The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-11-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTRI:6IOII74VMV
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itzszsattz, Nov. 14 end- 11 —Cense Jo gaivez4l
vessels for shelter, amongst 'which, the brig Eagle,,
Williams, windlass palls upset • schooner Anne and
Elisabeth,' Lovering, witti 41;ari' of fore.vard*. and
'other damage; and aboot Wail' of transport) from
Calais, with cavalry.
PORTSMOUTH, NPV. 15 •--Arrivs4 the Carron,
San Joseph, Dolphin, and Urania transports. from
Cadiz for Russia, wyll Rapists troons ; hya Majesty's.
sloop Wye, from Halibut ; and Regattas transport
from Gibraltar.

PLYMOUTH, Noe. 14.—Several of the wind-bound
slots have sailed for their destinations.

FALIIIIOOIII, Nov. 12 and 13.---Arrised We Doke
of Marlborough packet, with a Mail from Lisbon in
seven days; the Lady Arabella packet, with a Mail
from Lisbon in four days.

SIMMS', NOT. 14.—Sailed the Bottoms, (treat-41
port) for HoUsed, with discharged foreign troopill
from Chatham.
Sc.aascianoon, No,. 14 —The London, Brown,
of and for London from Petershurgh, landed here
flirt of the crew of the Hartford, Newton, which
*easel was last on the 16th of September last, ow be?
voyage to Petershuegh.
NOWN SHIELDS. NOT. 12.—The Fortune, Him
clay, from Riga to Landon, with grain, put into this
'lWirboar, having shifted her cargo, and made so much
-water that a part of the cargo is supposed to be
:damaged, which must be taken out, that the teasel
way be trimmed.

DARTMOUTH, Nov. 14.—The sloop Richard et*
Ann, Peychet, from Penzance to Portsmouth, with
wheat, sunk about four miles off thia part, about l
o'clock this day—crew saved.—The French slip:
Theophile, Daniels, from the Isle of France to sly
Melees, put in here last night by contrary winds;
and in wirrut of provisions.

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thlt,f--listing for the last It tosis been coolest**
strith tdsifs Press. i hare freqodatly looked-le ift,
the diferent Police Offices, Courts of tam, Oze. apd
therebx someday's furnished an
.e!ticii of
Renee; t was led this morning. 44 taunter into timi,
Mattliou.hoose to see our pew Chief Magistrate, but,
wee aieigoy in Officer, mhsi told me (and, I will say,
with the utmost possible courtesy), that he had spe.
dal prners within the last two days to prevent the
,intrusion of ell persons wbo had not particular be-
sioevs. Will you please, thee, to inform me, through
yoor Journal, if the doors of cny iestioe-room can
be closed upon the Public ; or Irbether'it be not en
unwarrantable assumption of
.power on the part of
some person who ought, sad is preasuppd to know
better ?
Na. 12.

PROLONGATION or rirs tRIIM FOR
PAYING rms FRENCH CONTRIBUTIONS.

Ali LA•CIIATELLE, Nov. 11.—in the tonfor.
ences of Monday the whole of the subject of the time
of paying the contributions, and an additional Con-
vention relative to that tower, was reconsidered *kb
the oew lights which Ministers had gained. Mr.
r Baring, Ism informed, gave in • memorial on Mon-
; day, sienteleirm the rations for this applicaiiim on
the part of France, stating the estent to whith it was
; desirable the prolongation should eatend, and on.
backs the policy of consenting to the demand on th•
new conditions that would be offered. The whole of
this intricate business is new said to be definitively
MI , and the additional Convention signed in the
conf=co of to-day. For all the details, we most
wait for the document itself; but thefollowing may be
regarded as its principal and only interesting articles :
The lime for paying the whole of the contributions
is now at last estresded from nine to eighteen months.
'fit. ant payment Is to take place on the Gth of Ja-
nuary, as • before stipulated ; and the whole sum of
265 millions is to be discharged by 18 equal monthly
instalments. The half is to be paid in foreign bilk
es houses at. Ilamburgh and Amsterdam, sod the
other half in Paris. Interest at the rate of 5 per
cent. is to be given on the part of the contributions
tba'payment of which is deferred beyond the nine
svitantbs stipulated in the first Convention. The same
rats of interest, and the same division of funds into
pi:Meals at Paris, and bills on foreign houses, are to
be common to all the Powers. The contractors, the
securities, and all the other terms of the original
Convention, remain unchanged. It is reported, that
the four Powers have cordially and unanimously
agreed to these conditions, whatever might at first

