The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-05-17 00:00:00

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All the Members of the 'Pia visional Council of
State, also the present Clltnce!lorp and M.Forrantil
• Ministers of State.
• • Ji*
The Prince of Benevento, Minister and Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs.
General Count Dupont, Minister and Secretary 'of
the -War Department.
Baron Louis, Minister and Secretary of Finances-
Baron Malouet, Minister and Secretary of the
Navy.
Count Beognot, Director-General of the Police.
M.Ycrrand, Director-General of the Post-Office.
M. Berenger, Director-General of Indirect Taxes.
. The King wrote, on the 13th instant, the follow-
ing Letter to the Archbishops and Bishops of his
kingdom :

44 Sin, THE BISIIOII OF ••••••-.--,—Diville Providence
bas permitted our return to the capital of our king-
.
, *am, in a manner the most consolatory to our feel-
\`'e have recognised subjects willing to return
• to the practice of their ancestors, to their ancient
j. I faith, to obey the laws, and be faithful to the King.
To God, ,who holds in his hands the destiny of
kings and people, must be attributed this happy
• change, and to him must be rendered solemn thanks.
This letter is, therefore, for the purpose of causing
yeti•on its receipt to have allt.Deum of thanks in
air( he churches of your diocese, and that you in-
• tits all persons and public bodies who ought to assist
at such ceremony.—This letter having no other
object, I pray God, Sir, the Bishop of to
hove you in his holy keeping.
▪ ig Done at Paris, the 13th May; 1814.
• (Signed) " LOUIS.
(And below) " Iptron de VITROLLES."

Louis, by the Grace of God, king of France
auto Navarre, to all those whom these shall
concern, greeting :
" Desirous of giving a striking testimony of our
particular satisfaction in the National Guards of our
kingdom, and more especially in those of eur good
city of Paris, confiding as we do entirely in their
zeal and fidelity to us, we hays Ordered, and do
order what follows:

" Awr. 1.-=-Our well-beloved brother, Monsieur
Count &Artois, is appointed COlotiel-Ggiteral of all
the National.Coards of Frailest. •

"'t.—Our Cemmlitsieneri fpr the inteiiewdepert-
seems are Merged with the promalgatien of this sr•.

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(Signed)

Lows.

" By the King.
(Signed) " The Baron OE vt.ritoLLEs,
The Provision's, Secretary of State."

LEMMA MB BODY.
SITTING OF TUE 13TH MAY.

.. A Secretary read the Answer of the Grand Master
of the Ceremonies to the letter of the Questors„ who
had transmitted the unanimous wish of the Legisla-
tive Body, sitting at Paris, to assist in the service
•bich is to be celebrated for the manes of Louis

XVI. end I,peli XVII; Maria Antoinette, Queen
sierrance, Archduchess of Austria, and Madame
Elisabeth of France :

The Grand Master of the Ceremonies of France
hastens to reply to the Questors of the Legislative
Body. There not being time enough to make a suffi-
cient number of places in the Metropolitan Church,
it has been necessary to prorogue to an indefinite pe-
riod the meeting of the Legislative Body, and to
iq-
vile only deputations of the Public Authorities, in-
stead of the whole, which seemed desirable.
" The Grand Master of the Ceremonies will com-
municate to the King the defire which the Legislative
Body has expressed, as a fresh proof of their attach-
ment to his Majesty and the Royal Family."
The Legislative Body wilt form, by ballot, a De
potation of 25 Members.

Frlntic Pc:Nils-56R, P.

To TnE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE OF TRANCE.
" 13,a_ria, May 13.

Sitt,—The article inserted in your Paper of to-
day, announcing the arrival of Bonaparte at Elba,
may. be true, but not exactly agreeable to a piece of
information which I have from very good authority.

