The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-08-08 00:00:00

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have \ escaped, man for man. When such an ex- tion of continental affairs. You have mistaken
change shall have been carried into effect, France , times. The Orders in Council would have s
will have still a right to-demand many English pri- you in 1785, they would have produced ‘ fiu itniTli served
sinters. Of this circumstance, Lord Castleresgb af- advantages without much iiiconvettienC.You c
fects to be ignorant, and the English Government, lave, with impunity, held the language of the wol
not chasing to admit the fact, will not adopt so easy, in the fable, bit at present the most suitable lags.a
method of remedying conduct so thsisonourable. gage you can use Is that of justice. If
you act up.
46 For a similar reason, they wlll net reply to the .on principles adapted to the interests of the most
proposal which has been made them, to adopt me. powerild, you only accelerate your ruin, and pro.
tual measures to prevent its recorrence. They were mote the prosperity of your enemies. Justice re.
well aware that a distinction woad be image between • quires that you should return to the principles w welt
the prisoners of the Bayles capitulation and the regulated the etendect of neutrals with respect to bel•
others who had escaped. But why should net 111 ligeiht pliers at the close of the last c ..itury, and
those questiens be ameleded bye veteran owe te 'et the loggiseleg of the present war. Your interest
good faith, and by a consent to a wood sal slam& enjoins It, the meson when unjust and arbitrary
taneous exchange, as above-mentioned? If Eng- ; aseseeres might hare been usefel to you has passed
land really wishes for an exchange, let bee consent 'serer to reters."--(Monitcur, July 31.)
to a cartel on thisbasis. Leta Member of the Cern- I 411114111, hum 11.--Our Government are busily
mons sign it for France, and it will be gadded ; or I employed fernishis necessaries for the troop; they
let a Minister declare to Parliament, that he adopts :are to maintain. They are particularly anxious to
,the principles here laid downs and a French Cam- provide them with hones and cattle. Tic' tax of
=Wary will immediately proceed to Dover to carry ' three per sent. upon booms has been raised with
it into effect."—(Momiteur, AiNg. 1.) numeespeditien theacould have been expected. Tne
NOTE IN VIE GAZETTE Di IMAM, Of Tit iliff cootiagent stem landed and commercial proprietors
INSTANT, ON RETRACT! PROD snouts If ILINIPAPSIS, tof Bodin hes 1111110111 C M 1 a million and a half. The
RELATING TO TIM RivOCATIO/t Of Till DER! IWO per Cent. wig* rosidas to be paid, Irlay be paid
NOTE F.ROM TEE MONITEUR, ON TIIE SPEECH OF LORD COUNCIL. in kiwi.
CASTLEREAGH, RELATIVE TO TUE TREATMENT Of It Here, indeed, we have a tevotathoe of the or. , Lest Seadiy, the 19tb, SON thee half the illiMbi.
PRISONERS 01 MtAR—ON THE MOTION Of ill. N. dem of 1807 and 9, from the Ist of July, but the : tante of tide *y visited the menement of the late
CALVERT, IN TIM cloves OF COMMONS, ON rat- Orders of 1800 have mot been revoked, that is to say, Quinsy at Clmeleetenherg, it bele; the anniversary
DAY, JUNE 26. the Orders which sanction the right of a paper id ber death; about 11 fedi& ills gardens were
44 The English were the first to violate their pa- blockade, those in which a place Is declared to be in . thrown epee to the public. The King and Royal
role. Complaints were made to the Traosport a state of blockade, net becalms it is actually whin /molly igad visited the mausoleum In the morning,
Office, but the Officers who hed broken their parole because it carries on a commerce Nukes to Ear dirommil an deep eneernks, and hid proceeded from
were, nevertheless, well received by their Govern- lish manutsesures. Now, so long as those Orders theme to the him" of Peacocks. The monument
ment. remain unrevoked, you will have done nothing, was decorated with nes, placed in pots on the steps.
44 The number of persons then placed under the and you will be prohibited from ingress to the The mate, ef the Queen was laid upon a bed of moss,
circumstances alluded to, amounted to 779, and seve- Continent. Vessels coming directly to France with (tote which blanches of dowers seemed to spring
rat of these were Generals. neutral cargoes will be received ; vessels coming around her.
