The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-30 00:00:00

- THE PRIOCII NATION. , •
♦ WORD TO THE WISE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE S TATESM AN.

Stn.,--I am a plain man residing in die country,
and bate not the same opportunities of political in-
formation which your London Readers have, for I
only see the Courier, and the Statesman Ereniug
Newspapers at the Club, and my wife takes in the
Gond/tut/on ,Sunday Paper, for what she and my
daughters tall the gossip of the week. I am et.
tremely pleased with the many very excellent letters
which your Paper produces ; and I am hurt the
whole country must be greatly obliged to W. B. and
C. C. and Mr. Caper. Leer, and all your other
excellent Correspencients, whose talents produce an
exquisite fund of amusement and information to all
your Subscribers ; but yet, my good Sir, I trust you
will give me permission to observe, that some very
Material points, as to the present state of Europe,
appear, in my conception, to have been altogether
left out of sight, or at least bat very slightly corn-
mented opon. I repeat, lam but a plain country-
man, and of course you will expect nothing from me
but plain country arguments. For example— I find
it is ifigued by all the Ministerial writers and speak-
ers, that we are at war with France, because the
Treaty of Paris was made with Lours, and not with
NAPOLEON. So then, Mr. EDITOR, lam to unders
stand, that the French nation is absolutely no-
thing—lt is the Monarch who is every thing.-
1 confess I thought differently—l imagined that we
were at peace with France,
and
not with Lourr—
and if the present cause of war (which our Martial
Ministers have stated to be abundantly sufficient) is
to be considered as orthodox, a precedent will be
established by which no peace whatever can be secure.
If the negotiations are with the Government, and
not with the nation, any change of any part of any
Government will be a sufficient cause of war. Thus,
if when Lord CASTLEREAGH and Co. have restored
Louis TIIE Destin), and it should so happen that
our gracious Sovereign Prince, the Itseeei (whom
Gori preserve !) should go the way of all flesh
(which Providence avert!) and the Princess CHAR-
LOTTE of NV ALM sboold chuse to call to her councils
any of the Noelemeu and Gentlemen who at present
wish to preserve the blessings of peace, of course, It would not be an unreasonable investigation, to
in that case, Louts eliS GRATLFUL would have a ascertain the increasing expence of the establishment
sufficient " legitimate" (that is the fashionable word) at Chelsea hospital, which has been rapidly taking
cause of war, and our new Government might be de- place for several years, and to affix some limits to the
dared out• of the pale of all social relations, and a salaries and appointments of that Institution.
new Coalition raised for their extermination. This, Friday afternoon Henry Emblin, under porter of
Sir, (although, perhaps, I shall read in the Courier Christ Church back gate, Oxford, was found lifeless,
that I have put an extreme case,) is what may happen, hanging to the bed post in his apartment, in St. Ebbe'',
if the present precedent is to be established. I beg in that city. No cause can be assigned for the rash
to call your serious attention to it, end I hope to act, as be sustained the character of a civil, inoffen•
read the remarks upon it, of some of your very able sire man.
Correspondents, who can handle it iu a much better About nine o'clock on last Friday morning, the
manner than I can do. following dreadful accident occurred, in the salts
Again, I read that Lord Casa-Lineman states, petre refining house, belonging to the powder mills
that NAPOLEON has been re-established, in come- of Mr. Harvey, of Battle :—As Stephen Middlemas,
quence of the whole of the military being at his de- one of the workmen, was employed its extracting the
votion. What then, Sir, is it intended to do with saltpetre from about three barrels of damaged gen-
all these 400,000 men when Lord CASTLEREAGH has powder, it by some means ignited, and caused a ter.
