The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-06-02 00:00:00

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LONDON:

TIZIDAY, JUNE 1815.

A Flanders Mail arrived this morning, bringing
!',r`:r•ic, Frankfort, Berlin, and Vienna Gazettes,
tho 231 to the Jlst ult. There is scarcely,
however. an article of intelligence in them worthy of
not:oe. Th, accounts from Brussels, of the 30th, state
that the Duke of WELLINGTON and Prince BLUCHER
111 sk out f•r Grammont, where there was to be a
;rani! review on their arrival. General Hurl the
Ps ince of On iNGE, and a great miny superior offi-
cers of di:remit nations were also to be there.

Brussels Papers say, the country from the North
Si to 1,0-tornburgh presents the aspect of a vast
(.:1•?•”, frith superb and numerous armies eager for
;Lod commanded bythe greatest Generals of the
yr.

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In the inPAt of all this gathering and touring of the
hoF;ile elements, there are signs of peace and the re.
Ilowal of friendly communications. An article from
I.ill-, of the :th, says, 66 The Diligence from Line
Mc in :tuft Ypres resumed yesterday its usual jour-
ney. It will continue to convey merchandise to Bel-
!juin." •

It is-stated by way of correcting a statement of the
return of the King of S.itomv to Leipsic, that the
Kitti,;nf DVOIAILIE had arrived there on the 10th.
'Whet is the king of DENMARK to do at Leipsic? If
.same accounts are true, there is no better friendship
subsisting between their Majesties of PRUSSIA and
lit Ns: RIC than the King of SAXONY may be supposed
to ewertain for FREDERICK WILLIAM, the present
possessor of his territory. We find by llamburgh
Gottesiburgh Mails that have also arrived, that
romerania is likely to become a bone of contention
boween their Prussian, Danish, and Swedish Ma-
jesties. It has been supposed that Pomerania would
be surrendered lo the Court of Copenhagen by Swe-
den, in fulfilment of the condition of the Treaty of
hie!, but it is now doubted whether Prnssia ,would
not take possession of it by force, on account of the
pecuniary demands she has on the same Court. Be
this as it shall happen according to the will of these
most just and disinterested sworn Allies, there is
co•nridernble reason to apprehend that Sweden will
no' give any cordial co-operation to the plans of the
alliance ; and it is even said, that in consequence of
leer refusal to do so, she is to be immediately attacked
I,y the Confederates.
There is no confirmation in the Flanders Mail tie-
livered to-day, of the arrival at their posts, and the
rapid marching of the great Russian armies, an-
nounced in some of the inflated and. hyperbolical
statements sent forth by our Ministerial brethren,
who are, in their vengeful imaginatious, morning and
evening, drawing from the fertile sources of their
own insretion, armies for the destruction of France
and its Emperor, as numerous and formidable
as ever figured in the hyperborean regions of the
sky, and with about as little existence in reality. It
is evident from the Proclaroations issuing by Prussia
and Ituss%r to their newly acquired subjects, more of
which' hare reached es to-day, and the military.
measures which we see necessary, particularly
throughout the Polish and Saxon provinces, to re-
press insurrection and insure respect to the newels-.
thorities, that the troops which can be spared from
these to act against France, cannot amount to any
thing like the numbers stated in the Dutch, German,
and our own Ministerial Journals.--By the
grand review spoken of above, the Doke of
WELLINGTON doubtless means to see what is the
r- al force already collected, and endeavour to form
an estimate of the degree of co-operation he has to
t.x;•cct from the component parts of the army,
aurl what is likely to be elected by them. The san-
guine hopes indulged on this head must be a little
damped by the confessions in the Dutch and Ham-
burgh Vapors that Prince BLUCHER has been under
the necessity of dismissing some of his principal offi-
eeis, in particular General Bottsret., for having
opposed the horning of the Saxon standard and
tine severe measures taken against the refractory
Casette; and the still more important and alarm-
fog intelligence that it has been necessary to dismiss
elan the Dutch Minister at. War, JANSENS, for the
predilection heitas sbowu to NAPOLEON.