" The Transport Office had complained, in a let. from London with English cargoes will be confis- Prisms Radeivill has left this for Warsaw.—(Sane
ter of the 12th of August, 1811, of the escape of eated. Paper.)
some French prisoners. In the answer to this, given s 4 We do not admit of any species of blockade, VIENNA, .11.ULif %lr-The lusts-tan Observer con.
the 14th of September following, under the authority but that defined by the Treaty of Utrecht, that is, tains the following article :---" The most absurd and
of the Minister of the Marine, it was asserted, that the the blockading a place In the situation in which Flush. extravagant reports have been spread abroad with re.
English had vt the example, and that the number ing was placed, and the mouths of the Scheldt, dur. spect to the strength of the Russian army. Now that
of English prisoners who had escaped from France, , ing the Expedition of 1809, and which, surrounded we have received less sospiclons intelligence, it is
exceeded by many hundreds that of the French who !by land and sea, is in danger of being taken ; but out of all doubt that the main b-dy of their army
had escaped from England. It was also proposed I the application of a paper.blockade to any other scarcely amounts to 500,000 lighting men. This was
that measures should be adopted to prevent the re- , point of the coast of the Empire necessarily induces the strength of it during the former coalition wars.
currence of such scandalous conduct. The Commis- ! a paper blockade of the British Isles. to fact, un- The strongest of the allied armies scarcely contained
series of the Transport Office acknowledged the re- : less the right of blockade, as established by the half the men upon the returns ; these are seldom very
ceipt of this answer, but remained perfectly silent asiTreaty of Utrecht, were acknowledged, and the exact in Russia. The principal Russian (ono is con.,
to the propositions which it contained. Several Orders of 1806 revoked, what would be the revoca- centrated on the Dwina, behind several fortified po.
French Generals who have made their escape from I tion of the Orders of 1807 and 9 ?—We should sitions, after having yielded to the enemy several of
England were justified in doing so, inasmuch as one , find, to-morrow Dr next day, England declaring in a the most fertile provinces of the empire?
of the terms of capitulation at Baylen was, that they ' state of blockade the coast of the French Empire, JULY 19.—1 t is said that M. de Barantinsty, the
should retain their arms, and be sent to France; and merely permitting neutrals to have some one Russian Resident at Munich, will soon pass through
and England had no right to retain 6000 men, who,, point of communication with the coast of the Me- here on his return to Russia. By advices from Italy
having thus capitulated, were not prisoners. No diterranean, or with one port in the Baltic. we learn, that the return of silk this year is alms.
parole could properly be exacted from them, as the i- " No, no! This can never be. Times have changed. dant.—(lfonileur, August 1.)
capitulation conferred no right, to debar them of their IThe injustice and violence of the measures you have M. ltogozinsky is expected here as Envoy from
liberty ; and there is no example on record of such a! adopted, have authorised the adoption of similar Warsaw.—(Gazette de France, July 31.)
convention not having been observed. A consider- , measures by France. It is the necessity you pro-
able number of Spanish prisoners, among whom I duced for their adoption, which has formed the great
were Colonels and Generals, having broken their : empire. The time has gone by when you could do
parole, and escaped, some French officers, taken in j what you pleased with the Continent and the Con.
the Spanish war, conceived they had a right to do l tinent would do nothing to you. This time will
that which had been done by the Spaniards, who never return, no more than the reign of weak and
were the priucipals In a war in whirl England was dissipated monarchs.
only an auxiliary. " After every declaration of war, your travellers
66 In former wars, cartels were established as and merchants shall be arrested on the continent, if
soon as hostilities commenced; and it was not till I you should capture on sea the mariners. pv.s augers,
the present war that false reasoning, narrow-minded- , and merchants yon may find in men:l:rat vessels. If
ness, and bad faith, were found to annul every car- 1 you blockade on commercial speculation; if you aps
tel which had been proposed. The basis of those 1 ply to a part of the empire the principle of a paper
that were proposed were simple, just, and conform- , blockade, which you have adopted, and not to a real
able to the customs of Europe. The exchange was ! blockade, the British Isles, • and your other posses-
to be made man for man, rank for rank, and simul-Isions, shall be subjected also to paper blockade.-04,
rteneously, between the belligerents. Bat the Eug- I you adopt strong measures, we shall adopt struggler
fish sought to establish a principle of distinction be- i —force of arms shall be opposed to force of areas..
