The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-04-05 00:00:00

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King ; we may, therefore, shortly expect important ohce, in particular, profusely milnificent to one of
events• the parties treating (Prussia) none can deny, who
Goss, MARCH 27.--The day before yesterday, hate watched the progress of the war during his Con-
-700 French cavalry and infantry, suddenly entered suiship, and the two years following it. The remi-
Hulst, and after a short stay, retreated, taking with niscedce of those transactions, and the reflections to
them 10,000 franks in money, and the receivers, which they gave rise, no doubt have indisposed the
Mr. LP Roy and Mr. Carten. man of so suddenly-changed a fortune, to change as
The places where, except a few Cossacks, there soddenly his high expectations to humble conditions.
are ,one of the allied troops, are constantly exposed • Again, there can be no doubt but that he has been
to these sallies from Aotwerp. • made acquainted with what has been done by this
P. S.—Unpleasant news is just arrived. Hoist, country, we do not say by the Government of this
and the whole line of the Waas are again in the country, for re-establishing the BOVITRONS on his
hnnds of the French; and the Mayor of ilulst, who Throne. These proceedings, which, by the assuming
is now here, is summoned to return. Oe the other conduct of the Ministerial Prints, we hope, In this
aide a eniumn of 1500 inert .from Lille is said to have instance we may say of the hireling Prints, for we
entered Ghent. The English and Russiin officers should be sorry that what they say on this topic,
here are all in motion. ! could be imputed to the Ministry, as the whole
Yesterday we received the following from Lier, country would be thereby degraded. We had,
but kept it back in expectation of further particu- therefore, rather that the advocacy of the cause
tart:

of the unfortunate exiled family, were the work

gg We are this moment informed, that Gen. Mai-
son, with 15,000 men from Lille, has occupied
Ghent, awl that he has already dispatched a large
corps to reinforce the garrison of Antwerp, which
mist hare arrired there yesterday. This manoeuvre
opens the communication with the capital of Flanders

of self-interest in the press, or sympathy in some of
the people, than that it was taken up on the one
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hand by the Cabinet, while one of its deputed Mem-
bers was treating with the very personage in the
name of England, whose force it was, at the same
time, intended should be directed to dethrone him.

and Antwerp; and the enemy can operate at plea.
sure, and alternately threaten Brabant and Flanders,
as long as the Swedes who are at Liege, or the corps,
of Walmoden, do not approach nearer. It is yet to
be seen which of the two preceding statements of
Gen. Maison's force, is true; 1500 men seems too
few, and 15,000 more than he can have with him.
A lateral movement of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar
from Mons, is _enough to cut off the French General
from his own.frontiers, while the English reinforce-
ments, end the situation of our own army, will
threaten him in front, instead of giving him time to
threaten other parts of Belgium."

The very suspicion of getting up such an underplot,
while a seeming regular piece of an opposite tendency
was exhibiting to the world, may easily be supposed
to inflame the naturally irascible mind of Mims!.EON
and hasten the catastrophe of the political drama.—.
What all this may produce upon the theatre of Eel.
rope, where every weapon (not a foil) will be
.wield-
ed with a mixture of fury and vengeance, no man'
can say, and at which we should hope every mind
must shudder.

We shall
.be in/patient to hear what the Noble
Lord, who has actet! so conspicuous a part in the
whole has to say. Without hira the rest of the Mi-
nistry may still fill their places, but they perform
their offices v:,ry little to the public satisfaction.—
Lord LIVERPOOL senms as though he should lose his
energy, it ur at least our Ally, does not march
to Paris ; anal for our CIIANCELLott of the ExcuE-
even, he puts Ua in mind of GeouGE Lord LYTTEL•
TON, who, though an honest man, could scarcely
count the money in his pocket : he was, neverthe-
less in the office of the Right Honourable Gentleman
of whom we are speakiue.

