The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-03 00:00:00

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i• the Goveriinient upon this part of the subject.— to be allowed to present it. It will, of course, yea
When the Boa. Gentleman spoke of nine millions main for the Livery of London to determine what!
additional exposes in freight since the war, he be- •
line tney are to pursue, upon an" occasion so nearly I
lieved that it must occur to every British merchant,
affecting their privileges. , 1
that the pace of the goods must have increased with 4 • ."- --ems—
the freight, and been an indemnity for it, lie really
A gentlemas_per ho is a resident in Leeds) and
could lot sec what practical conclusion was to be .
drawn from the speech of his !lon. 'Friend, or whether who left that to only on Wednesday last, informs
he waled advise them to advance or retreat in the , us, that it theiV,
„ore the appearance of a complete
present negotiation. When it had been proposed to I garrisoned town.. So great were the apprehensions t
renew the Charter on the basis of the Act of 1793, the of the inhabitantsv that horsuand foot guards were
answer of the Minister was in a few words : " this is .
continually arriving, bbth of which were doing re-
totally inadmissible." If the Directors, then, were
gular dety, day and night, patrolling the streets,
to negotiate at all, it must he done on some basis ,
while the militia were stationed and relieved, in re.
which the Government would not reject at once as
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totally inadmissible. gular form, at the gates of the various manufasto.
Mr. GRANT, in explanation, said, that he did nett des, to prevent the mills being destroyed.
mean to throw the slightest blame upon the Coen of _ 1 ......sime--
Directors, but that the observations which be had. ' It is said that an express from St. Petersburgh,
made were applied merely to the Resolution pro- which left that capital long after the mail, has
posed) Used not at all to those polies in the negocia- I
! brought letters from thence to the 4th ult. in which
Sion which had been conceded. They were then met
, it is stated that the Russian army, on the frontiers of
as the Court of Proprietors, which was, in fact, the
East India Company. lie thought, therefore, that Poland, amounts to 200,090 men ! that the Empe-
it was DO reason to prevent the Proprietors from ex- ror ALEXANDER is to take the command of this;
pressing strongly the reluctance they felt to giving up army in person ; that Baron littacLav DE TOLLS,
the exclusive trade, that the Directors had expressed
and Generals &Nemeses, and D'ARMPELDI are to i
strongly the same sentiment in their negotiation with
serve under him ; and that several new taxes had been ,
the Government. If this were& reason, there would .
imp osed in Russia, in consequence of the demands
be no occasion for assembling a Court of Proprietors.
What he wished, was to strengthen the hands of the on the treasury which these vast preparations had oc-
Directors by a Resolution of the Court of Proprie. , casioned. We notice these reports merely to say, that
tors in the same s.pue• rjt. they appear to us altogether unfounded.. Is her best
Sir Mva Lootatiaaid, that there could be littie days, Ramie could rimier Meg a griatterferce haw Able
different.' of opinion in that Court, if the question
field against France than 80 or 90,000 men. This we'
rested with them, -whether they were to keep the
state on the authority of Sir ROBERT WiLsox-
trade or to part with it. It must, however, be con.
sidered not merely what they wished to have done, How then can she muster more than double that
but what it was practicable to do. In the year 1799, number, when her armies have been so recently demi..
ell the ports of the Continent and of North Ame- nished in her contest with 'rerkey ?• The population'
vica were open to the speculations of British trier-
of Russia will not admit of such extensive levies.
chants ; whereas now they are clised against them.
What men it could spare, have already been sent to
It was natural, therefore, for the merchants to ,
wish to open new markets ; but be feared that . the banks of the Danube. Of the return of these
their sanguine hopes from those of India would ; to St. Petersburgh, we have heard nothing.. Indeed,
be mach disappointed. The Directors had cer- so far from these fortes being expected, recent accounts
taiuly satiny difficulties to contend with in the from that city state,that additional troops had been sent
negotiation. The. Company had almost the uni-
by forced marches, to reinforce the army fighting
vernal voice of the country against them on the toes-
against the Musselmen. It is curious to observe the
Lion of their monopoly, and they should therefore
be well united among themselves, and not enter calcaiations of some Journals, when they wish to
into controversies on trifling points When they were promote a particular object. Only a few weeks ago,
all agreed in substance. The debts which they had when the Ministerial Prints had formed a new coati..
incurred were unavoidable, as it wits only by incur- lion between this country, Russia, Prussia, Sweden,
ring debt that increased eapences can be met in that
country, as the mode of increasing taxation in this and even Dmunark., which.was effectually to humble
country cannot be applied to India. He considered • the" Tyrant of the Continent," it was most cone-
the greatest dangers which were to be apprehended deutly stated,that Prussia had 150,000 men ready for
to an Indian Empire were from the introducing the the field, who were all burning with ardour
principles of colonization. 1
,to be led forth to rid the earth of this mon-
Mr. TWINING conceived, that however desirable it
stet! Now that they are compelled to admit
might be for the Company to retain -the exclusive
trade, it was absolutely impossible for the Directors the existence of the alliance which has been
to prevail upon Government to accede to it. : formed between that same monster and Prussia, they
Mr. KNOX said, that as an old servant of thiliCom- '
; as confidently assert, that FREDERICK is unable.to
pang, he could bear i testmony that the dhngen !
furnish more troops than 25,000! We repeat, what
stated by she Directors in their correspondence with
the'lliiiiieter 'OPP not etaggented.
re
,„ , ...we slave again and again stated, that we see no a-
Mr. R. Tummy thought that the Company werisyr u whatever to expect the sword will be ireilieathest
1w no means in ercumstaucos to dictate their bwn lat present in the North.. Messengers may, have
teems to the Government, especially as they must passed through Berlin from Paris for St.Petersburgh,
eery soon apply for A loan of not less than six mil. ' and vice versa. BONAPARTE and the King of Pecs.
lions. In being snowed to retain the exclusive trade af t may have fixed on a meeting at Dresden, and
to China, they were, however, allowed the mono- :French troops may be expected to visit Konigsberg.
pole of that which was by much the most important'
and profitable branch of their commerce. As to the But, as all this eta be easily accounted for on core-
subjects of an increased iNvidend, and exemption , mercial grounds, we are persuaded A LF.X A :men is not
from Income Tax, they had been urged to the Go- : such a fold as to risk the loss of his Empire, by au
iernment, but unsuccessfully. I inconsiderate opposition to the schemes of NAPO•
Mr, Jacesow, in explanation, said that he had 1 LEON.
been misunderstood when he was supposed to hare
proposed the increase of the dividend now. What
he had stated was, that neither by a promise of an
increased dividend now, at any future time, nor in
any other manner whatever, had an equivalent been
oaercd.

