The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-04 00:00:00

THE STAMMAN,

Paris l'apets have reached us to the 29th ult. ;
their contents are not interesting. BONAPARTE was
at Paris on the 26th.—We hare given some extracts
in a preceding column.

It k said, in the Ministerial Prints, that the two
last Flags of Truce came from Boulogne and Calais,
and were merely sent over to explain and apologize
for the beat conveying the answer of our Govern-
ment to the first dispatch, having been fired upon at
'Calais. This may be true as to the second flag, but
we do not think that it applies to the two last, as
one surely was sufficient to convey the apo-
logy, if llo:sAr.traz considered one necessary.—
Lilt whatever may be in this, we never entertained a
doubt that the object of the FRENCH EMPEROR) in
opening a communication with this country, was that
of peace. It is now rumoured, and we are inclined
to consider the rumour probable, that IIoNAeARTE
had yielded to the wishes of the Emperor of RUSSIA,
who, it is said, proposed that another offer shoutd be
made to Ministers of a pacific nature, which, if re.
fused, would determine ALEXANDER in favour of
Napoleon's anti-commercial Decrees. He adopted
this policy on a former occasion, and the circum-
stAnce of his continuing at Paris, after the great
body of his troops have advanced so far on their
northern route, induces a strong persuasion in fa.
your of the report. A Morning Paper states,
that a Deputation of the principal Merchants were
to wait upon the CHANCELLOR of the Exeneouvt,
this forenoon, " in compliance with his requisition.
—lt is conjectured that be has some propositions to
refer to their consideration, respecting a more ex-
tenske commercial intercourse with the Continent,
as tendered by the French Ituler:under his late Flags
of Truce."

The intermediate Documents laid before the Ame-
rican Congress respecting the charge brought against
our Mluisters by Mr. MAnisos, having reached us,
we have given as many of them to-day as our limits
will permit ; we shall endeavour to give the rest to-
morrow. The National Intelligencer, the offi-
cial paper of the American Government, when
alluding to the development of the plot, observes,
4 6 This whole affair is one on which comment would
be superfluous. It sraks in a, voice of thunder,
which the very deaf shall hear. Instead of applying
it as a stimulus to party fervour, let it become a bond
of union against a common foe, who, whilst she was
making lavish professions of friendship through our
Minister in England and her Minister in this city,
was perfidiously stirring np rebellion and compas-
sing disunion in this land, by secret agencies ; at
the moment she was pretending to hold out one hand
hi fellowship, with the other she was feeling for the
vitals of the Republic, to which she migl.t in the dead
.of,night direct her poisoned dagger, Whatever may
be thought of the past, the public will not fail pro.
perly to appreciate the views of him who shall,
after this disclosure, trumpet forth the justice, cle-
mency, and forbearance of Great Britain to the
United States. if such a one shall be found, let him
be marked as the foe to freedoms as the parricidal
enemy of his country !"

MANCHESTZII) APRIL 30.—We are all quiet here i
at present, but are still anxious to see what may hap• I
pen the next two or three► days,as the general meeting
of the Luddites is said to be fixed for to-morrow, but
the place we have yet to learn. Be that as it may, i
we are folly prepared, and so far I do conceive
there is not the least danger. The Bolton Rioters'
Committee, or rather the Delegates, had planned a
secret meeting, at which some important matters
were to be discussed. The fact became known to
the Officers and Police, and it was deemed prudent
not to prevent it from taking place. The consequence
was, that last night the whole assemblage, consisting
of 25 men, were taken by surprise, together with all
their correspondence. A man has also been appre-
: hended at Eccles, in attempting to seduce the Local
Militia, by offering five guineas bounty and 15s. per
week to all that would be tizisted in (the term for
swearing is). Many of the delegates are going
round the country on the same service.—Quere—
where does the money come from ?"
By accounts which left Manchester after the post,
! we learn that another weaving manufactory had been
burnt down. But where is not stated ; and that a
woman who has offered to give evidence against some
'of the rioters, had been killed whilst the military
were escorting her to a Magistrate to make her de-
positions.
Mr. Hoareas.r., who was shot from behind a wall
Iby four ruffians, in the vicinity of Huddersfield, we
are sorry to say, died on Thursday night of the
wounds he received. A deputation of the trade ar-
-1 lived in town on Saturday, to lay the melancholy
stfair before Mr. RYDER, and to consider of means
`or the better security of persons and property for
ithe future.

