The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-12-28 00:00:00

THE STAI'ESMAN:

that Government, and that he has said the United

Ippear
both parties, we cannot but indulge apprsitestsions.
7We are told there was. no right ender dismission at
Ghent, every question of that kind having been
waived. This is the very ground of our fear, Au it
shows the main points remain yet to be settled. So
this great contest, the prosecution of which has been
marked by such sanguitsary.a_nd unexampled features
of atrocity, and in which the Brtish Minister; have
shown such lamentable neglect of the nation's ho.
nom., has been kept up for years for nothing, and
about nothing; the illustrious parties have, as usual,
been sticking at straws, and swallowing cables; and
after all their fulminations and haughty pretensions,
they leave the Inest essential points in dispute to Com-
missioners, aud that 64 end where they began il"
Would we could.say that the country, whose Ministers
have thus given up the unhallowed contest with half the
long train of glories that have encircled our national
diadem, was left in the same situation of financial
prosperity ind commanding influencedelens before
:the war with tits American States begat. ! But the
increased greatness of the enemy with whoa' we have
been contending, and our own dilapidated iesousces,

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. obnoxious to GovernMent. sO-
dqrlees privilege which
_we areotold
, *rand the Oidence of our senses and
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French Papers to the 26th, and Brussels and
Frankfort to corresponding dates, have arrived.---
/be intelligence Atm Vienna in the Paris Journals
takoro days subsequent to that formerly received,
itertly, of the_l4th instant. The only thing worthy
Of sotice in the scanty accounts given of the pro-
ceeding. of Congress, appears to be the presentation
of a conciliator* Note by the Russian Miiiister to
thenther Plenipotentiaries, to which great import-
rince seems to be attached, as Messengers were im-
Inerlt
'aiely oix,its production sent off to Paris
0d London:, 'The declared nature of' this' Note
fii certainly heportant, whatever its contents .may '
te, as it clearly prove. that the :best under-
stinding has not been prevailing "Mang the negfi,
ciators..aed warrants a hope, that ~by its tenour a
concilietOry effect may generally be prodoced. But
we fear there are too many causes' for irritation, not
merely at this Assembly7put pervading everyjnar-
ter which their proceedings affect, and are likely to
influence. The affairs of Germany are evidently
far from settled, and the accounts from the Belgian
frontiers furnish fresh groands for alarm in that
quartet. The following are from. the Brussels and
other German Pa received to-day :

this

4,LitifilNu

IDEAL,. Dsc. 17,--Sailed Ike Camillus, Fetter, fro I
giver ; Magnets elarkbaro, for Hetmburgb ; sad ;Lc
mane, --, fur she River.—Arrived the Swnn cater, fru,.
Portsmouth.

Pour sittbdwit, Hsu. 27.—Arrived his Majesty's 'hip An,.
phion, from Bermuda ; add Ilia Majesty's sibhp,Rip;r4, tni
Quebrc.—Carne into itarhour bis MafeJtY'Ssh;VArititate ni.d
Contest.--.We expect his illir.iisty'sAiraihmr. *tea The
stifm
bound in the Cape of Good Hope, Eon ladies, and Sotoh Su.,
will •ail to-morroty.
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PLV3II9OTII, OCT. 26enAtri441:" pi! fps; • .
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•the Rochdale, from Itrewidgeditallid *llilitali . haul • •t.
—Tire convoy fib' 'Bottrdditiftti•iil4l64l4lll.giegii'l giilliet.
homier, sailed only yeiterdaY,lsltb:*'Br.tc kind 'at • I. k..;_tse
Chesapeake frigate, Caritli X 0464149 wild the Ships for the
Cape and Judea, .still Ferathiuto Mitt *oar:4lll.f the Nin
from Portsmouth.-=i'l7se ,Faravldence brig'. has .biettgot off dm
i
' the rocks. •
FAPIOUTII, DEC., 25:1".*.1110 bill•Allge`it....3 ship laidene„,
Araxis, Conway, Redwings Dritke,' I:4lrtoise," gollitlo, aed
the frigate and sloop of war, .whisiSilitaiied yesterday; tem,
the whole of the outward-boiiiii44st iltidbeffeet, in all aboin .
266 sail. They -cleared thelifidittelealwidiuut the least acciamt.
Also sailed the folloWing pickets i • Marlborough-. and Lady
Arabella, for I.istion i Francis Frecling, for Jamaica; (Mom.
for Halifax ; Chesterfield, for Surinam; • Montague,l'm Rio
I;Mein,' ; and the Hake of Montrose, for:•.ibe Mediterraman.

States should yield no right. The acctuieseewe of
1114,1dericati rApplot\iiiltieeiterisive military orgst-
nfuitiiyis, 'has own 'the tietertninetioe which they
clierislVo maintain whet • they consider their rights,
and till these appear to be better understood by

GRAND ASSEMBLY OF FkEEMASOI4Ig.

Yesterday Mut St; ArciinsfAay, the half-yearly
installation of Gratui Officers took place at the Free-
masons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, when his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex was installed Grand
Master of the United Freemasons of England. Free-
masons' Hall was most supeibly fitted up, and tiled
from the outward porch ; the East was reserved for
the Grand Master, Grand Officers, and Halters ; the
Masters, Past-. Masters, and Officers of the several
Lodges that attended were arranged on both sides, to
tLe amount of nine hundred, the Masters standing in
• foot, end the Wardens, Deacons, behind, sitting
on_forms. At two o'clock the greed procession took
place from the Great Hall to the Grand Lodge Room.
Ills Royal Highness the Duke •of Sussex, Grand
"Nagler, was supported by his Royal Brother, the
• peke of Kent, Lord Dundas, and the other Grand
Officers, Brothers, &c. The Organ was conducted
py Brother •Westley. The sight was truly grand,
to see so many Brothers, all dressed hi the insignia
of their respective Orders, enter, the Grand Lodge
Room, accompanied by , the Rev. Dr. Coghlan, the.
Grand Chaplain. After the ceremony the Brothers
returned to divest themselves, after which there was
a most sumpteou: dinner, and the day was spent in
the utmost conviviality... The band of vocal per-
formers was numerou.s.