64 Previous to Bonapatte's embarkation he had in
his choiee an English frigate or a French corvette.—
He preferred the former, but the 'billet: accompanied
him. Her Commander was Captain Montcabrier,
and was'of course acquainted with what took place.
Ile returned to Paris three days ago, and left again
yesterday, and this is the way in which circumstances
are reported by those who have been in his company.
Bonaparte taking advantage of the last moments of
his expiring authority, and knowing that the Island
of Elba was intended for his place of banishment, had
given secret orders that it should be garrisoned with
two thousand fear hutidred. men ; by favour of
the distance and the isolated situation of Elba,
and the difficulty of the communications with the
Continent, as well es by intrigue and by connivance,
it was possible to throw into the port of Ferrajo
this small number of troops—the probability is, that
the inhabitants might easily believe that Bonaparte
was still in power; that they knew nothing of
his abdication ; and that they could not, of course,
think themselves released from their oath of fidelity.
When Bonaparte landed, the English Captain tes-
tified his surprise on finding in the island of Elba
troops about which be had received no information,
and he wished for explanations which should
direct his conduct; but not desirous of takiqg any
responsibility upon himself, he desired Capt. Mont.
mauler to go to Paris and inform the Government of

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a circumstance,' which he
.supposed it unacquainted
with, and to receive fresh instructions. In the mean
time he sailed into the Mediterranean with. Bona-
parte on board. Capt. Montcabrier, after having ful-
filled his mission, set, oat again for the Mediterranean
in search of the English frigate. It is not known
what instructions be carried out with him, but they
relate to what I have said. I give you this informa-
tion without pretending to impeach the credit of other.
' reports, but this you may consider as authentic.
" I have the honour to be, &c.
(Siried) . GS
HOTE OF THE EDITOR.
We know.welitthe writer of this letter.

principle enforced by Mr. IL
restricted Trade. 'ln the end,
that this is the only policy
justice to the conflicting ini
the, general welfare of the
rat land-holders to be semr
id their rents, so immuderatel.
"Witt; ? As well might it be pretended.
f loan-jobbers and"contractors,
mute compensation .from thr
(Con their incomes will andei
men depended' on the contia_
in pert, did that of the propri
landk,,if justice requires that
, _
LAMM, APRIL 30.—Travellers who arrive here ; protected at the expense
,l
from Denmark continue to assert, that Prince Chris-
1 not also extend the same protecti
f
Ban Frederick is determined to renounce Norway,. But it is attempted to terrif
and to return to Denmark. A strong party. his prehension of famine.
'
the farmers cannot get a s,
armed against him, under the name of the Brothers ;
, corn, they will cease to gro,
Anker, who desire the union of Norway to Swe- i !depend on foreign nations, w.
den, under the guarantee of the rights of the Men
might then starve us. This supposes,
of the Norlh, and who acknowledge the impossi-
! war with almost the whole wog
bility of converting a country, so weak in population
and resources, into an independindependentstate. ;the second place it supposes,
MILAN, MAY 4.—The last news from Genoa an. 'nothing to offer to make it '
flounce the arrival, of ,the King of Sardinia in that
lions to supply us with corn,
sit t ~ •• vx.4 "retain
case. It supposes further,
our colonies and our
y. . .-7 , !..
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Venice, MAY, 1.--Onr city was occupied on the I
l legation of agricultural exertions,
Roth of April by the Austrians, in virtue of the
petits' sterility on our count
following Convention. _
[Here follows the Convention, which provides eaten foreign corn because
that the Government shall be administered in the native soil would thencet
name of the Emperor of Austria.; but that the refusing its produce when
French and Italian troops shall rennin .in the city •uo loner be procured. N
:
for some days, till, their destination be determined. anions are probable; the t%r
The Convention recommends the harmony and friend. everrirrational. If le can get
ship which reigns amongst the Austrian, French, and ' any other country, cheaper
Italian troops, as an example to the Venetian home, it is evidently. qplr interes
people.] : people who would have been
- ' if theft dei-tiot.Continne to be
ill meanw. so idle. They
L be '
ilmr-sto withdrawn' from
.ctese foreign core is cheaper
be more beneficially employed,
and themselves ; and whenever'
in price, beyond the cost
they Will-again pursue their
The greater cheapness of foreigi
long 'duration.' The rents her'
having been diminished, thong)
some time before any cons!"
place; .the price of labor
we should soon find that
grown cheaper than foreign
,Awight of corn is a great al
.thlsrehirge; -trait whiCh, of
-growth is exempt,' gives it a pet
edvatitaga ever .that produced
evidently no danger of do•nesf
Into decay. It would be, ti
oppression and injustice to
price of so indispensable a n
which is the avowed design of ,
the consideration of Parliamen

