The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-13 00:00:00

KOTZEBUE.

The following blaeraphical sketch is extracted from
the Journal des Debar :-111. Auguste de Kotzebue
wee the men of a Counsellor of Legation of the Dike
of ‘Veimar. Being appointed at the age of twenty
private Secretary to General Beer, one of the best
informed military offienrs in the service of Russia, he
gained the good will of the Empress Catherine, who
employed him to compose some pieces for her theatre
of The Ileresdage. A romantic affection united him
to a Hessian young lady of noble family. He rose
rapidly to the post of President of the Civil Govern.
mint of Hemel, in Esthonie, and to the rank of Lieu.
tenant.Celonel. Ile was decorated with several or.
dirs. The independence of his mind caused him to
give its his resignation in 1795. Ile accepted, in
179 ti, the (sections of Director of the Theatre of
Vienna ; bet he soon became disgusted with an office
stunninglyd with difficulties and disegreements. On
his return to Rossi., in the spring of 1800, he was
arrested on the frontier of theempire, and conducted
to hoarsen, a handsome little town in Siberia,
where ho enjoyed his fill liberty. and had his pieces
played by the inhabilants. His numerous friends
soon removed the erroneous opinion entertained of
bim by the Emperor Paid ; and that Monarch having
called bins In his Court. loaded him with marks of
kindness. Doting the first years of the reign of
Alexander, be travelled in France, Italy, and Ger.
!many. lie . appeared to settle at Berlin, where be
luidectook a journal ; bat Wang offended Bon.

LONDO.V:

TUIIDA V, APRIL 13, 1819.

From France these I, no intelligence deserving
particular notice. Gossip seqp,teing the hopes of
an heir to the throne of the Bourbons, and (velem!
dietory aecoonts of the disturbance. or the entire!
tranquillity of the west. are the topics of the day.
There also is nothing of import on the political lapis!
of England. Lord Emmet. has been getting up • te.
Potation of the reply to his defence of the Whigs.— 1
Every thing his Lordship says will be listened to,,
no doubt, the first forensic orator of his day. We
should be glad to see him leave the cause of the
Whigs to itself. This body of men are too :porcine
already. The Reformers stand in need of kis Mo.
quern.. 'Tie godlike to help the weak ; we mean
the weak in patlicml force, not in numbers, nor io
the reason of the pursuit. Without Reform, ag.l
granted and accessional evils most befall the country.
The earliest friends are Minya the best hinds.
In the dearth of other interesting news, we have;
daily expect'd intelligence from a quarter of the
world hitherto little kuowo or noticed, bet now
highly interesting : from • quarter to which one of
our most promising British Nasal Champions has mt.
sorted to Medicate, as it may he said, " the ways
of God to man"—to relieve the sorely oppress. j
ed, aid to bumble the saucy oppressor. Lord
Cowlitz; we know, has safely set his foot on
the ground consecrated to freedom sod to Mequon ,
exploit. What the achievement may cost we know
net, bat we may say turtle susi caule it will he ob..
Word. It would be impiety to doubt it. If our I
relies hale freedom, ail the world beside venerate it.
It shall be forced upon them. 'i'heir bat', eyes shall
be opened by the speculum of liberty. While Lord !
Easatus, therefore, is defending the Whigs, who!
have nothing to fear bet from reason, a noble coon-
tryman of his is defending the gentle but insulted
SOUTH AmEalc.tzs, who are assaikd by despotism .
arid the destrective bayonet. To which of these
Noble defenders are our wishes most called up? I
That the vicious deerrpid worn oat Government of
Spain will never reduce the unitised bat inoffensive
South Americans to obedience again, is nest to mo.
rally certain, admitting that the formidable aresantenti it
in preparation at Cadiz should reach their destine-
lions. We are warranted in this declaration from;
the following positive fact.--As often as the
Insurgents take a loon from their old task-masters, i
they are et uo pains to leave • garrison in pos•
session •f it, but smirch away trent it, or through
It, seder no apprehension of the defections of
their newly.acqeited.brethren.lwe will not say sub-
jects, being on a level with the captors: the mime
with regard to prisoners taken : !brine spread among
the inhabitants, who answer for their forthcoming,'
ooless by death, or the stealing sway of an individual
in disguise to pass for a peaceable citizen. Now, on
the other band, wb the Royalist Arms captures
a town from these aspirants to freedom, they never can
leave it and call it their own bet by placing in it a
strong garrison of troops, which so weakens their dis-
posable force, as that they are afraid of, or iocapa.l
citsted for, undertaking new sieges of open exploits.
This is the absolute and relative position in which
these adverse armies stand, and the opposite light in
which they are respectively viewed by the filed na.
lives. The Spaniards may therefore be said to under-
felt, sew conquests, when they draw up in military
array spots any part of the soil of South Areeeks, of
which their troops hare not cannon or musket hold

