The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-05-12 00:00:00

THE STAI

Excellency's first attention was directed to the pri-
sons; and he learned with satisfaction that, b 1 the
orders of the rrefect, mire than 4,0 indieiduals• had
been already restored le liberty. • .
The ,12 lortresses.of the Deportment of the North
.have been freed from a state of siege. • •
FnAtezeonT, MAY 3.—The Duke of Saxe-Cobur.-
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will to-morrow take possession of Mentz. We ex-
pect with impatience the arrival of the Ments boat
this evening, ns, according to recent Intelligence,
the garrison of that town is in a state of insurrec-
time The 011icers have arrested one of their Chiefs,
whom they accuse of having retained money destined
for their pay. The National Guard bas taken•up
arms to maintain tranquillity. . .
' LEGHORN, APRIL 15.—0 n the 13th, arrived herei'
four deputies from the Provisional .Government of
Bustin. According to their report, the 'inhabitants
Itad.risen in arms, being exasperated by the violence
exercised to extort from •them a sum of 500,000
francs. De Launay, the Commandant of the for-
tress, pointed the guns upon the city ; but the Inha-
1 hitatits were already masters of the port of SI. PRICE OF STOCKS TlllB
IGeorge, and bad repulsed Geii. Casalta, who was 1 Bank tsoi e.
:coming with reinforcements. The citadel was taken, 1 p?.:L.ne"t`..co ii_ j
vnus.. 41ife
I the garrison disarmed, and tote Commandant, with I per Cents. Sliif iii
sent, Staff, arrested. The garrison of Bastia, at pre.. IL,7icAentint.. Li!viiiii
sent, consists of 300 Croatian prisoners, who had ',' '
been released. Events of a similar description have; ••-•-•-•-'
I taken place in various parts of the island.
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Berthier is at Ajaccio, where he seems dis
defend Itheself. Next day, a Provisional o ......
ment of 13 members was formed. All the impris
clergy men have been liberated. The deputation
come to apply to Lord Llentinck. for the protection
!England. -'
The politics of England are so tortuous, that it is
BREMEN MALL. as difficult to trace them as to find the way out of a
—rem— ! labyrinth. The streams too of our remaining wealth
BREMEN, MAT 3.—General Fooche, who, as
Tun into other countries through so many channelss
Commissioner from the King of France (according ,
: that we defy the ablest financier, with the most inge-
to the 3d Article of the Convention of the 23d nit.)
is to cause Hamburgh to be delivered up to the nuous disposition, to tell us what our expellees of
I Allies, passed through this town to-day on his' way :. Government are, or what taus are likely to be
to Hamburgh. . _ • . continued or discontinued, from the termination of
BIE EN, MAY s.—Accounts from Blenkenese of . the war. Well might our present CIIANcELLOR of
the 3d, say, that the (lay before above 50 of the ,
the ExCLIEQUER be at a loss to speak positively of t
principal citizens of Ilamburgh visited Ahem, with .
French passports, to the great joy of their friends. the expiration of a most onerous, and consequently a more
General Bennigsen fixed his head-quarters there the I most odious, impost, viz. the Property 7'a.c : aburden produce the results of a maximum in any. of .thewr.
same day. j which thousands of widows and aged helpless people' tides of the fist necessity, is tremetelous to our
LEG,HOItN, APRIL 14.—The brigantine, the St. ! considered themselves as sure of being relieved from at view. The trade in such articles should be free ;it
Catharine, which was dispatched yesterday after:
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; the expiretion of' the war. Numbers of poor crew- seems to us impious to lessen, in the remotest wee,
boon, at two o'clock, by the Provisional Govern.
ment at Bassist, arrived here to-day under atog of turfs, in thin pitiable condition,- would scarcely' wish the bounty of Providence towards the poor. Bread,
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truce, and with French colours, with above 300 men to live but with the hope of relief from this creel as a st.stenanee, only concerns the poor as to in
of the French colonial battalion. ' Half an hour after privation. Ten per cent. taken from their pittance, price : the rich are scarcely affected thereby, ~lice.
arrived a felucca, with four Deputies froth the Pre- arid as much or more added to the price of articles Bier the loaf costs one er two shillings.
:•visional Government, from wheel He learn the fol. of
, the first ilocessity since it was. laid on, have left the Petitions which hare bean presented by the
lowing particulars : .
them only enough to drag on ►a miserable existence. .different manufacturing towns against the' Corn Bill,
1 The inhabitants of Bastia, weary of the French
!
~Government, nod incensed by the violent measures 'To add to all this, they are told by a Parliamentary will no doubt influence the minds of many inde-
