The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-12-09 00:00:00

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tie politics of good faith the best, and SuilY was or might not be better protected, less tazed, more found in Parks
_.}. So that, in that department particu- than, the union of Belgium : this union of
Wtwo ,
lions of the same descent, speaking the same I la.
not only a very honest man, bat a very skilful Mi- free, IA more happy. .It appears, at least, that the •lady, seek adiallectloo was made as probably can
having the sum: character for industry and paatriligout"Vl
mister. This policy'has its root in the understanding Saxons place in the balance with all these advan- never again be effected ; because it is hardly pro-
of the people, and that equity which Sooner or later tarps, national existence and the recollections by bable that the same opportunities, the same time,
hi-, e are persuaded that the Bourbons,ism,
prevails. It is this policy which guides the King of which they live in history. There is hi the Getman dastry, perseverance, and expence, with some know-
when they
ceded Belgium, were far from retaining the .1
France at Viettnaas at Paris ; he supports there, by ! character an attachment to certain sacred habits, of ledge of the bibliography of the 'subject, would again - aea uf
his Ambassador, those principles of moderation and i which one of the most sacred is obedience 4o native; Open to be in concurrence. . ' re-acquisition, which too many ambitious F i
reord.
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inflexible justice from which he would as little de- . princes. Let strong institutions firmly combine the 0 _ During the same period, and after my return men still have the audacity to proclaim.
We know that these wishes to recover a •
part, even with victorious armies as with Plenipoten. Germanic federation; let identity of manners, lan- Uktnerica, I was led, to procure also whatever related
port that is vainly expected."—M. M. Bruno alludet•
solemnly ceded, wesildnot find in -Belgium he sup
ptronnts.
tildes. It cannot longer be dissembled, the repose I gouge, and literature create a national spirit, and the Lo the duties of those in the highest concerns of the
of Europe, and the civilization of which it boasts, 1 independence of Germany will be secured. 1 nation; so that the collection, which I suppose is of
Ito several ariTclei Bilitselirin the—Journ
would be no more, if the sceptre of unjust force "It is evident that the repose and security of between nine and 10,000 volumes, while it includes .......
was not entirely broken now .by the hands which Germany will in future depend on the union of what is chiefly valuable in science and literature ge- at de
wield the sceptre. Such is the true, and perhaps the Austria and Prussia. Would the circumstance of nerally, extends more particularly to whatever be- Paris, which are equally malicious and false. L..,
surest triumph of generous ideas, which are better these two Powers, so lately rivals, touching each longs to the American statesman: in the diplomatic M. M. Bruhn thinks the Order of Malta ought to tai
re-established, but disapproves of fixing the .d
defined by noble actions than by equivocal words. "other by a long line of frontiers, prove a pledge of land parliamentary branches, it is particularly full. T
PARIS, Dec. s.—The Bamberg Jaffna!, undem ; that union? Will not Saxony, by remaining inter- It is long since I have been sensible it ought not to
I.r est e,,ed
the head of Vienna, November 9, contains the fol- l mediate, weaken this contact, and soften all mutual . continue private property, and had provided, thrift*, of the Order in the lonian Islands,•
which are toe
of lc remote from. Algiers and Tunis, and being stalost
lowing article :—" While the German Gazettes an- shocks ? at my death, Congress should have the refusal
inounce the fate of Simony as decided, and that that " France can have no objection that, in the ge- at their own,price; but the loss they have now incurred
ijoined to Turkey, would require an army to defend
country, governed by one of the oldest Sovereign ' neral system of the balance of Europe, Prussia makes the present the proper moment for their aciom- them, or would become vassals of the Torte._
proposes Corsica, which unites every udvamage. Ile
Houses of Germany, will belong either in whole to ; should be strong both as against France and Russia ; medation, without regard to the small remnant of time,
the King of Pressia, or only the greater part of it, ! but that policy which some still ascribe to her who and the barren use of my enjoying it. I ask of your ri ' „.,,. „ ~,
announced that the establishment of three great
while the rest, divided into small portions, will be take a pleasure in confounding times and interests friendship, therefore, to make for me the tender of It expeciaans 2191.. 24.—nome German Papers haa
assigned to the Ernestine branch and the House of : the most dissimilar, would doubtless rejoice to see to the Library Committee of Congress, not know-
Austria, the fact is, that nothing official has ap- an union effected which, by sowing distrust, and ing myself of whom the Committee consists ; I en- ' Protectorates to Iti- to be pow at
peared on the subject. We can assure our readers it t spreading the germs of lengthened discord in Ger- close you a catalogue, which will enable them to 1 Vienna. gur official Goat refutes this assertion,
is our belief, that the future fate of Saxony is still many, would probably create very speedy opportu- judge of •its contents ; nearly the whole are welt , which it says is as absurd as rkficalous.