Anothettliscussion took place last night in the
House of COmmons, on the proposed alteration in
the (Bern Laws. It,i4 rather remarkable, that on a
rsat* 'so 'isientialli important, the leading Par-
liamentary °tater. should maintain a profound til-
-1
leuce. Surely, on a question affectingioldeeply the
whole agricultural and commercial interests of the
country, it is not too much to•expectt tthat. all the
talent Parliameutpossesses should be excited to et.
In Ole ',Bence, on this occasion, of these
whose eloquence! Illuminates and adorns many less
important tepice lets! Parliamentary discussion, we
think there is made tesil. Not that we endow! elo-

won with judgment, or doubt the capacity of
many
,pittln country Gentlemen, Manufacturers, and
Merchants, to form as correct an opinion upon the
subject as the most flaming orator of them all ; bp
because the apparent apathy of more distinguished 1
I
men has a tendency to produce something of real
apathy in the public mind, and to prevent a just ap.
preciation of the importance of the subject in egita-
, 4ion. Nothing, however, shall be wanting on oar
part, to impress upon the Public the importance of
this.sobject, and to Convinee Om of the mischiefs
to be apprehended froM the ploposed measure.—
The long and expensive war
.in which the country
has been engaged, has placed all our interests in an',
unnatural and confused state. The immense weight'
of taxation, together with the unlimited issue of
paper currency, raised the price of all the necessaries
of life ; this produced a necessity for an increase in
1 the price of labour, in the profits of farmers and
! manufacturers, and in the rents of landlords. The
effect of this would have been the utter extinction of
our manufacturing interest, if the state of war had ,
not rendered our naval omnipotence available for the
purpose of forcing our trade to the exclusion of all
other nations. This state of things no longer exists.
'lf, during peace, our manufacturers are not enabled)
to produce their commodities at a ?much cheaper rate
. than they have recently been able to do, the cons,-
.ui
, qnces inevitably will be, that they must be ander-
,
.sold in ev.ery market, and completely eicluded from
coil-
every field of mercantile competition. They ca
only be enabled to do this by a very prompt and
siderable reduction in the rents of land, in the
' amount of taxation, and in the price of provisions.
Still supposing the utmost to be done, they Will hare
great disadvantages to contend with. After the ut.
most possible reduction in all these particulars has
L - •
. taken place, the greatest skill and economy will
be requisite to • enable British manufactures to
vie in cheapness with those of other coun-
tries. The immense National Debt is a cause
of annual expense, from which peace cannot
relio,ve us. The permanent taxation which this
will render necessary, is so much disadvantage to the
British manufacturer in the competition he will have
to sustain with the less-encumbered manufacturer of
other countries, that all his ingenuity and manage-
ment will be barely sufficient to counterbalance it.—

-The war then must be considered as a source of per-
manent and unavoidable injury to the manufac-
turing interest. The measure now before Parlia-
ment would greatly and needlessly aggravate
this injury, byc affording an unjust and artificial
protection to an opposing interest, the agricultu-
ral, and that wholly at the expence of the already
burthetted and oppressed manufacturer. And why
should this be done? Why should the land-owner
be enabled to collect now the high rents imposed,
during the war, when the other classes of the comp.
munity are compelled to continue the greatest surf-
! fires, end to sustain the greatest disadvantages ?
We cannot tod highly commend the enlightened

Government received a di!
the Lie*teeent-Governor pf
arrival of tlintaei 'tilt off du
.dauftted frigate. Mr. Honat
the Continents we understand
statement.

