The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-19 00:00:00

TIIE STATESMAN.

n rrnngement all the stores that had been landed would
have been safely emlw 'Led, and. no artich s left Ire.
hind.' Sir John Murray approved of every thing
that he said, and thea told him that he should wait
till the next night. After this, the witness proceed-
ed to eine% e to the beach all the heavy gong that
remained in the depots, and in the other batteries,
intending to remove the goo, from Oliva the next
eight. While the embarkation of the guns and
stores was going on, on the morning of the I(2th,
Cnnornl Doitkio arrived on the beach about nine
o'cieck, and ordered that the embarkation of the
wnis d:ould be discontinued. ll.' also informed the
i twss, that General Clinton's division ‘Viti expected
to arrive on the beach in half an hour, or three quar-
ters; and that it was Ge oide:s of Sir J. Murray,
that as son', as this division had pv,sed, the guns at
Oliva should be spiked, and abandoned. Wit-
no,; also desired to take immediate steps to
carry these orders into execution. Ile immedi-
ately dispatched Officers with the necessary in.
structions to the di ent pain's, but directed that the
guns should not be spiked without further orders,
either from him, from the General commanding at
the pest, or. from the Commander. in-Chief. He
the.' told General Dordsin, that those orders ill ac-
corded with the pi oft.ise which Sir John had made
him rho preceding night. If that promise had been
adhered to, every thing might be caruied off without
noise or ennfusinn, and in a military manlier. Ad-
miral H.,llowell then begged of him to suspend the
execution of the order fur spiking the goes till he
had seen Sir John Murray, and immediately went to
look for hint. On his return he informed the wit-
ness, that Sir John Murray denied that lie had gisen
the order for spikin:: the guns, and said that he
would remain till ht.

15th of November is an old date, but we are no
I aware that we .have any later from New Orleans or
! any port near the mouth of the Mississippi ? The
vessels which arrived at Liverpool from Pensacola
cut and run from that harbour on the 9th of Novem-
ber, in consequence of Gen. JACKSON having taken
Pensacola, the British who had previouly occupied it
having embarked on board the .S'eahore;; frigate'and
four sloops. The last American Papers brought no
later news from Florida than the end of October.

The witness MRS then asked, if the guns had been
allowed to remain till night, would One have been
any difficulty in removing them t"" tl:e beach
His answer was, none in the leant. If Sir John
Murray had given him but three hours previous no-
tice, he could have removed every thing in the night
of the lath. There could have been no difficulty in
removing the guns from Oliva on the night of the 12th,
if Sir John had staid till then.

The witness then stated, that the order to spike
the guns was not given through him, but probably
by the General commanding at the post. Two mor-
tars were lauded on the 10th, and every day
throughout the siege stores and provisions were
landed. A supply of stores sufficient for two or
three ►lays' consumption was landed in the first in-
stance, and every day after enough was landed for
the consumption. Ile never found the least difficul-
ty in being supplied from the ships with every thing
that he required. Admiral Ilallo►relt anticipated
all his wants, and gave him the most prompt and
ready assistance at all times. The witness also stated
that he was present when a Spanish officer brought a
letter from General Copons to Sir John Murray,
stating aVivision of the French to be at Villsfranca.
lfe bolieved that the order for spiking tl►e guns was
given almost immediately after the receipt of this
letter.

Britain should have to say, she had favoured the re-
establishment of justice and peace, and respected the
unalienable privileges of States and individuals in
another. Had America been united to us in the
bond of honourable peace and listing alliance before
the disgracefut Conventions were entered into,
which we are declared, by the " High Contracting
Parties" themselves, to have consented to, and which
we are now desirous of disavowing and setting
aside as inimical to honour and justice,—had this
Treaty with America, which is now conceived to
give us such heartening to stem the torrent of
ambition from the North, been concluded a twelve-
month ago (and it is the opinion of well-informed
men that it might have been so upon the same terms),
would Russia and Prussia have venturned to lay
down such an insulting proposition as this to Great
Britain—Assent to the Union of Sarony to Prussia,
and Poland to Russia, and Peace—or Dissent and
Wart No, never. The Protector of the rights of
nations, the arm of the weak, and the avenger of
injustice, in all hemispheres, would have spoke in
thunder to tbo consciences and the fears of the half-
hardened despoilers, and scattered the half-formed
" evil imaginations of their hearts." They would
not have had to instance to our teeth the meditated,
the defeated injustice of our own conduct—the expe-
ditions, and their fate—which will cover our arms
and our name with an eternal stain. Are we now