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&freed, \ V.ltat I lo44flythoOstindsa.:tere
is the qua effete, tbelmpregnati.m of mind three
asters Ily trambwiL tarirmtiailtd People ha ve under-
gone? To odd toil At Apes sod pretensions, they
Aare printing presses at work, impollyted presses,
which tell the troth whether of their surreeses
or disasters ; fete they have not leaflet the art of [ging
like osr Courtly Paws, mach less have they the
venality sod baseness to prostitute themselves in
soppert Corruption and defato• Viriee; au.' lu-
cratively employ their ~ratite talon/ in proku4ing
the miseries of their 'flints-creatures.

It was reported yestooday, that the hee!tb at oar
aged Monarch has essdergette a cheep for the worse,
within thew few dap
. . _ _ _

On Sunday, lb; Royal Family received lettere
from II , dated the sth ins/. which brought the
agreeable intelligence of the Draws, of Ciaasucc
having been declared out of sheriff on that day. The
*lassoing stale of the Duchess had such an effect spew
the Duke as to cease him to he indisposed. 'rho let-
tows stale the Duchess of CAMBRIDGE. nod the swing
Prince, to be going on eatremely well. The Prince
is said to be a very fin* child.
On Wednesday the Roagian Princes Docnoavcitt
and WALKOUBBOT, and Coant PORI ATOMIII, being
on a tear of England, arrived at Portsmouth frost
Bath, to •law the durk-yard, !cc. in doing which
every respectful attention was shown them. The♦
afterwards went on board the Queen Charlotte. width
was announced by a salute from that ship. In the
evening they set off for Bath, on their way to Lou-
d•n.

It is said is the last Frehch Papers that a Rem.
%frostier. Constitution is to be established is the
Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.
There is ootbing whatever it, them Joernals re.
opening the reported compiracy to poison the Em.
perm. of &v. 1114.
By fliotipeftiiit JO Marquis deßomansos bleb arrived!
et
Cads on the 22.1 alt. in 120 days from Limo, ad-
vice, are received of the safe arrival there of the re.
'minder of the transports which sailed front Cadiz
under convoy of the Spinish frigate La Reyna Maria
label, sig. N. S. de Y.iar, alia. Xaveira. Sea Fer-
nando, alias Principe do Astoria', N. de Atocha
alias Rheiuha Maria Isabit, and the Santa Maria.
The Captain of the Marquis ale Romans states, that
nothing was known at Lima when he left, of the
cooeoyiug ship or the uniesing tratorports, accomuts
of whose rapture by the. Insurgent. we published a
short time sitter. The hlaipo, Insurgent privateer of
18 guns, and 13U men, has been (eke,, at Pour, twig
Lime, by the Resolution armed ship. The follow.
Ind is an extract of • letter from Cadiz, dated that
%kb alt.:—" The San Juno, It E,PICO, arrived from
Maros, was taken on the 13th in.iont, seven leagues
oorth of Cape St. Vincent, by an Insurgent schooner
privateer, and after plundering her, put on h...rd
ten men belonging to the N. S del Carmen, (i tact*,
sod Maria, LUZ %RSA., t. from Satan and Malaga.
to Babes, which ses.efs she bs.l taken, with two
others from Seville arid Galicia. and .unk them."—
A letter of the 22d alt trom the same port, say.
Captain of the Marquis deli Romeo. arrived
from Liam in 120 days, Mates, thvt 'provide, AP's...
the Diana frigate in chase of an Insolent corvette."

Tb. following is su Extract of Leiter fro. U.-
bon, doted the 21,b of March :--'e We have accounts
of the captor. of the f..llowing ves‘els from °pelt°,
booed le the Brazils, via. Fier de Portugal, Arica
'do Doern. Pembina do Porte, and Conde de Cavil-
heir's. The letter was given up In the crews, mad is
surveil back at Oporto. The Tentecau esceped."

Thirteen wierchUnt ships which have arrived fro*
the United Stales at Ilarre.de-Gracts, are now load.
ins there to return. They offer opportonities of end.
gration at one.third less prices than vessels can dm
which cheer oat from this country. The emigrations
from Plymouth and its nrighboarhood, of depressed
tradesmen, mechanics, and sturdy labourers, are al=
most daily. Last week the following vessels sailed
from Plymouth, with passengers for America, els.
Biddeford, Speculation, Jobs, and William sod
Amelia.

