The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-20 00:00:00


The United *toes brit Saranac took poisassion of
• prise 11,n Thursday last, going into Amelia. Florida
will be taken posseeinn of by the United States
troops. as soon as the frigate John Adams, brims
Prometheus and Enterprise. and schooner Lynx dn• i
she, w hich were expected daily. There was a ranardir
at Amelia, that a British expedition was ittieg stet
in some of the West India Islands. for .the ponrposa
of taking possession of the Florida,..At Melia
the *lost Assorted outrages bare been committed by
Aery's troops; several murders have been per-
petrated by titre with bapenity-- neither life nor pro-
-forty IMO oak; if within the teach of these free-
Seaga and bripods. • • 4.: •

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CONGRESS. •,
IN SENATE., Ds& 15.
14IM rellotring Motions were babe tke table*
Consideration g—.- . • '- • "
-14 Mr. WILLIAmr, of -MhtitelpitC.:Reselika;
That the-Coownittee all the 3udie:llo bilnitioited
to etwilite whet koviaiens owe twicestiarytiVsfyie ef-
fect to theleists of the United Stuns; iiithinWitiite
et Mississippi. .. 'l4
• 1316 Mr. Tuipt--Itesolted, that do PI rsidile
Abßled .13tateem. be imeisestettiO; anon telloOnitt
lefekt the flesetrtioch inheinstiot is
touching the inteastlbs of',-t011,1,4170t the iv* kr.'
tiete'ef-Alle late Treeii of Peaim Ategfrilikikeits
his tisiteunie blejtistrand thr United Stated' ifittekt
ries .034 relem to 'the Itestitiftbie Wf.'Slertii ems'
• which has

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HOIAPE•ikitIeRKSENTATIVES. Dse.• 15:
!MA'S U.AND GALVIMON.
The follow in( viiiiitirsieftlitba therm.
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*Wane ,
Report
4s re.,
the
prof. *save to
census iiersons,whislately took peesessiow ef'Ameda
blegtraid Goteeiten. "
JAMES MONIitOE.
is Weiblecten, We. 13;1(07."
Tim aillaND OF CEYWN.,
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It is right that the People of this &entry should
be undeceived respecting the boasted- advantages of
this new acgolaition. The managemdot, or. rather,
we shoild lay, the mismanagement, of the islandl
of Ceylon, forms a lamentable contrast to the boast.i
•fel description which the Ministry give of the coon-
try itself, and the benefits which they pretend the
'lotion Is to 'derive from it.
Though it have some advantages which we shall
,presently enumerate, it Is very far from Win the
rich island," the 66 fertile island," the " fioe
Island," and, " the veleable island," with accounts
'of which the poor incredelees People of this coun-
try have been tee long doped and &soled. A pos-
'lleetion of twenty yaps, doting every one of which
'they have paid from their pocket. for the *minty
'wince, might have brought themto reason on the
Sell4ect. !Ceylon, of all the cisentries teL which the
itiodelnisitetlims bare n'ee'ded, is-biter the least
ow'''ned. As proof selliciest, we assert, that. the
'People hat' 'ride little progress in the commas arts
•ssf life, sod !tone at AU in any that imply the least
perigees la *selinetamit. Frireigners meet cow and
pick op' the iffy pearls which abound on their coast.
digrieeltere Itself is in so low a state, that Aii coun-
try alone, of all the Indies, is enable. to raise previ-
sion! sollicieet for its scanty and abstemious popela.
Lion. This tiltilits mere than a thousand rhetorical
toorishes *from my Lord Castlereagh or my .Lord
Ilathurst. Thidensity of the population is not in
one half the ratio of any of the civilised nations of
Ifindestan, or any other A,iatic country. The bar-
barity of the ;plash' tants will, however,• scarcely ac-
count to 161'01 extent for the barksstiOness of their
igriculterrs: and 'the. scarcity of the necessaries of
life ; and it is impossible not io some measure to sus-
pect the steillity of the soil. 'Appearances io the
latitudes of C. kin are imposing and -deeeitfol. An
abundant sdn and moisture clothe nature. is eternal
verdure,''Each consists mostly of the indigenous
wends. or •useless forests of the country?. while
the useful' plants, mostly exotics, require .s rich
soil. The scanty crops of rice; the bad..pepper,.,
the bad sugar,' the bad coffee,, and bad tobacco of
Ceylon, will at least be admittiml is grounds toi. this..
ionjrcture. The bowels of the earth are these morel
unequivocally 'sterile than its surface itself, though.
this subject, too, has been made the topic of many a
senseless panegyric. In the first place, it has nei-
ther mines of she precious metals, the sernt-metalsw nor
the useful metals. In the second, we observe, that
of all the precious stones, poor 'Ceylon yields but
one—the amethyst, the most inferior of. the gems,
sod here, unfortunately, of en inferior quality.—
Tile nest_ are a parcel of coloured ihrysials, less
brilliant and less Valuable —thaw our ibmaion
pastes. The subject is too ridicolons, indeed,
to dwell upon. Do the foiests produce any_ thing
valuable, any oak, any teak wood ? Not. stick,
not a piece of timber fit for ship-building, all most be
imported, from the largest timbers to the most ordi-
nary spans. The advantages of the commercial posi-
tion of Ceylon have been much vaunted of. -They
have, in our htimble opinions, been mach ersggent.
ed. We even think that Ceylon possesses fewer ad.
vantages in this respect than any other port In Asia,
which a judicious person would, without meals isms-
tigation, point to. Besides its own evident defects,
it wants a good neighbourhood. The country imme-
diately opposite to it is one of the most barren and
most inaccessible to commerce of all Hiodostan.—
China, Japan, and the other countries and islands to
the east of
,the Ganges, are too far away for a busy
intercourti, and•there neither is none, nor his there
ever been any considerable intercourse between them.
--Persia and Arabia are poor and distant, led whit
they want is not what Ceylon has to gin.* With
Europe, our free trotters can tell bow little they
beeefited by this only Atistic settlement of the
Crown. With the single exception of Mr. Heilaseets,-
it would indeed be difficult to point est surfrider of
tisk', country. that has tasted of the sweets of the crabq
aletce of that ardarabk. island ! •

