The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-06-12 00:00:00

CUAD'LOUPE AND MARTINIQUE DECLARED
FOR BONAPARTE.

Extract of a Utter from Antigua, received by the
Fox packet. dated May 3 :—" Information received
here from Gundaloupe and Martinique state, that
the French troop% had appeared on the parade with
tri-coloured cockade, and declared for BONAPIRTE.
The Governor had solicited the assistance of Sir J.
LEITH."

It is rumoured, that in cwisequence of the Mah-
ratta war, Lord MoIRA has taken the field, .with a
very numerous army, and that from the formidable
preparations made by the Native Powers, the Bom-
bay and Coast armies are also in motion. It appears
that eur Indian possessions are menaced with a most
set ions war—that spocie has become extremely scarce
throughout British India, and that the Company's
Bond. are at a very heavy discount ; yet such a pe.
riod as this is chosen for the encouragement and ex-
tension of the titivate naval establihtnents in the
East Ittiies, whilst those in this couutry are neg-
'Wed and sotrerod to decay.

Sir l'ut.-rsev kiALCoi.M i% to proceed immediately
to take the command in the Scheldt. No Officer
above the rank of Commander, we understand, can
he emtdosed in the service which has been assigned
to him, because it would interfere with the more jai-
portrait commanding duties of their gallant associates
of the army. Sir PULTNEY, it is expected, will hoist
hip (LI in the Erebus rocket-ship, Capt. litartiut.o.
ME* .

Ily site latest accounts from India, ►ve understand,
that in consequence of the failure of the expedition
against the Nepaul SI NDI All has collected au
immense array, pretending that it is merely for the
purpose of .-curing him:elf, hut it is perfecOy under-
stood that his inientions are to attack our territories.
We 'ls.. (earn, Cott the Rajah 13. 11,111 It has taken
the iiel 1, and that General Dovvros, with a detach-
ment of the Madras allay, has moved his camp to
Hatch his motion:.

An order has arrived at Plymouth to prepare for
shipping elf 300.000 hall cartridges, and '20,000
stood of arm:. Tney are intended for the use of the
Rev&!Ws, and are to be put on board men of war.
Circumstances it is said, have occurred which will
reqaire Parliament to continue sitting longer than
was 11014100(1. The enquiry into the Civil List is
deemed necoeairy, as a law for its future regulation
is indiven:atile ; and, we are induced to believe,
will te►.d to ocra•ion the Session to last till about
the 12th of Jul), instead of the latter end of the
present

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TO THE RIGHT HON. H. GRATTAN.

