for a
.21. Bank of England note and sly el-
and the latter corps is replaced at Courtray
The shine and to sever the Western States from the kt. An elegant sew stone bridge is immediately to be lons of beet. The baker, after bie peroitseelettok
73d : Rest, at Antwerp ; 95th, at Dicktmidt. .
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' e Ist Light !antic ones, which even NVashington said hung Only I built over the -river Suir, at Cork, which, exclusive her to hit lodging' at Greenwich, where ceortly after
Germans aloes garrison Tourney. The I
d the 2d at by a thread, we cannot but express our fears that MI- had the (Did festoon to rec he a te,,te7 f i
of the general convenience, will prove highly tuna- she g r 7tX I.
Dragoons of that Legion are at Mona, an , h
' Infantry tohave not had sufficiently large ideas to execute mental to that city; it is to be named .Nelson-bridge, left herby her decetteed Itrother,who resitl in Black -
Tourney. The [hissers and the remaining _
such a plan, ,pat if the object is merely for New in memory of tha eser-to•be•lamented Admiral Lord man-street, Boroeght end on Thursday le'nnight the
are stationed at Ghent, Brussels, Tourney, Ypres, parties were married.
Bruges, tied Ostend.
.Orleans to share the fate of Washington city, we Nelson. .
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DEU, JAN. W.—Arrived and sailed for the River,
Furbes, Searlett, from Bengal.—Sailed the brig
i a, Key, from Cork, for London.—Remain his
jesty's ship gombay, and Argus Deal pilot
fitter.

Miss WALsTri ffr performed the part of Ludy
lea, in fituftrat's comedy of "Alt in The Wrong,"

last night. The talent of this actress appears to
have turned With more effectio Corned,. than tragedy
share her appearance on the London boards; and
as a comedian she has • undoubtedly exhibited
powers which must make her place not easily sups
plied. Her skill in .the other and highei depttrtment
of the drama has, however, not been sithjetted to
a fair test ; and st bile Miss W.u.sTsts was uturied
in the mare impressive parts of tragedy, we have no
right to bring the lifeless length of Crtlisin iutd Jane
Shore in judgment against her. But her acting its
comedy has its peculiar merits : she hes•the air and
attitude of a genteel woman ; her smilti though
its predominant spirit is tragic, possesses occasion*
ally en arch sweetness, which conveys the iotttiment
more touchingly than words, and her action is not
seldom adapted with equal &ciente and rigour.—
i With such qualities, we most regret her der/artists
front the Metropolitan Theatre, and feel gratitiedlige:
any arrangement which -accelerates her retses.+.4lol;
W !ATLI N'S Lady Restless is a graceful
tion, animated ind finished in wo common littfeer*--
Perhaps a mom judicious Choice would have girei
her the various interest and anxious ctwiuetry 4s
Belinda. The characters wouttl have been welt
changed, and 'Mrs. (;Lovetr- would certainly hare
been more adapted for the jealous wife than tho
maiden mistress: but the play was altogether woit
performed, and some of the scenes esceedinglyst.
° tractive. Extarrox has not yet contrite& tb wean
himself of his propensity to whining. His concep-
tion of impressive *detivery appears-lobe that of ler-
Pe language tual anhelation, the pause of laauagr set et dU
-
1 fiance by a prolonged hum of voice, ind the Wiles;
of the part absorbed in the distress of tie
This ought to find its cure in Mr. Et.ustosielse,l
sense, before it awakes bite in its inroads is tti.A
1. popularity."

PONTSNONTII, JAN. 20.--Arrived the Mitletoe
Aer, from Plymouth ; and Resalotion, lodge-
r'', from London, with deals:—His Majesty's ship
Warrior, for the West Indies, is the only convoy at
present.
PLYMOUTII, JAR. lg.—Arrived the Swedish brig
Lacks, Dormer,•from Malaga to Lisbon.
FALstouvir, JAN. 18.—Arrlied his Majesty's brig
gigs, from a croize ; and Hero, Jenkins, from
Bristol, for Messina.— Sailed the Aso iirolisero,
Knight, for Plymouth. •

To THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.

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