The pilot boat schooner Champ. gin,
on the 10th April, for Gott&
which we rejoice to leairk are
pacific. On the '7th of ki
House of Representatives, '
against 37,' repealing the Noi
also the Embargo. rt was •
*Ow pass th Senate almost
re he Prelimie naries are to '
'day. • The.following is the ,
retalni,the Cape of Good IL
titfind Tobago ; but cede
is tch colonies to those ,
cep Gutd4lonie, which is silo
'Emperor Of. RUSSIA retains
' Warsaw,. ei the Em2eror.
and its depentilloglist teffitioe'
ciders. 'Tie kingdom' of Si
between Austria and Prussia;
retain Naples, and King FE(
indemnity in Italy for his IsIL
'The Scheldt is to be open, and .
'to he divided between the French
"644A/tiers from Paris say, that
Senate and Legislative Assemt
Is the intention of Isis Males'
propels that the Senators sine
incomes, and seats for life,
he hereditary. And that
France there shall be in all f
Senate, upon the principle
Union of. Ireland with Great
say, that upon the death of
'shall take place of one to the
it for life. The Senate to be
We have authority tampion
several grand Concerts will
Chapel goys!, Whitehall, for
ferers by the war in Germa%
of his Royal Highness the Dui
superintendeace of the Commit
Association, and the Directors
Ancient Music. ...4
On Thursday last, no less-t.._
boats were.anchored off Hastings.
regularly come on shore, and -
cies from the different shopkeepers ot .._ al, _ _
which they give in payment,- Louir d'Ork and'
sp'
lish Guieees. A feet have presented Ildpoletssis: 4 '9, " •
The Staff of the Militia, consisting- tike Adji= In,
tants, Qoarter-masters, Serjeants, CafPorali, anal
Drummers) are to be kept up. I &V