voegopastosedlit°lhr*ough
subject to secioui diplomatic discussion ; and that, :pities of turning it to advantage. bound, abundance of them elegantly, and of the 1
the number of the Powers who take au i " Prussia, doubtless, requires to be strong as choicest editions. They may be valued by persons ' FRANK von,lo KON.'RZ--1$1! de Feltz has addresser!
a letter to the, ''thane of carnal, which menet
calculating
interest in its maintenance, the balance is rather in against Russia; but at present persodal friendship named by themselves, and the payment made conve- aJ '
edfrotnihrAouugsth•riSat.utTlrdhat
its favour. There are some general principles of 1 connects the two Sovereigns ; and should these for- nient to the public ; it may be, for instance, in such ; beos
Minister
dnipstaeur
public law, which have been recognised by the High 'lunate relations ever cease, Prussia alone, however annual instalments as the law of Congress has left '
Powers at the Congress of Vienna. They have be- strong, would never be sufficiently an against Russia. at their disposal,. or in stock of any of their late
forehaud renounced every system of mere personal Should a successor of the magnanimous Alexander loans, or of any loan they may institute at this yes. .tu gar ,au
Iro to fill any office in the world ; after having semi
convenience or interest, and every kind of usurpa- -wish to avail himself of the power of that immense sion, so as to spare the present calls for our coon- '".
tion. The object of every change in the existing po. empire to clear the last rivers which flow towards the try, and await its days of peace and prosperity.— 'the Court of Vienna, with honour, for above forty
litical system is only to be the general good, and the Baltic, it-then would not be any one single State, They may enter, nevertheless, into immediate use 1 years) I now belong to the class of the ci-desant sad
maintaining of a balance; alt aggrandizement of any not all Germany alone, that would have to unite for of it, as 18 or '2O waggons would place it in Wash- the cap, now at present so numerous in Europe."
Power whatever is the result of the unanimous agree- preserving the balance and the liberties of Europe ; ington in a single trip of a fortnight. I should be The. Memoir presented to the Congress by D.
meat of other Powers. The House of Austria will and it would he then that the work of the Congress willing, indeed, to retain a few of the books to rouls:B• -
uencompagn ' i Ludovlci Prince of Mathias
'fever abandon, but for the most powerful reasons, ' of Vienna would have to sustain its rudest trial.— amuse the time I have yet to pass, which might be
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the hereditary rights of the House of Saxony to that But Prussia, too weak against Russia, too strong valued with the rest, but not included in the sum of Iland •
of the Isle of Elba, Which b ' s as ju.t been ph.
country : the small Powers have an interest in sup. , against Geravany,—united•to the'former to-day per. valuation until they should be restored at my death, fished clearly demonstrates that the /louse of Lo.
porting these rights, which they cannot mistake; and ; haps• by friendship, and -to-morrow by ambition or which I would carefully provide for, so that the dovici has been unjustly delimited by the Ek-Empe.
France means, it matters not with what view, equal- fear,— will she present no danger to the latter, when, whole library, as it stands in the catalogue at this ror of its rights of sovereignty, which it Bailin,'
ly to oppose the dismemberment of Saxony. It is by her incorporation of Saxony, she shall -have moment, should be their's, without any garbling.— in 'gm lay the payment of the' sum of 1,650,000
even positively asserted, that the French Plenipo- weakened the pledge of her respect for the priociple Those I should like to retain would he chiefly classi- florins. It has even been deprived of its private re.
tentipry bas delivered in a very strong note on this .of public law ? cal and mathematical 3 some few in other branches, I
seldom Saxony cannot cease to exist but by a sort t ‘' These are the principles which it is important at and particularly one' f the five Encyclopedias, in the, verities, 'estimated at 273;537 francs, which, hay.
