The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-28 00:00:00

SIR

WILSON.

ma following is tbh Address of Sir Robert Wilson to his
Constituents, on qulttlag Ragland :
"TO TR; SLICTOIi Or THI BOROUOI OF 1013111WARZ.,
" Gentlemen,—ln Mt the Intercourse I have held with
you, I have invariably found you animatedomot merely by
a love of freedom, but disposed to adopt theism' enlarged
and enlightened views of Its relations with the general state
of the world. It would be an insult, then, to your under-
standings and your feelings, if I were to express a doubt of
the concern you take in the cans, of Spain, not only as the
Issue may affect the brave people of that country, but the U-
'sorties and interests of your own.
" The battle, for the right of nations to dump or insprore
their Governments, is commenced on the Spanish soil.
"Circumstances have authorised me to presume my pre-
mice in that field may be welcome to the defenders of those
rights. I go, then—not to gratify any personal (which, is
the actual state of things, would be en inglorious ambition
—I go, not to mingle with civil dissensions, lo which it
would not become any foreigner to engage, except he could
act the part of a pacificator—but I attach myself to the for-
tunes of Spain in the hour of her pressure and peril, pre-
pared to share her toils; and I trust I may prove as emu-
lous as any of her defenders to participate in her dangers.
" In taking this step, I am making many painful and em-
barrassing domestic sacrifices, but I trust I am not subject-
ing myself to any public censure. I may act in opposition
to the temporary policy adopted by the Government, but I
am sure I do not deceive myself when I say, that I shall be
the representative of the feelings and wishes of my maid-
teems, and countrymen.
" Under the uncertainty of the duration of my absence, I
have not taken any step to restore the trust confided in me,
and I have bees influenced to forbear from other considera-
tions than those of a personal nature. lat one time enter-
tained great scruples on account of any deriment which might
arise to the total diaeresis of Southwark in the House of
Commons from my absence, but they have been removed by
the friendship of Mr. Latobton, who has offered his servioes
whenever they can be considered useful, and I feel confident
.that his zeal and activity will prove to you that I have suf-
ficiently provided for the due execution of that portion of my
Parliamentary trust.
" I do, however, submit myself entirely to your direction,
and you have only to communicate your wishes to be obeyed
by one who will ever remember with pride, affection, and
gratitude, your patriotism, kindness, and confidence.
" With the sincerest regard, believe me, Gentlemen,
" Your faithful and obedient servant,
" ft„ T. WILSON.
" Regent-street, April 32.'1823."

On Wednesday Sir Robert Wilson accompanied by the
Hon. --- Erskine, son of Lord Erskine, left town
for Falmouth, there to embark for Vigo.
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By a private letter from Seville, dated April 10, we
learn that the King of Spain, with his Queen, arrived in
that city between one and two o'clock that day. The
royal carriages were preceded and followed by a strong
escort of cavalry. Sir William A'Court was treated all
the way from Madrid to Seville, with an attention ap-
proaching to adulation. The determination of the Bri-
tish Cabinet to maintain neutrality in the contest be-
tween France and Spain, was perhaps not then known
in-that part of the Penisula through which he bad