conquered France? NAPOLEON, of course, will either retie explosion. The poor man was killed ;mean- The following ships received orders to sail on San-
be put to death, or shut up in an iron cage end kept taotously, and his body found shockingly mangled. f d,ayetrusa-Postaatooth looTOrtt Bombay, 14, Captain
year and year about, at ewe of the capitals of the H% sad catastrophe is the more to be lamented, as BASELY; Spartan, Captain Hoaxer; end Amelias
Allies. But surely it is not meant to "exterminate" he was an old trusty servant, and highly respected , Hon. Captain Pitons, to reinforce the fleet in the
these 400,000 soldiers ! and if not, what does the by his master. As no stores were destroyed, Mr- Mediterranean; the Dictator, Captain MoNeaesort;
Noble Lord intend to do with them? Of course, Harvey's loss wilt not exceed 1501. as the damage Traave, Captain CODD ; Ireser, Captain Kerr
Louts TUE BELOVED will not trust again to them,snd was principally confined to the building wherein the and Alceste, arni4e en flute, Captain Lawarece,
how is it intended that France should be governed? accident happened. for Quebec, to bring home troops; and the
Are the Cossacks to preserve the 66 internal tranquil- REMEDY IN CASES or SWALLOWING Piss.—A per- , Abundance, Captain Wes, with all descriptions of
lily" and promote the civilization of the country? son in Pendleton, who was informed of a neighbour stores for Quebec.
And if not, how is Louis to be kept ou the throne having swallowed a pin, resorted to the following Cauetoe.—Oa Sunday last, a most awful acci.
after it has been regained for him? expedient with success:—lle administered four grains dent took place on the River Thames, by Battersea-
Lord Commie ton says, " that no attempt has of emetic tartar in warm water, and afterwards pie- briJge :—Two respectable young men and one young
been made to goad the Allies into the war, but that veiled upon the patient to drink the white from six lady, having taken a boat from Mr. Royal's, Mill.
they enter into it freely, zealously, anal voluntarily." eggs, which coagulated upon the stomach before the bank, without a waterman, had not been on the
Does the Noble Lord mean to-assert, that the Five tartar opeiated, enveloped the pin, and brought it up. , water ten minutes, before one of the young men let
Millions which poor Jonytear Bura. began to pay on There is a well-authenticateil instance upon record, his scull fall into the water, in making a sudden
the Ist May, is no stimulus ? I read in an excellent of a person who swallowed 24 pins being made to ; snatch for it fell over, when he said, tor God's sake
Lettar in your Paper of Thursday, from Braze throw up the whole by the above method. The same save me ; but just as three or four boats got up to.
PLO e College, Oxford, an extract from the Treaty ' may be used with success for fish, and other sharp the spot he went down for the jest time.
of Vienna, in which we agree "TO COVER rite bones. i Another Expedition for a voyage round the world
wrtotg mimes !! I" What then, in the name of ' A RECENT AND EXTRAORntNARY A fawning.— has been ordered to be fitted out by the Russian Go.
common sense, does Lord CAsTLEREAGH mean by Near the turnpike-gate on the Kent-road, for many vernment. It is to be commanded by Captain Kerr-
saying that "we do not stir up the war?" If we years stood a lame beggar. A Gentleman had no- sesereux, an Officer of great skill and enterprise.
only took our own share of it, he might indeed then tired the mendicant for some time, and was much Several Russian Officers, and others who are to
,
say so, with some appearance of veracity ; but to pleased with his mild demeanour and address. He make part of the expedition, have lately been in this
utter so barefaced an untruth, is really insulting the had long been in the habit of giving him a penny country for the purpose of completing their scientific
understanding bum BULL is supposed to possess. i every morning at nine o'clock, when on his way to apparatus. It is intended again to explore Behring's
If 44 Covering the whole expellee" of a war is not the city. The Gentleman, we are told, now holds Straits and the Frozen Ocean, and to find a passage
something more than bearing our own proportion of 'an official situation in the Btnk. This apparently from the north-west coast of America to Archangel,
it, ,I do not understand my mother tongue. But distressed ohjoct became lately very infirm, and not either by the Continesit of America or of Asia.
