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

—summappmsmo....
'Dee
• 4lt's Hainburgh
France 0
Holland - 1
Lisboa
• 0•0: • ••• • MI* • •. • 1

. A
ril thg 0, STOCKS TIM DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK
flank 214 Lew. Ann. 16 3-16*
9 per lent. Red. 654} ladie Bonds 11 18 p
1 per ('em. Vow lyrehequer_llill, I]d

4 PPr Ceeiii..llll 2
5 per (ler& Navy

Ournittio 111
Court& for Acc. 67 6

THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
MONDAY, DECEMBER li, Isl 4.

A Dutch Mail is arrived : the following are the
only articles of interest which it brings :
Bnussus, Dac. 3.—The negotiations at Ghent
continue.to be very active, the exchange of notes and
the hrrlvaland departure of English cduriers continue
daily. Notwithstanding the secrecy in which the nego•
cintions are involved, it is believed that England has
abated of its first demands, and that America
on the other hand, has made 'some sacrifices : it is
even hoped that the mode of coming on the nego-
ciatians will qtnlergo some change, and that personal
conferences will supOwd to the written notices.
GtalrEi DEC. 5.-4 t Is reported that the English.
Government bat given secret instructions to its Conl-
IniSSintleill in desidelkom the hardest pretensions
against the United Shttes, or at least has so modified
th"m, that they can no longer be obstacles to
a favourable termination of the negotiation.

HAGUE, Dac.6.—His Royal Highness has abolish.
ell the duty for convoy on vessels to and from the
United Netherlands.
;Art" PDX VIENNA, NOV. 24.

. " Wittig s fitiv dais the negotiations have assum-
ed a moresfave-urable appearance than they lately
bad, and it is affirmed that the great Powers will
Shortly come to a perfect understanding ; nay, many
differences are said to have been only feigned, in or-
der to discover the views of a foreign Power, re.
specting Germany.- Austria has absolutely nothing
to object to the union Of Saxony with Prussia (pro.
'sided, we suppose, sbe gets an equivalent share of
the general spoil), and Bavaria has also been placed,
by means of Austria, in possessien of the greatest
part of the Grand Duchy of Frankfort. The greatest
difficulty remaining is about Puland, but it ifar
from impossible to remove it.
" All well disposed Germans agree in the opita
that nothing coil be more advantageous for Germany
in regard to its foreign connections, as an intimate
'union between Prussia and Austria. The Prussians
came here with this hope, and it is hardly to be con•
crived so many hottest endeavours to this end should
be fruitless. In every case the Previa must be ex--
(hided, whose policy is incompatible with. our wel.
fare.'

Pali; Papers to the 9th inst. are received. The in-
telligence from Vienna is to the tath ult. The Cott-
gres, it is said, wit:tont any formal opening, has
begun to promulgate its ddcisions. If we may credit
private accounts, the first declaration is one on which
we cannot congratulate the friends of freedom and
general justice--it Is the formal annexation of Genoa
to Piedmont. 64 What is Genoa to us, or we to
Genoa," that we should grieve or startle at this ?
The relationship is certainly not very close, nor the
few acres of ground alluded to very important, but
we read in the breaking down of an independent
State, which, from the free nature of its Govern-
ment, has hitherto enjoyed many superior pri-
vileges, and in the annexing of it to another under
despotic sway, the sure indications of measures hos-
tile to a liberalized may of thinking, and ap•
parently little calculated to insure permanent
eacitication. The world is sick of hearing of
anncsations, partitions, invasions, anti indemni-
ties; and this sickness never fails to be fol-
towed by indignation and very dangerous feelings.—
litteever, these, it seems, are not to be regarded.
They are only found in vulgar breasts. We have
also reason, given us for believing that a general de-
claration, regarding the new organization of the
affairs of the Continent, would be published about
the middle of last week. In the meantime the usual
quantity of speculative rumour is in circulation, and
in every feature of it we perceive convincing indications
tr►at the Continental Powers are far from being very
cordially agreed on the subjects of theiedeliberations.
Confidence is not the offspring of secret communica-
tions, nor tranquillity the child of political jars.
Lord CASTLEKEAGH, it is confidently repeated, has
presented a very important Note to the Russian
Minister relating to Poland, and complaining of delay
on the part of Russia. Delays are known to be
dangerous ; they, with their attendant excuses, are
generally the weapons with which diplomatists fight ;
and really when the standard ef invasion is again hoist-
ed, and armies are assembling and marching at all
prints to mate good the very modest claims of the new
order of partionists, it is time to enquire what they
mean by such formidable movements, and if they in-
tend to keep to their promises. To our view there
is something superlatively pompous, hypocritical-, and
altsurd in the way in which the Sovereign Powers, or
Ministers at Vienna, are adjusting the business on
which they have met. By the word General Con-
gress we understand a meeting where the business is
carried on openly and in common, and to which all
ho have claims and representations to make are to