of absolute necessity ; and perhaps we shall shortly' this day to consecrate. The morality of Govern- catalogue; but this, if not acceptable, w ouid not be ' ever, never could be included in the cession of the
see confirmed the report generally circulated here' assents can alone confirm that of individuals, with- urged. . sovereignty, which cession was besides null in hielf,
that Saxony is restored. It is- only when the rela. iOM which nothing can secure the repose and the d,u- I must add, that I have not revised the library as the Sovereigns of Naples and Tuscany had trot
tions of Poland and Saxony shall be settled, that the ration of States ; and the more that civilised Europe since I came home to live, so that it is probable some the right of garrisoning the fortresses in the island.
fate of the other conquered countries of Germany
!at this moment so big with futurity, is anxious to of the books may be missing, except in the chapters of
can be decided upon. It is said that the Sovereign , approximate her different political societies towards law and divinity, which have been revised,and stand
of one of the greatest States in Europe, with a sen- one common centre of peace and prosperity, the exactly as in the catalogue, which will of course lie
timent of equity peculiar to him, will withdraw from more she watches with solicitude the conduct of needed, whether the tender be accepted or not. I
the part of Poland which he occupies, as soon as all . those to whom she has confided such weighty into- do not know that it contains any branch of science'
Poland shall be united, and shall form an indepen- ' rests. May none of the Members of the Congress of 1 which Congress would wish to era ide from their
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dent kingdom, governed as such by an hereditary '
Vienna entrusted with the most solemn legislation, ! collection. There is, in fact, no subject to which a
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,f C not hate occasion to refer

The Times Machine for the manufacture of abate '
has this morning turned out the abundant result of
prime night's labour, the Object being one on which
tbisdredging engine has already shown its ex') Itness,
—the patriots and the soil of America. The letter of

Member o. ,ongress may _
But such a wish would not correspond with my views
of preventing its dismemberment. My design is
either to place it in their hands entire, or preserve it
so here. lam engaged in making an alphabetical
index of the authors' names to be annexed to the di.,
talogue, in order to facilitate the finding their works
in the catalogue, which I will forward to you as
soon as completed. Any agreement you shall be so
good as to take the trouble.of entering into with the
Committee, I hereby confirm. Accept the assurance
of my great esteem and respect.
(Signed)

to
Kilitte-A4 two tba.,Polisb nation.. Futurity, : infringe beforehand those laws which it es their duty
which unfolds events, avt 'show whether this is war to smart! the late President of the United States, Mr. Jaen%
founded:"- • - "These reflections have been naturally called SON, offering to part with Ids valuable library to re.
[EXCEL: teT 17110/1 ITIE GIZETTE I.IIIIVERSELL; wteeee forth by the article which we have given from the place that destroyed at Washington by our trarmeis
. 18, 181-1.1 • I Bitniberg Gazette, and which has appeared the more the theme which has called forth the gall of are lima
" In the midst of so many changes, and after the interesting to us, as it will fortify our readers against Editor. The Ex-President certainly beetov.s some
injustice which was the will of a single individual, ! other news respecting Saxony, to which they mikit
and which all the Stares of Europe have, by terms ibe tempted to ascribe an official character. We epithets on the conduct which sullied its triumph by
suffered or tolerated, it is very difficult for the Con-1 think, also, that the immolations in the Gazette de devoting to the flamesiome of the most valuable pro!
ductions of Science and the krts,' tbgether with the
gross at-Vienna to repair the misfortunes of twenty 1 France, of the 11th of November, were premature,
years, filled with blood and tears ; and to discharge' and that Saxony and Europe still do not require those edifice that contained them, which, as they are bat
all the obligations of the past. But before refusing consolations which some have been in such haste to TH. JEFFERSON.
too justly applied, may well be grating to every Boar •
the duty-of redressing a wrong, it ought to show to give teem." .
fish ear; but these are not given out as the caassiiik
contemporaries and to posterity, the necessity which , Manors, Noy. 20.—The Marquis de Santa Crux
shall have commanded so great a sacrifice ; and if .is appointed Ambassador to France. This is the Mr. Malls. Doe the irritability so conspicuous in the' thick and tie
forced perhaps to permit injustice to exist, the Coneifourth Grandee of Spain who has been nominated 0
gress committed aitjustice itself, it would sap its own j for that post.
