The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-01 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN:

Prussia is making great exertions to fortify her
new acquisitions against futures inisasion from France..
We could have imagined that FRED/RICIE might bare ;
been taught by recent events, theabsordity of plating
trust alone in fortresses; but it Is not easy to teach
some Monarchs wisdom. Even experience often fails
to have this effect. From Mayence a detail is given
of the measures adopted, and in a train of execution
by Prussia, for the purpose of forming a line of for-
tresses on the Prussian frontiers. A fortress of the first
class has been constructed at Minden, on the Weser,
which is intended to cover Lower Saxony, and con,-
mud Westphalia. On the side of France the works
of Saar-louis have been repaired and st rengt hened, arid
at Luxemburg works are carrying on to make it one
of the first fortresses in Europe. Juliers, the works
..! which are very considerable, is to be a grand place
(Vannes. Three large fortresses are also to be erected on
the hanks of the Rhine, between Holland and Bingen,
forming a tine with Mayence, Landau, and two new
fortresses which are to be formed on the Upper Rhine.
The three principal Prussian fortresses on the Rhine,
are to be Wesel, Cologne, and Coblentx ; the last.
mentioned place is to become a fortress of the first
class ; the Works ire to be extended so as to include
all the neighbouring heights, and it is to be further
proteited by the fort of Ehrenbreistein, which is to
be completely repaired.—Cologne is to be rendered
a fortress of immense extent. The ancient wills of
the city have,been adapted to the present state of
military science, and surrounded by a number of
bastions, which are again protected by new towers,
as advanced works, sod further by the little town
of Deets, opposite which is to be made a regular
fortress. Wesel is to be protected on the opposite
side of the Rhine by Fort Blucher. This is an very
fine work for the engineers, and May look very wet
upon paper; but Fort Blucher, and even BLUCHER
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himself, with his terrific whiskers, would oppose but
feeble obstacles to the power of the French armies,
-were 'NAPOLEON again at their head,

Great preparations are making at Aix-la-Chappelle
for the 4proaching Congress. That celebrated, but
deserted city will perhaps be the only gainer by this
meeting.—A chateau (that of Rohe, situated without
the gate of Maestricht, a league from the city) has
been taken, at the rate of 25,000 franc., for the
Emperor of RusetA, and several other houses for his
suite, which was expected to be very numerous.
Minya had also been taken for the Emperor of
AUSTRIA and the King of 'llausstA.—The King of
Paussix, it is said In an article from Betlin, was ex-
pected in that Capital on the 29th or 30th ult. ; but
the period of the arrival of the Emperor of RUSSIA
was dot known.

The Duke of WELLINGTON, we bad by the Flanders
Mail, has at length succeeded in his appeal against
the judgment in favour of the Editor of the Joarnat
of East and West Flanders, who imputed mote in.
fluence to his Grace in the French Councils than he
is willing to allow. The Court has decided, that
the article published in that Paper against his Grace
bore the character of calumny, and condemned the
Editor to one month's imprisonment. costs, &c.—
These Papers speak confidently of the presence of
Lord CASTLEREAGU and the Duke of RICIIELISU at
tha diplomatic negociations of Aix-la-Chapelle.

The trial of Hussey, at the Maidstone Assizes, for
the murder of Mr. BIRD and his housekeeper at
Greenwich, those acts of uncommon barbarity which
have been enveloped in mystery, and excited the
anxious feelings of the Public so long, is of such in-
terest that we have devoted a great part of our Paper
of this day to a report of it. his Defence, as spoken
by himself, is detailed at full length. The trial
finished last night at half-past ten, after lasting 12
boors. Hussey has heefound guilty. The evidence
appears to have been chiefly circumstantial, but sum-
ciently positive in its character.