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, PRIVATE CO RR ES PO NDE NCEe •
loatrea—of free and 'm-
end, we are persuaded, • . --aisaw-- . ,
. • .
which will ensure equal . Pants, MAY 12.—The fighting amongst theietlench
end Allied troops in the suburbs and environs of Faris, • , ‘
nterests, and provide for
lately assumed a serious a. no loner
e community. Art the
employed the fist or the swppord but had They recourseg to
trod against the reduction their muskets. Considerable bands of Russians
:ely encreased daring earancer
_ .
the Prussians, and Austrians were thus engaged with' ' • ••
.etehaed, that..ol the tribe detachments of the Regulars and of the' National .x
ctors, (might now to re-
Guard, omit the Gen-tParrnerie were •called out to
he nation fir thediminu-
-
separate:them, and put an end to the contest; but
,
o. The income of these
not before many lives had been lost on both sides.—
e•g It is thought that this will hasten the return or this• -
nuance of the war ; so, Allied troops•to their countries, although they have
roprietpr of high-rented but very slowly begun their march for the frontiers.
.hat one, class should be Indeed, now'that the French are united under at ,
e of the people, why ' Motterth whom most love, and all relscotett
.It is, att.‘
protection to the other ? serous to put their patriotism to the test. " When
terrify us
..with the :IT- o' many,
r Bonaparte was at our head," I have been told by
4.1 we feared nothing so much as his lictoi:les,
We are told, that If. •
. which would &infirm his oppressive dominibu; hence -,,::..
sufficient price for their • we did not exert ourselves, and fancied 'we saw oar .
isst it, and we shall then safety in the triumphs of our enemies ; but now that
,
I.we have a King and country to defend, let the fo- .
who, in the event eta wat, , -
PPolias, in the firstfiliuea . reign Powers take care what terms they attempt to-
-1 impose upon us. From all that has transpired, they
Forlil 'at the same tithe. In ' seem.to be more degredlng than I Itok.otTerea to nclna-
.
sets, that we should have parte, at the lowest ehb of his fortunes. But thefts-ill '
: the interest of other ea_ defeat their. purpose." Such are the setitiniente,:nqt .-• . „...
n$ which, as long as we
,only of the people, hut of all classes., They aro
-:
never cso belfAoultdedwu the reported detnand, on the part orthe •
r industry,
Hies, et tin cession of Alm* and of Luxemburg,
her, that a temporislji::re.'... pstuou'ilie, c and Lille, three of the keys of ancient
This report itself, is not without fotinda-
-rtions, would ;oriel pere4 rmce.
'try, and that having once I Oen. I heed been credibly infoimed that the King of ~.
a it was cheaper, nerl•Peossia .had7oniployed Mr. Make' Bruno( Danish
forward
punish us -by Member.orthe French Inttitute, to draw .flint Of Old
tapers a memoir to prove that when Alsaceas ceded •
en foreign corn etikcl' w •
t 1
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remain,governed to Louis-XI V. it was on condition that it should
None of these sop e-, and should be as a German pro-
..a
wo latter .
.GS i them are.iyince, That in violation of this agreement, that ,-
get cotkiinip,,tssnce, or.
.! Monarch united it to France, and governed it as 'an
old portion of his kingdom ; by which ho and his
r. than we can grow it it 1
;crest to import it. -The . successorss who'followed his example, forfeited. all
I em right to its possession. The consent of EuroPe
,
ployed in a g riculture
j
which for a hundred years, even at the time of the
be so employed, will not, ; minority of, Louis XV. consecrated the union of '
must do something.- ' -If ; Alsace to France, as effected by his predecessor,- is
r :
agriculture merely ,kisi. fpurposely kept out of view. But it is to be hoped • •
rthan.English, they must; that such clailtlBl notwithstanding all 'the sorhistry
tea, both for the country
I urged in their support, shall not be allowed. Eng-
iti I land, the only Power to whom French gratie at- .
ler:foreign corn advances , . ,
j tributes the restoration of the -Boarhotts, f i also
of7tiomestic production, ' looked up to as the friendly guardian of their right's.
ir agricultural labours.— . From her, it is confidently expected thli-t she will
moderate the pretensions of the Allies, and compel
'artists cortsettonot be of
them to keep the solemn word they gave on enter-
ing
having fallen, the taxes
ing Paris, not only to maintain the integrity of
en we fear it will be- -,
k rance, but if, as she has done' she recalled her leeoi-
siderable reduction takes' inmate Sovereign, to add to he I
her ancient territories.
---- our having come down, li
---- ,
t English corn can he ' it EsoLunoNs '
I can be imported.—The , OF THE PARISH PRIESTS AM) CI,ERGTHETI, Or
THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBLIN.
addition to its cost, and '
-........—.
if course, corn of home' '
BRIDGE-STREET Cli: PEI,, TanasnAY, Ni4s-12. '
permanent and necessary meth, undersigned Parish Priests and clergymen of the Arch-
aced abroad. There hi' Jiloger-e of Dublin, feel it a rimy whirls we owe to God and