passed.
A traveller; who aerived on the 19th of April at Bay
onne from Spain, speaks of the good arrangements that
are every where makint in the interior. 'flit Constitu-
tionalists are preparing; not to attack the troops of the
Army of Occupaticei, but to bards them; and tt is said
they will not attempt any thiftr till the line of ope-
tions is become much more extended, and till the corps
of the army are near Madrid ; by that time the hot sea-
ms will have set in, which will be very favourable to the
t
itallreet of a Letter from Paris, dated April 23:—" The
resat prohibition of the Austria,. Observer has given rise
to much speculation, and the almost general opinion is.
that the Austriaa Goirernataat bay rasoiedal spas a sea trail-
Tavola to the French, and that articles are Inserted
&facial paper which displease the Rulers of this migh-
ty nation. The prohibition, however, Is not official ; it
merely happens that the Aostriai Observer is so great a
favourite with the fifteen members of the Royal Commission
at the Post-office, that they cannot conveniently spare ego
'ropy for the public. The same liberal feeling has been
shown towerlr the Gazette de Neckar, a paper which for the
last six watts has not found its way to the Reading Rooms ;
and be assured that the English Journals will sot be spared
when they shall, as soon they must, become the channel of
apanbb intelligence. The telegraphic despatches and bul-
letins of the Mositeur have been any thing but satisfactory ;
the Funds, however, by dint of extraordinary exertion,
and the absence of all news on one side of the question have
kept up."
Extract of a letter, dated Lisbon, April 12th, 1823 :-
1, Much will be said, no doubt, in Ragland respecting
the insurrection of Amarante. Believe me that the
cause of liberty has nothing to fear from it; those who
have seen the attachment of nine-tenths of the Portu-
guese to their constitution, never can doubt the result ;
and French gold, aided by the intrigues of a set of dege-
nerate Portuguese connected with the Pavillon Morgan
at Paris, has only been the means of showing this Go-
vernment who are their friends and their enemies ; the
insurrection has prepared the people and the army to be
ready against the approaching invasion. If it does take
place, you will sooner see the towns, cities, and villages
of Portugal consumed, like Moscow, than the people will-
ing to allow their invaders to dictate any changes in the
constitution. All the people are arming themselves,
and in a short time there will not be a man in Portugal
without a musket: every one hastens to be enrolled in
the National Guard, to which even the public functiona-
ries, from the lowest to the Ministers of State, belong.
Amarante, with the scattered remains of his followers, is
retreating upon Braganca: the Constitutionalists are al-
ready at Mirandels, and we expect daily to hear of the
last scene of this drama."
On Tuesday last, an intelligent French officer, of fine
appearance, left this town on his way to Spain ; he vies
a abort time since abruptly dismissed by the French Go-
vernment, under suspicion of his not heartily approving
the Spanish invasion. On his landing at Bridport, he
was recognised by the free-insaons, who handsomely as-
sisted him, and recommended him to the brethren of Ex-
eter and their neighbourhood, from whom he flee expe-
rienced similar munificence. lie has proceeded on his
journey, full of military ardour to defend the cause of
independence in behalf of Spain.—{Exeter Paper.)
The following is said to be an accurate statement of
the amount and distribution of the French navel forces
at sea the West Indies, the French have, by the
latest advices, the Romulus, of 74 guns, Jean Bart, 74,
Hannibal, 74, Joan d'Are, 64, Vestalo, ti 4, the Thetis,
44, the Medusa, 44, Hermoine, 44, Nereide, 44, and two
corvettes. Three other heavy frigates are known to be
also on the passage for the same to arter. On the avast
of the Brazils the French have one ship of 74 guns, two
frigates, two corvettes, and two brigs. Round Cape
Horn the French have two heavy frigates, built on the
American plan, each carrying 60 guns, and each manned
with 500 seamen. On the 23d March, another squadron
of Frenchmen, consisting of one frigate, two corvettes,
and two brigs, was spoken with near the Island Deserta,
standing S.W. The force which has heen sent to the
East Indies is not known at Lloyd's, nor can it be heard
of yet for some time. In the Mediterranean, the French
have already four or five ships of the line at sea, and
in Toulon fifteen sail were getting ready, will the utmost
dispatch.
The King bas been most graciously pleased to appoint
General Sir Samuel Hulse to be Ranger of Windsor
Home Park, in the room of General Grenville, deceased.
STOCKHOLM, Atm B.—The Princess of Leuchten-
burl!, bride of the Crown Prince of Sweden, is now re-
ceiving instructions in the Lutheran Religion from a
Protestant clergyman. •

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beam, Atm. V.—Arrived tll4 iondag ihe as, a-
isilton, from China, sod relatifs with titli bileillmt,
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ward bound Indlamen.-116th, Cessions from the
river, the Atlas, for Bengal ; Henry, for Demerara ; Wake-
field and Hannah, foraliramichi ; Isabella, for Charlston ;
Barth, for Messina; Three Friends, for Oporto; Sceptre,
for Manilla ; Peggy, for Quebec ; Minerva, for Mtramlelti
sod Elizabeth, for Ambles Sailed this afternoon, the aw-
ther Castle, Baker, for China ; and the whole of the outward
bound for their different destinations, except the Vansittart,
which ship waits only far her purser. Arrived off the South
Foreland, the Noble, Orgood, 152 days from Batavia, for
Antwerp.—Wind
FALMOUTH, Antis. 26.—Arrived off the Port, the Deo. 4th,
Limy, from Demerara, in eight weeks. Arrived the Sisters,
Kittee, from Estapies (near which place she was driven on
shore 4th ult. with 7 other vessels); bake of Marlborough
Packet from Lisbon, sailed the 2011 inst. galled t),e Stan-
mar Packet for Vigo and Lisbon.--Wind
Porrsootrn, Aram 27.—Arrived the Atlas, from the
Downs for Bengal.-26th, Arrived his Majesty's ship Cal-
liope from Lisbon; Vitelia transport fralli the Wig ladies.
Sailed the Success transport, far Quebec.—Wind N.B.
Pzvatourn, Arms. 26.—Off the port, the Symmetry, Daw.
son, from Demerara; Royal Sovereign, Brightman, from
Trieste. 25th, Arrived the Lord Exmouth, Barrett, for
Quebec, on the 20th inst.; off Cape Coast, in very bad wee'
thee', carried away her main and mizen mast, which obliged
her to put back.—Wind W.S.W.
Pools, APRIL 27.—Arrived the Louisa, Hannah, Biel,
from Lisbon, its eight days; this vessel only sailed from
Newfoundland, 20th ult. discharged at Lisbon a cargo of
fish, and took on board a cargo of salt, at sea on:y 29" days,
making both passages; This vessel has lost her foremast.