We are happy to hear that the Friends of Univer.
sal Freedom intend dinipg together on Tuesdaywevk,
in honour of the venerable Father of Reform, Major
CARTWRIGHT ; and to celebrate those principles he
has so long and ably advocated. Several eminent
characters, -foremost in that cause, we understand,
have already signified their intention of being
present. Indeed, all are anxious to pay that
mark of. respect to their veteran Leader,:-and
a most netnerons Meeting is espected. The es-
pence of the Tickets is to be on a scale of eco-
nomy, which we should like to see more generally
adopted ; and we cannot avoid remarking, that
Public Dinners, which ought, from the great number
that generally lit down at them, to be the cheapest,
are latterly the dearest, without having comfort or
accommodation in their favour.
Tug Qusex.--The account of the state of the
Queer; yesterday was very favourable. "her MA.
JESTY has had a very good night, and is meal better
to-day." Princess AUGUSTA left her Royal Mother
after breakfast, about ten o'clock, in a comfortable
elate, and came to London and remained et the
Queen's Palace till about four o'clock, and then re-
turned to Kew.
A latter from Florence of the 14th instant says—
" Yesterday night, his Excellency, Lord BunGneestr,
Ambassador at the Court of Tuscany, gave a splen-
did fete to the Grand Duke and family, the Nobility,
and principal Personages in Florence. At this superb
entertainment, Admiral Sir TUOIdAS FaLEMANTLII was
invested by the Ambassador with the insignia of the
Order of the Rath."
Last week a fish of the halibut species was caught
in Lochfine, which weighed nearly four hundred
weight, and measured in circumference six feet, and
in length sis and a half feet. ft wail sold in the
Gimp w market.

FROEsifik
TO TILIC EDITOR Orlw-TilO ZONIXIPI'
STATEis Milli. •
London, JOY gS.
Ststi—ln looking o►er year Paper of the 21st
imit. accidentally cast my eyes on an article ex-
tracted from an American raper, giving an account
of the enterprise and public spirit of a small town
is the Alabama territory, is ha►ieg at so early a
period turned its attention to the improvement of its
aa►igation.----This has induced me to communi-
cate another circumstance respecting that country,
which I do not recollect having seen noticed, el-
though it may decide a question which has long agi-
tsted the commercial community, and by its result in.
(reduce en important elle& to the abolition
pf usury. An Act of the first Legistatore of that ter-
ritory last winter, wits the repeal of all laws regu-
rating the interest of money, except so far as to fit
the rate, whe►e no agreement 'listed between the
parties, thus leaving money the unshackled object of
traffic, as other articles. The adjoining new Stale of
Mississippi (of which this territory formed a part
until lately) has adopted a aittiilar regulation;
Fotl-
cient time has not yet elapsed to ascertain the result
--should it prove favourable, no doubt esists that
the other States will follow the example; perhaps,
even Eitgland may not !puss the instruction of these
inespriienced hut •daring Legislators. We should
recollect that quarks have performed mores by the
use of remedies, which the cautious Doctor would
never have ventured-,

The small communities into which the American
Republic is divided, each possessing the power of re-
gulating its own municipal concerns, appears pecu-
liarly well adapted to experiments of this nature ;
for should the result prove unfavourable, a small po-
pulation, compared with the millions of this coun-
try, will feel the inconvenience, and that not in pro-
portion to their numbers, but of the amount of their
commercial transactions, which is yet veryincousi-
desable.

T. F.

The Boston Piper of the 27th ult. mentions, that
Captain lltnciNs. of the Bellona, whilst on his pas-
sage from New York to Frenchman's Bay, bearing
N. by E. fell its with three sea-monsters. The first
about three quarters of a mite from the schooner was
discovered crossing the how, and on seeing it directed
his course towards it, and went upon the larboard side,
where the Captain endeavoured to shoot it, but did
nut succeed. Captain U. hid not proceeded more
than a quarte► of a mite when he discovered another
S. W. coming for the schooner with great speed ; he
hove to, and when within thirty yards of the serpent,
whistled to it, opon which he appeared to stretch op
his head and look at Captain H. very earnest. Upon
its not approaching nearer the vessel Captain H. bore
away, when it followed him for about smile; mean-
time another was discovered bearing N. one mite Ms.

tent, and on descrying the vessel, came direct to it
till within ten yards, when a musket was discharged,
loaded with a hall, at his head, but he did not seem
to have received any injury, it went under the water
and the vessel passed over it. Captain U. supposes the
Not to he 80 feet tong.

The Duke of Itolumen, who has, for the first
time, been elected one of the Sixteen Representatives
of the Scottish Peerage, is rim only Scots Duke, who
is not also a P•er of Great Britain. His Grace is now
in the eighly first year of his age, and his son, the
Marquis of LicAtmorm, has just entered into his
second!

