The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-17 00:00:00

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(3 vnoa, FE5..2.-•-There is great preparation for a tan lost her bowsprit and foremost, main and sizes-
fete in our city. ‘Ve expect his Majnity the King of topmasts, and receive() other damage. Spoke' his
Sardinia. We are assured that. lie intends to bestow Majesty's ship Favourite, on the passage to America,
marks of his benevolence on our first citizens, and with the Ratification of Peace. She had had a fine
to alleviate the miseries of the people. Ills arrival
sill cause a great sensation : it is a proof of con& passage, and_ was expected to arrive in the Chesa-
dence of which we are highly sensible. Our new peake, in a month from the time of her sailing from
Sovereign will be surrounded only by the national Plymouth, which took place on the 2‘2d ult.
guards, and the guards of honour. It is thought , --.0,---
that.hts Majesty will remain among us till the end of 1 SOUTIIIVA IC li LLECTION.
the month, and will await the arrival of the Queen. 1 This day at twelve o'clock the friends of Mr. J.
his Majesty has ordered that an account 0411 be
Bunntrr had added but two to the number of last
given to him of the situation of the districts, and of
night, and then retireed from the hustings, leav-
(he progress of vaccination. It appears that vac-
cination has taken place in the same proportion as jog their opponents with their friend Mr. BARCLAY
formerly. 1 in possession of the (field.—The latter was awaiting
_ . . I the arrival of the High Bailiff at one o'clock, when

ORDER OF THE DAY, Ihe would be declared the successful candidate. Mr.
MI/MESSED nY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF TO THE BARCLAY is not to be chaired this day, but will in
TROOPS OF THE SPANISH EXPEDITION, GOING OUT the course of neat week.
TO SOUTH AMERICA FROM CADIZ.
SOLD We have just been informed, that Government
itEns,—A small and unfortunate number o
f•
this morning received intelligence from Ireland, of
turbulent persons of South America, unmindful of
the death of his Grace the Duke of Doan; son-in.
your glories, and of the triumphs you have always
obtained over the enemies opposed to you, now calls law to the Loan LIEUTENANT, who was thrown
you from the bosom of your country. Ambition, from his horse when hunting, and killed on the spot.
disloyalty, and other less noble causes, drag those ,
people on to their wretched end ; and on your
bayonets it is that the illusive power of which they
boast is about to be dashed to pieces. Those Chiefs
and Officers who have so have so often led thousands
of valiant souls to victory, are the same who now
command you ; and I, who have constantly shared
in your fatigues, am the same who now stands at
the heed of this army. and who will never forget
you, if you continue, as you have hitherto done, to
give proofs of obedience, discipline, and disregard
of sufferings. You do, not require extraordinary ex.
ertious to destroy those bands of insurgents without
fortune • your appearance, and the warlike aspect of
each of you, are sufficient arms to dissipate them
like smoke, and make them carry their ignominy to
the centre of their fields and settlements, which are
already horror.struck with their crimes. Confide,
as you have aiwas dove, in the God of Battles, and'
without losing sight of the principles of that' holy
religion you inherited from your forefathers, you
will soon be enabled to return home to embrace your
virtuous families.

The following is said to be the Sentence of the
Court Martial on General Sir JOHN MuunAy :
On the two First Charges he is entirely acquitted.
On the Third (for abandoning the Stores, &c.), he
is only sentenced to be admonished.
Various and contradictory reports have been in
circulation within these few days respecting the expe-
dition to New Orleans. We have at length received
late intelligence on the subject, derived from a source
we can depend upon. On the 9th of December the
expedition under Admiral Coen RANE arrived at Pen-
sacola : it consisted of fifty sail of ships of different.
descriptions, having on board about 10,000 men.—
Some of the vessels, when last seen, were bearing
down on Mobile Point, which place, it was believed,
was evacuated by the Americans on the preceding
day (the Bth). General JACKSON had under his
command a tolerably large force, and had actually
taken in charge the defence of New Orleans.
Jamaica Papers have reached us to the 3d ult. by
which it appears, that the American privateers con-
tinue very active against our trade in that quarter.
—Some of them, however, the British cruisers cap-
ture, and their prizes, in many instances, they re-
capture.

Soldiers!—.Be assured, that in the name of the
King I shall always know how to reward the merit
of those who distinguish themselves and fulfil the
obligations to which they are called ; and our adored
Sovereign, Ferdinand VII. caused again to be re-
: peeet! in the vast dominions of America, will him.
:elf reward the worthy, for his fidelity, valour, pa.
triotism, and lore to his royal person, of all which
he will he justly informed by your General.
J.u.. IS, iSi3.

General L‘VAYSSE has been sent away from Port-
au-Prince, and has arrived in England by the Ja-
maica packet. Several transports with troops, being
reinforcements for the expedition to New Orleans,
have arrived at Port Royal.
The Kingston Gazette, of the 31st of December,
contains the following statement :--" Rear-Ad viral
COCKBURN, we learn, was to proceed to Amelia
Island, for the purpose of taking possession of it. A
detachment of troops is to be conveyed thither from
New Providence in the Rota frigate."