0
work to its foundation, and it would perpetuate the I It is said, the Duke of San Carlos has been re- o
anarchy of Europe. Thus Saxduy, which is said to' fused the embassy to Paris, which he had solicited.
be threatened with the loss of its King and its poll. The return to the Ministry of M. de Cevallos, efticr, OF STOCKS THIS Die: AT ONE O'CLOCK library, which he has been fifty years' making, and
tieal existence, would have to fear that injustice, , encourages us to hope for more moderate Councils Hank 217 248 Lone. A. I(7} 3-161 on which he has expended so much, to the Statelef
precisely because it is not yet committed ; and had it ,in future. We anxiously look for the first pro- s per tient. it,ed. 611 5 India 114.nds 19 18 p ,nothing! Would the proprietor of the bespattering
been so, the general opinion already loudly pro-iceedings of our new Secretary of State, to ascertain Z Pe' teeTt.3.lBlll4 Exchequer Milk sit machine be so very disinterested as to give away, if
Minium 2;}
I claims the danger there would be in adopting it.— • the intentions of the existing. Administration. 5 per Cent. N:,vy
• . I Comb for Am fifili he had them, between nine and ten thousand tm
How should the Congress sanction the right to dis-1 We dare not credit the news in circulation re-
lumes, including what is chiefly valuable in sleet".
. pose of
_conquered Saxony, whilst the legitimate So- 'peeling Mexico. After the misfortunes of the Pe -
THE STATE' SNIAN. literature, and politics, the fruit of many years stardi
vereign has
:made no renunciation, and the Saxon ninsula, it would be too distressing to have yet to de-
people re-demand their ancient dynasty ?—A King, . plot's the loss of our finest colony." through the countries of Europe, pearls of the MOS
e
who, during nearly fifty years, has caused his Go. price, for nothing ? No, no ;, the Times Editor iss
"rernment to be blessed—a. King, honest, and ever a The French Funds remain steady. The 5 per LONDON: better chipman! Yet, because Mr. JEFFERSON pm.
stranger to ambition, happy in having from the be., , cent. Consols are 71 francs 45 cent%
FRIDAY, DI:Cr:MEM
.9, 1814.. poses that We collection of which be is possessed,
I ginning of his r repaired the evils of a long war, I ---ear--- . and which is the only one which, from its coatsin•
and unfortunate only for desiring to avoid the evils I AMERICA.
of that which already reached his capital ; does he I ' -......0111111..-- Three days French•Pepers (to the Gth inst.) have ing every thing that his long and diligent search could
find relating to America, and likely to
arrived since yesterday. The accounts from Vienna
deserve to be despoiled of the patrimony of. his fa- benefit 41
111 R. JEFFERSON'S oFFeit TO CONSRESS OF MT
titers, when his subjects, victims not of his error 1 _ LIBRkEY. ! are to the 24th. The formal opening or Congress rising state, should "be valued by persons named
but of misfortune, stretch their arms towards him j I'llonticeilo, Rept.4l, 1814. 1 had not then taken place, although the verification by a Committee of Congress, and the payseat
from the midst of their ruins ; and to be treated as j DEAR Sin,—l learn from the newspapers, that
• of the powers of the Ministers was completed as
made convenient to the public •;"—becsate la
a criminal, without form of process, and without • the vandalism of our enemy has triumphed at Wash-1 has consented to repair, as , much as fortune basl
judgment, whilst all the other Sovereigns are united in ton over science as well as the arts, by the de. far back as the Bth. We quote some articles of in•
by a reciprocity of regret, of forgetfulness, and of in. ' struction of the public library, with
•the noble edi- , terest from these Papers relative to Saxony. The enabled him, the caste of. national inform.;
dulgence ? I'fice in which it war deposited. Of this transaction,' sentiments of theJlioniteur, the official print, are , Lion which British brands occasioned in an Wei;
" There is a Sovereign whom, in the midst of mss- as of that of Copenhagen, the world will entertain strongly y opposed to the dethronement of thej State,—the venerable Philosopher of America isle.'
