The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-07-08 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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To rsE EDITOR er rin STATESMAN.

SIR,-1 beg you will permit me, through your
truly respectable Paper, to notice what I humbly
presume to be a notorious and gross injustice.
To enumerate the various advantages enjoyed by
Military .over Naval ()Seers, would require many
pages; 1 here, however, only intend adverting to a
single one.
It is scarcely necessary to observe, that many cir-
cumstances Base in the course of public life, which
induce a man to wish for retirement, and that species
of domestic tranquillity Which cannot be expected
while engaged in the aclive duties of his profession ;
amongst these ill health, wounds , and length of ierrice,
are of course the most prevalent, hese, together nit h
others of a idss urgent description, continue to enable
Officers to retire from the Army doily, some on pen-
sions, and others with whole or half-piy, wherea3 in
the Nary no such privilege elide, except in a very
limited degree.

The loss of a kg, arm, or eye, innumerable sears,
or fifty years' service, do not exempt Officers from
being called upon to serve, unless previously enabled
to make sufficient interest at• the Admiralty Board
(an inferior department of the Administration) to
obtain superannuation, the only term in use for re-
Aired Naval Officers—the serious inconveniences
arising from this part of the system can easily be
illustrated.

There are very few instances of Officers being dv-
sirous to enter into active service from mere too-
Om; of zeal or personal ambition, after severe
wounds, or unrequited and long services, owing to
abuse of patronage and other cau,es. On esantitiq-
lion it will be found that two.thitds of those who
have solicitud employment under such circumstance*,
did so either with a view of obtaining advancement,
or bettering their pecuniary conct,ttis; and more-
oyer, if the " Rules of the Service" had permitted
their being provided
,for in any thittg like an ade-
quate manner at home, they would not have again
courted the perils of a treacherous element, and,
what is far worse, " the spurns which patient merit
from the unworthy takes."
1 would only here ask, is it prudent to leave that,
which is of the highest moment to the public inte-
rest to the discretion of a few individuals, without
any legally defined rule to restrain or guide them ?
Let any one, however superficially acquainted with
the subject, reflect on this case, and he will, no
doubt, readily agree in the utility which would ttri.e
from doing away with so wide a dfstindioa between
the two professions.
It has for some years been a constant complaint
at the Admiralty, that the Lists of Commanders and
Lieutenants were so large as to preclude the hopes of
• many who might otherwise have been promoted ; this
Iwould not be the case if retirement were allowed
(as it is in the Army).---When enquired into it will
I be seen there are hundreds on both Lists who would
gladly retire, and could, without any difficulty, esta-
blish their well-grounded claims to it.
I am, Sir, your very bumble servant,
Jul) 3,1815. it. P. N.