THF, STAT

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS I) ‘Y AT ONE O'CLOCK..
•4lask Stock. SIO• .• • .4 OPT Celt!.'Navy ISSI.
S per Cent. Red. 9.-.
11 Wee Roads Intl NS
3 per Cent. Cow& t4l - 1 Aunt 141^
Consoltlbr Ace 4 a mil Left Ana. •
4 per: COIL 994 NMI 19 R 9

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Walton received New York Papers to the Stihd of
December. theysnateiially strengthen the, double
.we expressed on the. nietiirney of the intelligeteew
w kith the SpinsiOVfcasi4ts 4elegicr and . the Com:**
on that.most eengeeial autteriti, so cnolidentlyead,
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esiltingly triinpittiOeetb. 4Thoeccoants We pelori
lished yesterday of a battle bang beesgainekbj
the Independents,. between. *Op* end Vera. Cgs**,
eel nor that thesievolution is telemphieg in its Chlek
40mi:tea/ter, aSd the compost..el the New Yeskl
Papers,. Oridels we are noticingt.ersa,veltich the Cos.
'tier cireftilfi'idisialued, troll fi
. fierMe49o3 ring*
:gr triads forlreliee , Ing'' tisse,listi ~,T'a,!ti . -,re . pectins
t -
lAtiri's captitelpisoileffeetslas :the Revoker
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tiottie Math*, hen es feeedat,oqo netteithstaadl
iog positivii'o4.rtifrtioraistiiirt ii;* ykaftevdell.:
The 'icons, t• Cif SI i s A's dereitlianiionveyell i;i New
..York from Itiiiietnab by the Extraordniork. Go-,
4.41e' Ojai lie received, bee it was suspected at the
dim that it las spurious, ersd intended to injure the
,
coma, of• the Patriots. The intelligenco from New
etauf of the 27th of Noiember; stater; that Gen.
AlserA' was Wilily in'the vicinity of Mexico, with
eta army of topoo sole, enjoying the coofideece of
the People at' largei •and with every probability of
sltillete mews.- -t. ''•
i
Whillsy bid% Shat the Revolution n Mexico,
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has terminated wi .liiiNell " fejt and ill-concerted
expedition,"' itaiirield be made known that it • was
not Mini who seised the Revelation in the Meeks,
Provinces, or chiefly kept ii alive. It is now nearly
seven years since this Revolution first brake est,
quite in the interior "of the country, at a distance
from external influence, and coasequently rejected
and aided by no one on this side of the Atlantic. It.
was, in fact, the result of real suffering sad oppres-
sion, in Melia), as well as every other section of
that unfortunate country. Since that time it has
'existed, notwithstanding the repeated assurances of
the Viceroy and Spanish Government to the contrary,
equally contained in Extraordinary Gazettes.—
As to the situation Of other 'Patriotic Chiefs, and
the progress of the Iteirolution in the Veeezeelian
,Provinces—we shall just observe that the real dif- .
fierier* between the Royalists and the Plitriols in•
Venezuela, at the present • moment, is; 'llstA 'the
former possesc. Ave isolated town's, and thfiehioit•ii
will, whilst the latter hold Seven provinces;;Otrale
:their resources and most of their towns, the navigation
of all the rivers, and the command of all the cattle.
The former depend on enemal supplies, and the
latter on those they have in their own hands.—
Having fully attained an important, though distant
object, by the captive of the two Guyana., the
Patriots see returning to meet MORILLO in the rear
of Ceraccas, where the decisive battle the Courier
wishei, so doubt, will be fought. Advice' were on
Saturday received from St. Thowas't, three doss later
than the other accnents, which, whilst they re-
gret the time unavoidably lost by the Patriots,
express no deubt es to the issue of the streeele.—
Thißoyalists are aiready..seekine safety, and it is
well known several, .hsve arrived at Jamaica with
thole 11111111110. Letters from Hatannah, of the 6th
December, atsitated in "town, and say nothing of
bitei's captirei'..in. the Provinces of Taus also,
ether-Patriotic 'sillies are in existence. .
We may ',specs to fled the Southern contestkeeeme
very shoofly the subject of discussion in Congress.—
Ott the 15th last the FRESIDZiT,.itI pursuance of
a vote of the House' of Representatives, transmitted
to them communications respecting the motives that
induced the Governmentie issue orders for the seizure
of Amelia Island end Galveston. - dotiotiOn has also
beets made andearried in thi Senate, requesting the
PassrevEr tebeve all Papers relating to Negocia-
dons with Spain laid before its Reese, The debates
aohae4ooot4. thee* osuoutue)artioirvialltrbe veedl
this country with peculiar interett.. The AMiricii
Colonel, • BirmekAo, with the United States ;room;
have arrived at Point Petre, preparatory to taking
possession of the Island of Amelia.

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The_
Paris Papers to the 17th have reached Os. The
Law relative to the Recruiting of the Anny continees
to be the 'abject, of discussion in. the. Chamber • of
Deputies, where opinions appear to be extremely
divided. The points Wiest warmly disputed are tht
Conscriptive part of the Project, and the Prerogative
of the King to move ail !Axil Bodies. The sticklers
for the Royal prirstgitive, Abe chief spokesman of
whom is M. nu Cowarmtoec, consider it dangeroes
that asy military bodies its the kingdom -should be
rendered so far local- as to require the enactment
a pattieniar-Law te. tillable tke King to march them
beyond the limits of. their several Departments. IR
was inteasisteet, be said, with the prerogative of the
Crown, and might eeentaally.reeder them a Patna-
messtary Army,. obedient rather to the Law than to
the Kiag. W on Sotto' proposed an Ameadniesst,
tkat the Teti of the Ana/ shoad be anneal, is it is