Whilst we are pansies oar notices we are
naturally l.d to couple with these remarks the
statement in the French Papers of Tuesday, which
are also arrived, that even TALLEYRAND, the Mi-
nister of Louts, has been arrested by the Allies
on suspicion of playing an unfair put towards them.
-7 It is affirmed that this arrest took place near
Carlorhue, by order of the Allied Sovereigns, and
that there were found in the pocket of the French
Minister's carriage papers of very great import-
once. Whether On Prince of BENEYENTE would
ir4vo liven so propertied, es to travel with paperscrimi-
slat firy'of himself, so exposed to detection, we cannot
F7y hutit,iirertaitylipthecoancils of Loy's X.V111...
arc ais! r Aid by varying opinions; Opt. Geitlaw that

unfortunate Prince, nnr any torly else, cait place
confidence in vie Mini• tens that surround
,him,Wand
that the iloun-ox fitnily ate about to quit Ghent.
As to TALLEYIIASD, we shall he surprised at no
changes or tergiversations that may he exhibited on
his part, though he has lately become Lord CASTLE-
REAGIeS very good and immaculate friend.

The French (nulls are improving ; and as the pre-
parations for the Champ de Mai are now complete,
the Assembly which is to vtathe the French EMPEROR
in the gall) of a nation's cheice, and nrm him with
the constitutional strength of time Empire, will take
place, immediately—it was expected this day. It
will not then be Boxxrxture, but the French nation
with whom the Allies will have to war, and a
military power very unlike that with which they had
to contend at the beginning and the close of the
contest.

It is stated that the registers of the votes of the
Department of Cote d'Or, on the new Constitutional
Act, present a total of 42,169 ?gas, and 19 noes.—
The number of voters of the Department of Allier
gives a total of 6619 for, and 40 against it. A to- ,
lerable specimen this of the popular sentiment. •
The itisurrectioos are trot increasing, though vigo-
rous measures have been adopted at Cher:burgh and•
Bourdeaux to procure obedience to the orders of the •
Government. We have advices through other chart.
nels from Bourdeac'x to the 2101, which mention no-
thing of the white fig being hoisted there. In fact,
the hoisting of the white flag in some places appears '
to have been fir no other purpose than to obtain a
supply of arms and ammunition for the troops of the
new Government ; and it would seem. Ilas.trAture
has actually 11,) mote to do, witeo he stands in want
of such supplies, than merely to give a hint to some
of the inhabitants of the out-ports to hoiit the white
flag, and vessel:- come fu:l fraught to the Vreiich shore
with the vt.'.aale req;iisites! The sea. ports are
sending their quotas of the stibccrivtina, apparelitly
without a mum lour.

Advice (ruin St. Rlatoes state, that the French
Government has impose,', an embargo on the British
vessels in that port, avowedly hi consequence of the
assistance ai7)rded by this country to the Royal
cause.

The French miiitary power appears to be very
strong in the South. There is a camp of 30,000
men near Chambery ; one of 'lO,OOO men is forming
between LyOns and Geneva ; another of the' same
force is establishing between Grenoble and Fink Bar.
reaur. Some minor assemblages in that quarter are
also mentioned.

The French Papers do not confirm the Brussels
account of the entry of the Austrians into Naples.
We suspect this iutelligoure is premature.

The French prnam, from Brest to !Lyre, with'
ammunition, &c. detained by a British frigate on Sa-
turday last, has since arrived at Portsmouth. it is
now ascertained to be his Majesty's ship Desiree
that detained her, and as the Desiree left PoTts-
mouth very recently on a cruise, it is presumed she
had Admiralty orders.

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We understand thnt Messrs. ilistr, Mcyrr.r.,
SIIEWELL, SPICFR, and two Rankers, one in Man-
sion-house-street, nod the other in Lombard-street,
will form the new list for the Loan. The message
is expected in City to-morrow or on Monday.—
The Loan is mantlu;:ed to amount to 2.1 or 25 mil-
lions.

The Prussian troops which were stationed in the
neighbourhood of Berlin are advancing by forced
marches to the Rhine.

The peace with America has already greatly re-
duced-the poor rates at Mnucheiter. '4 The expendi-
ture upon the whole of the pear will be sevesal thou.
sands less than the last. '

Th. Datch Minister of War, JANcENS, has been
dismissed. for the predilection he had shonn for the
cause of BONAFAUTS.