The furthtir examination of this witness was Fost-
poi.ed till to.naorrow.
The vial is expected to last till Tuesday next.

E•sratunr—ln :%emerttaN'.. report, for Capt. Sam. Hood, R.N.
re.,cl Capt. 144:1e1ie1!,, It. N.

to have pence dictated to us at every Congress ? Is
assent to this or that proposition, however mon-
strous, or dissent and war, and a coalition to pro-
long the misery into which we have been thrown,
to be flung in our face with imperial insolence, to
push us from our purposes in eery future delibera-
tion where our interests are concerned ? Are we no
more to be allowed to talk of liberty, because we
have proved ourselves hypocrites in the case of the
Slave 'tirade? If there is a cup of this sort p'cp•ir-
ing for us, as a reward to the People of Great Bri-
tain for their exertions to rescue the Continent from
thraldom, and to our Ministers, for their matchless
policy in conducting, or rather prolonging, the
war, let Lord CAsTLEItEm; it look to it.--
The people of (; rent Britain, humlded and
enfeebled as they have been by foreigu and
domestic blood-suckers, are not yet inclined to
drink such a mixture of bitters.—We wish that
the " great sensation" that has heels excited
ot Congress by the news of our American Treaty,
has been such as to elevate us in the estimation of
our very conscientious Allies, and to favour the
work of general Peace. We wish they may not sue
the nakedness of that honour which we have obtained
in our struggle with AMerica. We wish that the proud
stand which the British negociator is represented to have
made in favour of the rights of nations, after hear.
ing of how well we have settled the point with Ame-
rica, may be considered as warranted by the success
of the Administration to which he belongs in this
last contest. We desire they may have more confi-
dent ideas at Vienna that the American Govern-

tment will be satisfied with the Treaty which leirel
every thing yet to settle, than some people in 1;:is
country. Finally, we shall be glad to see thiv
quetting assembly of Royal Rivals, more ineli,l
to reduce those immense establishments for whir
are paying, and returning contentedly to !Lei,
pitals, than itt prolonging discord and
by their political bickerings and rivnhitioes
burningv ; that the burthens of the people
this country may be allowed to
that we may be relioved from that purgatory
the heaven and ht-Ilstate of neither war nor
occasions—for really with such an undittM:i.l.id
weight of taxes on our backs, and so rn1,,..
tli:',icolties still bofore oc, we have
tioto, national disgrace, of which we have 1.,
enough, nvertml, to see our country at; I
the whole civiliLyd trot Id again plong,ql into war for
the snke of either l'oles or Gerto..ov. j„,,,c
Lord CAsTi.ritu‘rat is not 111,ifig [of Iv sjile (nia
',HIS With, to us, such 41(L0...r00t objects ill Ike
as the Ghent Negochtors did in racketing about tte