In En4land ; sod the Baron de Bitdbrit, in support.
ing: t,isia-,endenent, remarked, that, each- was the
the time of BonallAßTE, and added, that
,if they wag iiii.anure eonstlealienst !hi* the En'
' ingbe .pot to he lea •sa'llima BonAeARTE.
This proposition. of the Baron Is muioestionsbly
'good one; flat though the Boustposs can reconcile
theaseliati to the Conscription Liws of BoNApARTE
Mee' in a time of peace, they, stem little disposed to
7sabmit.to any-Ither comparisons.:' Their authority,
however, appears of very sickly strength, when such
o.o.mtalsory meisures are required to raise a few
':lboosand 'men. The Chimber of Peps sat ou Thurs.
"Ny, *hen thibßeport'of th otntpittea was nide on
tt,e Project 'minding
.tbe...P.riesit; and' 'discussion
wai adjoatned yesterday. :In .convection with.;
this tobject- we notice the rircamitanceood e curious
tinie it is, tint the liberty whccb-CroWned Despots.are
,gmclouilY dißpond to ,to: She .Press, k Ginty
iilksiratesi•by the statement which we mitt in, these
Papers, tliefthe Journal of Weimar* ohkb had di:-,
pleased the Plillitnotit and beer, rovisi•asiiy sew
,isestded sine. Navalnbar last, 4:10• again appearede
belt is compelled in tie first 'number to publish. as!
,4ciftldertsreoloa offenceound a promise or
joule beindoek.• whet the Courier
agonsestsically cilia " Liberty !of the rnels tri.!
impact:* over Ili: A rOwsikh I,.qoAdoid
Irmo a BrasseislotiinaT which slates, that at the
period. of the insurrection at Pernambuco, two French
Officers- were arrested in the Brazils; on. Whom were
foond important papers, respecting the insurrection,
and that they were tried in consequince,condeinued
to death and esecited.

