The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-04-17 00:00:00

TnE STATESMAN.

taking upon themselves by the Allies to exclude any
one whatever from the throne of Frame., will be con.
sidered the same thing as dictating to them whom they
should levees a King; and we have reason to believe
that NAPOLEON has in store a more effectual thunder..
bolt for his own defence than has yet been exhibited.
What will his Kingly opponents say or do if, after
he finds that they will not treat with him as a Sove-
reign, he throws off the Imperial name and crown,
and declares France a Republic, as it is not impro.
ble be will, when the nation will find itself still
more imperiously called upon to resist dictation ?
Still the power of NAPOLEON will have the as-
cendancy, and still it will be with him that foreign
Powers will have to treat or contend.

•
The Duke of Oacciss, visited the Patna RE..
GEV r on %turday.
. Yesterday, the Earl of Lvrksroot. and Viscount
SIELvit.LE had audiences of the Puttrce REGENT.
Mr. Iksrrea, the Messenger, arrived on Saturday ,
with dispatches from the British Minister at Vienna, .
and from Loup IVELLINGTON at Brus.els. Two fo-..
reign Messengers have also arrived, one from the
King of SANDIVIA, and the other from Louts
XVIII. at Glie.a. The Sardinian Messenger was.
obliged to take a circuitous route by the way of
Vienna, not being allowed to pass the French
frontiers. Thy• Austrian troops were marching ittvast-,
force towards Italy, and it is supposed that war has
been declared by the Emperor of AUSTRIA against
MURAT. The troops of the letter are certainly in
possession of (tome, and the POPE has arrived at
Florence.
The Sappers and Miners stationed at Plymouth,
are about to embark for the Netherlands.
The Dublin Evening Post of the 11th re-asserts,
that the l'olice Magistrates of that capital have been
ordered to report its state every 24 hours to the
Irish Government.

The Office of Ordnance at Chatham has reeeived
orders to provide and send away stores to a Consi-
derable extent, and several hundred boys have been
entered to make wadding.
The King of the NETHERLANDS has recently erect-
ed by a patent, a Mercantile Company for the ex-
clusive trade to China. The reasons asiigned for. the

measure are, the peculiar nature of the commerce

with China, and the large capitals which it requires.
The Company is to enjoy this monopoly for a period
of 25 years. The duty to be paid to the State on all.
tea so imported rind sold for home consumption, is to
be 5 per cent. ad valorem on the sales, a drawback
to that amount being given on the export. The funds
of the Company are to consist of 8000 shares, at the
rate of 1000 Dutch guilders each ; and the affairs
of the Company to be managed by a Board of five
Directors, besides a Secretary. The Jonrd of Di-
rectors is to be established at Amsterdam.
That fine regiment the 7th Hussars, which *also
distinguished at the battle of Orthes, under the cops-
maud of Colonel Sir E. Ktßwrs, embarked yester-
day at Dover, for foreign service.
Mr. TROTTER, Store-keeper General, left town on
Thursday to proceed to Brussels. Mr. HERRIES2
Commissary-General, left town yesterday for tie
same plate.
The Mayor of Bourdeaux, Count LYNCH, has am-
rived in safety at Plymouth.
The tri-coloured flag was saluted by the frigate
Amphion and BoNadin corvette, on the 26th ult. at
Isle d'Aix, Basque Roads.
The Pttixce REGENT'S Message to both Houses of
Parliament, which was expected to h•• sent down this
thy, we understand is delayed until the report oft he
next advices from Vienna.

Soon after Nine this Morning, was drawn the
Ticket No. 353, which, as the 10th Blank, is en-
' titled to 1000 Guineas in Gold. The Public will
not be surprised to learn that it was shared by their
old favourite, EYTON, and all sold at his successful
Offices, 2, Cornbill, and 18, Coventry-street, where
' the fortunate Holders will receive the amount of
their respective Shares, on demand, in Guineas.—
April 15.
IMPORTANT NEWS ! ! !—TWO Prizes of 30,00013
are in the Wheel, and must be drawn on Wednes-
day next.—N. B. The Drawing begins at Nine
o'Clock in the morning.

Colts; L:X(triSIGE. APRIL 17. A great quantity n
%% heat tieing left over from last week's arrivals made a Brea
show, and havio4 hot few ha% era, the wide Wcll exceedingly
at a decline of tls . per quarter upon that of fine cpsaiity,
and fall 4.. per qt rater upqn all oilier descriptions.—ilarley is
Is. per qteiiroor lower, haying a large artival this gsoraing.—
ikaii• ale nob s :le, at lost week's prices.—And, Oats are from
110 4s. per wirier cht,iper.
Wheel (English) 4O 73
Ditto (Foreign) , 70
ve ' 91.;

Beans
Old ditto .
Tick do. .
Old _
Oats 4B 30
Fine ditto .....
Pobtnd dn. 2O 47
Feed ditto l6 24
Fine Flour ..... 65 70
Seconds ..... 60 65

32 S 6

26 511

Barley 26
New auto •

Malt .
__

. 60 66

White Pens 3B 48
New ditto —
Ditto Boilers 5O fro

6►ey Peas 32 35

SMITHFIELD MAltKET.—Aratt. 17.
To sink the Oral, per stone or
Beef ....4s. Bd. to As. Bd. Head or Cattle this day
Hutton .:ss. Od. to 64. Od.' Reft.11l
Veal ... fo. Od. to 7s. 64. Sheep
Pork 0.1.-so 7s. 0.1. I Calves
Lamb ....Ss. 04. to Si. 64. Pigs
}JAY-MARKET.
Itay
Clover
Straw

?I4V4L INTELLIGENCE.

