The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-03-20 00:00:00

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

TUESDAY, MARCH MARCH 20, 1810.

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PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Cons. 6141 Long. Ann...shut
i per Reduced, shut India Bonds 15s. 17s.
4 per Cent.* ..shut Exch. Bills, 9s. 16s.
5 per Cent. Navy 9011 Bich. Bills, 3J. 31. pr.
Cniasols fir A pril6B/ 9 Lottery Tickets W. 64.

Tire reports on the subject of rho recent corn.
snuuicatiou from. France are as various as the con.
jcctures of the propagators.
An exchange of prisoners—egg civil message"
from N 4POLEON, relative to the conduct of a
British Officer, a prisoner of war in France—an
exchange of the French Medical Staff taken at
Walcheren, fur the British Medical Staff left in
Talavcra—one of, the consequences of that vic-
tory—and a proposition of the French Govern.
ment to admit colonial produce into France, if
their wines, brandies, and fruits, shall be received
by us in evhange—are the most prominent of the
rumours now in circulation in this metropolis.
When NAPOLEON begins to be suspected of
sending " civil" messages—we surely shall not be
deemed unreasonable in suspecting that to be a
symptomatic disposition of his return to the "'ac.
customed relations of peace and amity." Can
those who now affect to believe him capable of
civility have forgotten the many ridiculous afro.
cities that bare been imptited to hiM in the treat-
ment of our countrymen whom the fortune of war
has thrown into his hands! So far from seeing
cause to alter our opinion of the desire of the
French Cabiuet for peace, we arc, from a variety
of coocomitaut circumstances, confirmed in that be.
lief. A !kart time will show whether there be,
on the part -Of the British Cabinet, a enrrespon.
dent desire to terminate the sufferings of Europe,
and the unexampled dissipation of the blood and
treasure of England.

Ceara, which has already been the subject of
much contradictory rumour, is now asserted to
have teen in the hands of the Spaniards on the
lit inst. the governor continuing obstinate in his
refusal to admit the British, until authorized by the
mandate of the Supreme Junta. The Gentleman
on whose authority this account is given is
said to have left Gibraltar on the lst inst. It is
added, that the British remained before Geuta in
expectation of the return of a Messenger who had
b •••is dispatched by the Governor to Spain fur in..
strictionsmand that our troops had supplied the
famishing inhabitants with a quantity of biscuit.
It is most extraordinary that Ministers shodd
have received no certain advice en this hitherto
mysterious subject.

TUE letters received from India by the last ar.
rival came down to the 15th of October last. The.
flourishing state of the finances of the Company
is said to be very satisfactorily dotailedin these
cummunicationt.' The Company's Paper bearing
an interest of tight per cent. which, in. 1798, was
f of 4

at a discount of 17 per cent. bore a premium
per cent. Among the many conflicting interests of
the native Powers, permanent tranquillity is not to
be long expected in the Peninsula; and from the in_
dieations of discord that have lately been mani-
feSted—it becomes probable that we shall be fur-
nished with a fresh opportunity for interfering
in their disputes—the result of a itich is seldom
unaccompanied by the incorporation of some
convenient slice of the Peninsula with the Com.
pany's Territory. While we have been fu.
rious at the arrondissements of revolution.ry
France our own robberies in India have
been absorbed in the unwieldy magnitude of that
disgraceful Eastern Monopoly, which, however,
seems to totter from its very base...for it is neat
to impossible, that the trade of India should long
be withheld from the public merchants of England,
while America freely visits every port of India.
That active Chief llouLta is stated to be de-
ranged. Our Kt:Wm witty however; remember,
that it is the fashion to impute madness to every
adversary who is formidable. The insanity of
Iloutan is prubably of the frame species with that
of NA niteolx, who, to our great misfortunes is as
rittid as ever. Indeed there arc not wanting those
of " the College in Warreick-tune," who impute
to Certain vigorous Ministers somewhat of obli-
quity of intellect.
A French Journal of the 13th contains the fol.
lowing fulsome Address voted by the Senate, in
reply to BONAPARTE'a Message on the subject of
his alarriage
asee:—Tour Imperial and *Royal Majesty has bees
pleased to aonnunce your approaching marriage with -the
Arch-Duchess Maria Losisa. the daughter of the Emperor at
Austria..
The Senate, Sire, feels most sensibly that joy which-all
Fregehromi must experience on learning so metnorabk on
event. —Every thing that Wants the happiness of your Ma-
jesty below WI al; Frenchmen:
MOW Princes, wbom the wishes of the people of
Anal Metal to accompany, will arrive on the banks of
fr—

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