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Oar Private Correspondent,. at Peru, has trans-
milted to as some coricial paiiicsibri, which we in-
' tiert, of tba insurrection at Lyons in June lasi, and
the state of the Southern Dnyerltt.nents'ofFrapce. It
appears from these sloe be" In'
trigues bate been carrying on ID Reece to excite in-
sorrection and disturbanceolt•t,:hy.- the pr..thans of
-Revolution or of Bonaraavar•hat by the Priests,
Emigrants, and Bourbon' Ethisseries IS the army.;
awhieh have been so sitatneruillibxerted nearer bawl,
c
to crests olnitis for :liiifitary intefference and
rem* trunqures of coercion- against the Peopb.-,-'
'Theindkpertinoois are .said to be kept.in a tensional'
et te of fermentation, fomented .-inieritionally, for.
Ai purpose of accusing the inuorent, bsciting riots,
that the Arithorities and the
:Military may have the
glory of •qielling:them, *and
,the hands of .the GO-
intrement may be fUrther streagthaaeid by accessions
of military power, obtained . upon •ihe pretence of
Iteceesity. Another nn less dsngero.us furor iipaising
over France, like ohs pestilence, in the diffusion and
the attempts of religious Witticisms emanating from
the Ultra and Priestly Missionaries, who are over.
!tannins the Provinces, preaching and stolen din
passions Wherever they go, and the authors and sop.
porters of the new Concordat---the Imperial's MlA-
purl., 'which fetters not only the King, but the
*Went. Strange instances of the ostrarragance of
these fanatical riffles, and the effects produced by them
on the public mind at Saintes, Tereascon, and other
places, are mentioned by our Correspondent; and if
abet he states respecting the protection afforded to
these missionaries by the Duchess D'AnctouLtnE, be
true, the Salique Lsw, .which the French boast, the
Constitution promised by the Charter., and the Iran-
' goillity the Allies pretend to maintain,
.. are
etrumply preserved in France. " It'Oras- hoped,"
toys our Correspondent,
.under date of :the 10th—
ee that the Concordat would be withdrawn and leis
.ilearcely possible to conceive the general joy which
this hope occasioned, though it rested-On no bitter
foundation than the opinion eqiiivricsaYy a:pressed, of
M. DE CAZE ; now, however; this., hops is totally
vanished, ind the case affords piothee, lareentabli
proof, to the many already exhibitedOlibt the King
is. not the brat personage in the'kingdotri The tpl
Salique does not permit a woman-, to lOgn over
France, but the Deehess D'Ascoutial at
such a law, while, aided by the Priests nod Emigrants;
she can palraysethe King's G overnment,..-cati !tureen
Ambassador of her own chooslngteiNsnd to Rome,
andoonclode wititthe Pora-aCrincordircesteriding the
power of the Holy See andtheltigit Clergy, .to a pitch.
which the POP& hiniselL :neter,;(44ll2l.sSf
IL*P and iii. alone, if theweetiirotentstrolthstfriestrit
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scud
iTiitras, -Nesbit iltittit4ry:Altisalr; bead Vanes'
sooner or later: 'to 'the fate df Voietifion- The..
