The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-13 00:00:00

But, perhaps, they may have calculated erroneously
—they may be deceived. If it were true, as they
give nut, that they have 900,000 men, fit for action,
France, who has already 500,000, will soon have a
million. I seek not to exaggerate the exultation
which; in a similar war, will fix all the senses, and
the enthusiasm with which their stouts will be trans.
ported. Every man in France will become a sot.
slier ; every article of iron will be fabricated into a
„sabre, a bayonet, or a musket ; every where, as in
1793, will be established manufactories of saltpetre,
Of powder, and of cannom
Finns the Rhine to the Pyrenees, from the Me-
diterranean to the Ocean, the diversions of the pea.
satots, on Sundays and holidays, will be military
exercise.; every commune, every village will be
transformed into barracks; and the entire popula-
tints of the Empire, arrayed as the National Guards,
will be prepared to live in tents.
Already does France resound with war-songs, in
which the acquirers of national domains, who har-
bour fears for their property ; the friends of reason,
who hare been threatened with tho return of super-
stition ; the military, whose glory they have wished
to tarnish ; its short, all classes of citizens repeat
with enthusiasm their ardent expressions of passions
the most dear, the most terrible.
In this war, which will be, in fact, a crusade
against the independence of a nation, the contagion
of the principles of the French Revolution, may
pass with people too ignorant and too barbarous even
to understand their own interests. On the approach
of the Emperor Napoleon and his armies, marching
with animation to songs of liberty, Kings may be
ahasolooled by their subjects, as the Bourbons have
.been by the soldiers on whom they depended with
Hoch confidence. Every throne will be overthrown
before nations will learn how to go►ern them ; and
• how many evil's will be the work of Princes, capa.
ble by their virtues of rendering happy the greatest
part of the world.
• How much will those Monarchs and humanity be
indebted to you, my Prince, if, by the wisdom of
your counsels, you can dissuade them from the de-
termination, in which they oppose interests and pas.
*ions over which they ought to have no controul.
I have only to renew, with the most lively expres-
sion, to your Highness, the asssurances of the highest
consideration.

(Sieved) The Duke of OTRANTO.
P.lrir, April 23, 1815.

CITY BUSINESS.

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A Court of Common Council was held yesterday
at Guildhall, for the general dispatch of public bu-

sinecs.

The thank; of the Court were unanimously voted
to the Rev. Samuel Birch, Chaplain to the Lord
Mayor, for his eicellent sermon preached on the first
Sunday in Easter Term.
The Royal Committee presented a report of the
whole of the proceedings that took place at Guild-
hall, on the entertainments given to his Royal High.
urns the Prince Regent and his illustrious visiters,
and the Duke of Wellington, which was read, and
ordered to be printed, ander the direction of the
I.nr•t Mayor.
The City Lands Committee presented a report for
repairing the roof of Guildhall, and covering the
snnic with copper, instead of lead, which was read,
and agreed to.

They also presented a report for altering and re.
/*ring the interior of Guildhall, which was read,
and agreed to.
The swords voted by the Court to Marshal
Blucher, ifetiman Count Platoff, Prince Schwart.
zenberg, and Count Barclay de 'folly, were laid be-
fore the Court, and the Lnrd Mayor was requested
to present the same to those illustrious visiters, in
such manner as he shall deem most becoming the ho-
nour of the Court.

The Bridge House Committee presented a report

in relation to the duties and salary of the Assistant
Clerk, at the RI idge !lease, and the Court resolved
to fill up the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr.
Staithin.

The Improvement Committee presented a report

for an application to be made to Parliament for a
Declaratory Art, that persons be confined in the
New London Prison, and getting from one part of
the same to another, should not be deemed an escape,
which ass read and agreed to; and Petitions to Par-
liament also sanctioned.
Also a report for allowing the sum of 4501. to Mr.
Joseph klumpleby, for setting back his premises in
Long-lane, West Smithfield, in a line with those ad-
joining, which was read and agreed to.
It was referred to the Committee for General Pur-
poses, to-consider and report what regulations might
benecessary to be adopted with respect to the Mar-
shalmen to be appointed for the Borough of South-
wark.

The extent of the calamity which happened at the
Colliery at Newcastle is stated as follows :—Mr.
Miller (the underviewer, who has left a wife and
eight children), 32 workmen, 12 boys, and 37 horses,
have perished; and 25 widows, with about eighty
children, ore left to bemoan the sudden death of
their husbands and fathers. A :subscription for the
roli,:f of the widows and orphans his been set on
foot.
Yesterday afternoon a female servant threw her
a window of Mr. Sharpe's house, near Lon-,
don-brill:4e. She was taken to Guy's Hospital with
hopes of recovery.,
On opening a bale of cotton-wool, last week, at
t::a mill of Mes-n 3. Grimshaw, White-house, greatly

to the astonishment of all present, a small tortoise
was turned out. It appeared, at the time, to be in a
torpid state, but on being washed, and a short time
, exposed to the open air, it became animated and
li%ply. It most have been at least sic months ex-
c:odc,l from the sir, deprived of food and motion,
and may have been so for two- years, as it fre-
quently happens that cotton wool has been so long
picketl before it comes to the head of the menu-
Get urer.—(Be(fiut Coin. (Aron.)
The lied of ResEitease, we understand, has set-

tied upon his Lady the fifteen thonsaid pounds to
which he was entitled in consequence of Ms action
against Sir Amor bitanstsT. Ris Lordship, it
deems, has generously added five thousand pounds.

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