The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-12-20 00:00:00

THE S rATESMAN;

to Congress on that subject. If this negotiation suc-
ceeds thtanciEnt State of Venice- will boa operate
Government from (hot of Milan. • ,
It is now said that Prime Sage". will Mise fttates
in Italy, 'auctnot in aerntiny.- ' ' •
WEIMILE, DEC. 2.—On the 22J alt. M. le Kuhl,
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' ;Prussian Lientenani-Colonel, set oat from Vienna,
having orders to pass Dresdett on his way to Berlin,
where the King of Saxony is. On the one hand, it
h said, he bears en order for his being restored td
liberty ;.aud, on the other, of an intitaiion for hint
to repair to the Congress. The Saxon Princes who
are at Prague have received, at the same time, news
very satisfactory. That of which there is any cer-
tainty is, that after some time all appear to have
changed in favour Saxony. Aosttia, France, Ba-
tavia, Wirtemberg, Spain, Portugal, and Sweden,
Interest themselves in a lively manner. The Duke
of Brunswick, who passed by Dresden, on his re.
tarn from Vienna to his States, said that it appears
certain the King of Saxony will recover his Crown;
Ibut all the letters agree in saying that this restitution
goes on very slowly.

The car& of.fureign soldiers, under the command
of.a feceigner,,td quell a riot in Norfolk, which took
Otto last week, will demand thq attention of Parlia-
ment, in, order that such an unconstitationel I#4 p.
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ceedingpay in fetnye be obviated..., w_
Letters from New York received yesterday, bring
an account that the Peacock American sloop of war
had arrived at that port, after a most successfutcruise;
having made no less than seventeen captures.--7 The
Mammoth and the Chasseur privateers had also ar-
rived there, after long cruises • bat as no capture is
mentioned, we must presume that: they have been un-
successful.

Extract of a letter from Rome, dated Nov. 16 :
" The 14th of this month will be a memorable day
with the Society of Jesuits. The reception. of no-
vices then commenced, when 40 were admitted.—
Among these was the eldest .son of Marquis PATIAIEA,
a new- Senator of Rome; the son of Marquis
Memo, Minister Extraordinary for Sardinia inthie
City ; and 20 Priests, the most of whom are public
Professors at the University."
Extract of a letter from Captain D. Hardie, of the
St. Andrew, of and from. London to Madeira :
" I am sorry to inform you of the capture of the St.
Andrew, by the American privateer Yankee, of 15
guns and 120 men, after engaging her for 20 mi-
nutes ; le were all landed at Madeira on the 15th
of November, but the mate and cook, whom theyl
sent to America with the ship. I saw the Caledonian:
on the 12th of November, in company with the fleet
under convoy of the Duncan—all well. I did not
leave the convoy till the signal was made to part
company."
The contract for.sopplying the Vietaaiiiwg Offids
at Portsmouth, with 1000 quarters 'of 'Wheat, was
token on Thursday last, by two Gentlemen of Sus-
sex, at 625. 3d. and 621. 10d. per quarter."
Two transports have arrived from Quebec, b#
which we have advices from thence to the 15th, and
from Brandypots to the 17th alt. Nothing new boll
transpired since the departure of the Liffey, awls*
intelligence of interest was expected from au
ritt-
tion in the British Provinces excepting Fort
The superior advantages which the Americans /pos-
sessed for streugthenieg their force under General
IZARD and his comrades, rendered the situation of
Lieut.-Gen. DRUMMOND somewhat critical, but the
fullest confidence was reposed in the prudence of his
measures and the gallantry of his army. Montreal
rapers have been obtained by the same opportunity..
CHAUNCEY continnedot Sackett's Harbour, and all
hostile operations were discontinued on Lake Onta-
rio. Lake Champlain was much in the same situa-
lion, and Commodore M'Dotrouatt had arrived at
.AlbanT.
During the stay (six days) of the Dake of Gr.ou-
carman, at the hospitable seat of Mr. Cons, eleven
'hundred head of game were shot in that Gentleman's
plantations befOre fiis Royal Highness left Holkham ;
he did Lord AirtioN the honour of standing sponsor
to his Lordship's infant daughter.
'NUNS GRAHAM, Esq. the new Mayor elect for
e Borough of Harwich, died almost-suddenly, on
Sendai last, at his residence in that town ; he was to
have entered upon his magisterial office, for the sixth
time in the course of a fek days.
r. VANDELEUR.—This was an
action brought for breach of promise of marriage.—
The damages were laid at 5,0001. Upon the open-
ing the pleadings an offer was made by the De-
fendant's Counsel, consenting to verdict for 3,5001.
which proposal was acceded to by the Plaintiff's At.
torney.
The partnership of MARSH' SIEBALD, and Co.
bankers, is not dissolved, as has been stated by mis-
take. The only change in the firm is the retirement
of Mr. &SMART.
The Magistrates for the different Ridings of the
county of York have determined to have a bridge of
their own, in a part of the city of York, more con-
venient for general purposes than the present bridge.
It is worthy of remark, as highly creditable to the
Police. of the city of York, that the doors of its
gaol for three weeks previous to the 26th of Novem-
ber were daily thrown open, there not being a pri-
soner, either debtor or felon, confined therein.
A party of sportsmen last week near Cheadle,
hunted 26 and killed 19 hares, 14 pheasants, 14
brace and a half of partridges, 3 woodcocks, and
15 rabbit., in one day.
! Last week a young Lady and Gentleman arrived
,ip great haste, at Gretna Green. The weigh: of the
prise may be in some degree conjectured, when it
is added that the Gentleman paid the sham Parson
501. in a Bank of England note, for tying the nuptial
knot.

