The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-04-28 00:00:00

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he pleases. Here is the
goo for a great diplomatic

enna!! What can our tout*
to allow their Minktere to

ticians to 11l such import'
is not the quality of the
this trying, this arduous moment. But it is nee
the same thing in. our home measures. If a great
deal be lost abroad for want of true British spiritin
diplomacy ; the rest is ruined at home by a base po-
licy in those with wkom every thing appertaining
to the fortune of our empire now unhappily de‘
pends. Men who seem only fitted by thi:ir sts.-
natures to follow the misconceived determina-
tions of ()NEI without the honeity and spirit to
endeavour (as their duty should direct them) to
set the matter right, but with the rashness to in-
cur the censure of ALL the iest. In this "light we
' view the conduct of the SzcsurrAnY of S:t'ktr., on
whose deportment, with respect to the City's Ad-
dress, we animadverted upon the other day. We
I are glad to see this subject taken up by the Times in
a manner so becoming an organ of the-British peOpte;
it is done in a way so congenial to our own feelings,
that we think it due to the writer to blend his senti-
ments with our own. They are as follow :-
44 The public., who did not appear to hai2 sn9l-.1
ciently adverted St first' to the circumstance of
Stratteurn's keeping the Address of the Livery on tite...
PRINCESS'S acquittal, out of the Gazette, now turn
their eyes to that most remarkable circumstance,
with a zeal proportioned to their former inattention.
Never was the Par,icz REGENT involved, in all;
way, in the late atrocious. proceedings, till this mo.
meat, when we have an official servant of his. Royal
Highness's publicly declaring, that he thought it his
duty to smother the testimonies in behalf of his Mas-
ter's consort. Of all the indiscretions that were ever
committed, none, sure, was ever equal to this, Where
the matter will end, we know not.; but the country
will, we suppose, now feel it their duty to addresshis
Royal Highness himself on the innocence of his wife,
That there may be no,ltistake in this important
matter, we.slol again insert the most remarkable
passage in Lord St emouzn's Letter .to the City RE•
DIEMBRANCER. His Lordship says,—' In the exercise
of the discretion :chick belongs to my official situation,
I do not think it proper to cause the Address and
Answer to be inserted in the London Gaz:ctie.' Flis
Lordship, therefore, refers the act of keeping back the
homage of the City of London to the innocence of
the Princess of WALES, to his supposed duty as a
servant of the.PRINCE her husband. The country,
we should think, must unite with the PRINCE him-
self in repelling so odious an insinuation. It can
be no duty of a servant of his Ito, al Hightksa—
it can belong to no official .situntien held by a
person under him, to stifle the evidence of public
conviction in favour of his wife : the suggestion is
horrible."

Can we then again help asking how long such a
system is to last? Must it *be till the enemy. h•ns a
foot on our soil ? for this is the most certain and in-
evitable way to invite him to the hazardous attempt.
Reform—Reform—Reform—why art thou so Long
coming ?

We have this day inserted a letter front our new
Correspondent in Welbeck-street, and shall take
this opportunity of complying with his request, by
answering the questions he has put to us; we shall
also endeavour to clear ourselves from the charges of
disaffection,. arising out of our political conduct.—
We might, indeed, in reply to such an accusation,
with great truth, employ the emphatic language of the
Lord Chief Justice of England on a recent occasion.
The numerous persecutions which we have a-
lready endured, and others which may yet be
inflicted, by the strong arm of power, • will
never induce us to join the ranks of the enemy,
nor to abandon the interests of our country.
In the first place we shall enter a plea of Nor GUILTY
, to the suspicions entertained of our supporting Jaco-
binical principles, either in England or in France;'
and the Friends of Reform need not be terrified on
that account nor betake themselves to the faithless
sososts of MINISTERS, but may join again the standard
of reform. We, however, believe that many of these
preudo.p.ATarars and REFORMERS have joined the
' Ministerial ranks from very different motives, el-
though we mean no insinuation of any kind to our
new Correspondent.
i We have not felt, and are not conscious of show.
ing any partiality for BONAPARTE) except being
forced to admire his transcendent talents, which
have been frequently spoken of by the first staees-
F men of the age, and which every impartial judge
must allow him to possess. The termination bf his
late disastrous campaign in Russia may, in the'eyes
of some, have created doubts of his capacity for.
foresight, and broken the charm of his invincibility;
' but until we are endowed with supernatural powers,
iit will not fall within our reach to draw any
such conclusion. If the BURNING of Moscow
should have the effect of overturning the GIGANTIC
POWER of France, the sacrifice, great as it was, will
not have been made in vain; but if, Fontrary to
our wishes, the ensuing campaign should until.-
' tunately terminate in favour of BONAPARTE (and
who can pretend to Arm it will not), what
Compensation can be made to the Emperor of
RUSSIA, and to his subjects, for the loss of his ancient
, and noble metropolitan city. If advocating the'
cause of ruocx be deemed a. crime, we must plead
(Wily to the %thew land himoyef id fosse the for.