Doren, APRIL 25 —An order has been issued (it is re-
ported) by the authorities at Calais, prohibiting the in-
troduction of English newspapers into the port, under
the penalty of 500 francs for each raper.
The undermentioned Company's ships arrived on Satur.
day, as follows, sic:—Buckinghamshire and Marquis of
Huntley, from China, off the Wight; Dunira, from ditto,
off Portland ; Dorsetshire from Bengal, off Weymouth ;
the Marquis of Huntley left China on the 9th of December,
the Cape of Good Hope on the 19th of February, and St.
Helena on the sth of March ; the Buckinghamshire left
Mos on the 21st of December, and St. Helena on the oth
of March ; the Dunira left China on the sth of January, and
St. Helena on the 13th of March ; the Dorsetshire left Ben-

gal on the llth of Janlary, and St. Helena on the 11th of
March; the Thomas Coutts, homeward bound, was to sail
from St. Helena in two or three days after the Dunira ; the

Lady Melville left China also on the 2d of December, the
Cape on the 12th of February, and St. Helena on the sth of
March, and Is believed to be in the Channel ; the Prince
Regent sailed from Bengal far England, on the 28th of
December, the Astell bad left Bengal for the coast ; and the
Winchilses was to leave Bengal an 'bent a fortnight after
the Dorsetshlre : the Repels?, outward bound, arrived at
St. Helena on the 11th of March.
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The followingis an extract of aletter from the Agents
to Lloyd's at Marseilles, dated the IStli inst
" We informed yon on the 13th inst. that an order
from the authorities of this place had been received by
telegraphic dispatch to lav en embargo on Spanish
vessels in this harbonit. We have now to make known to
you, that an order has trubseutwetlybseo eseeived to take
oft the embargo : but ndt being sufficiently clear, in re-
gard to those_altiai have a cargo on hoard, especially
tboesaadsw4iob watire stores and grain, they are de-
tained till further instructions can be receive) respecting
them; those which are in ballast, to the number of five,
will profit by the permission, and sail immediately for
Spain.—The Master of the French ship Lea Deux Amis,
just arrived from Cayenne, in addition to his usnal de-
cla. ation at our Health Office, adds, that on the 23d ult ,
at six o'clock in the mornirg, in sight of the Deserted
Islands, he observed a French squadron, consisting of a
frigate, two corvettes, and two brigs, steering to the
S.W.
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BERLIN, APRIL 15.—T0 prevent misconceptions of the
14th article of the ordonnance relative to the Censorship,
the following explanation of it has been given by the
Supreme Board of Censorship :—" That no publisher
since the IStli of October, 1819, shall be allowed to
print even an unaltered edition of a work before pub-
lished, no matter how many editions it may have gone
through, without again sohmitting such work to the Cen-
sorship as a new book ; and that the 14th article is appli-
cable only to such unaltered edition of a book which
had received no other imprimatur since the 18th of Oct.
1819."
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ST. PIZTIEMBURO, APRIL 9.—After several days of mild
and rainy weather the ice of the Neva began to break up
yesterday morning, which interrupted the communication
yesterday, but to-day it is passable in boats, the governor
of the fortress having presented to the Emperor fresh
water from the Neva, according to the annual custom, ac-
companied by a salute of artillery. The stream is now
quite free from ice, after having been frozen over ever
since the 21st December.
Hoe DUTT.—The following Order from the Excise
Office, London, has been received by the Collector on his
round, and by him transmitted to the Supervisor in this
town :
" Ordered—Where the Hops cannot be secured under
the joint lock of the crown and the growers, the payment
to be postponed, one third to the firth July next, without
requiring a promissory note; and one third to the 10th
of October; and the remaining one third, to the 25th of
November in the present year, on a joint promissory note
being given for the amount of the said too thirds of the
duty by the grower and one sitlielent surety, in lieu of a
bond. —April 24, 1823.
A letter has been received from New Zealand, dated
Nov. 19, 1822, which states that the Ceres whaler. Capt.
Lancaster, of London, was lost on the desolate island of
Tonamia (one of the Friendly Islands), on the 28th of
August, 1821. The crew saved the ship's sails, the
greater part of their clothing, four casks of bread and
flour, and 16 pieces of pork. This being a small provi-
sion for thirty-one persons. the captain sent twelve men,
in two boats to a neigbouring island, to endeavour to
obtain food, until an opportunity should occur of their
being taken off. The natives behaved very treacherously;
their pretended kindness soon changed to cruelty: they
murdered five of them, stripped 01l their clothes, and
sorely cut and bruised the other seven. The natives after
went over to Tonamia. pretendine they came from a dif-
ferent island, and knew nothing of their fellow-sufferers.
But here they soon killed the Captain, the cooper and a
boy, and forced the remaining 15 poor felrows to put olf
in their boat, with only one oar. After being two days
and nights at sea, having neither fool nor drink, they
reaclied the volcanic island of Nlattao, where they re-
mained thirteen months, their food brinz only cocoa
nuts. They were at length taken off the island by the
Missionary Society's ship, St. Michael, of Port Jaeksoa,
and landed at that place.—(Hampshire Telegraph.)
It gives us much pleasure to observe, that the many in.
qu'ries to learn the state of health of Mr. Charles Incle-
don, at his bottle in Prospect Place, to a late hi,ur on
Saturday night, were followed by the welcome commu-
nication, that, though not out of dagger, he was consi-
dered as very touch better.--(9listez .4dc )

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