i. which General Berthier sought to employ in order Baronet, not to expect bread to, be so cheap as the pendent Members of Parliament, and we select the
.to compel the payment of 500,000 francs, made, on I abundant crop which Providence pours upon following from the merchants, manufacturers, tra-
the 11th instant, an attempt to deliver themselves.— . the earth might ante it to be, for that un- dins, and olber inhabitants of the Town and County
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Mr. de Lauhay, the Governor of the fortress, who I
less the price of grain be kept up, the farmers of Newcastle•upon-Tyne e---
• had 2000 men, pointed the cannon against the town ' • -
66 That your Petitiohers, ever anxious for
,the
but the inhabitants had already .seized the St. cannot pay such high rents as are demanded
of them. But then it is in the nature of the question happiness andprosperity of United
the Kingdom,
George's gate, and General Casalta, who endea-
' veered to bring up a reinforcement, was compelled - which • Madame ne Genus puts into .the mouth of have learnt with the deepest regret that certain al-
to retreat by the firing which the inhabitants kept tip, -the young lady, in one of her jevenile Comedies, terations of the existing Corn Laws have been pre.
The citadel was then taken, the garrison disarmed, t who being tortured lws the crimping irtins of her posed to Parliament, having for their'avowed ab-
, and the Commandant, with his Staff, placed under i.r iseur, complained how much she suffered, and jest the raising of the import prices 61 grain.
arrest. Three hundred Croats, who were thus set d:d
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free, now form the the garrison of the town. was told by her mamma, that she must suffer to be a i That your Petitioners are of opluion that does
. , Similar scenes have taken place at St. Fiorenza, : fine lady—when thechild, with more plain good sense :alterations are of a nattire calculatedito,,insohe the
Capraja, Porto Pernik), in Corsica, and other ' than her proud parent, replied : is there any neces- n vital prosperity of the country, and to compromise
places.—General Berthier is at Ajaccio, and seems' city to be a fine Indy, then, mamma!: The dialogue - its commercial greatness for the temporary advantage
inclined yto defend himself against the citizens. The tanzu
next des a Provisiotnil Government was formed of in French is, 64 Oh an aniline je souffre! of the opulent Landholders of the kingdom. lb
•11 find soulfrir ~our etre belle. illais farm a i " That your Petitioners cannot but remarlrwith
13 Members, of which Mr. Velem' is President, and .
man 2" So we do not dee,. , the most unfeigned regret, the unhallowed attempts
a new Nlunicipality—M. Cicione, President. All . etre belle donc ma . J i
the Priests who were in prism' are liberated. : but that the price of corn, and the other pro. jof the men who are not only endeavouring to render
j It appears. that the Deputation desires to ask : duce of the land, must be kept up to enable ;of little advantage to the people the enjoyment of the
assistance from Lord Bentitick. the farmer to pay such high rents—but is it of . blessings the Divine Goodness is now pouring upon
i BRUSSELS, #PRIL 26.—The following particulars :
necessity that such high rents must be demanded?— die nation; but also to spread ruin and devastation
irespecting the fate of the Empress, on the approach
Must Legislators employ their time and ingenuity to throughout our manufactories, annihilate the fereigit
of the allied troops to Paris, have been made known :
:put such things out of the course of nature. Must markets i
, and force the emgration of our artists to
upon authority that may be depended on :
44 The eyes of most people were turned upon the: they legislate to avert, or lessen, the bounty of Provi- countries where the means of supporting them may
i Empress. Many proposals were made to this Princess dente: towards the people, in order to secure great.. be the more easily attained."
Ito leave Paris. and to throw herself on the protec- incomes from the land to its proprietors?--The —saie--
- ' lion of the Allies, but she rejected them all, said de- , .
The Journal des Dchais says, 44 For some days re- Seriptures say,' It was ordained that the eartta
claret! fast,
at that she desired to be spared all.per-
ports hate been circulated in Paris, that the publicshould be mati's inheritance. The Representatives
suasion to this and similar steps, she 1. 1
as , wits trot y
tranquillity of N:iples has been disturbed. The Ger- resolved to share the fate of her husband, whatever of the men of Kieland, surely, will not consent to
man Jourtia!s seem to give some countenance to
it might be. She abided by this revolutioit' and he- have their constinients considered as. interlopers on
these rumoers.
The" are letters, however, from cause Napoleon either wished that slut should