The intelligence by the Dutch Mail gives us to un-
derstand, that military measures are carried es with
activity on the part of France ; that she is covering
the frontier with the roost formidable appearance;
and that her troops era as far as possible complete,
and the magazines fell.
The following are the chief articles brought by the
Dutch Mali :

BERLIN, Dec. 3.—lt is pretended that three
couriers, one after another, brought news from the
Congress that vas far from being satisfactory. Later
letters are rather more- favourable, and affirm that
the points in dispute are amicably adjusted. The
Congress is expected to dose by the end of the year.
BaUSSZE.II, DEC. 10.--The accounts of the military
-measures on the French frontiers are the same as
heretofore. The French Government, it is pre.
somed, will corer the frontiers in this manner till the
Congress is closed; the troops are as far as possible
complete, and the magazines full. It is, however,
observed with pleasure, that the good understanding
and the intercourse between this Country and France

enures:es daily. It is positi►ely Manned, tbst the
French Officers who bad received passports for Ame-
rica, have received en intimation not to embark.—
This is attributed to the interference of Lord Wel-
lington.
The organization of the arty is Continued.

Dispatches, which are understood to be of great
imPertance, were yesterday reosimed,by Gevernsett
from Ghent, by the way of Calais. 'On their arri-
val a Cabinet Council was summoned, and a fall
meeting of the Members took place. The result of
lireir deliberations is generally believed to be a deci-
esre resolution on the subject of these long-pending
'negotiations. Immediately after the breaking up of
the Council, Mr. ALv es, the Messenger, was sent
off nith dispatches to the Commissioners: and it is
coufidentlysaid, be is the bearer of the ultimatum of
lour Government. We have of late had various oc-
casions to repeat, and the signs that give rise to such
a belief, are still visible, that the restoration of ami.,
cable relations with America, is an event that, how-,
ever desirable or necessary to heal the wounds so
deeply inflicted on our national interests and honour,
is not likely to come upon RS very suddenly. So
long as it continues to be asserted in the elegant lan-
guage of the vehicles of Government sentiment, " that
any treaty signed by the vagabond Geneve:* GAUL.
TIN, or by JOEL BARLOW'S iederstrapper, Mr. JONA.,
1 THAN RUSSELL, would be to Great Britain at once a
degradation and a snare,"—so long as more depend-
ence is placed on the divisions in New England than
on unanimity in Old England, and our Ministers
shall think of extracting glory and unity, power and
peace, and national prosperity, out of discord and
the efforts of faction, in keeping alive and extending
the flames of war,—so long may we expect to see
the resources and the energies of the country wasted
in a pursuit as hopeless, foolish, and destructive, as
ever disordered the brain of the most infatuated al-
chymist seeking for the philosopher's stone among
pf every thing ietriusiadly

ROYAL RUNT.—A numerous field of sportsmen
of all•descriptions assembled near Staines; on Frik
day morning, to join in the Royal Hunt. The deer
went off in a fine style across the enclosures, making
towards Ashford Common, and then taking towards.
Hattipton.Coort, where he made a leap into Sashay-
_ ..
Commodore Owen arrived at ihartsesoutk on Sa- park, and ran for a considerable time attempting to
turday, to hoist his broad pendant on board the get out of the park by leaps, but failed in the at...
Niobe Captain Macon, preparatory to his salting tempts. He then made back to the psrt of the wall
for Canada. The Niobe wilt take out a number of where he entered, and he there escaped out of the
artillerymen and artificers, to be employed in Aim- park ; making a double to the left, he crossed the'
OM. She is expected to sail the moment she is River Thames with great alacrity ; a number of
ready, should the wind prove favourable. Major- sportsmen had given up the chase; those who re-
General Sir GEORGE Multare Is alai ping. nut in rnained went over to Hampton Court-bridge, and
the Niebe. renewed their pursuit on the Surrey-side; but the
It is said, the last dispatches from Canada decided deer soon took to the water again, and get on one of
the question of bringing Sir GEORGE PREVOST to a the heights, where he remained some time, setting his
Court-Martial, which, we understand, will be or.: pursuers at defiance,but the hounds approaching him,
dered accordingly. be took to the water once more, and got safe on the
The reason for assembling a pending Court-Mar. • Surrey shore, but was soon after taken in a Gentle-
tint at Wiacheiltr, is alleged to be, for the awns.• s park near Waltham. It rained during nearly
.sodation of the naval witnesses. the whole of the hunt.
In one of the conferences at Vioana, tt is said t On Wednesday last a fellow of the name of Wit-
that when Prince TALLEYRAND urged the *dee of netts Precool was convicted
haedbvng ince
efioretdheeVd a o
ice-Pro.
preserving the independence of Saxony, and of eei West of Ennis, Ireland, it
!panting the rights of legitimism Sosvorldgus,„ adding! Oar of the 18th regiment to dispose of his firelock
that France could not assent Is the spollations whisk and for which, it appears, Freeman had given him
were contemplated, the nesperor or Etyma. replied ss. 10fd. Freeman appointed a place for meeting
with heat, that he lad 4001000 men to enforce the and receiving Ms purchase—the soldier was punctual,
claims to indemnity whinh were proposed, and they . but he bad previously communicated the circuit,-
should forth with advance. !Celia), tie," obeireed stance, and Freeman was seized, with his prize well
m.TALLzysank, i‘ yaw' p Mai avilljaan" secured under his great coat. lie was sent to jail
--46 Lose !" interrupted A *II for thrie mouths, Or to pay a fine of 51. within four
I,yissork.:,l4 You wjil lossdagatm his conviction.
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'Peetptcotor of Eutteptk" .--The Loss MAYOR, after inspecting the
The Veit erbotkn, Knape, 'from Lqadmaiiptito: rn% ordered the Price of bread
' sallies, is put into Dartmouth, with damage. tee be Satu
the aitiem lest week.