-King wishes to govern Cootitntliknally But it is a
twines inidlamentablefact Chit Itibirty has no official
prdtector in France esteptlthe Mirijspik of Polite.
and be, isnlesti assisted by thi .Powers,
must give op the unequal colt.*, 4.0 tolls"' Con.
cordat, it is Buie to pass. 4 111 lidentra gu
ball ordered the Commission to tar, iii Report ready.
'Othionday oeM." ' ....** *
. The Circular of 'Lord itese
sidered Ministerial Members. frsillto
mow, intimates that beshiesidassfibrtance'srill oc•
copy the attention of ParliadietiihaVlY,ln the Sessioo.
Independent of this, the cligemstiatioisfitit being the`
last Session of the present.rtoliatentut' will' &sham
insole a very foil attendence of .Meriber,v: If MK
sisters can obtain an easy °signifies, 'Nitta their pee
csniary 'demands, the Session- will be a Avon one..-4
The interest of the Members-sod *tint tountry
receive a new 'test speedilly—vie hope boat' sill per
font the duty which now urges itself with interitasiog
teams upon them. Violated liberties, oetregid
,1111.1.t5, suspended laws, and a plOodered, impoverish-
ed nation, crying to Heaven for relief ffotti the abuses,
of temporal authority, like Conacienaei will "meek
in thunder when the deed Is dotze.".

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Mech palnsthas been taki_
est of it, to represent the alrehs
in the environs of Lyons, in Jose hist, es as Man.
sive plot to overture the "listing Gneeremieet, .14 .
however, we eumine the 'natter impartioll7—lf
conselkspebtle opinion-1f we sok disietereited meet
who have been WilfteillOS'of the facts as wall-es esr..
seises, sod who have seee the pacts performed by
tielrirreilal actors, we "hell nee form a very dir.
fententeonetesion.
,On the 11th of jam, about ive in the evening, the
' tocsin sesitiml in 11. common's of the Departmeat of
.the Rhone.' Thies which displayed the greateat era
door eand.they wen the sealltet number) only for.
Dished the revolt with 30 to 40 men each, many of
whom were not armed k in ail the rat the instigators
could not eacite more than ire to ten each of
seeable wretches, the very seed of society, and in •
ne-itee common" did the population. rise to take part .
the trolt.
or five days previously detachments of troopr •
•ihr hints observed placed on all the intermediate. • ,
potato:raid on the. first mond of the tocsin theeesle- • •
gtaehmeaii -
hastentl to the agitated commeises; slaty •
who the parttes assemtiied • were dispersed on the
arrival bf The military,, without opposing the least-re.
sistanei. That of St. Genii Laval (at the head of
which Was Captain ONPIN) was the most considers!. •
Me, but it took to flight on the arrival of an ad.
minced-gtrard of four gendirrmes ; a few shots
were fired, it is tree, hi this commune, one of the
gendormui rind weended, bat this momentary re.-
sistance was only owing to its being night when the
gendarmes arrived.
BefOte seven o'clock the nest morning the most
perfect tranquillity was re.establlshed on every pale,
and there was :oaths least'vestige of the agitations of
the preceding evening.