Recent adviccs from Lkhon state, that the P.srtu.
geese troops intended for the Continent would not
he sent off until permission bad !wen rcce,ived for
that.porpose from the PRINCE itEtiENT. . •
The Deice of CustscsitAno is either married. or
immediate!), about to be so, to the Princess Dowager
of Sor.Ms, at Strelitz. . ;• •
On the 10th of Slay, the Algerine squadron, con-
sisting of nine sail, the greater part fligAtes, was wets
off Malaga. A S.vedish ship, the. Penelope, uho
spoke them, was told they %tern cluising for Fiend'
and Grecian vevels.

Mr. Serjeant ItratKINGTON7, notwithstanding his
new appointment, means to assist the local Magis-
tracy of Brighton occasionally. It is said he intends
to continue his house at that place.
The reason assigned for giving op the ships which
have been detained by our Truisms, is to col.ciliate
the sea-ports, and to strengthen the intluence of the
BOURBON adherents; but we have reason to believe
that the policy is now changed, and that no more de-
tained ships will be liber-ated.
A bricklayer's labourer, of the nnme of Kell/ has
been committed to Maidstone Gaul, on a charge of
rape upon the body of an old woman, near eighly
years of age, in a hop garden near that town.
A steam engine is at present worked at Chatham,
for the purpose of improving the navigation of the
Medway, by clearing away the mud, of which, by
its great power, it regularly fills two barges every
hour.

The spire of Kegworth Church, in Lancashire, which has
Jost been completely repaired, is tune huundrud and aisle-five
eet from the base. The work was ',cannot-4 by Messrs. Woot-
ton and Son, of that town. who had, on the 28th of April last,
raised ladders fonr feet'ahnve the vane, upon which they played
God save the King," and several other pieces of music ph
the horn and clarionet. to the great astonishment of the specta-
tors. After which Mr. Wootton's grandusin, b child nut more
than six years of age, climbed the height with biciply step, an&
took down the vane, which wcips six pounds. •

PROPOSED TAY ON NEWSPAPERS.

It is somewhat extraordinary, that .the times in
which we lire, and the events which we have witnessed,
should not have impressed every Statesman with the
importance of fostering and cherishing the free press
of this tuantry, instead of laying it under burdens
and discouragements with which it is scarcely possi-
ble to struggle. With this regretful impression on
our minds, we feel ourselves compelled, like the rest
of our brother Proprietors and Editors of News-
papers, to notice the reported statement of the
Ctt.t c :Admit of the Excit FQUER, flint the Propri ( tors
of the London Newspaper press had given their con-
currence to the additional tax which he has proposed
to lay on public Journals, and to say that we have
neither been consulted by Government as to any ouch
arrangement, nor have we givea our conc::rrence to
it. We are well convinced that it cookd not promote
our own interests : and we are equally satisfied that
it must be highly injurious to the public, without at
all benefiting the revenue.

We learn that it was to some Agents of. Country
Newspapers that the Minister proposed such terms as
have been stated; but as a Metropolitan Cotemporary
says, it can neither be ai becoming nor an advantage-
ous thing in the Agents of Country Newspapers to
compromise the interests of the press by any such
agreement.
When notice was given of a design to increase the
duty on advertisements, a Deputation of three Pro-
prietors of London l'ni.ers had an audience of the
CatANcur.t.on of the ExoticQuxn, and stated to him
the fatal operation that such an increase must have
on the press at large, and consequently on the reve-
nue arising therefrom. The Right Hon. Gentleman
heard the reasons assigned apparently with attention:
he did not express his dissent from the conclusions
which they drew ; and certainly nothing like a bar-
gain was made, nor was any proposition like that
now stated then thrown out—if it had, we know
that it would have been instantaneously resisted, as
being pregnant with ruin to a majority of the News-
papers, and consequently injurious to the revenue
itself.

