The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-02 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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from the most inhospitable climates of the North.—
Several of them were already decorated with the
Order of the Lily.

• American Papers have been received fo. the 27th
Dec. The state of things at the date of these Papers,
which was chiefly marked by the measures taking for
maintaining the Sovereign rights of the country, has
been rendered of little iaterest, as it must be entirely
changed by the peace. The Bill for raising a direct
Tax of six millions of dollars passed the House of

THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1815.

Two Dutch Mails arrived this foreno , and Paris I
Papers to the 30th lust. late last night ' accounts
from Vienna, which are not of to than
those previously received, though th edging
of the course of the Negociations, pacific
appearance. The intelligence, howe al her
quarters, particularly from the Fren tier, ,is
very strange and inexplicable. It will b n from
the articles which we quote as under from Dutch
Papers, that the military preparations are ntinised
in France and the Netherlands Kith ictikity
than at any former period. The Frei? ps are
made more than complete ; the emir omit-
ing, the magazines filling, and they ,s *Ray
at work on the arsenals. The infere from all
these preparations is, that the Belgian proyirsces,l so
often disputed, are likely to afford mock ground for
contention, and that the business of the 'Congress is
far from settled.

Representatives, hut it was thought that it would

Inot be of easy enforcement. Plundering descents on
various parts of the coast continue to be made by our
forces, which tend to augment thegeneral dissatisfac-
tion and alarm, but can otherwise produce little effect
on the war, and still less on the peace. The official
! Paper of the American Government speaks of these
expeditions in terms of the strongest reprobation.—
It men tions.the British Admiral by the title of " the
i .
ofamous Comet:an." And certainly, if the ac-
counts are true, the terms that are used are not im-
properly applied. We can only make room for the
following extract from the National Intelligencer:
4 6 We learn that the enemy have descended the
Rappahanuock. An account from there states,
that their ascent up the river was marked by a
conflict every •way worthy of the infamous COCK..
BURN, plundering and burning on both shores al-
most every thing within their reach.—Their conduct
at Tappahannock was scarcely exceeded at Hemp-
ton for its brutality and wanton destruction of pro.

The curiosity at Vienna is still very lively, to I petty. They have laid in ashes the court-house, prison,
learn whether England will continue to pay the sub- i collector's office, clerk's office, and a large warehouse,
sidies stipulated by the Treaty of Chaumont. If `and scarcely a building escaped plunder or damage.
she shall refuse, as we hope she will, having already It appears likewise, by letters published in the Alex-
iandria Herald, that' the negroes who joined the ene-
Dukepaid sufficiently for making the Emperor Ars-Lim:
of Warsaw, and the King of Passau, Save- my were armed by them, and turned into the town
reign of Saxony, a speedy breaking up of ible won- with licence to commit any excess ; and, 'what we
could not have believed of Cocaenari himself, had he
derful Congress must take place. Austria ilppears
to be much embarrassed in her finances ; end Si her not shown himself capable of any villany, they broke
people are threatened with thecontagion of the ittcome !into the family vault of Col. RITCHIE, and ransacked
the ashes of the dead. 6 Five coffins (says a letter)
Tax, which has committed such devastations in this i
country so long, we do not wonder at their cariosity I were opened, their escutcheons torn off and cast
to learn whether we mean volontarily to cautious ,' away, and their mouldering contents mutilated and
a prey to that worst of all plagues, that they me), be left exposed ; the plea was the hope of plunder.' "
exempt from it. This Tax on personal West* There are also in these Pipers copies of some more
? ! letters from and to the Commissioners at Ghent.—
which is to the amount of 50 per cent. a re to
hate been quite unexpected by the Austrian people,,, The conclusion of the Treaty, which renders them
among whom it has created a great ferment. The Ordi- . merely of historical interk4,,,Apkes us less regret
nance imposing it, and the view which other nation i that we have not to-day speetfer their insertion.
entertain as to who have derived the chief advantages, --oar.4 l' •
from late events, are worth attending to. Power and 1 The Courier says, the arguments adduced by Mr.
W HITBREID at the Bedfurdihire Meeting against the
popular opinion are the same every where. A fetter
from Vienna of the 16th says—" It was the general Petition of his brother land-holders, fur Legislative
opinion, that the great lauded proprietors had de-
aid to keep up the price of corn, "could he easily
rived the chief advantage from recent cfrcumstances!P yefuted." It does not, however, try to resits them.
but the Ordinance imposing the Tax expressly asserts It contents itself with making an insinoation as
the cola, a ry.
1 mach to the credit of Mr. WMTBREAD, as it is
1 -nt to detract from his well-earned itation.—