the Noble Lord contradicts himself. Ile says 46 the 11 longer took his usual stand. The philanthropist Oa Friday evening, the lath, a large fish of the
real question is, whether we should make the strug- visited him at his obscure dwelling: he sent medicines porpoise kind (Delphinous Phoceona) came ashore
gle now, or wait till the Allies may have become cold and nourishment but, notwithstanding this kind with a heavy swell of the sea in Ballyhome Bay,
iu the cause?" Now, if we do not "goad" them on, i attention, he died, first making his will, and be- about half a mile east of Bangor. It having beets
what reason have we to expect that they will become queathing all he possessed to his protector. Con. cast withinside of a bank of sand, it could net et-
cold in " the cause" sooner than ourselves! and ceive tees astonishment
.of the Gentleman, when he feet ifs escape, and so soon as it was discovered,
what is there in " the cause" so truly British, that found that the object of his bounty had transferred number of men attacked it with various weapons,
we should hire all the mercenaries of Europe in its to him the sum of pounds! and after a severe conflict they succeeded in killing
support?—Your's, Sze. HEDROPRODIR.—Died, on Friday, the 26th inst. it. The dimensions of this fish are as follow:
Eases, May 26. E. 11. at Beaconsfield, James Hare, a labourer, of hydro. Length from the point of the nose to the extremity
phobia, from a bite on the nose by a mad dog on of the tail, setenteen feet ' • girth at -the shoulder,
25th of March last. This poor man had repeatedly nine feet three inches ; breadth of tail-fins five feet;
taken the popular nostrum of the country, had been they are placed horizontal to the body. It is black
dipped in the sea, and had had caustics applied to on the back and vefy white on the belly ; has a large
the parts bitten, but unfortunately, perhaps, not till blow-hole on the top of the head, above and [seedy
the 4th day afterwards. Thedirect symptoms of by- between Nye eyes, which are very small, not larger
drophobia came on about 36 hours before he died, titan the size of a shilling. It has twenty-three teeth
but had been preceded some days by uneasy sensations in the upper jaw, and the same in the lower, and
of the part bitten, and about' the face and head. they check into each other like the teeth of a rat-
Notwithstanding the most active means used by two trap.
medical gentlemen of the town to preserve the life of Between one and two o'clock on Tuesday morns
this poor man, the dreadful effects of his horrid ing, as the two sons of Mr. John Hudson, of the
disease rapidly succeeded each other until he sunk Duke William publicshouse, at Cross-bite-end, itear
under them. He retained his senses, and was col- Wisket-hill, in the neighbourhood of Tong, ilesr
heeled to •the last, but his,agony, from the want of Leeds, were returning home, one of them (Mr. Josh.%
drink,•and his convulsive, bat unavailing efforts to Watson Hudson) remarked that there was a light in
take ifs cannot be described. a parlour on the ground floor, and that the house
Ur. Whitaker, the composer, has established, by must have been broken into. lie immediately jumped
the result of a trial in Ireland, his copyright in three over the garden wall, and while putting Lis lisatl
songs written by Mr. Leigh Hunt, and composed by through the window, received the contents of a pistol
himself, but which had been pirated by Mr. Hime, in his temples; his brother ran to call for assi,taine,
of Dublin. The damages given were 501. and in the mean time the villains effected their essa es.
A fire broke out on Thursday at the stables of Mr. The unfortunate sufferer is still alive, but no heves
Smith, a carrier, of Chipping Ongar, in Essex, in are entertained of his recovery ;he was, however, able
consequence of a candle being left in the stable, by to describe the person and dress of the man who shot
which the stables were destroyed, and five horses him. The villains picked see lock of a drawer, DA
burnt to death ; the greater part of all the onfortu. , took out several articles oi %sealing apparel, but it is
nate sufferer possessed was destroyed in the conk.; supposed their principal object was to cal
grade°. box which was kept iu the house.