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;me been the foaling of some of them on a proposi.
ales to prolong the term of realising their shares so
much beyond the period originally stipoloted. The
giving of interest at 5 per cent., and the security
nf ultimate payment, added to the new cnn-
lielice- of bills on cities with which the num
have Wire intereeerse than with I'4-
sivastbrs which have rendered the
to all. Messrs. B,ring and
the intoreirrit welt as

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itheriulnett flely-mitt-weeeive the disidend on the
French stock funded, and will pay it over to the
patsies is proportion to their shares of (ht coetribu-
lion. Thus this difficult negotiation, which was
more likely than any other to create differences where
they did not exist, or to give them a prominence if
they *listed, has been terminated with that °mei-
mity, with that dispatch, and with that conciliatory
and confiding disposition, which affords the best ell.
dente of present union among the great Powers, and
lays the best foundation, as well as Aires the best
pledge, of luting teaoqoillity. The Bankers, upon
a report of money tnnsactions going forward, have
',pie collected. M. Bethman, the relation of M.
La Boucher., one of the contractors, is arrived here
from Frankfort. Several others are here from other
parts of Germany.
I formerly alluded to negotiations going on be-
Omen Prussia and the Netherlands, for rounding the
territory of the former, by giving it the Meuse for a
frontier. The Journal of Cologne mentions a tort.
oes report, that Prussia is anxious to abandon en-
tirely the provinces of the Rhine, in exchange for
Hoesseer. According to this project, the King of
the Netherlands would accept of these provinces in
exchange for Belgium, and the family of Hanover
world be removed to Belgium. However wise this
arrangement may appear to some German visionaries,
it would be needless here to discuss such an absurdity
as wield be involved in any proposition to realize it.
The Hotel de Ville has now become like en exhi-
bition of pictures. A young Prussian painter ex-
poses his works in the Great Hall, and Sir T. Law-
rence paints sad exhibits in an adjoining room. The
Emperor Alexander has given four sittings, and the
head is nearly finished.
The King of Prude sat for the first time to-day.
The Emperor Francis's portrait is nearly in a state to
be carried to England. Prince Hardenberg, Prince
Metteroicb, and Count Nesselrode, the Ministers re-
spectively of Prussia, Austria. and Russia, are ad-
vancing apace by the side of their masters. The
room of the painter is now a place of fashionable
resort as much as the shops of the statuaries in
Athens. Four or five Ministers sometimes meet there
ate time. _ _

P. S. The readiness and unanimity with which the
Allies have agreed to the application of the French
Government, clearly demonstrate that there could be
nothing very unjust and unreasonable in the demand ;
and furnish the best answer to that chain of reasoning
detailed in my previous letter, as proceeding from the
party most hostile to this fresh concession in favour of
France.

^•laMe gees down, early to-morrow morning, to
Colchester, where he is engaged to perform Richard
the Third and Sir Giles Overreach, on that and the
following evenings.
The Alexander end Isabella discovery ships, arrived
in Grimsby Roads en Saterday last.
The Sylvan, Ptigh, from Liverpool to Cork, was
totally lost the 11th lost. near Kinsale.
The Margaret, Hughes, from Liverpool, was
driven on shore on the 10th inst. am Yonshall, sod
it it feared mild be lost.

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