1 tween themselves and their Allies, the Spaniards and : legislative rigour to legislative rigour. This is the
Portuguese. They appeared, indeed, to adopt the ' only method by which we can. avoid being mode
principles of a general and simultaneous exchange; your dupes—the only method to conquer you, or
lust they endeavoured to swerve from its practice.— ;at least to compel you to be just. You base mere
Thus there was at one time 15,000 English prisoners ; need of the commerce of the Continent, than the
in France. For these, England offered in exchange i.Continent has need of your's. You have sere used
.15,000 French prisoners;. so that if she afterwards ' of America than she has of you ; inasmuch as the
chose to swerve from the cartel, when all the English merchant has more need of the consumer, that the
were liberated, she might leave her Allies in France, consumer has of him.
and retain the French prisoners who remained to bet 46 If I cannot clothe myself in velvet, I will nee
exchanged. ' cloth. If I cannot have cotton stockings, I will
" The trick was too obvious, and it was proposed wear thread. There is the tale of the consumer.
to carry the exchange into effect, by making each . But the merchant, who has founded the well-being
transfer consist of aliquot parts of the different de- ! of his family on the wants of the consumer, is under
scriptions of prisoners of the two belligerent aggro- the necessity of selling. If you cease to sell, where
'gates, so that all the English and all the French will you procure means of defraying your national
should be liberated at the same time • for supposing expenditure? Nevertheless, commerce ie, no doubt,
the number of French prisoners to be tripie that of necessary to the Continent ;..he who would oppose
the English, and making each transfer consist of obstacles to the progress of industry, would be worri
three thousand French on the one side, and 1000 , diy of.a barbarous age rather than of the present. ,
English and 2000 Portuguese and Spaniards oust Different dimes tame dlffereat preductlons • et- ,
the other, the last Frenchman, would have returned' change, and reciprocal accommodation, beget wealth.
to his country at the same time with the last English- i Let commerce, then, be re-established, but let it be i
man. The exchange would then have gone on be- so upon just and legitimate grounds: let the nations
tween the respective allies, and France, having in contend with each other, but let not en arbitrary spi-
her power a greater number of prisoners than Eng- rit of industry be supported by force. ' If,' said
land, would (lave even consented to give up unran. I Lord Chatham, r we acted jusils towards France,
soured such as remained after the exchange was con- ! our prosperity could not lie of four.and-twenty hours
cluded. This system was conformable to the prin. duration.' When Lord Chatham spoke thus, be
espies upon which all cartels have been framed for ' might have been in the right ; but if he was now lit-
more than a century. ! ing, he would talk differently. The circumstances
" So just a proposal was rejected with a degree of ; were then in you': favour ; goo were Lords of the
bad faith, which even in England excited the dim- : ocean, as you still are; but France was without in-
gest of all those who read and thiuk. It was "evi. 1 fluence on the Continent. While you pressed upon
dent that the British Government sought to have the her with unjust principles el Wslati
on, you en-
whole of the English_
prisoners for a part only of thej riched Holland, Hambnrgh, aid Venice. The na-
French, and did not hesitate to abandon their Allies, I ture of things is now against yea; Instead of refusing
and retain thogreatest part of the French .prisoners l to listen to the voice of justice, you should make to
without any spodes of guars otoo whatsoever. In! plead on your behalf. The treaty of Utrecht, against
short, several prisoners bad violate& their parole and ' which you have contended, is wow your • rd.
escaped from France, when the. GovirnmeGE „ilia " You have at length taken mite
compelled to issue the Demme of •sir 4th of Amp*, You have revoked the Odom of OW ' bit%
1811. A certain number of Preach prlsonere In deep thinking men, who in greater rmlabegiallio% _
EaglandUre since follow NS - - any . ' nat‘on Ode the pip
rim;that - ' (... Colleen

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whieh she is herself* prey to her very centre. They Wore again
fitiod dupes thesesame Rumians,whom the Emperor Napoleoo
has conquered every time that he has hat* to contend :Igainst them.
