The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-04-06 00:00:00

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France continuing to support her foreign charges,
which. sooslylited es 'the principal 'source, or s
bitter iggrentbsn, of ell her• pecuniary distren.
This total deficit width he awoossoced for 1818 woubi
amount to 270,000,000, whereas the 16,000,000 of
rake* to be isejetlpted would cover only a capital of
103,000,000. The Budget of 1819 is calculated by,
M. Lawman 1,085,000,000, constituting an excess
of charge over ways and means of no less than
307,000,000—a deficit which the Learned Financier
supposes can hardly be supplied by a Loan. In 1820,
be hints it the posiibility of the State becoming in-
solveat: he sin reverts strongly to what Frenchmen
of all parties consider the grand grievance of the pre-
.sent day, and insists on the removal of the Army of
Occupation by the ensuing month of November. The
policy and justice of this measure are now angst's-
lionablY apparent, and if it be true that the Ministers
of Lows, who have undoubtedly the deepest interest
in the tranquillity of France, are satisfied, that with.
oat the influence of a foreign army, they cars main-
tabs the King upon his Throne, and the peace of the
interior* certainly nothing can be more absurd, un-
profitable:lnd mischievous thsn•tlse keeping up of a
mass of armed (ncliner, on the toil of France.
On Wednesday a Petition was reported from 'the..
Sieur BRISSOT TUIVARS, of Rouen, stating that ht►,
was arrested at Paris on the 24th February last, it
11 o'clock at night, and his papers seized ; anti.that
on his being carried before the Juge d'hutruction, he
was interrogated respecting a conspiracy against the
life of the Duke of iirst.ramozotr. There was no
charge against him arising oat of this interrogatory,
but the same day a work of his, entitled The Recal
of the Exiles, was seized, and on the 27th February
he was 'gala carried before the Juge d' Instruction
to be interrogated respecting his book. The Peti-
tioner was sent to La Force, end his application for
being released upon bail was refused. He urged in
his Petition, that if there was any charge against
him respecting the affair relative to the Doke of
'WELzirwrols, he ought to be proceeded against ac-
cording to law ; and if, on the other hand, his de.
tention was on account of his book, the proceedings
were irregular, and he therefore complained of a
violation of the laws. The Committee were of
opinion that it was altogether an affair for the ordin-
ary Tribunals, that the Petitioner•hed his remedy if
he was illegally imprisoned, and therefore they pro-
posed to the Chamber to pass to the order of the day,
which was @greed to without any opposition.
These Papers stale that a general arming is taking
place in the three Biscayan provinces of Mara, Big.
cay, and Guipuscoa, by direction of the Go►ernment.
The ancient privileges of the Biscayens exempted
them, from the general military organization. They
had no Royal troops among them eacept in war, and
no recruiting, as the population were arneeri for
their own defence. •What this arming, if the re-
ports' be correct, can mean, we know not. If there
were disaffection in Biscay, it would hardly be
adopted. There can be no danger of an invasion
across the Pyrenees. There may he a view, when
the People are armed, of seducing numbers of them
to enter the regular army, and go to assist the un-
promising campaigns in South America.
The trial of Mr. FUALDEIVII murderers has recom-
menced at Albi.

French Funds.—Five per Cents, 66 fr.; Bank
Actions 1585 (r.

A private communication from Paris states that
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NI• DE TALLEY RAND, is so chagrined at the fruitless.
nese of his efforts to obtain ascendency neer the
Councils of the king, that he proposes to make • visit
to England. The same authority asserts that the Duke
of WELLINGTON does not depart from Paris before
the 19th instant. It adds, the negociations on the
private claims will not be concluded for a fortnight
to come.

Mails from liamburgh and Flanders hare also ar-
rived. The Bressels Papers of the 31st ultimo, state,
ob the authority of a letter from Cambray, that the
associations at Paris are concluded.

TIRE KING'S HEALTlL—Saturday the Archbishop
of CANTERBURY, the Archbishop of YORK, and other
Members of the Queen's Council, assembled at Wind-
sor to receive the Report of the Physicians attending
the King. Soon after four o'clock, the Archbishop
of CANTERBURY, as President of the Council', Sl'.
rived at the Quean's,Palace from Windsor and made
.a Report to her Majesty of the proceedings of the
Council. His Grace proceeded from the Palace to
the Privy Council Office, to deposit the Report there,
as directed by •the Regency Act, it being the Quar-
terly Meeting of the Council. The following Bul-
letin was yesterday shown at St. James's Palace, by
Lord Riven' and Sir Hamel' CAMPBELL, as Lord and
Groom in Waiting, the Pages in Waiting, &c.
" Windsor Clone, April 14.
" Ilia Majesty has been very uniformly tranquil
throughout the last month, and continues to enjoy
good bodily health ; but his Majesty's disorder h
oudimititsbed.
" HENRY HALFORD. " J. WILLIS.
" M. HAILLIE. " K. WILLIS."
" W. HEBERDER.
On Saturday, the Prince of Mese Howsuao,
af-
ter attending the parade in St. James's Park, went
twvisit the house and grounds of Claremoot ; after
a private inspection be returned to town iu Ihe
evening.
The arrangements for the celebration of the asp.
tials of the Princess •ECIZAIINTII, it is onderstpod,
have been so formed as not to interfere is any respect
with the Sittings of Parliament: The ceremony will
take place so early as eight o'clock to.mortew mere.
Wig; at the Queen's Palace.