• It will be seen by the proceedings in Parliament '
yesterday, that the public curiosity on the subject of
the rupture of the Negociations for Peace, cannot
be allayed for perhaps a fortnight to come. A con-
siderable portion of anxiety is, however, taken coif
the minds of many of the best friends of the country,
from the declaration the respective Ministers, of
.both
Ilenies, made as to the full agreement arnongst all
tbeAtiles, with respect to the terms ofered to, and
elm cause.° f difference with, the enemy therein,which
led to the diplomatic rupture. Of the reasonable-
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nen, and •atoreasonablettess of one and the other
parts the world is not as yet able to judge,
till the circumstances and causes of this its dig-
appointment be known in detail: and w should
suppose, that each party will be desirous of making
its appeal to the opinion of mankind on this occasions
so interesting and so afflicting to humanity. As fat
as informatiors, or rather as intimation, has gone al.'
ready, there is nothing which we, as friends, always
sincere friends to the peace, as well as to the pros..
petity of the country, can find fault with ; and,
although we hay: always thought that the surest road
to the prosperity of England is through the ways of
peace, yet we do not hesitate to say, that the de-
mands of the enemy may make it wise in the Go-
vernment to prolong the certain miseries of a war
in the pursuit of au honourable and safe peace.—
There is a maxim, however, iti the Courts of Justice
not to be forgotten, 64 Audi alteram partens," we
therefore wait to hear both sides the question (though
One side be even our enemy) before we fully acquit
our Ministers of a want of due sensibility to' the
sufferings of, those who derive no partial advantage
from war, but are every day straitened in their cir-
cumstances, and abridged in their comforts, by its
continuance—and in this number we may fairly in-
clude three-fourths of the inhabitants of the United
Kingdom.
In the interim anti absence of a communication of
real facts, it may not by our Readers be thought
impertinent that we otter our conjectures as to what
may have most esssentially led to this gloomy change
from the bright prospect of pehce. We may well
say bright prospect, for never was it realised to the
country without benefiting and enriching its inhabl.
tants. The war with America, which half ruined
Great Britain, by diminishing its fortune in that pro.
portion (the funds in the course of it fell one hair in
value), hostilities were no sooner terminated, though
at the expence of losing thirteen valuable colonies,
than those funds rose again almost to par, not-
withstanding they were clogged with a debt of more
than three hundred millions l!! If these undeniable
facts do not show the war-loving faction the pre-
ference of peace over war, we do not know what
will : and if Ministers are not thereby led to con-
template the weight of the responsibility upon their
Treads in again relying on the sword for disengaging
the diplomatic knot, they are lost to all feeling.—
The first circumstance, then, which presents itself
to our imagination, as the cause of the separation of
the Negociators is, the probable departure ' of the
letter of the terms from the spirit of tke Declara-
tion of the Allies, as issued at Frankfort, the 21st
December—the liberality of which seemed to at-
tract the admiration and commendation of all Eu-
rope. Now, upon any signal deviation from the gene-
sous tendency of that public appeal and declaration,
BoNAPARTE would he likely to feel much hurt, as he
would recollect that to three out of the four Powers
with which he was treating, he had aforetime, and to
two, more than once, shown that magnanimity' as a
conqueror, which he expected from those, by whom,
le his taros he had been overcome. That he was.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Adoti-
I rally, from Adniiial PENROSE, as we slightly no.
tired. They were brought by Capt. Cor., itrs, dated
rth • 28u ult. from the Gironde (the name of the
Bourdeaux river after the junction of the Garonne
with the Dordogne, 12 miles below the 'owe). Tim Ad-
miml entered the river in the Eg moot, accompanied
t 4 by several smaller ships, where he /k * 4 iovoral
batteries, as far hs he had prOc7M, and rvis etpect.
ed to take possession of the 114. g adiss, a }Tench. man
or war. It is reported that the inhabitants on both
banks manifested great joy at the progress of tbe
Bourbon standard, awl that the counter-resole-
. tianary enthusiasm had extended to Nantes.