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Due

PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIS
Hank
5 per Cent. Red. 6U h 4j
I per Cent.
4 pm Cents. PILI
per Cent. Nary 921 4

DAY AT ONE 0-cLocK
kun. 16 5-16 i
India B'nt 11 12 p
Y..chegm•r 11111, 1 4 p
Dinnium 41
Consul, fu► ACC. 61;1

The Sultan, of 74 guns, was appointed to sail
early in J:lnuary for England, with bullion and
specie, and was also to give convoy to the trade that
mny be ready" to sail by the 3d for Great Britain,
as likewise to the Havannalr.

THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

A report n as prevalent in the city yesterday- of the
capture of the it mariala epalp of- -earl/or-net by a
British frigate.
Brandies have fallen in price considerably within
the last few days ; and little or no business is at pre-
sent done with the Merchants, in expectation of a
farther reduction.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1815.

Still no results from the Congress at Vienna. The
extracts which we give from the Foreign Papers
received since yesterday, will sufficiently evince
the little interest or authenticity in the accounts
)et received, from the point to which our
attention has been so long directed. It is conjectured
that as Lord CASTLEREAGH has ventured to return
home, ho must have something to say in answer to
quations; but we have seen Low grievously ex-
pectation has been disappointed as to the capability of
Ministers in this respect.
From Rome we find that MunAT's troops are
actually bivouacing in the vicinity of, and blockading
that city; and what is rather remarkable, there are
Austrian battalions in his army.
We understand that it was given out at the Secret
Purlia 'nod which was held at Fife-house, that the
mown of the new taxes to be proposed to Parlia-
ment would be fire millions. The articles on which
thi:- sum is to be raised were not alluded to ; but it is
said that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, its an-
s►ver to a question, as to the nature of the relief
schich the farmer would experience by the cessation
of the Property Tax, replied, that the diminution
of the public burdens would be nine millions, conse-
quently the Property Tax having produced 14, the
balance of live millions will, as we have all along ap.
preheuded, be supplied by new taxes.

It is stated, as from authority, that the amount
of new taxes settled at the meeting at Lord Livea-
pooes, to be proposed to Parliament, will be firs
millions. It was not specified on what this amooot
was to be raised; but the Premier is reported to
have declared, that as the diminution of the public
burthens would be nine millions, and ns the Pro-
perty taz, which was to be dropped, had produced
fourteen, the balance of 5 millions must be supplied
by new taxes.
A most extraordinary Proclamation has appeared
in the Foreign Papers, purporting to be an Order of
the Day of (ien. 111nutu.o' the Officer who is en-
trusted, by the " beloved FERDINAND," with the
command of the South American expedition. It
breathes all the snii4uinary threatenings, which, in
former times of ignorance and barbarity, were accus-
tomed to be issued by the Crusaders. And indeed it
would appear, that this expedition is not to re-
conquer, but to avenge! The Patriots, who have
conquered the :Thole of Spanish South America,
are called a small number o turbulent persons, and
General Moittr.Lo is "to dissipate them li'ce smoke,"
How this threat will procure partizans, in this al-
most hopeless attempt to restore to Old Spain its late
trans-atlantic possessions is yet to appear ; we con-
fess, it appears to us as likely to produce a con-
trary effect.

LMOIIIII, FEB. 11—Passed by his Majest)'s
ships Buslard, Lord John Hay, and the Leveret,
Captain Christian, with a convoy from Lisbon.—
Sailed the Lady Arabella packet, with a Mail, for
_Lishon.

If it is intended that the Floridan shall be trans.
ferred to a new master, and the British mean to take
up a pernumeist station in that quarter, we may
expect to hear of new cll.:pules arising between this
country, Spain, and America; the PRESIDENT of
the United States being empowered by a law, passed
by Congress, to resist by force of arms the trans.
ferecce of these Spanish settlements. The British
Expedition has entered the harbour of the capital of
the Florklas ; and the American General, with his
troops, has retired to Fort Mobile.

Pr:Tamura, Fes. 15.—Came in the Palma fri-
gate, from the westward
.; and the Myrmidon frigate,
from a creise.—Sailed his hlajesty's ships Pheasant,
Edison, Goldfinch, Foxhound, and Constant, on
separate cruises in the Channel.
Puersmotrru, FEB. 10.—Arrived his Majesty's
ships Bustard and Leveret, from Lisbon. Sailed
on the 9th inst. with a Beet of about twelve sail,
which are understood to have arrived.—Arrived his
Majesty's ship Tyrian, from otf Brightou.—The
outward-hound remain.

POITNIMUTN, FEB. 16.—This day arrived, under
jury-mists, his hlsjesty's ship Sultan, of 74 guns,
front Jimmies. Soiled on the 11th ult. with a eon-
vc;y, which Elie lost in a heavy gale of wind on the
banks cf Ne tfoundland ; in the same pl. the Sul.

AMUR %L'S-OFFICE, Fes. 16.—Any vessels bound
to the Canaries or coast of Africa, that may have
been left behind by the Ariel, may receive protection
to Cork, under convoy of his Majesty'tsitip Ithline.
RAMSGATE, FEB. 16.—The Gelmau, from
Ostend for Nants, was last night wrecked on the
Goodwin Sands: crew sawed and landed at Broad-
stairs.—The Heron, Wilson, from Portsmouth to
Shields, a discharged transport, last Bight struck on
the Goodwin Sands and beat off her redder : she is
now at anchor off the North Forelsad, making very
little water.—The Industry, Mathews, L'Alion,
D'Arlau, from London for Rouen, and two or
1 three coasters, have put in for shelter.