The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-21 00:00:00

THZ S TATESMAN,

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sloes of this banker announced his fall, and he ap-
peared relignecno his Tate: His enemies *mint de-
ny Mm much intelligence and talent; but his edifice
was built in the air. Without pecuniary means, and
Without credit, he had amassed 800,000 'florins in
the course of three years, which he was in possession
of six months ago. Since that time, itriiitgling to
ameliorate our course of exchange, be lost bis money
faster than he gained it.. •
CAnt.situnt, DEC. 10.—The body of the late
Grand Duke was brought from Rastadt to this capi.
tel last night, and will lie in stale for some days. His
unc:e and successor, Louis William Augustus, ham
issued a proclamation, by which lie declares that4te
has taken possession of the reins of Government.

A Paper of this morning has put forth another
scheme of Administration, which it assures the Pub-
lic, " on the strongest authority, is at present in con-
templation." This projet is rather a strange looking
one on the whole, and more radical than any of the
rumoured alterations which we have lately had spe-
cified, but we doubt moth the accoracy of the au-
thority upon which positive assurance is made. For
Mr. PEEL to succeed Lord Stinson= would, we con-
ceive, but ill accord with the arrangement lately
made in Ireland, and the hopes founded on that
change. The way in which Mr. CHOKER and his offi-
cial friends are disposed of by the Ministerial Paper
in which this projet appears, is certainly not very
flattering to these talented Gentlemen. The acces-
sion of the GRENVILLE, to office under this partial
arrangement, appears still more problematical. The
following is the assignment alluded to : -••••
" Lord SIDMOUTH resigns, and Mr. PEEL is to
succeed his Lordship. Lord MELVILLE goes out
of office, not however to go to India, for of that
there is not the slightest probability. His Lordship
' will be succeeded by Mr. THOMAS GKENTILLE.
" Mr. CIIOKER goes out of office, and this arrange-
ment, we believe, will give satisfaction to every man
connected with the Admiralty. Mr. CROKER, is
to be succeeded by Mr. Tuctiza, who was for-
merly Secretary to Lord ST. VINCENT. The Earl
of LIVERPOOL will resign, as soon after the meeting
of Parliament es possible. His Lordship will be
succeeded, at the particular desire of the PRINCE
REGENT, by Lord GRENVILLE.
"The Earl of Ilanuoweir has expressed a wish
to retire to the Continent, as his Lordship is very
much subject to pains in his head, which the climate
of England renders extremely afflicting. The Em-
bassy to Paris has been offered him, but he has not
yet made up his mind as to his accepting any office
after his retiring from the Cabinet, which, however,
witi not like place for some month'. When a va-
cancy in the Presidency of the Council shall thus he
created, it will be filled up by the Marquis WEL.
LESLEY. Whatever be the office which the Noble
Marquis is to occupy, it is certain that he will be-
come a Member of Administration."

It is mentioned, but not upon the same authority
as the above changes, that Mr. VANSITTART is en.
gaged in winding up the concerns of his office, pre.
paratory to his retirement, and that he wilt be sec.
ceeded by Mr.liusatssos.

We may expect some news from Spain to-morrow,
as the post will then arrive, hutwe have as yet no cer-
tain information respecting the state of that country.
We see no reason to disbelieve that the Government
of FERDINAND is in a precarious situation, and that
the Belored must weedily take to his heels, if he has
not already commenced his flight to the bosom of his
Holy Mother. It appears by a private lett•'r from
Madrid of the 3d inst. (the date of the latest arrivals),
published in the Courier of Saturday, and from a
letter from the same place sod of the same date in the
Paris Papers, that bands of armed men are roaming
op and down the country, and that " these bands
are principally composed of soldiers z.thom the fear
of embarking for America has induced to desert their
corps." How far this breaking up of the 'Spanish
army may be connected with the disturbances which
are reported to hue taken place at Madrid, remains
to be ascertained. That the Spanish army is general.
ly disaffected, was already pretty well known ; and
how indeed should it be otherwise, when it is neither
paid, clothed, nor fed.

Sr. THOMAS'S DAY.—Holiday at the Public Me%

THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

MONDAYS DECEMBER tl, 1 8 18.