We still see no passage out. of the political
labyrinth of the mioified Congress at Vienna. The
crisis is represented as increasing rather than de-
creasing in difficulty. By three ilamburgh Mails
which arrived last. night we have further advices from
Vienna, but not of later dates than our yesterday's
communications. It is stated in one letter from the
Austrian capital that the fate of s;axony. was fixed in
a secret article of the Treaty of Pali,. from Alieuce
it is inferred that the difficulties in Congress do nut
originate in the actual transfer of that kingdom to
Prussia, but in some contingent circumstances.—
! Other accounts sta4e, tSilh apparently more areuf ;icy, !
that Poland and Saxony are still the stumbling blocks.' expect 'liens are entertained at Calair ant
,To such a height are the disputes said to have been Dieppe, of commercial prosperity, from the fellow.
cart ioil on these subjects, that it is conceived possible jog art aiigement as to what is known in France by
the distinction of the Law of 'Transit:—'• Foreign
the next arrivals from Vienna mny announce the merchandise will be admitted to enter the kiiisilien
suildon and angry departure of their Russian and without the payment of duty, if forwarded from the
• Prussian Majesties, if their pretensions are not ac- flee ports, conformably %jib the law of the Sth Ho-
ceded to. It is remarked that the tone of Great real, the year 11, or from the ports of Calais and
Britain has become more energetic since the con. Dieppe, which will, under certain restrictions enjoy
all the immunities of such free ports."—lt is to be
elusion of peace with America, and that the news of
• understood that this regulation applies only to goods
our reconciliation with the United States has oval. in tranvia, or in the course of conveyance through
sinned n great sensation at the seat of the Congress. the kingdom, and the egress of such goods is to 1w at
There was certainly great necessity for this peace, Gives, Charleville, and other situations particularly
and Ministers have shown how much they wanted it , distius;"ll""l. The merchandise, in such cases, is
to enable them to speak at all at the. Congress of
not wholly exempt from duty, but it is so small as to
!
be called a droit de balance, or 15 centimes for' the
Vienna. Miserable drivellers ! they have tampered '
value of It/0 francs, equal to about lid. in 51. ster.
with the nation's interests and honour till a con- ii„g.
federacy has been formed, and organized into strength, I The correspondence with Vienna was, we believe,
which we scarcely dare to oppose, and which is never so (active as at present, or recently; as the bets
ready to undo, in a moment, with the faithlessness are always most frequent towards the close of a rate
and ferocious cupidity of their character, the struc-
or a battle. On Pridny, JottxsoN, the Messettgor,
•
lure of pulilic liberty and human happiness which we arrived; and on Stturday, METER ; on Sunday
.
VICK ; and on Monday, Buowts. BROWN left
have toiled and bled, for se many years, to raise from Vienna about seven hours before Vice, who came sy
the general wrecl:. How galling; to think that this the way of Ghent. Lord I.lv cnroot is still at Bath,
glorious fabric, which we fondly thought we had to which plice a Mess Pager was sent off with BROWN'S
and Virtec dispatches. Itcrc, ree, the King's Nlessettger,
erected for so many nations, is tottering on the brink
wag in readiness to leave England yesterday, and will
of ruin from the mere folly of the architects ! Well
proa set off
did we know how necessary it would be in order to the b
precbley ding night s morning, if not in the course of .
restrain inordinate ambition, and protect the tights His ltsy al !lightness the l'etNes: RECENT remains
of men and nations on one Continent, that Great : still at lb ighton.
TnE BI KTII.D.I Y. —lier MAJESTY com.
phetect her 70th year on the 19th day of May last,
which was celebrated yesterday, according to annual
custom. The day was celebrated in a private man-
ner at IViiidoir. The QUEEN received the congra-
tulations on the return of the day from the lto‘al
Family: the Duke of Yonx went from London at
eleven o'clock for that purpose, where he was met
by the Duchess, from Oailands. In the evening
her MAJESTY gave a sumptuous dinner at Frogmcre
to the Royal Family and a select party of the Nubi-
lity.

A sister of Miss KT:LLY'S iv about to be brought
out at Drury-lane Theatre in the character of Juliet.
She is young and beautiful, and has performed with
great success on several provincial stages.
THE PRICE OF WOMEN BY AveTiox.—At Black.
burn market, on Saturday seUtnight, a man exposed
his wife in a halter for sale by auction, when she was
knocked down at 2s. 4141.!!!
Yesterday the Lottery began Drawing.—Friday,
the 27th, is the Second Day. The Wheel contains
Two of 20,0001., One of 10,0001., &c. &c. The
First Ticket drawn a Prize above 251. will receive
Twenty Thousand Pounds in addition.