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Such are the literal facts; and we most not lose
sight of the circumstance, that the...Bepartment of
the Rboa is nue that has mosfsuffered from the pe.
nary of •sujnistence, which powerfully aided the plot
'or thelostigetora.
In the city.Of Lyons there was no crowds, no see.
picious meetings ; the fact Is plain—for the armed
force had not to disperse one single group. From
the morning of the Bth of June, all the garrison of
Lyons 4 end.a part of the National Geard, were under
arms for the solemnity of the Fête Dieu. The pub-
lic mind had for some days previously been kept in
agitation by theieparts of a conspiracy going on, bet
it was Waited for with a calm which proved every one
to be a stranger to it; .and when k was learnt that
the toisie was esinnderi in different communes, the
inhabileate Of Lln'tis (the majority of whom, attract.
ed ;by the iirneession, was on the quays and in the'
politic placeslretired peaceably to their homes; there
was•nii 'other agitation than that of the armed force,
which had been pat in motion to Combat enemies whip
were oo where to be found. Two events served as
pretexts for these Measures,:— • •
1. Oise 1.,a DAV*, Captain of the Legion of the
Yonne,. was killed ino street, in trying, as it Is said,
to arrest a man suspected. '
2. A workman of the lowest class was erretted at
the Barrier of Valor., and in a working jacket he car-
ried in his hand was found 200 cartridges. •
These are the only facts that can be cited ass '
proof of a Repent conspiracy, and
.the imminent
danger ran by the city of Lyons. The labourer was
`instantly given up to the PrevOtal Court, condemned;
and executed without delay. Re never ceased to pro-
test.to his Judges that be was ignorant that the parcel
contained Cartridges;' that a workman at the plaster
•quarrieili whOta he only knew by sight, from having
drink *ith
.liiin at Abe pubticabouse, bad begged him
• • ... _ .
to carry. it for him beyond the barrier, end who no ,
away Oen ,be saw hi. stopped. Were there any
loom. to believe hi Ibis existence of a conspiracy,
:why be. its i*t baste to get rid of a witness who
nsighparve been so useful? The Public only saw, in
lfiis:pieciPltaiteaecution, a means of imprinting an
14,1,.4 a:, conspiracy, aid it concluded from the ue-
easily of fncersing to such means, Mkt there was no
real cowsplritcy; indlt is now known what perfidies* •
harstletlthis unforturrateond innocent • wombats to
l cl."d 4 tin iotiotro . as, ,Judges•tres-gielth' In It, et 4 .
titigaratioe, ;and it tread, That wherever he goes be
litecitiA4 'mei before his eyes the pala bloody bead
itt.. bisiletila. • . ' . •
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s .Vllistebr'Lf-Daux., who, ever sinew the morning
.11.10 leiroatthe almost violence, galloped. though the
lotteets, creesedjlni• peweessions, and talked,of no.;
thing. artsisiliterat arrests, itc., was designated by
1 thopehlk.velcs as hiving been connected with them
wirelit!iosne. -. Wrigudedell koeWasit tbtbeatebl:rwsaosfotnhee ionfilitffeche ptirre...
pal instigators; two: subaltern chiefs,. condemned.
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siliiiiih:by -cotiieurs- cy, accuse him of having led
LI 'lnto*, is promising the co-operation of the
Arliflirsot ko :which be belonged, as well as part of the'
onion,. Their families loudly pahlish the fact, arid:
itts•isid that Gevernment.bas in its-possession pv•
*Mee -reefs oil tbe **fleet;
to sai, "le will deserved
inrch infrivies."—Lz Dr
accomplices, or rather
him come oat from a

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of &One, ti r voilif4b.:lol-ifitis south,
suit,. for: thos,inihroatio* of: tips :House, Age!
fror‘,o4Seefolary Snit,. with the doriturtitt
ferriskio in it, containing ail the J 001,4114001! of
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