The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-07 00:00:00

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Hiritt'Aat the incroachmenti ape;
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tory..by the Americans were vial\
Of the American Government, butt
to him that they were in consequence of 'false and
improper sales, end the desire of the General.
(GAtuss and JACILION) to get possession of In-
dian lend. One would imagine that the Americans-
could be in no great want of land to occupy,
and that they would find It *more their busi-
ness and interest to protect what they had al-
ready brought into culture than thus to seek to root
out, at all the risks of savage war, the poor Indian
from his paternal inheritance. Bat we say that
,no jest opinion can be formed of the justice of
the sentence upon these onfortonate men from
such irrelevant information. We ought to think as
favourably as possible of the conduct of our coun-
trymen, but in met like these we must have well
authenticated facts to form our judgment by, before
we venture on condemnation. We disapprove of
hasty military executions, even on the most
irrefragable testimony of guilt. But whilst we ac-
knowledge and assert the popular • right of
freely investigating and judging of military ope-
ration. and military conduct, as inseparable from
-she right of suffrage, by which those who bestow mi-
litary rank are themseves clothed with the .power to
do so—uhilst we would be the last to surrender that
right, we most say that the degree of crime for which
offenders are commonly, and without commiseration
condemned to death, bears no proportion to the
enormity of that, of which he is guilty who educates
a whole tribe to murder, and rapine, pots the
lout runtents into their hands, and even heads the binds
which have slaughtered fathers, brothers, wises,
and helpless infants.

f- }gable terra.
the knOirledge
hat it appeared

The French Papers to the 4th inst. have reached us.
There is not a word in.them respecting the expected
trial for the recent conspiracy. The different con-
tingents of the Army of Occupation will, it is said,
be inspected by the Duke of AVELLINorou, in the
coarse of the present month. An important annonce
is made in the'e Papers relative to the dispatches re-
cently transmitted from Buenos Ayres to the French
Government. It is stated that they contain overtures,
for the establishment of a free commercial intercourse
between France and the United Provinces of La Plata.

Whether the French Government is ■t liberty to ac-
cept or act upon these overtures, is more than wp
can say ; but such an intercourse cannot but be very
desirable to the French merchants as well as to our
own. The King of NAPLES has issued a very sa-
lutary orrdinance for abolishing ti,e feoffment-trust,
which had acted as a bar to the alienation of land,
and as a consequent obstacle to the improvement of
agriculture.

We have given to-day the remainder of the reply
of the Prussian Government to the application of the
manufacturers in ;he Grand Duchy of the Rhine,
for the exclusion of the products of foreign industry.
Whilst they are promised the assistance of some. new
fiscal regulations to protect them against external
competitors, they are reminded of the difficulties in
the way of efficient Legislative remedies for the
evils of which they complain; and they are ju-
diciously admonished as to the injusious con-
sequences of overweening speculation. The ex-
ertions making by the Foreign Powers In exclude
our manufactures from their territories is a sohject
of deep interest to the People of this country, and
ought to employ the attention of our Government
mach more than the topics that seem to engage the
special regard of oar Congress-hunting Negociaters.
But the preservation of our commercial interests
seems a matter perfectly foreign to the business of
these Representatives of ours, who, if they have any
notions at all on the subject of our prosperity, ap-
pear to think it consists in enabling these very Powers
who are labouring to exclude us from their markets,
to acquire fresh territory, to establish their restraints
against us, and to repel the representations of their
'objects and keep down the energies Of others, by a
preponderance of armed power.

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Lord CASTLEREIGII, it is said, quits London this
day for Aix-la-Chapelle, where the Congress is to
commence its sittings towards the end of this month.
We have not heard whether Mr. ALEXANDER' BARING
accompanies his Lordship. Some of the political
characters who are to figure at the scene of con-
ference, have already arrived. It seems the presence
of the Military Commanders is deemed necessa►y to
settle the points at issue. Count WORONZOW, corn.
minding the Russian contingent, ha. already started for
Aia .la-Cha pet le; and " to fill op this farcical 'mew., 0!"
Madame CATa La NI, Madame GA Ir., the Routs...its, and
LAToNT, and GOD knows how many more celebrated
character., are announced as among the distinguished
performers already assembled there. At the present
moment, when the eyes of Europe are once more
about to be drawn to this city. the description which
we give of it in another page will, we doubt nut,
be acceptable to our Readers.
This is an age of crimes and of trials. We seem
to have arrived at a period in the history of human
action, when the strongest affections and feelings of
our nature lose their power aver the heart, or seem
to spring no more in the human bosom. In our
Paper of this day we insert the Report of ti Trial in.
Ireland, which develop-the fury of the passions in

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'so eitriordinary and laissen(able
trial of a parricide for the corder of his N h
This fatbe;• changed his rition_becamerp
testant and a tiolent persecutor of the pp
wbich he had ilbrmeily belonged in the 'nM
period of the Rebellion.