The Emperor of RUISI4 has. by a special decree,
exempted the Stoniest, of the Polish Colleges (noon
the Military Conscription.

Estrect of a letter from an °Seer in ladle, to •
Gentleman in Edinburgh, dated Rivet Gauges, Sep-
tember '27. 1818 :
T;w R.ttr Goers lent risen higher this season than it has
dot..• fist niaav scars, eel is ante like is sea than a river; die
c.aa.rs in tl.e neichkoartatad Is.. lora hold entirety slake water.
d I artier bsve seen a -few of teeth deso'atioat there ore
hood,. d• t f villages compie•rav ittuodated nod devrited, all is,-
tett-tabs, i. cordial on its basis, wheel ore seen dailiair i• all
duet Intas nis.niasi gist,...f trret and aver fields sf• gra*, the
green lisps of tibia, are ju.t abase eater. la the Miler H.egiy
I..esieht is the otinneest Shia can he iiisagated, as the villages
air all built sou she hirbe•r pars., awl became like so many
H I:.is Min= hentaihillv osaraed tat all side,.
it has trite toe spi tAtry i-load. The only melba-
chnlv proper; dump an the view is to see crowds of
utifoitiosate cattle • ',sorted on
*horsing far want, jest n. 1 have seen castle at have doily' a
hears taarin; si hen the ground wa. drepll• ed wit► mow.
Tiot,en.no toei Arra very .itklv. rcpeciall• lailetly, said sins
erl.rh foul t.. it. There I. a .thins new resoeciise Ib
Pied. t ie.; they •rem In he prelli a ell amelea for the reveal t
some troops will be out the season, bat there a 11l be se leggier

ihelst battalion noth Regiment, 50() men, from
the Cape of ilinorl Hope, landed on Thursday at
Portsmouth. and matched to Fort Cumberland, to
he disbaoded. %%e anderstand the detention of
these men on hoard the transports, so long after their
strive!, hes !Beige's out of Ow peculiar character of
their case. They are inincipally military offenders.
who, under transmuted sentences, were mat abroad
to serve there during the period of their natural life;
bet their battalion corning within the scale of fedora
lion to the peace eitablisho.eut, now 6'7 have re-
tailed hoots for that purpose, it has become a gm.
lion how they ought to be finally disposed of.—
Moot seventy of them, we understand, him here.
Wore forfeited their lives to the laws of their toiletry.
Weistsdetsiand it ha, hefts determined. that all Ito

men of the battalion &alin►d to serve for life, s►all
be lamed over to the 2J and 3J battalions of the ite.
gloomy.

Letters hem Paisley state, that owing to the de-
clining demand for its fabrics. the tnansfactorers in
general were reducing their hands. One of tbe
tees says, " The accounts from all guariots represent
the markets a, being full of roods, and we do sot
recollect of any petioil it' which the proip.c.s fnr the
si,:ing trade mere ou,re given slid de youding."

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To rex ICUITOR or rats STiTbMAN.

Sta,—l beg Wye, in the most gratefol and feel•
ins meson, to rotors my Tory sincere and hearty
thaoks to those Ladies, Noblemen, Geo'Semen, and
the Pahlie who haves. spiritelly and bomarsoly cams
forward sod lest their aid and aesistence, in support
of myself, my wife, and my large family, on this any
trying occasiou ; to yore, Sir, iu particolar, l lie
wader the grostesi obligations.
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At Ore ems time permit me to observe, that lite
money which has been so liberally raised, will be
barely seldom to satisfy the composition I have eo.
tered into with my creditors. Without, therefore,
I receive some tardier aid and assioanee from the
ger 00000 sad reflection pert of the Public, my wife,
my family, aid myself mast, I fear, Inevitably sink
under she heavy sad griernes pies/woof the persecu.
tiers which I have had to undergo, for hewing (ired to
set us I tlereglit became an Englishman; and for haw.
iug esercited my humble efforts to promote a Ito.
fees in the Commons Moose of Parliament, without
which I apprehend we can peons so security opium
misgevermeent or oppression, DO guarantee fur our
liberties er happioess.—With gratefol Bed heartfelt
respect I beg to subscribe myself your obliged ser-
vant,
W. PAUL ROGIERS.
Malowstreet, Orlon. Apra O. 11119.