notthe soil which gave them birth? These reflections
Naples, dated 27ib April, which state, that the .e, •
i ive the city, except in case of the utmost necessity, hare, in
most profound calm reigned there, and that the King 9 ave a great measure, arisen from what we read
she remained there as lona as possible, and it is, '
was expected every moment from his head-quarters,in foreign. journals, respecting the profuse apt:once-
not Ithatleft the city h 'N'
therefore, rue she ie y A it-
which were at Bologna on the 25th." of English money to the views of almost lions , every
' every hour the disorder and confusion encreased.-t- one of the great personages now figuring on the con-
service
of Bavaria, arrived here on the 30th ult. It •I'he real adherents [of Napoleon showed more and tinental theatre .of politics. The following, fur in-
is believed that he has brought dispatches relative to : more that they knew not what to do. Their Coon stance, is extracted from the Brussels Gazdte; and
the evacuation of our fortress. The sending a Bava- sits and orders, partly contradictory, partly ire- •
Tian ollicen for the evacuation of the fortress would though there are other sources of information.more
practicable, only increased the confusion. As the
confirm the opinion that Bavaria gives up the Inn-to be relied on than that, yet wherever there is smoke
Icoming of the Allies was wished or varitros
feared,
Viertel and
. • the 'Tyrol to Austria ; and that thet reports for against the probability of it, were and heat, thelat must be some fire or fermentation ;
Grand Duke of kVurtzlitire will be reinstated in the
e . spread. A crowd of people assembled on the place the article comes too, accompanied with other cm-
Grand Duch- of Tu.-an :
j . y but as it appears certain , Vendome, and were preparing to poll down .Na- tentative intelligence,gives it ' air
that
that Mentz wll he also given up to the Bavarian ;
, poleon's statue, when they were deterred by another probability.
troops, we may augur that Aschatfeliburg and some :swarm who lt is as follows : I
assertedth had, swarm,
Sm-
other district; will serve to connect Mentz with the " The great preparations that are here making for
peror would enter the city in the evening as coo.
other Bavarian possessions. queror. On the 28th of March, a disinterested spec-
the reception of persons of distinction, are probably .1
nnoCee al ATION. ' later might foresee what would happen. Already not preparatory to a Congress, but to the arrives of
" The Impeilal Commissary, Hannibal Marquis
Seminarian, &r. takes possession in the name of the j white cockades were, distributed, and the .adherents' the Prince Sovereign of the NEVIEKLANDQ, to whom
High Allied Toners, of the departments, districts, of Napoleon diminished more and more. 'Those, .it is affirmed that Austria is to cede the Netherlands,
however, who either out of inclination or interest
towns, and all other places that have not yet been and to receike for them a large sum from England
conquered in the kingdom of Italy by the Allied still •
adhered to him, ardently wished that the Em- - • s
press might not leave Paris, as they hoped to obtain, :which sum is to be employned
nin redeeming the Vienna
enders.
" He invites the people of Italy to•wait with con- by her means, ;Oa r-mone ) .." ' •
a reconciliation, with the Emperor of .{lager-motley. . • . •
fidence and tranquillity the precious benefits of peace, Austria, and through him with all the rest of the —lf we are in this manner to be the paymasters of
. which, thanks to the glorious exploits of the Allied Allies; but the majority, who were already gained - every Court in Europe, powerful or petite, We shall
for Louis XVIII. endeavoured to obviate this re have will he spread over all Europe. have need of cheap breach, 'at least to encourage 129 r
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44 Ile confirms the Provisional Regency at Milan, source. o this end they mixed among a crowd Of
manufacturers and artisans, so as to prevent a rivalry
anti all the public functionaries who have not quitted people whom they strove to ponvince that any.
their post either in the said city or in the above- diadem it. weich the Empress might succeed, woeid .In the competition of other countries in the produce I
mentioned departments and places. prolong Napoleon's sway, and with that the misery of British merchandize, or we can never draw that
• v. anlaa, evil 26. SOMMARIVA." of France. The people flocked to the Palace of the money back again into our exhatisted coffers.
Empress, and uttered threats if she did not withdraw. A Vienna *article of the 21st April, 'states, that
" This Princess had now no choice, and she left
England is to he indemnified with respect to other
Paris (not on the 28th of March, as was said by some,
but) on the 30th, not 24 hours before the Allies en. dishersements of a like nature?. in the Empire, by
tered it." . 1 keeping the.Duteh colonies; and that not only the