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The preparations now making for the rid
the QUEEN to Windsor are said to be in cones.

of the. desire expressed by bet MAJEsTT toles%
KING
We have so many reports about the state shi.
QUEEN'S health, and nothing from authorityl4;
subject, the Physicians having ceased to issue Boh.
tins, and the Court Circular not coming underoi
description, we know not what credit to %ascii
any ot these accounts. Wecan only submit Cheattst;
Reader's eye, and leave hint to form his own ophiss,
rite following is one of the historical statetneatc
circulation :—" Her MAJESTY has been snett,:
more at ease since Monday evening. On Ng.
ceding Friday, after having Wen a tolerably 61,7
dinner, she was attacked *iih one of those st 4
spasmodic affections in the stemtch, which fore%
alarming a feature in her indisposition, and aye rw
m•ined partially under its influence during thog„we
part of the three follutsing daya. On the '
evening she was again somets hat better, and lisse,l:
'Weed, since that time, rather improving its
assn otherwise, at least comparatively with sep
nerd miss for the last three weeks; and theist,,
vourebleeppearances induced-his Rgyal Highnesith
PRINCE REGENT to make his long.espected trips,
the Pavilion. Her MAJESTY'S disorder, hosem,
has several times assumed an appearance of shamei
entire abatement, but has constantly returned wail
the greater violenco, and it is therefore to be app.:
hended her present improvement may be but tangs"
The house in which her MAJESTY resides is tat
usually called The Prince's old house,' being ts,
one in which the PRINCE REGENT spent the early pot
of his youth."
It is now currently reported, and has been spates
of with certainty in the first military circles, that sal
the arrival of the British troops from France, am.
duction of one Major and two companies will take
place in every regiment of the line, except Outsets
foreign service, and that the numbers will be
so as to make the 93d Highlanders the junior reij.
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Accoents have been received from Corunna, of tit
18th ult., stating, that some Insurgent privateers,
cruising on that coast, had anchored in the harbour
of CAM rinse on the 14th, and demanded provisions
and refreshments, which, after some demur on one
side and menaces on the other, had been supplied
and paid for at the prices demanded; and it was es.
ported That they were selling the produce of their
prizes in the bays and creeks of that province.
Quebec and Montreal Papers to the 4th of Joy
have arrived. Mr. ARCHIBALD M`LELLAH RAS Real
tried as as accessary to the murder of Owzr
VENNY, in the indian countries, and has been at..
quitted. Ile was immediately discharged. Em.
grants from Great Britain 'and Ireland continue ta
arrive in great numbers at the port of Quebec. They.

generelly proceeded up the river in steam-hosts.
number during the present season is calculated at
3000. The Agricultural Report of the month of
Jane for the district of Montreal, is of en utifavoor.
able nature. The crop; of wheat, and other produc.
Lions important to subsistence, have' been injured by
the drought ; and the rearing of cattle, especially as
regards the preparing summer pasturage for them,
appears to have been imperfectly understood or neg.
lected by the Canadian agriculturists. The incite-
ments held out by the Agricultural Society of Que.
bec will probably, however, do much toward, the
introduction of a better system.
The Duke of DEVONSHIRE arrived on Wednesday
evening at Devonshire.house, from Paris. Yesterday
evening his Grace kft town for his seat, Chatsworth,
Derby shire.
The landed property bequeathed by the late Earl
of- Koury to the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, who sac.
ceedsto the title, is, it seems, quite inconsiderable;
it consists only of a farm in Ireland, which was re..
served by the late Earl when the remainder of the
Kerry estate was sold, in consequence of basing apes
it the ancient burial place and monument of Me
Lords of Kerry.
BRIGHTON, AUGUST O.—Yesterday, Lewes Races
commenced, with indifferent sport. A sweepstakes
of 26 guirreas (fear subscribers) wet walked over the
course by Lord Eontsroaescolt, by Teddy, dam by
Gbhanna, out of the Pillthtlf mare; • Ilis Majesty's
Plate of 100 guises;, was won by Sir J. SHELLEY'S
b. h. Pendulum, 4 yrs. old, in two heats, beating
Lord EGREMONT'S g. h. by Canopus, Mr. Ceaust's
b. Is. Sidrophel, and two others. The intense hest
of the slay operated as a drawback to a large assem-
blage of company.
• The friends of Mr. S. KENNA tell him jocosely,
on his appointment to the management of Drury.
lane, that if ha fail to fill the house, he is, at least,
tar to " fill the stage "
It is said Sir THOMAS liist.oP's share of prize•
money during the late war in India amounts to
£lOO,OOO. Ilowever encouraging this may be to ad.
venturous spirits, let it be remembered they mint
first fight their way up to the office of Commander is
Chief, and gain it at the cannon's mouth. How dif•
ferent to the peaceful Scheme of enriching a man,
now submitted, which, without trouble or danger,
and-requirine :wither skill nor talent, will CARROLL
not only private., but even women and children, into
R Fortune of
,e 30,000 or 160,00, in a few days,
with 2,000 Sovereigns in Gold, besides Claret, Port,
I and Madeira, as may be known at either of Cate•
nor'., the Contractor's, Offices, No. 7, Cornhill,
or 26, Osford.street, where undrawn Tickets and
Shares may be lied ; ecd es there are no fixed Prizes,
all the Capitals may he drawn Next Wednesday, the
R eo esfs. Birt b.d.iy.
The boxing matches between Spring and Painter,
mid Crawley, a promising young pugilist, end a Clare•
market butcher, were to take place at one o'clock
to-day, in Surrey. l'ainter arrived from his training
place in Eases yesterdny, and Spring was on the road
from Kent to the seat of action. The Gentlemen of
the sport were much engaged last night in settling
their bets. Seven to four wss taken that Spring and
Craeley both win.

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