A letter from Rome states, that the Count de ST.
LEU (LOUIS BONAPARTE) has instituted an action for
divorce against his wife, before the Court called
the Congregation del Concilio. Such is the secrecy
with which the process is carried on, that silence is
imposed on all persons concerned with the proceed-
hogs, under pain of excommunication. It is said that
the Countess, who is at present at the baths of Pisa,
will not employ any Counsel, but that the defensor
ex•o/fciu will merely oppose the action
pro forma.
During the last ten years there have been but
Thirteen Money Prizes of 830,000; yet, strange
as it may appear, out of those Thirteen, no less than
Nine have been Sold and :Shared by Bistr.—This,
perhaps, accounts for his having a greater proportion
of Patronage than usual in the Lottery which be.
gins Drawing Nest Tuesday, as the Scheme con-
tains Two Prizes of 830,000 ; and it is no &Ott in
the recollection of the. Public, that in the last Lqt.
tory which contai►►ed Prizes of 4 30,0000, be sold
Two in Thirty Shares.
No less than 1,077 passengers arrived at Calais from
Dover between the 6tb sod 21st instant. The re.
turn' during the same period were 655.
The MEETIVG of the Sovanzioes took place last
Tuesday, when they were all closeted in the Cabinet
of Fortune at Somerset-house, which will be opened
at Coopers'-hall, NEXT TUESDAY, to dispense In.
dependence by the Two Prizes of 230,000, Two of
£2,000, 2,000 Sovereigns in Gold, &c. &c. in this
grand but small Lottery of Caattotes, 7, Cornhill,
and 26, Osford-street, consisting of only 8,00
Tickets, and All the Capitals floating, with the best
Claret, Port, end Madeira in the kiugdom, to be
chosen by the Adventurers themselves.
Free.—Tuesday evening a fire broke out in a small
house, in Francis-street, near the Asylum. Owing
to the prompt arrival of the engines, however, and
there being a full supply of water, the flames, al-
though the buildings are very murh confined, were
fortunately prevented spreading beyond the premises
where they first broke out.
Buncr.xitv.—Yesterday morning the house of a
Gentleman in Ilernard•stree;, lkussell-square, was
entered by some thieves at the kitchen window, who
broke open the butler's pantry,and stole from thence
articles of plate to a considerable amount. The
house of Miss Singleton, 14, in the same street, and
many other houses in that neighbourhood, have lately
been broke into, and sobbed of property to a very
large samant.

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Thrish. LLIGENCB.
DEAt, JULT.3l.—Attived and sailed for the
Ter the Mint, Drysdale, from Jamaica • Ge
Kidd, Mairne, from China ; Lord CLile,"4.
Ydunghustsend, from Bengal ; Neptune, ny
from Antigua ; Wettborg, Meyer, from Bremen to
Rio Janeiro the latter remains.—Came down frog
the River end remain the Perseverance, Measify
for Nevrfoundtand • Lord Molgrave, 'f iodate, fo:
Quebec; Newbery 'Port, Goodiick, for Baltimore.
Ophelia, Proctor, for Gibraltar.—Also arrived foot
sail of the Spanish transports from the Baltic, which
convened the Officers and crews of the Realise op
of war from Cadit to Gluckstadt.

FM4,101.1111, JULY 29.—Arrived last evening 4
this port, the ship Competitor, of Whitby, in 41
thys from Jamaica.
WHITBY, JULY 30.1r—Arrived the Aimwell, Bal.
ter, from Greenland, with 10 fish, and brings di
following account of the success of the Whitby skip
viz.:—William and Ann, S fish; Fisk, July 4,11
fish ; Volunteer, June 0, 5 fish ; Lively, June IL
F.3h ; Valiant, June 11, 4 fish ; Mere, June if,
lio ; Ph,ceniz, June 12, 3 fish ; Fame, June R 9, 7
fih ; Resolution, Jima 281 19 fish—left the ire
July 6.
PoitTsiscstriti, JULY 31 —Came into harbour the
Brazen and Meals n.—The Lord Cast leresigh,Youse
husband, passed by from Bengal for Londoo—sailed
the 23d February, left the Cave 'hp Otti Nlus , seta.
Helena on the 11th June. The &sex, Mahon, sail
on the Dth, and the Norfolk, Edwards, on itte I
May, from the Cape for Bongs'. The Got
Guise, —, for England, was le sail frost ti,
Cave about the nth /one. The Kingston, Barlow,
arrived at Spoond's Bay, the Sth May, (tom Bengat;
left at St. Helena, the Back worth, Phcatils, and Mao;
glee, from &gland. The Anus, Robertson, and Cao..•
fence, had hailed for England. Spoke a ship, sap.
posed the Union, from England, at the eutrauce of
Singer Roads.
Linoleum., JULY 29.—The Kitty, Coiling, for
Cork, received' considerable damage at Norfolk
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the 23d ult. and most discharge to repair.-1114,
Aristides, Carter, sailed from Liverpool for
on the 17th inst. and has put back leaky.
Silly, Clarkson, from Wilmington for Live
ill
has arrived at Newport, leaky, foremast sprang, a
having thrown her deck load overboard.