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Si R,—From the Parliamentary Debates, as given in COURT OF KING'i BENCII, Jc%s 10.
the Morning Chronicle of the 46111 inst. it appears TIE KING V. SIR N. WRANALL.
that you have chosen this critical juncture to corn- The ATTORNE V-(: EN ERAL MOSPiI to have this rule,
mence a course of oratory in opposition to those which was obtained on an application for a crinmi.mal
principles in the support of whirls you have arepsired I information against the Defendant, for a libel on
a celebrity, which, I fear, will give undue import- Coen,. Woronzolle made absolute. The libel La hick
ance to your new character. lake your countrymen, I was formerly stated,) was contained in a fiet'llt pub.
and predecessor in the same course, you have adopted lication.
a style in which antithesis holds the place of argu- Mr. Sc settler showed cause against the rule. The
ment, and metaphor of facts; a style of which de. Learned Counsel sail, that no one could feel with
ception is the essence, which aggravates on the one snore concern than his Client, his haring brought be-
hand, and extenuates on the other, until the objects fore the public so erroneous a statement as the one
you are describing present themselves to your oan complained of. It bad been his habit to take down
imagination, and to that of your hearers, in man. notes of such historical facts as were curious and
important, and came to him in an authentic form.
st rous caricature. There is also a marvellous coin-
cidence in the occasions which excised in Mr. Burke j At the time he published the article in question he
a frantic fear of liberty, and that which seems to he I firmly believed it to be true. He did not advert to
producing a similar aberration in }roil. Here [ trust the circumstances that any person was living its this
the parallel will fail. The influence of his worse and icountry whose feelings were likely to be wounded by
of a mind still powerful, had no small share in giving such a publication. lie had inserted an advertise.
real existeere to the horrors of his disordered fancy ; ment in the new edition of his stook, annouecitm4 tint
and the prophecies for which he obtained so muds falsehood of the assertion respecting the manner of
credit, were greatly accessary to their own fulfilment. I the death of the Princess of Wirtemberg, and he
It is the recollection of that epoch which I hope may was ready to make any other apology which Count
yet preserve us. The:, we had no such example for Woronzolf, as a gentleman and a mats of honour,
our instruction. Europe is yet at peace, and you, might require. The book which contained the libel
Sir, are doing your part to rekindle a war, of which • was of considerable length, and in the Preface the
the dreadful experience of the last I oenty-three years author had observed, that he merely related events
enables us, Im, fore-hand, to estimate the character. as he hind received them, not pledging himself for
This is a subject for severe deliberation and not for their truth: and he remarked that those persons
a display•of rhetoric. '' Peace without security and ' whose rank enabled them to know most, were genes
war without Allies." This antithesis, we are told, rally the least willing to divulge what they knew.
drew forth the applause of the ilonnurable Assembly The Learned Counsel argued upon the impossibility
to whom you addressed your first philippic ! But (lid of a man's writing a history of Isis own time without
you attempt to inform them, how many campaigns it offending the feelings of some individuals ; but the
may require to replace France in a situation capable Court, he hoped, would consider how important
of holding out the security which she now offers? these cntemporary illustrations of facts were to the
Iler limits determined and acknowledges!: mess of future historian. It was not to be supposed that the
tried integrity, the friends of peace and moderation, Defendant could have been actuated by any malice.
at the head of her councils : her people, and even Lord ELL ENDOROUGII.—It must be inferred front
her army, unless indeed the late excitements have the tendency of the act. If the act has a mischievous
stimulated it to fury, languishing for repose. And tendency, the law will jitter malice. On the subject
as to our wanting Allies at a future period, did ynu of inadvertency, I e ill point your attention to a few
stop to say that we purchase them now, and that we lines, and then ask you how a man could publish
shall speedily fail in the means of purchasing ? That them without a malicious intent. In p. 114 he says,
to obtain such Allies, subsidies alone are needed ; " There remains still another important fief. which
and that to continue even this miserable traffic in ac- merits consideration. We have seers it rt,ted that
complices, peace is indispensible ? The Government Count NVoroneoff originally maintained his Sore-
of France is, you say, a atratocracy : (lid you ea. reign's innocence, but that from the time of the death
plain how it became such? and why she adopted that of the Empress Catharine he was induced to depart
system of subjugation you censure so bitterl) ? She from the assertion :" apprehensive that a favourable
had to fight with Europe single handed: she con- conclusion should be drawn, he proceeds, " But
'red alliances whilst we purchased them. The when did he make such assertion depends on the
led her to victory became, mischievous- time, for Catharine died in 1796, and after her death
, but most naturally, her ruler. At one crime was not much where so many were attri-
tide of victory turned ; the conquered buted." Ile imputes the basest motive for the re-
d faithless, as though they had been pur- traction—that he made the assertion to curry favour
I this very General was given up, that and ingratiate himself with the Empress when she was