cant Los au came to Plymouth in the Redpole
of war, Captain Elvotax, and went from that
tcer's house, in George-street, Plymonth-dock,
Sunday afternoon last, to Ashburton, accom-
ied by two other French Officers. Ashburton is
depot for the Officers.
`oiler is noticed in the Paris Papers as fol-
We learn from Marseilles that MuttaT
ted Antibes to take the waters of Greauls, in
ty. It is also reported that he died at Lyons, in
house of the President of the Imperia! Court."
lauy of our wounded officers and men are re-
Ting fast, and rejoining the army. There are at
moment in Brussels upwards of 20,000 sick and
inded British, Belgic, Hanoverian, and a few
isians. Most of the wounded French are seat to
werp.
)unt Muerreit unexpectedly arrived in London
,'uesday night, from Hanover, and had long in-
iews with the PRINCE REGENT, on Wednesday
yesterday.
Eamon, of Covent-garden, has taken-the Mar-
Theatre for the ensuing season, and has already
engaged many Performers of the first celebrity.
Detachments from the Life Guards, Horse Guards,
Guards, and Waggon Train, have arrived and
aided at Ostend, as well as some regiments from
•tb America, all of which were marched off the
Ant they landed.
The States-General of Holland, in testimony of
gratitude for the exertions of the Prince of
.ANOIL in the Nutlet of the 16th and 18th of June,
• come to a revolution, to present his Royal High-
, with the domain of Soestdyk, with all its depen-
derides, in the frame of the Dutch people, to be held
• him in full property; and to fit up and furnish I WATERLOO, JUNE 20.—The regiments that dis-
Royal Hunting seat there at the public expence. anguished themselves as particularised by the Duke,
tonument in honour of the troops is also to be are in Major-General Sir DENts PACK'S. and Colonel
_red on the domain. , Sir PHILIP BeLsoN's brigade. These eight regiments
Theinhabitants of Rotterdam, in imitation of those lost, on the 16th instant, in killed and wounded
the Hague and Amsterdam, have cent a sum of Officers, 150; and men, 1320. On the 18th their
3000 guilders for the use of the wounded at Brussels, loss was more considerable. The victory has left
besides lint, shirts, handkerchiefs, and other articles, the 79th Highland regiment in command of a
their better accommodation. The subscriptions subaltern Officer—the 28th regiment of a junior Cap.
still continued, and it was intended to raise a taio—and the 95th of a Brevet Major. These regi-
-a for the behoof of the widows and children of :wants composed Col. Sir PHILIP BELSoN's brigade.
those who had fallen. Those of Major-General Sir DENIS PACK have suf-
By letters from Brussels we learn, that the Prince fered as great a loss, particularly the 42d regiment.
)ex,rce was so perfectly recovered of his wound Colonel CAMERON, of the 92d, who has so often
,o determine to set out to join the Duke of WEL- bled for his country, was shot in three places, and'
!GTON on Thursday last. The Marquis of AN- died of his wounds. 'Three brigades composed Sir
IE4 was also so well as to be actually trying the T. PICTON's (the sth) division, who was killed early
of his crutches in his room. in the action. Major-General Sir J. KEMPT suc.
'he following is from a Brussels Paper of the ceeded to this division, and had five horses shot un-
inst. :—" His Royal Highness the Prince of der him. Major-General Sir Mors PACK had two,'
,)(GE went last tight to the Theatre. lie was re- and was wounded ; and Colonel Sir Paiute BELSON
red with transports approaching even to delirium, had three horses killed under him.
. some couplets naturally enough introduced into The New York Papers contain an account of some
scene of the piece called the Ceetle. then perform- documents lately published at St. Domingo, by order
, expressed the sentiments of the Belgians towards of CHRISTOPIIE, relative to the agents sent by the
cherished Prince. By an ingenious piece of me- French Government to St. Domingo, and a proposal
tism, a laurel crown descended, in order to cir- made by CHRIsTOPHE to PETION for a union of the
'he brows of the young warrior, which redoubled Haytians. PLTION, it appears, rejected the pro-
general joy. Never were affection and gratitude posal, stating, that Cuntstorne offered titles with!
da) ell in a more frank and ample manlier. When one hand, while he carried a dagger in the other.
Prince left the Theatre, the horses were taken Count LIMONADE, one of CitatstoewE's Ministers,
rtn his carriage by a great number of people, and has addressed PETION'S subjects, on that rejection.—
was drawn to his hotel under an escort of the city Ile says the Deputies were received well by every
trd on horseback." one'.eacept I'vrioN himself, accuses him of having
)rders have been issued to re-enlist men belong- made a Treaty eith BONAPARTE and protected • a
10 ill the foreign regimens., serving in America, French spy, and declares that he believes him to bat
nose period of s.ers ice bad 'wired. sold to the French whites.

To THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.

MR. Enitoa,—What are we fighting for? Why
to restore to the French nation the blessings of a le-
gitimate Illonarchy, the pririledged Castes, the
Heirarchy, the sacred rights of Primogeniture, Tithes,
and the Game Lazes, for many of which we are in-
debted to the illegitimate head of a legitimate race of
Kings, Wird.' AM Duke of NORMA ND y, their country-
man, our conqueror. Would it not be wiser to keep
these blessings to ourselves, and leave those ungrate-
ful scroundrels, the French, to be cursed by the want
of them ? Why should this happy country be made a
dark lanthoro, to enlighten its urgreatful neighbours.
Your's,
ANTH. PA SQUIN, A. J.
* Aeti-Jacobin.

