The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-01-15 00:00:00

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st3c. 26.—Yesterday, at five In the
—.tong, commenced one of the most formidable
eruplionv of which there is any record in the history
of Vesuvius. Happily, though it presented a ter-
rific spectacle, it caused no greet damage. The ex-
plosion began by a shower of volcanic gravel, which
Acas follo*rd by a violent eruption of lava. This
ignited muter having divoided itself into two torrents,
flossed over "the ancient lavas towards the Torre del
Greco.? At ten" In the evening, the first torrent
el.ppped_i but the second continued to proceed
towards Bosco-Beale tintiteico-Tre-Caie.
. . •.. —This morning the apparent calm of the tolcauo.
was f,)llovsed by an explosion, resembling a Violent
discharge of cannon. A 'colomn of volcanic ashes
tse in. the
.air, and obscured thsheriaon. At.the
ometit ire are wilting, the eruptiqhs still continue,
ilednubled•shock, make the houses hf the city 011ie,
Out bave as yet &Ale no damage. We do not know
e direction of iiie lava,
The Geverimeot has,taken every rinessaryMea-
sore to afford assistance to those who may have need
pt it, Yesterday the King. sent one of his Equerries
o iuform himtell of the state 9f thins, and to-day the
°Owl canput higsself to Op:l.re the erupt*.—
4 When arri v edict* the oleo() ef the fiery tocref t,
Ito •spolee to. every per wi(11 a ffability which
gbaracteri:es him and pointed ,o,at to those of ho ap-
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Prussia, which seemed to have Seen raised in a
bed into a kingdom, so rapid and unnatural was
growth, under its first Monarchs, was cut down
the ground by lone blow of the revolutionary a
for a while it appered es if it could never shoes
again ; but the Russian winter that vritherr
pestilent and enormously extended branch
French Upae,. revived the root of the Pr
tree, and it iiow promises to flourish ohce tr:
the Royal forest of Europe, from whir
has been so victoriously driven.
Russia has learned for herself, and taught
enemies, what neither probably understood bet
that she is absolutely invincible and impregne
within her Own limits; ,almost every other pro vi
of Christendom, in eta, turn, has been entwine,
and its original inhollitants dispossessed or envies
by foreign aggression ;'Russis has never been it
clued ; the changes which have taken place in
measureless wilderness, since ,the days.. etsst
S•;•,y thinns; have been yather the slow changes of fife
the sudden or violent revolutions produced t
i which sheitr; a
itsvrelitg strangers. Her security is her climate, 1
II France, she
the most formidable Power, of which adjacent State
1 have'en);cause
eil being
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part live. Next to
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li -7 ' s —___..........___ ' ' their independence, in a great degree, consist ii
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.' POLIPICAL REFLECTIONS. keeping France and Russia as far asunder in polies
as nature has placed • their bouudariei; separelads
--simes---
, . . : they may balance the extremes of East and West :1
Looking frnm the privileged shores of Britain over ! combined they might crush all between them.
Europe, we observed the two countries from•which ,
fall the rest derived arts and refinement sunk in the ' ' Poland has been blotted out of the roll of nodes's-,
siosest state of political degradation. The descend- and Hungary, once a powerful nation, is now utterly
-"tits* the anciont Greeks resemble their progenitors absorbed by Austria. s.I n the new Constitution 'Of
as much es the thistles of modern Lebanon resemble Europe, the last of these wilt be overlooked, as it
will put in no claim,for the restitution of its oboe*,
`AM forests of cedar that once flourished there,—to.
_which they claim no better affinity than that of grows independence; bet the first must undergo a further
dismemberment and Anstrie, Prussia, and Ruda I
,411 g, 4ti re later age, on the same soil. But war or
ce in juChristendom will little affect their condition be its accusers, judges, and executioners in their .
ll,„ent, the Turkish tyranny under, which they cause. What may be expected from their justice°
groan Ines not yet filled up its measure of iniquity, know not,—and who ever heard of their mercy is
met It is probable that the French Revolution has Poland? ,
proceastieuted its inevitable destrUction for half a Sweden has made a conspicuous 'figure in f'
ceotpry at least. late campaign, and requires aggrindizement in '
s Italy, the yOungest sister of Greece, and the mother portion.' By the cbnsen - -
s opiv most warlike people that ever existed,—now are now called the
in ;lathe dotage and decrepitude of senility, presents ago the •legitinate King
s tidicrops and yet pitiable spectacle of fallen grate- mantic, enemy of Hot
deur, emaciated beauty, and drivelling intellect.— use -le, who had been .
r 11teiiitrliasti et best are only plaister casts of the bile was shortly tobecoeue
k Ad , Romans, preserving the forms of grace ansl ex- was made Cross
• cellenre in frail and worthless materials. Italy has - Gustavusyisloiteseatermii.
never beep a nation since the Goths over-ran it ; : Although thirssiScsimagined
Crate is no common interest, no common feeling, plished by Fianich :
- arndegrhe motley creatures that people its numerrfos n ,t Arc tiffOrositids
and • rordant states. It is true, that all these states c s•eols,sint; but,
et
are css erect with the iron crossee, mhich Bonaparte r s eticroachmeut
teas asts4rned ; but that Italy should remain a pro- t • 114:: origin.
