The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-07 00:00:00

The language of Mr. Rose is, in fact, a plain
admission, that Great Britain is unable to cope
with the gigantic powNt of IslArtor.tom ; and as the
consummate vanity of Ministers will not allow them
to acknowledge their errors and inability to contend
with so powerful a rival, we may now consider the
fall of the country as inetitahle. The Ministerial
sournals are daily asserting, that Ameiica cannt,, go
to war with us, because she could not exist without
the products of our colonies and our manulictures,—
I But they held out the same prospect of the ruin of
France,
,in consequence of our Orders in Council;
and yet Fratice is as great, if not greater, at this
moment, than ever she, was at any period of her hi:.
tory. We are, besides, assured by a Gentletutn.,
who lately left America, that the mall ufactories t
I United *tatos have increased to such a degrce as
rendoetbeot almost independent orus for supplies. 111
New. York alone, they have manufactured and diva:.
ed of goods to the amount of eleven millions since tltrt
j non.intereonrse with Great Britain. In the four New
• England States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Rh.de bland, and Connecticut, containing a ropu.
; lotion of more than two millions, manufactories lar.)
so increased during to same period,that upwards of
II 300,000 bags of ectton hate been wrought into
cloth and cold. The importation from Spain of wool
or the-Merino sheep has likewise been immenseduriht
the last four years, sriad theAmericau Tenets which cuu.
ire! Sour and graip to the Peninsula, .tease lately
! ported to .the Vidted States the sheep themselvea,
where they thrive- exceeding well. Instead, there.
fore, of a war with this country proving injuriow
Ito America, she wtil have to thsok the authors of it
for rendering her,a great manufacturing nation ; and,
when peace tykes place, there is every Asian to feat
that Great Britain, already shut out of one mut.
neat, will be excluded the ether also, as the peoph:
of the United States play Om, say that they, eau de
I without us.

Some letters have bean received from France,
which mention a new project of BOY A PACTE. It is
said, flit in Order to preserve the peace of she Con.
tinent, and for the mutual security of its Sort:reigns,
ender any insurrection of their vassals, a Grand
I Army is to he formed, composed of 5 or 1500,000
men, to which each of the kingdoms is to sapply its
contingent. At the head of this vast accumulation
of force is to be NAPOLEON himself, while the. Up
perors of RUSSIA and AV•PERIA, the Kinga of Pats.
OA, SAXONY, %Vt.: ammeußG, and BAVARL serve
under him, haring the command of their respective
subjects enlisted on this service. Whether the tons
quest of England be one o$ the purposes Which
this alliance is to aecompllsh, has net been esplaieed.
II The last accounts from Teneriffe furnished infer,.
motion of tho.lluke um, PA RQUE baling refused to
give up the command of the army to the newly...lp-
pointed Commander General L. BArti.t, who ha 4
arrived at the Island for that purpose. dy fresh io.
telligence from Santa Cruz, it appears that (ha Duke
has placed•st cordon of .troops so as to prevent out
part of the town from communicating4with the other.
' In the end, the Cabildo of Laguna took .the cum.
mood from the Duke, and gave it to General 1.4
PAREA. The twiner, however, engaged in new plans
to regsin the com-maud of the Island, when the tov.t.
of Laguna petitioned the General to arrest him ; and
on the departure of the last ascoantrffie Duke writ
eetifi.ned, to his house by a guard of two Officers and
30 privates, and in a day or two he was to be ba
banished frola the itilaud.

This day the lipase of Commons will meet for tho
dispatch of business, isrter the Easter Fecefis, and the
House of Peers to-morrow. On Thursday next the
Catholic Question will be debated ih the Upper
.blouse, on the Motion of the F.all of DoNgositT
masa. .

[. There aril Some deck rumours of polities' canvass-
ing for votes against the Roman Catholic Qtestion,
by a certain Itlustricms Person, not quite cOnsisteat
with the declaratio..., that every Member wes 'to he
-left to himself upon it.
Yesterday there masa Meeting of Irish Noblamer,
and Gentlemen et the Tbetched-house Tavern, to rc•
ceive the Report of the Committee to whom the Yeti-
! tions in favour of Lke Catholic Claims were entrustel.
The PetititMs were banded in, which were signed by a
number of the .most respectable persons connecteJ
with Ireland by birth and property; It was under-
stoOd thkt the Petition to the fiords was to be pre.?
seated by theSlarquis of I...trisoOseNe, and that. to
the Comnions by Mr. Per/pony.
We understand' that the Roman Catholics are de-
*pus that their Petir.tou and the Petition of the Pro-
testants in their favour, should be presented to t:lc,
PRINCE Itrotsv before the question of their Claim,
1.'411 be brought forward in Palliament.
• The Catholic Delegates aud their Secretary, En-
:waist, ILtvg, Esq.. were to sail from Dublin on Ft' -‘
t
I day for Fngland.
- The second battalion of the First. Regiment of
Guards are under orders for Poitagal, consisting cf
1100 effective men.
kis a melancholy fact, that at this time nearly
fourteen hundred weavers are totally oat of employ
in Spitalkelds.and its vicinity. • ' i _
There are orders -now in England. for at least
30,000 crates of earthen-ware for America" (whirl,
votdd nearly load oue hundred ships of throe ins-
dreckions each) to be executed -whenever the ;ter •
course. between England anti America shall be iv-
new ed. - •
We are happy to state, there is every reason to
expect a speedy and liberal increase of the pay of tilt.
Officers of his Majesty's Navy.
1 We regret tQ find that Grain,. which wits especlre
to decline, has again esperiened en advance. V,
• ,
rtumber of buyers yesterday mei-tang-was considel
able, Atli) prima Whejt3 fetiThed Move than forme'
-prices. Flour-also maintained its prit.e. .
Bitstahuo.—fiT-To w
otit
men; after ;merin
snit! is. tad. .t , . .
tures, ordered it ~.t.) fall td. per peck.—Quart'
sCpcoeutritrgori;iAekk .