unestic agriculture falling ~Mork% to notice the following public Declaration:—
therefore, an act of great :, Resolved, That we consider the Document, or
I fix a minimum on the I Rescript, signed Quatantotti, as Non-Obligatory
upon the Catholic Church in Ireland particularly as
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necessary of life as bread, it wants time authoritative marks whereby the man-
r
of the measure now under o
dates.of the Holy See are known and recognized; and
nent. especially the Signature of the Pope.
•Resolyed, That -ire consider the granting to an
dispatch yesterday from . Anti-Catholic Government any power, either direct
the I or indirect, with regard to the appointment and no-
d' Gibraltar stating
s munition of the Catholic Bishops of Ireland, at all
tat garrison, in the Un- I
'muss, just arrived from 'times inexpedient.i
Resolved, That circumstanced as we are in this
and confirms the above I
I -coosory, webonsider the granting of such a power.
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champ/in, left New iris& not only inexpedient, but .:highly detrimental to the. ..,
bestsnd deareseliriferests of Relgion, and pregnant
enburgh, with dispatcheol . ...
e of a nature decidedly
with. inciticulable mischief to the Cause of Catholicity
:i
April a Bill passed
113
aho in Ireland.
by a majority
- •
Iliesolved, That such arrangements Domestic: of
ou-Importation Art, anal
Komination on beTiade among thetlergy of. Ire:.
expected that this Bill
land,.es will preclude that Foreigit Influence 9 against • '-- . '
. - .
which- those Securities; so destructive to Religion, aia; '- ' •
st nnaeimously.
called for by thel'ailiament. '.
he signed at Paris this
Weatherefore most humbly anti respectfully do-
outline :T—Great Britain . :
hereby supplicate our venerablo 'Archbishop, wad.
lope, Malta, the Nlauri- l
les all the other French we hope:that the Catholic Clergy and liiity of all
powers respectively, ex-I,
Ire. land:twill join us in praying that he, and thesother ' ,
secured to Sweden. The
i ••
nab Prelates, will; without derby, real:militia- •
is the Grand .Duchy of
against this Document, and represent to his Holi-
.
Of-A.usTata does Venice
Pa,' reinstated ness, and the meted College of Cardinals, now hap-
ter with Mantueo
is to .be .divided"; reinstated at Rome, the peculiar situation of
SndtP
the Catholic Church in freland, and the tremendous ,
ay
exile which we apprehend would inevitably flow from
t; ging JoAQIIK, is to
• ' the adoption of the Principles vr laid dou in said Do-
atata_onSicily, with an 1
convent.—Signed by 38 Priests. ~.
443 a politau possessions.-1- -
and the ships at Antwerp , ' - ' - - •
'tench and the Dutch. "a NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. -
hat in the Sitting of the ----.0--
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rah'', of the 31st inst. it PORTSMOVYA, MAY 16.—Arrived the
Redwing from Ply. .
and at The Mintterbank the Sir Francis Drakeftipto
jelly LOUIS XVIII. tO lima.;
/ , and Hindostaa store-shitS from the Mediterranean, and ate pat ,
haltokeep their titles and , •
under quarantine. The Repulse, with the Meditirtaneshi het '
r, bet that they shall not ' are hourly expected.—Sailed seven Cartels, with Feeneh kir ?
, from the Noblesse of iloaers, fur Havre de Grace and Cherburgh. 1 •
time to come an elective , i j'ALPIOUTH, MAY 14.—Soiled the Tisiphoiw, of SO grim, and
of that adopted on Oa the Francis Freeling,packet, with a moil, for Bourdeaux rand
reat Britain ; that is"tis. 'the' Prince Ernest packet, with a mail, for Lisbon.
r any Senator an electioh HAiwion, MAY 16.—Sailed the Diana packet, with mails
r.
he Senate who shall holdl i'llt Painellgers' for eltabaren•. s
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e 200 in all. •
iounce, that early in June 1 On Saturday last, Ozestaa BLACRKAN, Esq. ci.
ill be performed in the ! tizen and goldsmith, paid the fine of, 4001..and10 :.
•
Or the benefit of the suf- /I marks, with the usual fees, to' be excused serving the
ny, under the patronage office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex. Rout-. •
Duke of Yoga, and the WALLER, Eqs. citizen and cooper, has also paid his
mittee of the Westminster fine to be excused serAng that office.
tors of the Concerts of ' - The Emperor of Russia and King of PRUSSIA
.7. i.have signified their desire, that they may not be re- .
is•than 14 sail of Frerich•!-ceived with the ceremonies that were proposed.—
listings. The men vow i They wish'to come over without the eclat of royalty
rid freely 'purchase-it'd:: —and to be treated as private persons. Instead of •
keepers Of the town, for-'a royal yacht,' escort of troops, or being received by ,
,-. Louie d'Orb and pnir.-ioe Psiseca REGENT in person on landing, they pro- , .a.: .
presented NelpOliarts: t• '9.6., . to come Over in a common packet, and e'en, if . ,
~• .
consisting-of 'the Adji-' *.s..
ible, by the night tide,. to prevent osteotation., „. '.
trjeants, Caftorali, ana4a here is tertatuly a wise regard' to etiquette in' this -.• .
up. !determination.
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