DZATII OF Loan Axsos.—Yesterday ntorbingi
about twenty minutes past seven o'clock, his Lord.
ship breathed his last at his house in St. James's.
square. His Lordship has been confided to his room
for the last three months with a severe attack of
the gout, which unfortunately reached his stomachs
and occseioned his (loath. His Lordship was born the
17th of February, 1767, end married September the
15th, 1794, to Ann Margaret, second &svelter of
Thomas Win. Coke, of Holkham, In Norfolk, Ecq.
by Jane, daughter of Leone Napier, Esq. Hie
Lordship is succeeded in his titles and estate by hii
eldest son. Thomas William, now Lord Anson, bore
October 20, 1795.—The peseta. Lord Anson is w
the Continent. Espressos bare been forwarded t
hasten his return.
From Stockholm the 10th instant It is mentioned,
that for a fortnight preceding-there had bean no rails
and the heat had beenetwost insupportable.
A young man of St. Mawe's, a row days iliac.,
prevailed oum female servants 22 years of age, to
whom he was about to be married, to accompany hint
in a smell boat on a pleasure excursion. /he boa
carrying too much sail, was upset by a sudden squall,
between St. Mawe's sqd Falmouth, and the losers
precipitated into the sea. In this situation, the man,
being a good swimmer, supported his sweethetrt for
a quarter of an hour, but his strength failing, the af.
fectionate girl besought him to abandon her, and coo.
milt his own safety. When assistance arrived, he
was taken out of the water apparently lifeless, but
after some time animation was restored. His compa-
nion perished, and her body was not found till the
fourth evening.
On Sunday last, being what is called Tide Sunday
(that is, the Sunday when the tide serves (lowa and tit
the river) about 2000 persons of both sexes mud of ail
ages, took the air of a sail or row on the riser to
Gravesend. The boatmen of that place, according to
immemorial usage, went out in their bruits alongside
t*e Gravesend vessels to bring the passengers ashore,
charging them six-pence a-piece. Hot in consequence
of some new order for a warrant issued from Water-
man's-hall, the inflexible and active Magistrate of
• Gravesend, issued summonses to all the boatmen
who had thus acted, and en conviction of the ot.
fence. •h e fined the first four delinquents in the sum
of 209. and Bs. costs ; and of the nest batch of It
summoned, 16 were convicted in the mitigated pe.
natty of 51. fine and 2s. costs ; and for failure of
payment, the whole were committed to Dartford
House of Correction. • •

Damtriettwo.—Yeeterday morning the wate►men at
Wtsitehall!stairs, observing something floating in the
water, went in ascertain what it was, which proved
to be the naked body of a youth about IS years old.
It way conveyed to the workhouse.
Abraham Thornton, whose trial for the molder of
Mary Ashford excited such deep interest, has, slot*
his disCnikrge, been living in the house of his parent*
at Castlehromwich. lie has not yet returned to
■ny employment, hot passes his time In a kind of
moody inactivity, and almost *brays entirely alone;
whilst his miserable father (a most respectable mins
and steward to a Gentleman of property in his neigh.
bnuritood) is fast sinki►sg into a premature grave,
with a consumption, brought on by intense ausiety
of mind.

COURSE OF EXFIIAN
Amsterdam, Sti 10 B. 2 U.
Ditto, at 51005 4
Amsterdam. I L 6 C. F.
Ditto, at sight, 11 3
Rotterdam. 11 7 2 U.
Antwerp, U RI I' . mo.
Garnitures, 34 2•21 U.
Alfons, 31 3 2b.U.
Paris, S da:t s's sight, 24 2J U.
Ditto, 24 40 2 U.
li.turdeaux, Yl 4t
Frank on the M :sine:EC:lex .mo
, Madrid, 39 effective
Cadiz, 59 effective
Bilboa,
Seville, 31
Gibraltar, 31

GE. TUEsDA-11 JULY is.
Leghorn,
Genoa, 4i
Malta, 50
Venice, 15
Naples. 44
Palermo. In per oz.
Liation 59
Oporto, 59
Itio Janeiro, 67
Dithlin, 14 per Cent.
Cork. 116 per Cent.
A xi° of the Bank on Frolland,
Portugal Gold, in Coin, 41. D.
64. per oz.
Gold, in Bars, 41.
New Dollars. 5.1.
Silver.in liars.stondord.s4.

L 1.4 DON • Printed nad Puttilqhed by D. LOVIRLI6, Mime
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