if France might escape from a state of alive ; but then, when she was dead, he left her me.
ich they had good cause to be weary. mory to be slandered.
,er, gave them a King with old notions, Mr. Scxaterr said sis .N. W ritual had written
old nobility and priesthood at hi-, ti.ets :. ,44as he ha-I been it,formed. Ile was sensible of
still less tolerable than war, and they t hit ionier, Ne quid faits di cere audeat ne quid Deri
it Emparor. He remembered their sacri. non waled ; but he trusted their Lordships would
:self for peace, and knew that the pro- not think it went to this extent, that a man was not
appears from them, that the Emperor Aeexae sea. -- :e would be the. pledge of their attach. to write any thing but that to the truth of which he
arrived n( Munich on the 28th ult. and that on the ment. He, therefore, ahjor,d his schemes of con- could swear. History, like a picture, could only
30th the King of Pau.si s arrived at Berlin. An arti- quest, and submitted himself to moderate councils. be accurately viewed at a distance, and historical
cll. from Bamberg, ds ed the Ist ins'ant, says—" !HS Yet you would again urge, nay compel, to war that fact but imperfectly known at present, would only
Ilighness Prince A LEX tVDEW BEicrttrett has just station, headed by the same General, and with the be it lectly understood by posterity. It would be I
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ended Isis life by falling from one of the windows of same breath in which you detail his triumphs ! He Tee° ected that Count Woronoff was not an ambas-
the Palace just es a division of Russian Dragoons made his brother King of Holland ; he called his sador now. The Defendant had taken the most of
were marching through to town." son King of Rome ; and it is Alexander, King of rectum, means of healing the wound he had inflicted,'
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.—" Liberty sweetens Poland, Frederick William, King of Saxony, and and he hoped the Court would not think it a case
life and protects property, it is the birthright of all : tha immaculate cabinet of Great Britain (which ap. ' which required its extraordinary interposition. I
mankind, it is given by God. established by law, awl , pointed the Kieg of Belgium by an armed force) to-' The ATTORNEY-GENEam.rose to address the Court, I
confirmed bs, reason ;" yet. in opposition to this gether with his father.in.law, the equally legitimate but
principle of immutable truth and justice, Mr.Serjeant sovereign of half Italy ; these are the pure and ho. I Lord ELLENEOKOUGH interrupting him said, the i
IlLsr, by his execrable Bill, wished to prolong the nourable avengers of political morality and the faith rule must be absolute. The ground upon which the'
imprisonment of the unfortunate and suffering debtor, of treaties ! I. '['he most unpardonable offence of Na- Court is called upon to interpose is, that there was
as well as subjecting him to criminal jurisprudence poleon was quitting Elbajust before those righteous no motive of personal malice. If that was an ex-
-violating the '29th Sec. of Magna Charts, which i observers of treaties had fixed on the place of Isis cuse, It would excuse the greater part of the most'
ordains the "free enjoyment of life, liberty, and final seclusion. " Voila le Congress dessous" are pestilent libels. There is, generally speaking, no i•
property." This immaculate and moral Serjeant, the words that can never be forgiven by the confederacy personal motive of malice in the libels brought be.
advocate of De:Peep —the protegee of ERsE IN E— of Monarchs; " Imperial Europe" sickened at the; fore us ; the object, in general,is to make that which i
Las, by a friend, put oaf the reading of this itriqui. sound ; but it was music to the people ;—to thou.' is slander, end catches the itching ears of the public
tious Bill for three months (as not mee:ing the semi- i sands in this island who would not yield, in real at. most profitable. Whether the publications gives piss
menus of the (louse), which, if passed, would have tachment to the Constitution, to your former pro- or pleasUre, the object looked at is a lucrative sale
been a deadly stab to constitutional and personal fessions. Napoleon takes possession of an offered of that which, from its malignity, is likely to bel
liberty. throne :—This, upon your new scale, is " gigantic bought. Ido not know whether that is the motive ,
KING'; THEATRE.— The Princess Cir ‘streeeec ho- wickedness."—Assumption by force, of the govern- iof Sir N. Wraxall, but it is with reference to one of '
noured the Opera with her presence on Sitar:slay even- went of ass unwilling people, is " vice in modera- the wolet publications of the kind that we are de- :
ing. Her Royal Highness came without stmt., and, tints," and " has displeased you." He intended to i sired to give way and not exert the arm of the law. '
by her particular desire, no salutation was made from take possession of England: he intends to take pus. Could the persons libelled have forborne to make the
the stage, by the performance of the National session of Belgium : he intends to enslave Europe : , complaint he has urged to our justice ? lie is a per.:
Anthem, or otherways. The Opera, owing to an ac. on these presumptions Great Britain must be taxed son representing once a great potentate, and he is li- i
cident, was changed to PO rgoglio Avail° ; after to destruction ; the wretched subjects of Russia, belled its respect of a communication of facts most in.;
which the new Ballet of L'Eefa':t Prodiguc was per- ' Austria, and Prussia, must be led to slnughter ; Could he do
jurious to his honour and character.
formed for the second time, cousiderably abridged.— France must be laid waste by fire and sword !—lf no ; otherwise than come before the' Court, and coming