mea, ,ract . , repu. ..-
44 It says, 4 though the general war of twenty
Because this Gentleman, whose great stake in the
years' duration, which caused nothing hut calamity
country is as well known as his patriotism, at a tithe
to all Europe, be happily terminated, yet the trap-
when almost all the landed interest are uniting to
sition from this state of continual war to a stale of
keep up a monopoly which threatens to engulph the
real and solid peace, is naturally attended with more .
means and the comforts of the rest of the nation,
difficulty and tardiness than ever resulted from any' and is as ungenerous as it is unjust, has given it as
other war ; and the necessity for still keeping on I
ihis opinion that bread ought to remain at a moderate
foot a considerable military force especially super.,
price, and that one class of men ought not to in-
prietors continuing still to bear the charges of war, '
induces a large expenditure. The landed pro.:
tercept the bounty of GOD to the human race in ge-
neral, he is invidiously pointed out as one of the
while all other classes already enjoy the bless. ,
brewers who are making fortunes by the cheapness
lugs of peace, his Imperial Majesty, in order that
of
grain. This is, indeed, paying a very high corn-
the latter may also bear their share of the extraor- !
pliment to Mr. Watzaazan's porter, if the insinua-
dinary and temporary burthen pressing on the State, . .
lion as to the motive of that Gentleman's conduct
has issued a decree, importing that for the military !
conveys none to himself, for it goes to prove that
year 1815, the tax on industry shall be augmented Mr. WHITBREAD approves of malt, as an ingredient
50 per cent., and that this addition, as well as the i
old tax, must be levied with the utmost strictness.' of the porter which he is supposed to have a large
interest in making. It would also imply that all
" This Ordinance has had the most unfavourable . " the brewers who are making fortunes" really and
effect on our excharge." I truly, whatever traducers may say, do use a con-
Bnussrt.s, J A st. 21.—The accounts which we re- siderable quantity of grain (we would suppose barley,
ceire from the French frontiers are very strange and but the Courier has a wider inference) in the menu-
inexplicable. France prosecutes the military prepa- facture of the beverage they sell, or how can they be
rations with more activity than was at first supposed ; I making fortunes now more than at any other time?
the corps are made complete, nay even more than ! We will not dispute the depth of the Courier's informa-
complete ; the cavalry is remounting, the magazines ' lion on the subject of his inspiring theme--he doubtless
are tilling, and they are constantly at work on the can discriminate as well between who uses malt and hops
arsenals. The organization of the National Guard and who has recourse to extraneous succedatieums,
is continued. But on the other side we observe 1
r as between the Outs and Ins; but if it be true, that
that France has evacuated the'Duchy of Bouillon,, I the wholesome articles which were formerly used in
which lies on the frontiers of the Ardennes. The the manufacture of beer, now form but a small part
Prince d'Auvergne is every moment expected fromlin the composition of that article,now so general and
England to take possession of the Duchy, which has I necessary in this country, and the health of tw.o.
been in the hands of the French ever since 1789. The thirds of the nation is placed in imminent danger by
inhabitants of that little country have solemnly cele- the use of less wholesome ingredients, from what
brated the return of their independence. Several de- 1 cause has arisen this departure on the part of the
tachments of Prussian troops who were cantoned in manufacturers of the national beverage from the pure
that part have again received orders to evacuate constitutional mode (for constitutions are here con-
that part of the Belgian provinces, and of Liege, cerned in reality) they used to pursue in the making
on the frontiers of the above meutioned duchy. that necessary of life? Why did barley come to be
1

We flatter ourselves, according to accounts from
Vienna, from good authority, that if unhappily war,
should recommence, as some still fear, all the Bel-
gian provinces on the left bank of the Meese will
be declared neutral, that a military cordon will ist
established from Venloo to the French frontiers;
and of another from Namur to Nieuport ; that in
this case a very large reinforcement of English and
Hanoverian troops will increase the means of impr
ing our safety and independence.

expelled from the composition, or be used only
in such small quantities as report says it now is in
the breweries? Because, it will be answered, that
malt as well as hops had got to such an extral agent
price that to use these as the sole ingredients, and as
they used to be, would necessarily have occasioned
such a rise in the price of beer as must have put it
out of the reach of those who had very little other
support or comfort. The brewers were therefore
ender the necessity 'Of contriving some method of

11013-I,E.DUC, JAN. 20.—Troops of different new
(ions continue to march through here; lately a de.
tachment of 300 French prisoners passed through,
their healthy looks, good clothing, and cheerio)
manners, would baldly let us believe that they cabin

supplying the public with their favourite liquor at a
moderate price, with as little reliance upon the far-
mer as possible.
Wears far from asserting that this bas been the
cases but some such reply may be made to the gees.