fortune and resignation, Providence has preserved ;but one sentiment. They will see a nation suddenly ! Saxon Monarch, and the annihilation of that nominated an impudent, a worthless, and ame r
from the general contagion, who, restored to his , withdraw from a great war, full armed and full
country as an independent State. This, therefore
, temptible book jobber, huckster, &c. And because I
rights from the dawn of European restoration, has : handed, taking advantage of another whom they , ,
he extends his reprobation of the conduct of Greg
been the first to show himself a stranger to ambition , had recently forced into it, unarmed and unpre. may be considered as the view taken of the medi- ;
and vengeance, and who get out of disputes, by a! pared, to indulge themselves in acts of barbarism tated measure by the French Government. The let-
Britain to the way in which she forced America rots
treaty which mill mire as a basis for all others, and which do not belong to a civilized age. When Van ters from Vienna anticipate a long continuance of the] the war; because he asserts that this country " Wl'
Replied to his Government the maxims of mageani- , Ghent destroyed their shipping at Chatham, and De Congress. They had sufficient work before thein 1 derily withdrawn from a great war, full armed
miry and of wisdom, which are about to become the ! Ruyter rode triumphantly up the Thames, he might,
when
they began, and they have made more as they . full handed, endeavoured to take advantage of I'l*
common property of the civilized world. That So. in like manner, by the acknowledgment of their own
proceeded. We need not, therefore, be surprised other, whom it had recently forced into it, va•
vereign alone, perhaps, would have a right to judge,: historians, have forced all their ships up to London-
and he absolves the King of Saxony. I bridge, and there have burnt them, the Tower, and at their long sitting ; nor need much astonishment • armed and unprepared, he is styled a liar, a siso,
, be excited after the squabbling we have heard of,l and an old serpent !—The Machine' you see, thaaal.
46 Will it be said, that his judgment is command- I city, had these examples been then set. London
eel by the interests of his policy ?—No ; it is not , when thus menaced, was near a thousand years old though the august Assembly break up " in most ad- ' no great dab at argument, has an admirable Wei
the policy of France which commands it, it is the —Washington but in its teens. mired disorder." lat blackguarding, and christening in the true 00
policy of Europe ; end since we rarely render to I presume it will be among the early objects of
We observe among the local news in the 'French • of the printer's dell
Kings the justice of believing theta guided by moral Congress to recommence their collection. This will '
• ' - the ' the Miisterial writersl Ha
all
t bee
considerations, let us consider the question with re-' be difficult while the war continues, and intercourse' Papers, that some changes have take- , I along
spect to its influence in the system of general equi-j with Europe is attended with so much risk. You Ministry. Marshal SOELT, Duke o, ii.'
e: s i that we should take advantage of the unarm ii.',
librium which the Congress at Vienna is called to j know my collection, its condition and extent. I been appointed Minister at War. 1' ,n : unprepared, and the divided state (no longer so) d
not the
esTilvlii:lsg acjill
establish. 'have been 50 years making it, and have 'pared no imposing appearance. The F ' 44 ' America? if Franc e, r Main
" The object is, that Prussia united with Austria, pains, opportunity, or expellee, to make it what it is. lil
steady. e .
_ should guarantee the independence of Germany, that j While residing in Paris I devoted every afternoon I i a iwe are withdrawn from a great war, full :tor
she should be strong against France, and strong I was disengaged, for a summer or two, in examining , Brussels and Frankfurt Papers have:, so arrived, and full handed, we ought to direct all our err
against Russia. I all the principal book stores,. turning over every from which we make the following extracts :'..-- , . 1 gins and all our means against America? - als4
4' How could Germany see the guarantee of its 1 book with my own holds, and putting by every thing I itausset.s, Dee. 3. --The Speculator, bf• -.M. to encourage us to persevere in the work !ef
independence in Prussia, who, by mere right of force, I which relate to America, and, indeed, whatever was Melte Brunn, of which the 22d number isjtittimb.. destruction upon is Ilig her coasts, that she
should have made herself mistres of two millions of i rare and valuable in every science: besides this, I
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. 'fished, e , contains an excellent Essay on ihe political
Germans, contrary to their wishes, and in contempt had standing orders, during the whole time I was in , " unarmed and unprepared" at many paints'`of all the sentiments which attach them to their Europe, in its principal book-marts, particularly 1
M.
Interests of Europe. " The policy of Europe,"says The Mh' in the which lie
ac me,
-Prince? We will not here discuss the question, Amsterdam, Frankfort, Madrid, and London, for ,M• M. Brit", 66 requires the aggrandizement of are alluding, pours out the best reasons it c'''
whether, by being united to a great States they might such works relating to America as could not be , Holland) which can be effected by no other means musters which, by.tbe•bye, are all from the fouesta

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