PLIIKOUTII, APRIL 15.—Came in another French
ship, the Shird, detained by his Majesty's ship Eri-
danus. The second, which arrived here a few days
ago, was released yesterday.—Arrived yesterday the
Rota frigate, from Jamaica ; and the Fly, from a
cruise; and the Surprise, from America.
PortrtmotTru, APRIL 16.—Arrived yesterday his
Majesty's ship Nie►nen from Jamaica, Barhadoes,
and Antigua: brings Mails from the latter andformer
places, and 26 days from the latter; spoke his Majes-
ty's ship Ramillies, with the Jamaica fleet, off Scilly,
on Thursday evening.—Released this morning from
quarantine his Majesty's ships Havannah and Erne.
—We understand that the brig Ocean was taken by
the Macedonian American privateer: she is supposed
to belong 1p Leith.

EXTILJOIWINARY DIPLOMATIC
DOCUMENT !

The following Paper contains some important mat-
ter, which will tend to throw additional light on
those dark subjects—the Negociations at the Con-
gress of Vienna :

COPY OF A NOTE PROM PRINCE METTERNICH TO
LORD .CASTLIREAGII.

" The undersigned, Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs, has received the Note in which his Excel-
leney Lord Castlereagh, Principal Secretary of State
of his Britannic Majesty for Foreign Affairs, en-
quires, in the name of his Court, explanations of the
arrangements determined upon with regard to the
Continent, and chiefly with regard to the three prin-
cipal l'owers ; and also satisfactory assurances as to
those interests which are specially confided to the
honour and amicable intervention of Great Britain.
At the same time he has received a pro.* of a Cott.
vention on the part of his Excecellency, which de-
clares the wishes of the British Government upon
these last points. •

" The undersigned, in professing that he is ready
to give, in concert with the other Allied Cabinets,
the most frank explanations on the fist topic, hastens
to apprize Lord Castlereagh, that having submitted
the projet of the Convention to the Emperor, he has
been authorized by his Imperinl Majesty to accept
the inclosed, and to cause to be drawn up a preli•
minaty act of acceptance, which he has the hollorer
herewith to transmit to his_ Excellency, and which
shall be followed, as soon as possible, by an instill,
meat prepared according to the meal forms. The
undersigned has the honour to he, &c.
Trer)r., FA). 15. 1814."
Dispatched also by his Excellency Count Nesse!-
' rode end his Excellency Prince Hardenberg.

LOUD COCIIRANE. •

A Letter has been lately published by Lord Coch.
ranee addressed to the Electors of We:1114110er; its
'justification (.f his conduct and mot;ve4 for teasing
'the King's (leach Prison. It is a cheap and inte-
resting publication, nod should be rei'l by all who
are desirous of forming a clear opinion of his Lord.
ship's ease. We make the folowing extracts from
it :--

" If the Press were as easy of resort to those who
suffer, as to the advocates of those who P‘PreiSP op.
pression, my reasons (of which the slot? 1:f the p•e,l
is one) for contending with injus•ice by ticti•oi
well as argument, would have been sooner submitted
to your attention.
'4 I have heard much about the duty of submitting
to the laws, but not enough to inspire me with it..
verence for iniquity exercised tinder legal appear.
ances. It is not by him who resists injustice coin.
milted under the forms of law, but by him who
makes those forms the instruments and the cloak of
injustice, that the laws are violated. I did not,
however, quit these walls to escape from personal
oppression, bit at the hazard of my life to eiAsett
that eight to liberty, which, as a member of the
community, I !.ave over forfeited, and that right
which I received from you, to in its very den
the corruption which threatens to. annihilate the li-
berties of as all. I did not gait them to fly from
the justice of my country ; bet toeepose the wick-
edness, fraud, and hypecilsy of those who elude
that justice by committing their entirfnities ender the
colour of iti name. I did not quit them from the
cl.ildi.h motive of impatience under suffering t I
staid long enough here to evince that I could endure
restraint as a pain, but not as• a penalty. I staid
long enough to he certain that my Persecutors were
conscious of their injustice; and to feel that my
submission to their unmerited iietiti•t:ow, was losing
thedignity of resignation, and sicking into the ig.
nominious endurance of an insult. •