Yet her had, in the former cases, Austria, Pruoia, and a pad
of itr with them. What then will become of them now,
when their former auxiliaries are all now leagued agaiost them by
virtu •of the late treaties ? fly what a multitode of calamities
and affliction will the Ropiest soon pay fur. the blind weakness
of their Emperor Alexaoder, and the {.conceivable heat of his
Cabinet, in ,weaking the most sacred of treaties, that of Tileit,
aad in violating dm geoerous cooventioss of &forth! How ma.
ay thanks are not due from the happy inhabitants at Tuscany to
oasts, Emperor, who, by a Glom alliance with the House of
Austr, has removed far cons Italy and from themselves all
Chances of war and In disgeletude ! I know that they ap.
preciate the numberless bounties of their Sovereign. and the us.
disturbed calm w hich they enjoy under the tutelary authority of
the almost Sister of oor Emperor. lf, however, in tbe midst of
this union of felicitations and new hopes, aay discontented aod
turbulent, as well as ignorant spirits, should endepour to inter.
mot the cry of victories which remand ansongst us, be vigilmit,'
Sir, in pointing them ont to me ******* Who woos
not, in fact, expect with the fullest confidesce, and soticipale
with the most ardent wishes, the triumphs of our invincible
mien ? it would be to forget the experience of Armee your-to
declare against our own sons, oar relation. oar fries. who
compose part of the army with which his Majesty,bsurroendml.
It Is the whole of Europe that now marches under the same
eagles, commanded by the greatest of Captains, And mimed
against a single power, the speedy defeat of which wiU be the
pledge of the rota of England, of the peace of the world. The
Director-General of the Police of Tuscany.
P. LAGARDE."
(journal& ?Empire, July SI.

The Gazette de France, of July SR, contains q
long article, on tbk, subject of what is called the Re.
stof atom of koktaclt written to excite the Poles
against Russia.
To it is prefixed, as a motto, tbis passage from
Bossuet's Discourse on Universal
4. The fall of Jerusalem *net to be a lesson to all the world;
but God dad not leave her without hope; Is4iph, who had pre-
dicted lee destruction, by also foreseen her glep,ious re-sats.
blbhmeot, and even named (Cyrus) her deltverZr.'

The article begins as follows
" Poland, long hippy and flourishing, governed
by a generous Nobility, equally adapted to war, and
to the employments of civil life; Poland, from the
valour of her armies, from the ftrtility of her soil,
end from her geographical, position, had become at
once the nurse of Europe, the counterpoise of the
North, and the barrier of the South, So many al
mirable advantages, and several ages of glorious ex•
hteoce, must necessarily, as it seemed, preserve hen
for ever from tote) distraction; bat bring the n^igh•
hoer of ambitious Russia, that vast den of berbarians,
she was at liret secretly eadoeusined, then rest
and ceastratited withia narrower Omits, and finally
abandoned to herself* without allies, and without
suppo Altert.
" r twenty put et' oppression and languor,
we have *ea her, la oar Owe, sink heuraill the
weight of the Reid* Colossus, without her fall
asrahlog the rest of the Dodos% or the Elms who
were the gemmeds of her Wetmore, appearing to
! feel the injury dene by the paddies *their interests,
land the blow OM to Stir authority in the lairs
ei
Europe. Thus a. nation of feeeben millions of souls,
and possessing a torritery of IMAGO square leagues,
was on a sudden swallowed up without provocation
and without offtnce. Seine generous eilkitts did he•
roar to Its expiring pious, and went gienosiosied
rebellious. Tlw annals of the world, the revola•
tiona of empires, present nothing -similar; every
thing in the catastrophe was beyond human calcule.
time and ordinary observation. The historian and
the politician remain confounded—their pens drop
from their hands.
" Russia having exterminated Poland, the inter-
mediate power, pressed more heavily on the South of
Europe. In fact, the subversion of the equiliirrium
of Europe followed close on the annihilation of Po-
laml. • The Russians from that time aspired to uni-
versal empire. Their views of political plundering
were turned towards the Ottoman Empire, towards
Sweden, and towards Germany. She began to in-
terfere in all the wars of the Continent, and France
felt the consequence of that pusillanimous porni
which her Government had adopted to the detriment
Fe( all Europe. To deprive Russia of that degree ef
power and wealth which she had unjustly acquired
by the invasion of Poland, to wrest from her nearly
see millions of inhabitants, and more than 0,000
square leagues of territory, will be to restrain her
'lll lower, equally colossal and dangerous, and to de•
Octet her of the means of arriving at that domination,
the object of her earnest wishes. The "
of Poland, under the auspices of a creativere
and peetectini nation; will render her an io-
et barrier to Europe, against the invasions of
Ides of the,North."
writer then reminds the Poles of the great se.
their heeettors, who rendered Poland formis
and the Porte ; who saved
•• the Tarts who menaced
• who made Constantino-
'topenhagen; and ova

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