, vinceaf France, its the future econotirey of Europe,.. ,• dirsslanclst, .
is eutni all question; it must almost,necessarily fall ;;the ss: ertylittto
- in pieces again, like the ill-cemeeted limbs of a:sa.sliie• .to be
1 .brokeft statute, and be parcelled out as heretofore•yessilit , ,Ibut
• • into- petty aristocracies, repohlics, and monarchies,. ; Lind, i ', es
str,
• exhibiting
Austrian only s :winos forms of despotism : or if it be wit'. respect ti
• reserved for a nobler fortune, it may slowly rise into , peace with it, Ai as follows
arm:-
one united kingdom, under n succession of wise and minds us of' A. si's :'Y:t toguarn o.
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patriotic Princes,—ate event nearly as improbable plot to confiscate NI vineyard. The - consisting of infantry and light cavalry, under .the
1' as the resuscitation of' DrUillg ate' Cassius. , Prince has not relinquished this claim ; and Deo-
• .- The Peninsula of Spain and Portugal presents two ' mark, between France and the Allies, having been command of the General of -artillery, Count Van
rare phenomena in the resolutions of Empire. Tile .stiliequently forced into war by the former, and re- . Buttes, has entered this town. An unusual number
• King of Spain abdicated the throne of which he had . evilly forced into peace by the latter, he, tioatoubt, of people were moving the whole day through the
dispossessed his father, and submitted to become the perfectly satisfies, himself of the justice of his pre. streets.—Every thing remains quiet. His Excellency
• dupe of a foreign Usurper ; but his people, of whom : tensions, and having conquered Holstein, retains General Von Wattevyl hat arrived here.
• he was unworthy, asserted his.rights which he had possession of it, airoweflly as security for the sur-
I. aus tvPi E, Dec. 28'.---Yesterday the first Aus-
-7.reliti q n i 44 (I) in maintaining their own, which, from ' render of Drontheim, in Norway. Of Denmark we !
,man troops entered this place. They consisted of
• weakness or pusillanimity, he had betriyed ; and shall only add, that her fault has been her mister-
- with the assistance of Great Britain, they have re-con- ' tune—and her misfortune, that she could neither i Aloy's and Lichenstein's regiments of hussars,
a bat-
- quered his kingdom for him, while he remains a pri. resist aggression, nor commit it successfully. t talion of yagers, and some infantry. These troop
- cotter in France. On the other hand, the Prince of !
Holland) as weak as Denmark, and more exposed immediately took the road
to Geneva, and were di-
Portugal, flying from the vengeance of Bonaparte, ,
to hostile inroads, after long subjection to alareign rectly followed by Blackenstein's regiment of
• Berets the Atlantic, transferred the Court of Bra- •
: yoke ; at one time a republic, in the cant of the
pelves from the shores of the Tagus to those of the I revolution, free and indivisible: at another a me- hussars, with artillery, and a strong division of in-
- 13ratils, establishing the precedent of an European' Pantry. The troops observe the best discipline.—
narchy under a brother of Bonaparte ; and at length
- bionercley its the western hemisphere. The Mother- {incorporated with the Ureat Nation itself,--Holland,
; ceentey, mean wliile, has been restored to him by ample, one from Payern to Yverduti, and another
the • inert auspicious moment started into her propeeplace,
. vulnur and policy of his ancient Ally, who has also !
and discharging her French oppressors, snore like from Freyburg to Buile and Vevey.
restored, in a great measure, the extinguished spirit of - unworthy servants, than expelling them etetyratini- BASEL, DEC. 28.—The report gains grouted of
- s • his people, and made soldiers and citizens again of ; cal masters, recalled her fugitive Prince, and laid at
slaves and fanatics. For firs' yeats past the Alps and , Isis feet the very liberty which she had just recovered. Geneva !saving declared against the French.
is
she Pyrenees have stood he the +c ay of Peace. I '-'he Yesterday the French garrison of jigenelskooth
' There is something strange, if not premature,- in the
• might of Wellington has removed the latter ; and,;of .
400 mete strong, were brought in here as prisoners of
sudden assumption of sovereignty by the Prince
the persevetance of Austria will probably soon suisa, ,1 Orangel before it was possible for him to it wow the war.
