The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-12-07 00:00:00

one k the French Colonies, born since, has
been born free. There are laws passed by the same
Legislature which emancipated the Colonies stfll in

force; why should this one be abrogated? Why
should a Government which professes to act upon
liberal and Christian principles, and can alone be

supported by acts of justice and magnanimity, at-
tempt thus to disfranchise and reduce to the level of
beasts of burthen, men who are giving proofs of a
capability of redeeming their species from imputations
injurious as they are unjust? Why will they willingly
darken the prospect which has arisen of perfecting,
by the most natural and likely of all means, the ci-
vilisation of the millions yet sunk in barbarism and
mental darkness ? Lee them look at the crimes, the
perfidies, the outrages, which this document details,
committed by Frenchmen, and then let them talk of
superior civilization and refinement. Let us hope a
repetition of these will not stamp an everlasting blot
on the mild reign of Louis XVIII. The Manifesto
expresses a hope, not indeed marked with much
confidence, that the independence of Hayti will
be recognized by Louts; but the expedition for
the subversion of St. Domingo, and the statement
that Martinique and Guadaloupe have been de-
livered up to France, will not allow us to repose

any extraordinary confidence in that hope which
• we could so fondly cherish, and which the nes-
. tions of England for the abolition of the Slave
'Trade, on which the Haytian Proclamation be.
stows a just panegyric, have done so much to
accomplish. We will, ;however, continue to believe
and desire, from the gratifying signs of moral rege.
aeration and improvement, and the resolutions
manifested in the condoct and declaration of the in-
habitants of this extensive Colony, that the rank
which the Queen of the Antilles, as Domingo has
been styled, may yet enjoy among civilized State",
and the influence and connection she is calculated to
possess with the unlightened natives of the Conti-
nents which stand in need of the blessings she has
received and can impart, may be the radius whence
improvement shall be diffused to the Black inhabi.
tants of every zone; and that from this focus. a con.
siderable degree of benefit to the Negro tribes has al.
ready emanated. The ties of interest and of nature,
allowed to be extended is this way, by native sym-
pathies and similarities, will do much more to ac-
complish the object of civilization than all the white
preachers that have been sent out to the black re-
gions of the earth.

At Cape Henry there are about 5000 infantry
and 1500 cavalry, with a very good park of artillery.
The whole of the regular military establishment is
calculated at 21,000 men, and the militia is said to
consist of 33,000. Fort Henry, or the citadel of
CitalsTonts, is a stupendous work, and appears im•
pregnable. It is secured by its extraordinary ale-
sation from any sudden attack : its fortifications
are constructed with great skill, and amply pro.
sided with water within 1 it is supplied with previ-
sions and ammunition for six thousand men for two
years.

We have nothing fresh to-day from the European
Continent. The current report on the subject of
the Ghent negociations is, that es the British Com-
missioners lowered their terms, the Americans raised
their's. The former, agreeably to their instructions,
having agreed to give up the sine pus non of the Bri-
tish Government, the American Commissioners im-
mediately proposed, as a basis, tire status quo ante
bedlam. In this state, it is said, matters are at
Ghent, and that (without breaking off the Negotia-
tions) the Americans find it necessary to refer home
for farther instructions.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Fo.•
reign Office, which sat till five o'clock.
Commodore ()weir, who distinguished himself off
'Boulogne and the Dntch coast, has been sent for ex-
press to the Admiralty. It is mentioned that he is
about to proceedato the Lakes with a large force;
and it is added, that Sir JAMES YE°, from
has requested to he relieved in the command. ;ow
Sir SAMUEL Ron ILLT has been seriously indisposed
from a neglected cold. He was attacked by an in-
flammation on the chest ; but we have the most lively
satisfaction in stating, that he is out of danger, and
in a fair way of recovery.
The transport which sailed from Cork, and was
supposed to have been lost in her passage to Queltec, I
with 487 soldiers, and 24R women and children, on
board, has been heard of. The Crocodile frigate,
on approaching the desolate Wand of Anticosta, ob-
served a part of the crew of the transport on shore,
where she had been wrecked; and succeeded in bring-
big away the survivors, who h-.d been on the island ,
37 days.
The Militia Regiments of Great Britain which re-
main embodied are the Bedford, Berks, Buckingham,'
Cambridge, Carmarthen, Cheshire, Cumberland,
Derby, Dorset, Essex, ast and West, Lancashire,
lit, 94, and 3d, South Lincoln, Fast Middlesex,
Monmouth and Brecon, Oxford, Salop, Somerset,
Ist and 94, East Suffolk, Wiltshire, 2cl West York,
North York, Ayr, Edinburgh, Forfar and Kincar-
dine, and Renfrew; and of the Irish, the Artnagh,l ,
North Cork, Donegal, Londonderry, North Mayo,
Roscommon, Tipperary, Tyrone, and Wexford.
CORN-EXCIIANGS, OCT. 7.—Our market con-
tinues abundantly supplied with Wheat, for which
there is so little denssud, that the sales are very
limited, and our prices nearly nominal; no con-
siderable quantity could be got off, even at a reduction
of from .24. to 4e. per qtsarter.—Birley is full Is. per
quarter cheaper than oa Monday.—ln Peas, Beans,
and other Grain, there is no variation.—At the close
cf Monday's market, and after our statement of that
day's prices was gone to the press, the fleet-factor
reduced the price of Flour 6s. per sack.