Mademoiselle NA ucisst: performed with more self- ' intelligence had reached us, you could not have be.. foi thltrrepa ration of Isis fame, will the Court deny'
possession than on the first night, and we have no lieved that Louis the Desired, having administered : him thkse means which are necessary to him for
doubt that when she can develop her talents, with with wisdom an excellent constitution, should not the
becoming freedom and confidence, she will prove a : have collected even a small band of faithful adherents i assailed ,his character before the tribunal of jus. :
graceful dancer. The self-sacrifice of her plunging 'to groce Lis exit. And now that we have heard of;
lice ?` .It was the duty of Count Worosizoff
,to the Nile, might be rendered truly dramatic and his silent departure, you talk of the beneficence of
towards himself to apply to the Court for redress, ;
Alerting, if attention were paid to it by the assistants his reign ; mid the Constitution, agreed to, but not and it is the duty of the Court to grant him the effect i
it the scene. But they all view it with indifference, observed, was only not too good for these poor
anecdotes in this work, which may he entitled to a
of his applicatioe. There are a great number of
:esti that which really might arouse the sensibility of Frenchmen !—The one descends from the throne Ull.
''"II. spectators, equal to the shriek in The Deserter, noticed; the other is received with acclamation.'
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greater or less degree of respect ~
effect. It
lost the represen-
m• suffered to pass off like a common incident. The Yet in nor Senate it is declared, and more wonder-
fl,Toration of the Piece is very pretty but not splendid. ful, is believed, that the former was the choice, and wine I here pointed at is not of doubtful
is a hardy and calumnious inference which the party
'll,e scenery wants light. The appearance of the the latter is the abhorrence of his subjects ! t chooses to draw. It states that Count Worotszoff
A ..got, is, her flight across the stage, would be more I I am, sir, &C. &c. had the baseness while Isis Sovereign lived (and it 1
Wanburough, May v.,9, 115. N. BIRKbECK.:
'oprm,:sive, if less apparent. The intervention of a I was material-to him to have her favour) to assert her
thin cloud, by exposing the aerial form indistinctly, ; innocence, bat that he departed from the assertion as'
would heighten the illusion. ! To-morrow night, as usual, the Directors of the
soon as she was dead, and he could expect no further
It appears, from a Return laid before the House of British Institution open their evening Promenade to ;
advantage from her; that he admitted her to be ell-
Cninmons, that the money paid to the University of a fashionable circlr, and thereby make their scheme, missal, considering that one crime more would not be
Cambridge printers, as drawback of duty on paper for the encouragement of the School of Painting ; much,
printed by that University during the last seven operate against the sister arts of the Drama and 1 tion of where there were so many. It is an imputa-
that sort of baseness which,. independent of
sears, amounts to 13,0871. 7s. 6d. The University Music. the truth or improbability of the other passages, %ser-
a Oxford has received as drawback, within the same When a Lady of Fashion opens her house to a Pr': rants
Ithgth of time, 18,63e1. 2s. 6a. fessionel Artist for a concert, it becomes as much a' Court, and warrants the Court in saying, that his
c Coosa NVoroiszolf
.in his application to the
o
Some silver pennies of King F,owarto IL's time public place of entertainment as a Theatre or a li- '
application ought not to be made in vain. The
'vele discovered lately its one of the Malvern hills; cer:aed Room, since she thereby invites a number of
pests, and makes or saves money by the entertain- Court cannot discharge its duty to the public e ith-
they were almost as large as a sixpence. out making this rule absolute.
It i: currently reported,: that GULLY, the boxer, ment, while she Hares all public places of resort.— The rule was made absolute accordingly.
iron 10,0001. at the last Epsom races. It is a mercenary arrangement that brings it within --us.--
Mr. Morley, bookseller, in Albemarle-street, on the Stamp Act. CONSISTORY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS,
lis return to town from Stoke Newington, over the At Woolstropo, in Lincolnshire, the birth-place of aux' in.
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!irlds. 01 Wednesdee last, ales assailed by two ruf- Sir Isaac Newton, it is said, there have been lately 111'NAtit v. ROBERTS.
taus, who knneked hint down, and robbed him of discovered several original manuscripts, written h y. This cause rime before the Court, respecting two
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that illustrious character. wills of Mrs. Catherine Hall, widow: late of Alb:00.
l, Willey) bat declined taking his watch.
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resent . quered allian
t may not he g florally known that during the eneral who
holer part of JoAcitist's reign at Nsple4, he had •, I allow,
cet,,,tenaticed the a,.em.tli,ig of a few strangers, Pngth the t
chiefly Swiss. Freach, and 1.:1141i.h, who thus este. Allies proved
!WON' the first Protestant Congregation in Italy.— chased; and
Of cenr•e Ihi. heretical innovation st ill he done away e people of
at the reomatino of the Sicilian FERDINAND; so war, Of wilit
that, tliro,,gh the iiiatramentaliry of the British Nlvy We, howeve
and the Auvriaa army ttuhci,litwl by us, the Pro. and with the,
tc. ant 11Pligiois will he happily extirpated from Na.. beer roved
.g 1 ~,, ) /par rtsrithere in . recalled their
• per. t. n receive to to t t mgt. flee of himse
II appnarc from them, that the Emperor ALExAmata mise of }mac,