lAn addition of a halfpenny per short may be re-
garded as trifling to tha Country Newspaper Printers,
as their Papers are chiefly published but once a week ;
but it would be a serious a:L:4kt' to the expence of
daily Papers, and would occasion a diminution lathe
sale, by which Cover:lntent would be the greatest
sufferer, since their loss on the decrease would be in
the proportion of seven to one.
We cannot suppose that it is the object to diminish
the sale, or to crash the periodical press ; and there-
' fore! we trust that a tax which most hale that effect
*Katt the probabitfty—wf-the slightest benefit to
the. revenue, will be abaril.,::ro. s ::e Deputation
stated to the CaLiscct.c,nis of the Excumuce, that
by euabliug the Venders of Papers to send them
alvroe'd by paCkets and • vessels, free of postage, a's
they are perinitl'ed to pitss by. the mails, a much larger.
sum would be gained to the .revenge than .he could
hope to obtain by any increase of duty (even if the
present circutrtion should continue), the enormous
charge now trade for sending, them abroad having the
effect of a prohibition ; and n stamp on certain kind's
of Placards might be reforied to at a.further substi-
tute, even with advantage to the pnblic, if revenue
must be drawn from this source. ' From Newspapers
themselves it cannot be drawn.. They are strained
'both aisto the price of the sheet 'and as to AdvertlieL
meat., to the utmost possible hearing. One half of
them.must be extinguished by the attempt.

DEAL, Jr.,: I.—Arriyed the Recorery, Dicer),
from• the South Seas, aloi his Majesty's ship Red-
pale, from the Scheldt.• -Sailed his Majesty's ship
Orlando, for • the River ; arid the Euryalus, for
Portsmouth.—Came down from the River the Baltic
Merchant, for Quebec; arid Drake, for Newfound-
land.—The Catharine Acne schooner) laden with
ganpnwder,•detaitad•by his Majesty's ship Tartarus,
was released this morning, and will proceed about
the 3d inst. for St. Domingo, her intended destine..
tints. •

On Thursday week, a Marl of the name of •Piir-
dar, alto frequently goes from Sheffield to Man-.
shester, with goo& in a cart, wns found thrown
over a wall tient. Stockport, robbed, and almost life-
less. The poor fellow hail but one arm to defend
himself, and was most cruelly treated; not being
able to speak, it is supposed the wretches attempted
to pull out. his tongue.

Wednesday morning, Mr. Briscoe, of Finsbury-
square, stopped a short time on London-bridge to
ser the water-works, and was kept in conversation
by a middle-aged man. of respectable appearance.—
After they parted lie missed his pocket-book, whictt
contained considerable property in notes and bills.

F. 11•4 I. et•Oi•TMENT.-714:1)1,1 IV.le 4:kith WI. w,t the
da% imedll, n ilhl.ll a few win, of Achh,-
lIC IM Zinich, In meet his stveethenrt, nt the markm at 17-4. tot-
ter place. While on his way, the elements tegnn to da•krn,
the l!g4lniitx darted its vivid flashes, the Ilaunder ral ed ;kind ;
and, be iinssinz over r I-lt. in the pp:i,h.,r smi.-
ht, b.• tin• the el,,trie nn4 ti the -p..t;
els liieririr th:ln rives hi- 11-;:iv. bit %mt.:l-01,h
wn, en; in toarn, and his SsitlCiiiirdl saute silver st.•:•e melted in
his pocket.

ennv_Excgssine,Ne I.—We bad very little businests
doing to the 11 heat trade tisk ttttt s butt our prices may he
considered the same as on Monday.— !kwley is rather eluraper,
the rmusentrtion hrior nearly over.-o;tts Idly 'upstart Wed-
nesday's ',rives.- In tither articles there is u e earnrion;
Jts.r. 1.
To %ink the 001.1, per /WSW iM Ji: .
tieef ... is A f to 5. ad. i Hood of Cattle this dut• t
lut.on ..41: It t. tr 5• At. i 470
V.:31 .. Ott. 7•. 6t. 1 Sheer
Pork ... ii•. OA tr. 7. 61 Calves ....
Lamb 01. in 94. o'. IPie' . .
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V-MARIiRT.
yety
el. iter 6.. 0-. 01. to 71. 0. 01. .
Stra.. 12s. Pd. to 2 .

LAW INTEL I MENGE.

COURT OF KING'S BI.N(111, .lume 1.
VIE KING V. D11.1.00.10RE.

The Defendatli, tt stable-keeper, who was eau_
victed at the last Middlesex Sittings of an assault
upon the Highgate turnpike-keeper, was adjudge,lt,
pay a fine of '2Ol.