The WEST LONDON LANCASTERIAN Meeting, held
yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern, was most nu-
meronsly and respectably attended, not only, by its
former friends and patrons, but by wrest no 'ink.

of Ladies and Gentlemen who • had net pre;

ously given it their support. The worthy Members
for Westminster, Sir FRANCIS BURDETT and Lord
COCHRANE, came forward in a very liberal manner to
support this Establishment; and the candid avowal
of the former, in having entered the room somewhat
prejudiced against the utility of educating the poor,
and afterwards admitting a full conviction of ,his
error, must prove highly beneficial to the under-
taking. The liberal subscriptions of Lord Coca-
Rove and Sir FitANCIS 113CRDETT, the former of
which being nearly 10001. in prize money, and the
latter 10001. in the Three per Cent. Consols, will
prove very acceptable to the Fund, and we under-
stasid a considerable sum was subscribed by the com-
pany present.

STATESMAN OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK.

We understand that French Papers have been re-
ceived to the Ist, and Letters from Paris one day
later, which are said to contain the important intelli-
gence of the EMPILESS and King of Rows ha►ing quit.
ted Paris, in consequence of the near approach to the
capital of Marshal BLUCHIR. We cannot vouch for
the truth of this report, but have reason to believe'
that a letter has been received in town this morning
conveying such information.
It will be seen by our... Stock List, that the Funds
have advanced to-day.

Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL had a long in-
terview with the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton House.
We have advice' from St. Jean de Luz of the 22d,
and from Passages of the 23d ult. The army before
Bayonne was said to be 40,000 strong, and the siege
was immediately to be commenced with great vi-
gour.
The Horatio frigate, Captain Daunt, will sail
immediately for Newfoundland, with General CAMP..
NELL and family on board.
The Commander-in-Chief has ordered that the Vo-
lunteers for the Ordnance, as Sappers and Miners,
should be confined to the regiments of militia belong-
ing to Devon and Cornwall, and the counties in
Wales.
BREAD.—The Lone-MAYOR, having inspected
the Mea!weighers' returns, ordered the price of
Bread to fall one assize and a half in the peck loaf ;
or three farthings
place ou Thum',

-',•;• ..-114P4L INTRLLIGENGE.
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ng•L, inn 4.—Sailed tbismornitig the whole of the outs
ward..bousid East Laliamen. and sevens ctl:er shiv. viz :.
•trius-ports.t.tasters, soil rollers, under convoy of the Bermuda
sloop of ear and Folke,ione lugger, for Portsmouth.
Punirsaterru. Aran, 4.—Arrived his Aloie-ty% ihip Ty-
ibis from Plyinotith.—Sailen hi, Xijesty's *Nos Ceylon. Pene-
lope, Spencer; Donn and Ahoonsuce store-ships from Si. He-
len's, with I detachment of marines And oiler troops for Cana-
da ; hist Majesty's ship Freya in the esstward ; Resolution ant
Protector for Cook ; Conflict ion a croke ; and the Camel for
Pl. moutli.—Weat out of_lrubour his hlnjelly's ships Barone,
Redwing, and Cyanne.—H . Majesty's ship Tvrian gives in-
sirto Voris to the ships booted to Passages, and will take them as
Gtr as Plyassouth. '-
FALMOUTH, ANVIL 2,—Arrived the Duke of Marlborough
packet, Wit Iva Ma from Lisbon, in six days.—Also arrived
several other ships, bat It .has blown so fresh that few boars
have been able. logo or come to them.— BIGHT O'CLOCK P. M.
Arrived the Martial gun-brig, with dispatches, from Bourdleau
iu five days.

Dov Es. Aram Majesty's sloop 'ewer-
dos snowsuit hod n btuAh with two of the enemy's prtosov, of
the Ihrgest class, which were proceeding frog Boulogne so
Havre, with stun and shells. The pin:lois ►ept close un.ler the
,batteries, which fired b►iskly upon the Briseis, notwithstand-
ing which the compelled ►broil to take shelter tie running into
Calais. A fiAling boat in company with them bail her bowoinit
b hint 51Will the

4.—Arrived his hllijesty's cotter King
Groigr, flans liolanti.

Cows, APRIL 4, Two o'CLocx.—The Flyrriln frigate,
with a colivo transports, having no WWI d t:ie Marquis if
Huck ia4hlnt's, Sir W. W. Wynne's, and Col. Ba3ley's cegi-
wenn, of (Willie:, is groiltot un.ler weigh.