Saturday night's Gazette contains Proclamations
offering, besides his Majesty's free pardon to the in-
formers, rewards of 20001. for the detection of the
person or persons who shot Mr. W. HORSEFALL, of
Marsden, ou the 28th ult. ; 600 guineas for those
who shot Mr. W. TREWTHAM, of Nottingham, on the
27th ult. ; and 100 guineas for the person who fired
at G. WHITHEAD, at Huddersfield, on the 15th ult.

The Towashend packet is arrived from Jamaica
sailed the 10th March—mail will be up to-morrow
The Manchester packet sailed the 24th Feb. and kas
not yet arrived.
The fleet from Portsmouth arrived at Jamaica the
16th March.

The Mary Ann packet from New York and Hali-
fax is arrived; sailed from New York the 18th of
March—mail will be up to-morrow.
Upwards of a hundred vessels are shortly expect-
ed to arrive at the different out-porky, with grain
from the Baltic.
The New Zealander is arrived in the Downs from
the Southern Fisheiy. She touched at Port Jackson
on her way home, and brings atcounts that the co-
lony had been very plentifully supplied from India
with wheat, rice, Cc. Governor Marie. %attic was
preparing to go to Van Diemen's land, when the
above vessel left in October.

Captain Ai:Am, of the larincible, had a Tory nar-
row escape a bliort time since: he was in his Large,
reconnoitring, near Tarragona, when a French ride-
man, who had concealed himself behind a sock, took
aim at him ; the bullet passed close ever the Captain's
shoulder, and s!iot his coxswain dead immediately
behind him.

Exchegver Bills,bearing interest three pence half-
penny per diem, are now isioing.
It is repOrted that Ministers Lave reFolved to offer
to the Catholic body three great branches of their
present demaaili.
5. The removal of every exPating impediment to their promo-
tion to the highest ranks in the ariny.—'2. A similar extension of
tbc oppononitie• of acquiring promotion with respect to the
navy.- -3. The same advantages fn the profession (gibe law.
The Address from the Inhabitants of Manchester
and Salford to the PRINCE REGENT. or rather to his
Ministers, passed at the Police Office, after having
been handed about the town in every direction for
signatures, was sent up last week. This popular
Address was signed by 410 persons out of a popula-
tion of upwards of 90,000! !
At a late grand Court party, the wife, it is said,
retired before the husband made his appearance.—
Fine field for Grottor Rosa's fancy! !—Whato two
buckets in a well ! ! •

To distinguish the pod three-shilling Bank tokens
from the spurious, observe that they have all a range
of pyramidal points round the edge, which have dots
between them. In the genuine pieces these dots are
found only on the head side, while the counterfeits
have them indiscriminately on both sides.
Mr. ROSE, we understand, feels greatly hurt by
the shag) and pointed hits at his drowning men in a
bucket ; but be ought to recollect that there is no
Rose without its thorns.—About 10 years ago, Mr.
Rose fell into the Thames, near Westminster-bridge,
when a waterman, perceiving the accident, pushed
off, brought him up from under an old barge, and
having landed him safe, GEOIIGE shook his ears, and
gave the saviour a guinea, one pound notes not being
then in fashion. Now surely this chews, that Mr.
ROSE did not consider drowning so horrible a death
as those writers of puns and epigrams affect to consi-
der it ; and, therefore, as he has thought so lightly
of it in his own personal case, he cannot be fairly
charged with selfishness, in not being horror-struck
at seeing others inn similar situation.
Boxras.—The anxiously looked-for boxing-match
betwixt Maltby, one of the champions at Thissleton-
gap, and Cope of provincial fame, will take place
to-morrow. The spot will not be fixed on until this
evening, when a party of amateurs will meet at Greg-
son's for that purpose.

On Saturday eveniug,•tbe 18th instant, as two men were re-
turning in their c .rt front the Liverpool Market, after selling
their commodities, they were s'opped in Edge-lane, near El ®-
house, by several men, who led the cart, together with the two
men who belongtid to it, into an adjacent field. They there
robbed them of a considerable sum in Bank-notes, silver, and
other valuables, to the amount, it is said, of nvarly twenty
°nods, after which they permitted them to proceed on their
journey. it is believed that the two men in the cart had been
overheard talking of their money in a public-house, where they
bad previously been drinkingg, in com;.aay withthit robbert,
which, it is supposed, excited thou to the attempt.