Sta.,—The socsince" death of one man (the Elf-
i rs non of PisAnca) would not frustrate the events
which are taking place in that country—the principal
event, that which is paramount to all others, is, that
the civil power in France will be one and supreme,
end ecclesiastical power in citil affairs teill be anni-
hilated for ever. Yes, if BO.NAPAItTE. tars dead,
others would supply his place, and perhaps, with
I LESS rellgion than he possesses*. England, the
grand opposer of Papal power, has had her REFORMA.•
vinv. Fiance will have hers (it cannot now be pre
vented)—Spain will also have hers soon—and the
rest of the world will have theirs. Popery, and its
predominance— Mahometanism, and its absurditieti--
Idolatry, and its stupidities, most gibe way to
truth and justir e. What is Popery, without the arm
of power? simple persuasion !—What is hlaho-
metaiUsnr, without the support of the Government
of the country where it prevails ? An idle dream !
What . is Idolatry, withoot the countenance of the
citil power? A fiction! I declare frauLly, l hate no
eiseu4 to Papists, or any wet of religionists—my.
wet' is ttve LIM t think no person
ought to sutler persecution and oppression for his
religious opinion :—.-the duty of Government is im-
partial protection. The man of religion, and the man
of no religion, ought to be protected in his property
and in his person.
" Let both grow together until harvest."
A LOVER OF FREEDOM.
• I. Slavery is abolished in Martinique, Gaudaloupe, and
Cayenne, by the decree of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
Y. A College at Montauban, in France, tins founded, endow-
ed, or very much favoured, by NAPOLEON itosApAß rt.
i S. What king, Prince, Emperor, Potentate, attends Mass
: glove fleqursuly than the Essrmitou of Fitawca?
4. it was said, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE bought a BUMS as
be passed through Lyons to Elba—and it appears he has read it.

TIP unlit, nit. i t.
Borde Souls, Board, VaHier, bad
Rajol, Subervie, Damon.
TIC FOLLOWING GENIRALII OP DINITION ARS )I,UO cotarn 01
nt f.Xttitt, Pilt. t••••
Andreossi.
Burette* de Hillier'.
•
Bruyeres.
Geosion St. Cyr.
Defranee.
Da Tailles. • i
St. Gerstein.
Orbited. .• •
Rapp, late GOternot of bantale, sad we,
*iris A/4400*-
Emperor:
Replier. . ,
Sebastian!.
Vandamete, formerly Comondullant • ..
Linois, Vice- AdMinli.
Hogentlorp.
Hitlin, Governor of Paris.
formerly Gonne* of the illigeriel PolnCe.
blunheig.
Al mitoritn.
Muraud.
Nansouty.

ANTIQUITIES.—OiI Monday the Bth inst. as a man
was lowering a causeway, by the side of a stable, in
the occupation of the ltev. Mr. Smith, of Cotgrave,
near Nottingham, he discovered, a few inches below,
the surface a black pot, in which were deposited 126
pieces of silver coin, viz. half-crowns' shillings, and
sixpences, of Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I. and
also one Spanish dollar, of the date of 1637. These
coins are said to be, with a very few exceptions. in
good preservation, and it is a reasonable eupposi.
lion, that they were buried during the troubles in the
reign of the unfortunate Charles I. •
On Friday se'rasight •-- Corunt, Req. of Comp.
ton, near Plymouth, put an end to Ms life, by
shooting himself with a pistol. The family had as.
sembled to dinner when the report was heardca
domestic rushed up stairs, mad found him weltering'
in his blood on a bed. lie 'spired ott Saturday. An
unfortunate attachment was the cause of this melan-
choly event. The Coroner's Jury returned a verdict
of— binary.
On Saturday a shocking accident happened at the
top of Conduit-street. One of the labourers at the
shaft sinking for the sewer of the intended new street
WEB most dreadfully bruised by the fall of a heavy
bucket upon him. tie was taken ep In a senseless
state, anti carried to the Hospital, whet. he *spired
short': after.

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