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wish that Tyrants eileviiry description'alsir.Asew"liolleptia' accompanied
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from the thee' Of the w& 'lt is not in Fiasco alonebe r.
THE tors) under which was
that We 'may look for acts' of tyranny, they mayls owe in the
found much nearer home, and so ton( u many in. TO L Iv his house
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dividuals hi England are- suffeilng .the ;Wm, yen:
roue() of the law, for only ven id offences',
: CASTLEREAGH
REGENT,,ysterday paid
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confine our censure to certain acts of cruelty wineFcarrncet
alone. On the inconsistency which our Correspondent
long Interview
eno ne
at Carlton-honse. -- RECENT,
imputed to 0, for animadverting with so much warmth I tisk Senior
on whatever appears to us to be misconduct on the I England'ueonSu
''conduct
one own Government, whilst 'we condemn the :morning visits to the Prune
the Earl
ro ,ullicie Ton;
yßSqTaladte,lad a
levee at
his
!with the Duke of Yoar. at his office in th
conouct of. others who lavish abuse on the cha- il Royal
meter
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teeter of Bonaraare, who commits many crimes, 1
I perhaps still more enormous and detestable, we have
.YYtelstteeirddialYy
only to tendril that to watch over the conduct of 1 Guards.
our own Government is our particular province and . office which was attended by the Duke of C
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imperative, duty, as üblic Journalists; that in the I LAND, on his leaving Engler 1
HUTCHINSON, on his
going to Malta; General Ilis-
proCeedings of the Br ish Government the people of ' , Brigadier-General
this ' country have much deeper interest than LOP, on his return to England, on his parole of ho.
they can possibly: hue in the proceedings of ' sour, &c.
`any other ; and- that directing our labours min- orTissloScoetshw_akr Address to her Royal Highness
sively, with a view to 'general utility, we can gee...mouse:l Blackheath,or WAL,s will bepresooted at Monta-
on 'Friday, the 30th inst.
conceive many important advantagls to be the lat one o'clock.
probable result of free and vigorous censure The Duke of CUMBERLAND is expected to proceed
on the errors or crimes of our own Govern- lin the Nymphen frigate, Capt. ILtecoca, from Yar-
mouth to Cuxhaven.
meat, whilst we are unable to imagine that any The King of DENMARK has signified 'officially to
good effects can possibly arise from loading that of i the Prince of E e
t cemnt., that as no military road
any other country with obloquy or scurrility. It is 'passes throughllamburgh and that part of Germany,
surely not to be doubted, that the most ellectual l'the French troops having once abandoned the right
means which can be pursued, •in order to redress anz • bank of Elbe, can have no reason for returning
existing abuse, is to impress generally upon a the Ito it, unless to take revenge on Haraburgh for what
has lately happened there; that he (the King) has,
public mind a conviction of its enormity ; it Is surto !
however, too much friendship for the Hauseatics ever
ly not to be doubted, that in order to render to suffer them to be so treated; that he has' there-
the governing powers of any country cautious ad; fore, a body of 12,000 men ready, at the first request
timid in their attacks upon public liberty, no other ler the Senate of Hamborgh, to cove; the right bank
method can be successfully pursued than to exciter of the Elbe, and oppose ail attempts of the French
oirecross that river, and he shall authorise. Mr.
Rrr his the people to a vigilant, active, jealous, and perpe,j Charge d'Affaires, to communicate this to
that scrutiny into the whole course of their proced-
' the Senate.
ings. This is surely a 'sufficient defence of our Ire- i The murder of the Citizens of Bremen, so auda.
quent but just animadversions on our own Govern- cloudy avowed by the French Government, must be
meat ; but let us ask, can any thing of thislkind be , answered by retaliation; and to make it effectual,
as well is to spare the unnecessary effusion-of blood,
alleged in favour of those the who • continually+ attack ' .
i •
~.highest prisoners taken n arms ought to be
the Government of any other couptryl—can It for a chosen as the instruments of example ; for it is only
moment be supposed, that by arousing the-indigna- . by making the Commanders of troops sensible of the
tion of the people of England against the error- ! danger which they will personally incur by executing
mities of the French Ruler, we shall be ena- these inhuman orders, that we can expect a stop to
bled to moderate his ambition, or to restrain and !be put to the practice.
I The Hamburgh letters bring a report of two engageg
regulate his conduct ? The plain fact is, that
•; tents having taken place on the 13th, between the
by abusing the Government of any other country> Russians and Prussians, and the French, commanded
we could not possibly do any good, but we should be Beauasauors, at Niemburg and liiedentz, on
be certain to produce, at least, thesis two evil effects:, the Seale. Three thousand French are said to have
—lst, We should divert the attention of the public, been driven into tee Saab and drowned, and upwards
of 70Q prisoners taken, including, according to some
in part, from the abuses which exist in their own go- -
-.---- • • - , reports, BEAUHARNOIS himself. The details, low,
vernment, and which appear to Ukto be of sufficient ever,t not given in any 'authentic shape, 110t4 '
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malgnitude and importance exclusively to ,occupy we&re