It appears that the selfish Patrons of the Corn Bill,
who have been circulating a Petition among the Oc-
cupiers of Land, for the purpose of farther raising
thq price of Bread, have not abandoned their odious

project. The greatest assiduity is secretly exerted
to carry that mischievous measure. To the several
collude, and districts in which it has obtained a nurse-

roue list of subscribers among some mercenary
farmers, land occupiers, and other persons interested
in its sacccess, we have to add Anglesey and Pem-
brokeshire. To this host we are happy in being able

to oppose the sentiments and opinions of the Bath
and West of England Society, as ezpressed at
their late Meeting. At that Meeting, Mr. MOGGIUDGZ,
in addressing the company on the subject of this
attempt of the most unfeeling part of the Agricol-

Irural interest, said he earnestly hoped the Petition
would nut be entertained by the Society. If it were
brought forward it would meet with his decided op-
position, as he could oot concur in a measure which,
howerer it might be calculated to promote his own
' personal interests, sought for relief to ,the Agri.
atilteral part of the community at the espeoce

Paris Papers to the 18th, and Mails from Holland
and Flanders have been received since our last.—
The Chamber of Deputies are still occupied with the
preliminary measures necessary to give constitutional
efficiency to its proceedings. Messieurs RAVEZ, DE
SERRES, D'AUGSER, DUPONT, and PL.tNELLI de IA
VALETTE, have been chosen the five candidates,
by the absolute majority of votes, for the office
of President. The nomination of Vice-Presidents
and Secretaries was to take place on Thursday, and
the next business was the drawing op of an Address
in answer to his MAJESTY'S Speech. The eager-
ness of the Government to complete its military sysi
tem becomes every day more apparent. The esta-
blishmeot of the general staff of the army, which
to be definitively announced on the Ist of January,