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The Arctic Expedltion sailed yesterday
Deptford. A great concourse of spectators were
tumbled on the occasion. The men appeered in good
health and spirits.
Priated instructions have been prepared by
Humphrey Davy and other scientific Gentlemen,
''the Officers and men on the &Widen. They _
extremely copious, and drawn up in the plainest and
,most; intelligible manner. The following are ez-
Vris
USE OF THE ELECTRICAL APPARATUS.
The analogy of the Aurora Borealis and Ass-
tralis to electrical light strongly impresses on the
mind the probability of these phenomena being elec-
trical 'and it becomes an interesting question,
wheth'er the earth nay net pontes electrical as well
as magnetic poles. An electrical apparatus is fur-
;visited for each Expedition, in order to determine if
there is any thing peculiar. in the electticity of the at-
mosphere in the polar regions. The use of this ap-
paratus must be obvious, from its simple construc-
tion :.it consists of a chain of copper, attached by
glass to a rope, 1.-y which it is to be elevated so
as to be out of the reach of conductors, and as
fist as possible shove the surface of the vessel and the
water • the electrometers to which the chain is to be
attached, are likewise iopulated. The sphete of the
Valance is brought its contact with the brass ball
when the instrument is to be used : the degree of re-
. pulsion will indicate the degree of electricity of the

atmosphere.
•a When the ball is obeeteed to be repelled, a stick
of sealing wet is to be, sobbed with woollen cloth,
and presented to the buss ball ; if the repulsion of
the sphere. of the Wince- ceases, •or is diminished,
the electricity is positive ;if •it be increased, the
electricity is negative. •The -observation• should he
registered in a journal, and the experiments made at
different times in the twenty-four hoofs; and the
state of the weather, temperature of the barometer,
clouds, &c. at the time, noted.
a• When the balance does not indicate electricity,
the gold leaf electrometer may be tried. If the re-
pulsion of the leaves is increased by rubbed sealing
was, the ekdricity is negative; if the contrary, the
electricity is positive."
USE OP THE APPARATUS FOR TAXING UP SEA
WATER FROM GIVEN DEPTHS.
"The possibility of reaching the Pole by the Expe-
dition, must depend upon this circumstance, whether
there is at the Pole an ocean so deep, that the heat
stored up in it during the sit months of summer, is
sufficient to prevent the formation of ice upon it in
winter. if there be such an ocean, the waters of it
must greatly expand during summer, and the laws of
the motion of the earth would tend to pour them
through the narrow seas ne channels separating Asia
from America, and Spitab•tgen from Greenland. If
a current is foetid, it will consequently be of great
importance to ascertain if the great body of it be
comparatively fresh, or salt; and for Ibis purpose
deeper parts of it • should be examined, for the
snow or ice-water may float at the surface, and salt
water be beneath.

" The apparatus sent with the Espedition, consists
of a copper vessel furnished with a stop cock, which
is opened Ity a piston moving in• conetieence of the
compression of air when the ialtranteat is sunk in
the sea. The piston may be setio as weaned the
water horn five to eighty fathoms. As the Totems of
elastic fluids ass inversely as their compressing
weights, and as the compression of shout 3'2 feet of
water diminishes the volume of air to one half, the
gradation will point out the use of the instrument.
It is needless to say, that the temperature of the
water, as well as all other circumstances, should be
registered.
" If the current be ice cold, and comparatively
fresh, there con he little hope of reaching a deep sea
in that direction."

OF THE STATE OF THE ATMOSPHERE IN HIGH
NORTHERN REGIONS.
66 As there can be little or no change frem vegeta.
ble or animal life or decomposition in the polar at-
mosphere, it will be interesting to ascertain the re-
lative proportions of ozygene, note, ■nd carbonic
acid is the air, as well as the nature of the air 's-
pelled from sea water. An apparatus for the ana.
lysis of air is sent with the Espedition. The use of
it is so simple, that a description of it is unneces-
sary."
A variety of tables of calculation of every descrip-
tion that can possibly be required, forma part of the
instructions.

Friday Lord MELVILLE, Admiral Sir G. COCK-
BURN, and the Comptroller of the Navy, Sir BYAM
MARTIN, visited the dock•yard at Sheerness, and in-
spected the new works and improvements making
there. The dock-yard at Chatham also underwent
a similar inipection ; after which his Lordship and
the other Gentlemen returned to Woolwich by water,
and from thence to town.
Saturday's Gazelle contains the customary periodi-
cal admonitions against enticing artificers to leave
the kingdom, and against the exportatiou of the im-
plementa used in certain manufactures.
We have ascertained, says the Courier of Saturday
night, that a report had reached Bombay at the date
of the last dispatches, which stated that the troops of
the Rajah of Beata had made, an attack upon the
British Subsidiary Force, stationed at' his capital,
Nagporp. They had, however, been repulsed.
Mr. KEAN'S MCI= at Glasgow is Without prep.
dent ; so great were the audiences, attracted by bia
performances, that to make room in• the pit, the
orchestra was removed, and the band placed behind
the scene,. From Glasgow he proceeded to Aber.
deco. At every place be has performed, since be
has left town, be has received one hundred pounds
per night.
Oa Thursday a Meeting of the Musical Fend took
place at the Freemasons' Tavern, a dinner was pro-
vided upon the occasion, and a number of extraor-
dinary waiters were necessarily engaged. Lieut. C.
Ansi,. R. N., who resides at N 0.2, Regent's-terrace,
Mop-road, Chelsea, hammed to Wave W valuable
Lei bBa on the table daring a temporary absence,
and one of the eaten waiters stole it. When the
Lieutetfant" returned, be ancialred for his bot,whenit
*as foetid one of the waiters, named Joseph Lee, had
Mr the boos,. 'Be Was followed' to a poblic-bouse,
and 'the boa wki fisted concealed between his neck
and detest: ' He wet eanterei-before a Magistrate,
committed foi

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