The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-06-12 00:00:00

Paprrs

Halifax . to the 23d of May, and Philadelphia
to the 15th at May, liat.e Leen received this morning.
The Halifax Papers du not contain any information of
importance.

11110). TUC PRILAIDFLPIIIA PAPER of alas 13.)
TIIE MIRSIsSIPPI PIRATES.
BAUER. APRIL 19.—Arrived at the Balite the
United States revenue cutters bouisianua, Captain
Loonies, and Alabama, from a cruise; on the Idth
they visited the Breton Island, a notorious resort for
pirates, particularly the. celebrates' Patterson. After
lauding twenty.five men, well armed, and traversing
the island throughout, they set tire to the house and
the woods in the island, and entirely consumed every
thing that was standing. A report had long been in
circulation that a large sum of money was buried on
the island. hut they did not succeed iu ti. ding any : it
is undenteod they are bound to the westward, to break
tip the haunts of the pirates in that quarter.
[►!loss Tux NaTtosist. Ix ITLLIUY.NCEI or MAY 12.]
The Inhjtbit of the reduction of the army, and par-
ticularly the reduction of the Staff of the army, yester-
day occupied the attention of the !louse of Represen-
tatives; it is postponed till the next Sessions, and a
call has been made on the Secretary of War for a plan
for the reduction of the army to six thousand men,
should it then he deemed expedient to reduce it; the
motives for the latter proceedings, as avowed, were not
hostile to the army.
With regard to the navy, the proposition fur re-
duction sprung from no hostility to it, was entirely
confined to inquiry, and was consequent on the pro-
posed inquiry respecting the reduction of the army.

L .V D 0 N
NUMPAT ITENINO. rt-yre 12, 1,20
A i.:24-',.llPrriitiati its held this mornin It is re-
, „rt,ci oa chimp, that this Council is not I ailed mere.
I. on the 4/I.:csx's affairs, bat also to take into consider-
ation the intellirenee reeeived to-day from France.—
Private letters have arrived which rive a very unfa-
c..erable aceonnt of the state of that capital. it ap-
pears that there is a very strong patty inimical to the
;,resent cx::er of thini:s,whicit is augmenting daily. The
fm..11 have fallen 50 cents. since the last mail, being
done at ;3 fr. 70 cents , and the Exchange 25 45, at
use mewls.

[ram,' Tllll ►HI IA PPPPP OF MAY

We have perused several prirate letter* rec. ived
true Paris this morning. They are for the must pant
tide! silt details of the scenes which have occurred
in conseqaeuee of the efforts of the soldiery to disperse
t'ie peop!e. The public Journals are not altiTether
but eq. accounts being only such as are allowed
Ir theCeasor to appear. are of course nut to be at
At relied upon. The Funds are depressed. The
inhabitants are in a general ferment. The perse-
mance of the Chamber of Deputies. in their endea-
set to pa.;s the Election Law, appears sure to pre-
fect the worst consequences, and endanger the public
trampaillity, if not the life of the KIM:.

The line-of-haltle ship Massachusetts. by which name wa
hear she is to be called. n'jw building at the nary-card.
Charleston. la the theme at admiration among all connoisseurs
in ship-building, for tha beauty of her model. her strength.
and the solidity of her workmanship: she is larger than the
Independence. Washington. or Franklin. and Is about the
tonnage of the Columbus. The &Dote ship is the second
ship of the line built under the superintendence of Commo-
dore hull.

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which they are not likely it tannins* without 71111V,ILY.
*hat they value still Ining.their places. I The eaimattuiratiant from the Oven do Lied LiteeH
The country GentlOueen trim ant at too-rues, are I Pools died on Friday by Mr. Merman, we* here'
said to have had a blestimghttosaWer of theepropriety "del, 616610/41 is tte egis'et Ministers, who
• twos st a con..ldersble time,
of still farther urging the Horse at Commons berated t
to post- • tr. fIK. isa.6
s
obliged to Misstate to attend their Parliameuttn, &Wei.
pone the appoinlulent of a Committee, to give Ministers At half-past nine, another Cabinet Commit was
sum-
ac opportunity of waking a new proposal to the mooed to meet at the residence of the Lail of Livit-1
Quev.st. t pool, in Whitehall. 1 hey continued in deliberatiou
until haifisait twelve. The result of their disCussion.
a as submitted to the King, and the folios ing note was
aid to have been sent to her Majesty =—
Mit IMase, IVAlteball. Saturday Afar
arse.. lhree.Ttoet.
" Lord Liverpool informs her Majesty, that the only
propositise he had to make was the one submitted to Mr.
Broughans in April last, which was nearly the same as'
that proposed by Lord Hutchinson at St. Omer's; but
that Lord Liverpool asures her Majesty that the King's
servants will still think it their duty, notwithstanding
all that has passed, to receive for consideration any tug-
gestious which her Majesty. or her advisers, may have
to offer upon their propositions:.
To this note of burst Liverpool, her Majesty is said
to have replied:—
" That she demanded all the rights belonging to the
Queen of England. That, before she was in p iota
of all her dignities, she could not listen to any other
proposal. Then, a hen she was restored to them, she
should he ready to listen to any proposal from his Ma-
jesty's Alinisters."
Such is lag statement Riven in a Paper of yester-
day. kvitpreting the tothstantial parts of the report I
little doubt is entertaitted. though from internal Psi- I
deuce it appears to he nut a literal ivy of thy rofres-
ponJeuee. A Ministrriat Journal of this Morning' .
treats it as " a aUM misteprt sentation, intended to ,
mislead and agitate the pee.tic mind;" and another
Paper, of the same description. asserts that it " is et-
rotis.uus in a very material elt.t.tree.— and " nut ntdy a
garbled, but, in souse respect., a Ws, statement of the
cot 1111 l onications that have taken place:" but after all.
three imputations may be made merely because the
ropy is not perfectly Accurate. and the 31inisterial
writers are extremely mortified at the spirit and deci-
sion which her Majesty retain:. On our own part sue
belleee it to be essentially true. because it corresponds
with the intelligence which we communicated to the
public on Saturday evening, and which we had re-
received from high authority that afternoon.—
" Whatever may be the result of any negotiation,"
we asserted. as our Readers may remember, that
" we are assured, from the best authority, that her
Majesty will in no respect accede to any terms which
will compromise her honour or her dignity. Her
Majesty entertains nu thought whatever 4.f returning
to the t ontinent." tin this ground we are led to
place our credit on the *abstain... of the statement, and
to apprehend that the ileged4atiot has produced, what
we expected from the prin:.iples proposed by Ministers,l
.mtrable revolt.