nightleses for makings pcobisioll for 'And
Beresforti.

Lord Vi.c. wit NI Jill , in A rPW words,
bore tilc merit: cf Lord Lieresiord.
The Add %yip' agreed to nein. ills:.
All tho .v(!iiros!,es were ordered to he presented to
his Ro. al iii;liness the Prince Regent by the Lords
with ‘,4. like staves.

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India Stork 196
India Build, 7 S p
Exchequer Ili% 2 5 p
Omnitun 19tt1
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Cuiuthis fur Acc. 67iii

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_7411E STATESMAN.

LONDON:

TITUASDAY, MAY 122 1814.

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• French Papers to the 10th instant, were received
this morning :--
Pmts, MAY P.—Yesterday there was a rnerli
review in the Carousel, and in the Court of the
'fbuilleties, of twelve legions of the' National Guard
of Paris, the cavalry of the same. guard, numerous
corps of the ancient guard, likewise the ancient in-
fantry and cavalry of Ihe line of all descriptions. •
The. troops &Mod for three hours before the Kin',
who was surrounded by the Princes, Marshals. and
great Officers of his Household. An immense crowd
filled the Careusel, the quays, the bridges, and all
the surrounding places. In passing before his Ma.
jesty at the sound of martial music, which played
the favocrite national airs, the officers and soldiers
incessantly shouted Vire le Roi! The cry pecan e
universal, and enthusiasm at its height. Afier the
review, his Majesty showcd hintsel sensible to the
acclamations of an immense multitude assern'yleil
upon the terraces of the gat-den, by oppearin4 seve-
ral times at the balcony of his apartments, art, beill4
greatly affected at the shouts, a thousand time; rt.
pealed of Vice le Roi ! fire M:rd. la' Dlcitc-r,::
d'Angoulemc ! Vicent les Bourboav !
.To-clay the King will hold a Levee in the Hall d
the Throne, for the Dukes,, Marshals, Spattibh
Grandees, Ambassadors, men doing the hotrours rf
.the Louvre, who could not he present at the last.—
In the Hall of Peace, for the Generals of Brigade
who have not yet been preseit'ed to his Majesty ;
the General Officers of the liar establishment of
1792.; the Prefects, the men who had been pro.
seated to Louis X VI. and others in divers offices nod
places who shall only receive notices.—At eight
o'clock in the evening, in the . Hall of the Throne,
the Lathes of Dukes, P4rsbals and Spanish Gram.

Lisr.r, MAY 4.—Marshal Mortier, Duke of Tre-
viso, Extraordinary Commissioner of his Majesty,
yesterday received the Authorities of the Depart-
ment of the North and of Lisle, at his hotel- His