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• THEATRICALS.
K iNG'S THEATRE. , r
The entertainments here on Thursday night, foi.
tie benefit of the Widows and Orphans of those
brave men who so gallantly Ml, supporting , their
country's Interest and. glory on the plains of Water—
loo, IP are happy ,n state were brilliantly attended.
The buttes were filled with beauty and fashion, and
the pit and gallery were crowded., The whole of the
evening's performance went off with great eclat. At
the conclusion of the flatlet, Mr. ELUSION, with
his usual ability, spoke a patriotic Address, written,
we understand, on the spur of the otrision. many of
the points of which %ere favourably received. At
the close of the Address, Mr. ELLisTort advanced to
the audience and said—

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" Ladies and (:roll; not de,ire4 by the Manager to in-
form MI. gilt/ I feel vers. proud io tieing the he:•ter of t.ucli
glorious tidings, 'Mutt his Genre ihr Duke ot N GTO N if
pow iu Pori,. A Messenger has naked unit the ioteiligeace
at Colton-house."

At this gratifying information, loud hnzzls si-
multaneously burst from all parts of the house, and
reiterated cries of God save the Mac, but this form-
ing a part in Beciuoveses Brand Battle Zinfonia, it
immediately commenced, and produced the same
rapturous applause which has always followed its per-
formance elsewhere. At its close, " God save the
King" *as admirably sung by Madame Svzst, assist-
ed by GitIGLIaTTI, AMU!, ELLiSTON, &c. aril loud-
ly -cborubed by the whole house. Want of space
prevents oer particularising the other parts of the
evening's amusements all of . which reflected great
credit, as on the taste and liberality of the Mana-
ger, as the skill and stilenta of the Performers.

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Hubner-La Kai 4 appeared last night,
for the last time this season,. at Drury-lane. The
performance nes attended with more than the usual
interest ; and, notoithstaiiiling the numbers that
have left rose's for the summer, a!I pails, of the
house were crowded at an early hour. The Chit-
faders in which Mr. KE.s appeared, were those of 1
Oday. ian, in the play of the itlonnlcinrers, and Abel;
Dragger. in the comedy, non in two acts, under
the tole of the Tobacconist. Octavian is one of
those charade's that are said to be, nut of nature;
it is not easy to see how . that character can be
lost of nature, which is not only in unison with
our feelino, but which almost pl.sces our sympathies
upon the rack. To give an adequate portrait of Oc-
tavian requires the very perfection of the tragic
a rt—e calm, steady, and discriminating conception of
she nail:rat transition of those tumultuous feelings
that rack the soul—from that terrible awl pitiable,
and therefore most tragic of all the passions, despair,
through the various fluctuations of doubt, hope, fear,
revenge, and lose, produciug, in'their conflict, those
frenzied ravings. of a wounded spirit, which in
the last stage of amiction retains its might,
even in the midst of. its own ruin. To give adequate
expression to situations and sentiments like these, re.
quires that tension of every nerve of the body, and
every faculty and feeling of the soul, which can alone
be exerciser) by the very highest order of tragic
genius. It %soukd he alnico!' to form a finer boa-
gination of this trying character then that of Mr.
fir x—his conception stud eseaution of the passion
of despair was one of those flashes of celestial
fire by which an audience is at once electrified and
enlightend. He appeared congealed into a state of
settled horror "as if," to borrow an expression
from a recent 'Tragedy, " Death had left him in life's
attitude." His first interview with Floranthe, and
the whole of that trying scene of tenderness and
' terror were wrought up to the highest pitch, and ap-
plauded to enthusiasm. Even those passages which
appear in reading unreasonable, and eten frigid
flights to the most vivid imagination, electrified the
audience through the magical medium of Mr. Kw's
acting. There were some minor passages which we,
have seen given with greater effect, but, upon the
whole, a finer representation of Octavian hes been
rarely seen. His voice, considering its great exer-
tion, was unusually powerful and pleasing—never
producing that painful sensation upon the ear. which
is so much lamented in a few passages of Richard
and of Luke.

In the afterpiece of The Tobacconist (a horrible
mutilation of llem Jowsox's Akhymist), Mr. KEAN
sustained, for the second time, the part of Abet
Drugger. lie here displayed very great talents as a
lute ("median. From this specimen, we are inclined
to believe that his Scrub would be excellent.