attached to them.
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1 their attention ; and 2d, We should engeinter, or•it ' Looms's, Annul 27.—The Lords Commssioners
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least prolong, that spirit of hostility towards tbei of the Admiralty are been pleased to inform the
! foreign power, in the minds of the people of which ; Committee, that they have given directions to their
Solicitor-to prosecute the Masters of the following
we seriously apprehend that any ministry, formed;
. ships, for funning away from his Majesty's ship
during the continuance of the present system, would : cherub, between the 9th and 15th Jan. last, via :
be very likely to avail themselves, in order to perpe- Warrior, J. Youd, from Liverpool to Pfrnambu-
: tuate the horrors of. war, whichi however appalling !co ; Indelatigabk, G. Best, from ditto to ditto ;
• npartial,l Jane, R. Moffatt, Worn Greenock to Buenos Ayres
they may be to every well-constituted and ii ,
administration, ! Jefferson, R.! Burns, from Milford to the South
mind, are rendered tolerable to an as ~eas.
i.they are accompanied by an immense augmentation of 1 '
The Aurora ran from the convoy on the 9th Jan.
; the profits and the patronage of official elevation. I and was taken the following day by the American
I We do not believe that the French, in general, I privateer Holkar.
'have been more miserable since the Revolution than 1 The Duke of CUMBERLAND'S sixteen horses, we
`they n the contrary, we think that i
were before; o
the great majority of the people have been benefitted in i
t understand, were sold on Monday for thirteen hun-
dred and three guineas. Yesterday his Royal High.
ness dined with the PRINCE REGENT ; which was
many ways by the change—witness the abolition of ! understood to be a farewell dinner. He took leave
the feudal and degrading system, which made every of the Query and the Princesses, at the celebration
; holder of land, a seignorial petty despot—the of the Princess MARY'S birth-day.
I suppression of monasteries and repartition of - The Leicestershire sh
one-fifth part of the whole kingdom in the hands eep are said to have suffered
b d. It 's
less by the late rot than any other ree f _ i a
! well know fact, that Baknwell, the first founder of
.of idle Monks and Priests—the ruinous and partial •tt
the new Leieesters, let his first tup to a Mr. Wilson,
I exemptions of the Privileged Orders, &c. all which
of Illston-on.the-Hill, for 16s. and a
short time before
1 reforms and ameliorations in the Government, gave his death hired out ogle the some stock for 400
every Frenchman a title as a sharer, or part owner,, guineas ! , ..
Commissioners for roads and bridges in the
of his. country, anti • oseitea hint to -tiyat num- - The
• h Highlands of Scotland hate resolved on erecting a
ampled display or enthusiasm which has astonish-`f -,1 .
I mound across the Little ferry, in the county of
ed all the world!!! Under these considerationv
1 Sutherland, and the work will speedily be con).
then, what Philanthropist, or even what ordinary') 1 menced. This undertaking, in addition to the irgu
*mind,' conscious of the force of example, could; bridge 4t Boner, will complete the commueication by
wish to see the reign of the BOURBONS restored ?i . land from John.o'Groa.ts to the Land's End of Eng.
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We consider BONAPARTE'S title to the
.Threne'vef laud. -
France, just as good es that of any other ciOn-
queror f and that title hiving been folly sanctionAl
! by the French Nation, we cannot compare the pro.
ceedings to that of a robber and plunderer.; havint
moreover, on oar parts, no right to interfere yitb the
Government of smother independent nation..
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The Attires, of the City of Westminster to the
Princess' of Waits, is as ' spirited as her Royal
Highness's Answer is becoming in an unassuming
Lady. We cannot help smiling, however, la a cer- ,
lain passage in the Address, under the idea that the
ATTORZINT-GENZRAL, no, not the 'AvzonmeY, bet
rather as the more fit person, dhe SQPICITOR-GEME-
RAL, may prosecute the whole City of .Westminster
for libel—remeinbering, as we .do, the doctrine, of
the Bench on which Lord MANSFIELD so long sat,,
that the greater the truth tip greater the libel !
. 7.11100.--
At twelve o'clock this morning, the Lord Mayor,
attended by the Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Common
Council or the city London,prnceecled from Guild-
-110 ilitit Site ifiltigress! ' voted by the Coe•rt of

WINING MATCH.
Friday, the 234 inst. the battle between Belcher
and Pecker-0 was decided at the Curragh, Ireland,
After the assemblage of .4 CONCOUrS6 of thousands ;
after a suspense
,naterAlly impressive, the combat

took place. •
For thirty-one minutes the fight lasted, during
which time, so short, yet so spiritedly employed
twenty-seven rounds were fought.
Dockerty was pusionate, Belt/her, on the con-
trary, cool; pluck was shown on both sides.
•Every blow of 13elcher's told: he did not fail, is
fact, in a single blow. Belcher's• bits were mostly,
if not all, well planted; and in the faoe. Net
one was guarded by Dockerty, who Na severely
punished.
The fight closed ; Dockerty being, after a hard
milling, left senseless on the field, and Belcher win.?
ner of the parse.
Net the slightest ininry was received by the con-
;serer, estept a mere 4oratch over the nose it 414
not bleed.
With tbe characteristic feeling of Irlsitmen, a pens
''of niriety pounds was made. for the detested r•silist•
The first blow of Pasher drew blued,

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