Every ccommunication from our armies before Ba-
dajos, will be perused with avidity at this interesting
moment, whether it come in an official form or not.
The following letters from British Officers, dated one
day later than the last dispatch from Earl WE'LLING*
TON, were brought by the same packet which con-
veyed the messenger from Ms Lordship
" Camp before Badajos, Marc), 21, 1812.
" The Earl of WELLING/0N arrived at Elvis on
the 12th. On St. Patrick's day, this auspicious day,
the-ground was broke, and firing commenced. On
that day the Commander-hr-Chief of the British, the
Commander-in-Chief of the Portuguese, u well as
many of the leaders, -and a great proportion of the
Gallant army being sons of Erin, they opened on the
French. The weather was unfavourable, and the siege ,
is likely to be protracted.. The enemy has spared nei-.
thee expeoce nor skill to render it agreat strong week.
and it is garrisoned by nearly 5000 picked troops;upl
Some time ago, a great proportion of the garrison.
were Poles ; but thr deserted hi such numbers tbei
they were all taken out and replaced by a brigade lit
Germans ; these, however, .being found to desert in
roach number to the Poles, they were withdrawn,
lend some Swiss put in, in the proportion, however,
of three Frenchmen to each Swiss, and taking the
`itrecaiatien never to send them in any bat Poles.'
The taking Badajos will be a 'very arduous task.
The town is now very strong, and natherou.s Out-
works have lately been added. The season is most
unfavourable; hut, if the French army does not
make its appearance, Badajos will certainly fall.
The army is in high health* and in the greatist.
spirits; their confidence in their illustrious leader is
unbounded, and there is absolutely nothing that
under him they would net attempt. Lately the,
sailors of the Sad at Lildron, made a. request that
they might be.marebed to the army, and fight under
the Earl. of WILLIXOTOIII. The tars are indignant
at being quiet, and every account that reaches Lisbon
of a gallant achiesement by the soldiers vexes than.
The poor cemetonians an quite hers de cont4ot,and
have been sent to e to do garrisdn duty. The
Royal Miring, ildinespity ago were sent out, eat)
have sintiassidoll44d duties, are embarked and
low kee* This. kriletillOi corps has bees of the

After a desultory conversation, the resolutionti
rroposed by Mr. Jackson and M►. Grant ere incor-
;2orsted in one resolution, • which was passed unani-
mously.
The CHAIRMAN then (after some explanations,
sad stating that of the six millions, not more titan
two and an half would probably be wanting in the
ensuing year); 'proposed to read the Petition which
had been prepared, and which he conceived to be so
much a mattes, of form as badly to require another
Court to be astembled to consider it.

The PelflD VAS then read and agreed to, and
the Conit adjoarned.

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