• due the former.!so'
:: minds of the people, whom be came 3os govern ; On the 25th of December, '2OO Bavarians, w
, Switsm-land, the least but the noblest of former : especially as he affirms that it was against• his own had been wounded before Iluninguen, were brought
independent Powers, was inevitably overwhelmed ieclinations and the British Ministers affirm, that it •
en here. The trenches before Huninguest are opened,
• "midst the convulsions of neighbouring states, and was without their sanction. But if floilaseo be only
and advanced to the redoubts) one of which has beep
' buried under the opposite ruins of France and Ger- isdependent in herself, it is of no • consmoence to
• many ; out of these it will be dug like the precious ; any body but her own population, imrhtifthst thetaken'
General Blanchet commands in the fortress, but
relics of Herculaneum, but more entire, we trust,i Prince of Orange be called Stadtholder, King) or ;
that they : the hour may not be far distant when its Great Mogul. :is in want of 'many necessaries. The garrison con-
• venerable institutions shall he revived, and liberty t - I i •
lists of 3000 men, of which scarcely 300 are old
once more make I,er dwelling among thnse mouse- - ' troops of the line, the rest are scraped together of
grins, where she found refuge for ages when banish-1 Tot REJECTED TDEATRE.--Tlie 'appearance, at
ed from every other corner of the continent. Bo- I this ssason, of the first Number of the Rejected National Guards and Conscripts.
mimic has not betrayed one snore decisive *pop- I Theatre, is calculated to occasion comparisons un- ' The dispatches and letters vs hichhave been inter-
tom of totessious weakness than the earnestness! favourable to the performances at the different pub- cepted, contain a lively picture of the confusion
with which he has clamoured for what he called , lie places of amusement; for it is well known, that caused by the passage of the Allied Armies across
the neatrality of Switzerland ; this affected forbear- 1 out of a wilt to gratify their juvenile M visiters, the Ma- the Rhine, its the neighbouring provinces of France
once was in fact only deprecating its hostility. nag,
-ith the greatest haste they are endeavouring to put
Germany, emphatically called the Henn of Eu- h'''
I' the tenable places in a state of defence. The sur-
rope, into which the veins of surroustling nations Ol
periodically seed their blood, not as in the animal I yi eider of two (not inconsiderable) French forts, one
which was taken, after a short resistance, and the
body to he renewed and returned more vigorously 1 Is !
through the ss stem, but to be poured out like water I r her by a courageous assault thandskroon and Bel-
through wounds in that heart, Which are never i mont or Blanso29 shows how little this 'step was ex-
suffered to heal before fresh cues are opened by the i-- . a.
pected in France. The higher persons its the Go-
swords of contending Potentates. Germany has tsetse 1 publt
almost as much deranged throughout its anvient4 present sernment forsake their posts on the approach
establishments by the French Revolution as ?ranee! t of danger, and leave their subordinate Officers
itself. Of its future state little can be conjectured, I woe! fill their places ; these . latter desire' only peace,
except that it will •of course he divided like spoil, i thr and even military persons of high rank express them-
won in battle by those who can possess thenit
this occasion. We have every
portions, with just as much regard to the c; -
with the behatiOur of the itehalsi-
, former lords of the sail and the animals, but s co_uptettorvyidisid pofooir,aann:i.lt
equalh the Magistracies,
distribution
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brute, th-tt grew upon it, as cannot be w ithheld,
Otte consolation to those, who feel concerned '
uhabitauts of such petty principalities, whose berthens, have sbsebndetk- 'Sever" communes
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r. - agers have lung made it a point of duty, during the with the greatest haste
of Fu- 'lholidays, to exhibit a more showy and lighter class
t._ the tenable places in a
nations 1 of entertainments, than at any other pelnd of toe
animal i year; so that, if the contents of the wets. had been render of two (TA ilea
;orously I very inferior, they would have had a greatiadvantage of which was taken, el
,e Mater 1 arising from this cause alone. We do ;not mean, other by a courageous
e never' honever, in making the observation, to detract from moat, or Blamont) shr
Iby the lthe merits of the work, which, in coven-ton with the
nected in France. T
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has been public, we think altogether highly creditable to the •
sfirient i present state of the dramatic genius of the country ; vertiment forsake th
s Fra„re I but. we think its importance'', interest, And utility, of danger, and leav
lectured, would he extended, if, in addition to gqisteed Plays, 1 to fill their places ; tt
ke spoil, ; the Proprietors would embrace within per plan, the and even military pers
;Rove, of I occasional re-publication of aatient .Diataas; end
selves very- freely on t
claims of I also, now and then, . admit pieces .which base met
cause to be satisfied wi
anal, and' been offered to the Managers; feetre know, that,
thlield.— such is the impression on, many authers,•of the diffi- ' tants ; but the county,
,•d for the culty of getting a play incepted, that many excellent I who should have prim
me .bones dramas are never'offeresi at aIL. ' ' . of the barthens, hare
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