rgteedpocicedoliciii:
istNef 130 Lieutenants
fkajors-Generil, of whom 80 ofthe o
r.
SP"NER'llii.ofttohecleantiter rank, are to be placed n
.G ee: and
Iso
of the other classes . of society..—M
made a similar declaration ; and these senti-
mediate activity, and the remainder to be
tao
meets, we are informed, were received with ap.
for the eventual service of peace or w •
state of ha.
mend of the veteran troops. It is said that h
please by the Meeting. This is a conduct highly leposshie
honourable to the Bath and West of England So- ars s3r the con.
clety, and a convincing proof of the injustiee
datable modifications neat year. It will be
e or.
inhumanity of the Corn Laws, for even occupiers gauization of the Natioesi Guard k to teed* cense.
and owners of lend confess themselves shocked at
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the idea of persevering in such starvation projects. in
silt only of two, in place of tow battalions. Thp
les the mean time we are happy to see, that the im in -
accounts by the Flanders.garnadt.o.4iset:thei,Mails
portant subject of these Laws is beginning to attract
funeral attention, and that some populous towns are are of
likely to t,ke.the lead in petitioning against those little interest. Great ecni
legislative measures which visit the poor man's home from the Netherlands to the colonies.
with all the horrors of famine. A Public Meeting
is convened by the Mayor of Nottingham, in con. BnicnToN, DEC. 18.—
His Royal Highness tla
formity with a Requisition presented to him for that PRINCE REGENT took his exercise on horselisek,so,
purpose, to be held at the Guildhall of that town, companied by Sir B. BLOoMTIELD, fur nearly tiro
hours this morning : his Royal Iligelieso appeared is
te •
on Wednesday neat, to take the subject into consi-
gond health. The rapid progress fiaynn by gttlitie,
deration, when we have no doubt the Resolutions Pavilion experiences no impediments or delßl
which will be proposed will be of such a nature as Royal Highness's residence therein.
to do honour to the cause—the:cause of justice and His Royal highness the PRINCE' REGENT return:
humanity. to Carlton-house, to-slay, from Brighton, to preside
at a Ceiuncil, at which, it is expected, the Duke of
WELLINGTON and Lord CAITLEREAGH will be pre.
sent. To-morrow, his Royal Highness intends vi.
siting the PRINCESSEc, at Windsor Castle; sad, as
the following day, Wednesday, he sets out front
Windsor,__ on his return to the Pavilion at Brighton,
KEW PALACE.—II is supposed. to be the PRINet
RECENT'S intention to make Kew Palace one of hit
principal summer residences. It is certain that very
extensive alterations are about to be made there. 'lll
old Palace, and its out-offices, which have long brae
in a most ruinous state, are to be taken down item.
diately, and a new house erected a little to the ten
of their present site, directly fronting the avenue al
Kew-green ; at the head of which will be the grand
entrance to the whole, instead of the present circuit.
ous route under the garden wall, by the river. This
wall, too, is to be increased in height, and extended
along the side of the river, as far as to the ferry,
taking in the row of noble elms, opposite the new
palace, and the %hole of the embankment made by
order of the King, except a towing path. The entire
space thus inclosed, as well as the private gardens
between the old palace and the river, will be planted
with a screen of lofty evergreens, so as to entirely
exclude all prospect of the very uopicturesque build.
ills of Brentford.
Yesterday the Duke of YORK arrived at Yorke
house, from Woburn Abbey.
Lord CASTLEREAGH, his Lady, and mile, landed
at Dover, on Satnrdsy evening, under a salute of
twenty-one guns from the battery. His Lordship
embarked at Calais on the afternoon of Thursday,
and arrived within hail of the pier on the evening
of that day ; but the weather was so tempestuous,
that they were not able to land, and, after beatiog
about for two or three hours, they were blown dews
Channel, below Brighton ; and it was not till two
o'clock, on eaterdsy, that she again hove in sight off
Dover, totally dismested ; when a number of boatt
went off, and she was towed into the harbour.
.Lord CasTLEaEteits and the Duke of W *Um.
TON arrived et his Lordship's seat, North Cray,
Kent, yesterday morning. Shortly after, his Lord-
ship sent an express to town, end Mr. ARBUTHNOT
and Mr. PLANTA went to North Cray, to dinner.
His Lordship was expected in town this forenoon.
The Duke of WELLINGTON left Lord CASTLE.,
itEaGus's seat, yesterday, shortly after dinner, and
arrived at Ansley- House, lest night.
Madrid Gazettes have arrived to the 30th of Nov.
They contain a dispatch of the Bth Sept. from the
Viceroy of Mexico, with an enclosure from General
BALSANO Y LINA, dated the Roth Aug. The latter
states, that he had beaten and put to flight a body of
rebels at Pico, near Puebla, with the loss of 113
killed. By this defeat the communication had been
again opened between the capital and Vera Crux.
The following is an extract of a private letter from
Madrid, dated the 3d instant :--
66 MADRID, DEC. 3.—We have no news here of
any importance, that I can learn, but we are in such
a state of ignorance upon political matters that we
hardly know what is going forward in the Provinces.
We have had reports here of the concentration of
hands of robbers io different parts, whose purpose
is the plunder of travellers, but who pretend other
motives for taking up arms. How far this is true it
is impossible to say, nor do we know whether there
is any ground for believing that the principal ewe
of the delay of the expedition from Cadiz is the rapid
and uncontroulable desertion of the troops. It is
not unlikely that you may be better acquainted with
these matters than we are."
In the evening of Friday sennight, a stoat Scotch
Highland 'r, in the hundred andfirst year of his age!
took op his abode at the Saracen's Head, Swan-
street, Loughborough, for the ensuing night, saying
he had that day walked from Derby, and was on his
way to London to solicit a Christmas-box from the
PRINCE REGENT! in consequence of his great age
aud of the services be had rendered his country as a
private soldier. The sturdy Caledonian said he was
born nn the Bth of November, 1718, was more than
six feet high, and his hair, which was very long, ap-
peared white as snow. He also void he had under.
taken to walk from his house all the way to London,
for the purpese above.named, and from the freshness
of his appearance, he seemed very likely•to accom-
plish his Ilerculean task.
An affray, which Will likely to have been attended
with serious consequences, occurred about stele
o'clock on Wednesday evening between the 1 lth
Light Dragoons and itth Lancers, stationed in Can-
terbory. It arose out of some reflections cast by
the 12th on the character of the 11th while on ser-
vice in France, and each reaiment armed themselves,
and were marched in divisions under the orders of
their non-commissioned officers to the scene of ac-
tion ; and had become regular combatants, ',bele
by the intervention of the infantry depot, who %vete
I called out, the quarrel was suppressed, with some
I loss of blood on both sides. A number of the
I forming part of 250 to be disbanded from that regi-
ment, had received their discharge on that day.
1 A learned Rabbi, named LEvt Jetta GLocae.
died at Utrecht the 4'h instant, in the 103 d year of
iris age.