The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-03-07 00:00:00

Boards sled salaries, We have aillved'et the age tit
discovery iedeed. We sincerely hope the whiles
and the ice *ill allow the projected expedition to
pass the Pole, Were It mealy to lessen the neces-
sity for this learned conalstret sleeting once a yislir
to receive their Salaries, and correct the errors of ihls
Nautical Alasanack.

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By the Mails from Holland, two of which have
arrived, we learn, that the late resignation of the
Prince of 011111102 is the result of a new misunder.
.standing with his Royal Father. It seems it was in.
tended to have formed s Council of War, of which
the Prince was to have been President, and Count
Puma Vice-Presidint ; but Ms Royal Highness, it
seems, is more friendly to" the persecuted French
than Ms proposed coadjutor, and this i. alleged as
the reason of his resigning the Mica of Minister. of
War.

The Hamburglt Mails have brotte.t Letters and
Papers to the ff6th ultimo. The most interesting
pert of their content. 'Ostia to 'Sweden. The new
King (Branivorre) is to he crowned on the 17t6
inst. He appears to have mounted the Throne ant
only without opposition, but with the general sp.
probation of the People! The new Qtreen, . tato, is
at present at Park, is expected to return to Stalk.
holm soon. The deceased King his bequeathed In
her Majesty the Queen, all the ready money in his
private coffers, the estate of Rosersberg, and his
own private jewels, on condition' of their reverting
to the Crown, after her Majesty's death.—lt appears
that endeavours are making in the kingdom of Wir.
Iceberg to obtain signatures to an Address fo the
Diet of the Confederation, petitioning for the litre.
diction of Representative Constitutions. The Go.
vernment is very jealous of this popular proceeding.—
The Bailiffs are therefore to make enquiries and re.
port the result.—People ire extremely curious to see
bow the Diet will consider the suspension of a part
of the Constitution of Weimar (that relative to the
Liberty of the Press), which it has formally gua-
ranteed, and whether such a proceeding mill be erect-
ed, by its approbation, into • precedent for future
cases of the same kind.

An article from Venire states the outline of the
Constitution of the lonian Isles, as ratified by the
Peirce Rumor. There is to be a Legislative
Assembly chosen by the Electoral Body, a Senate
chosen by the Legislative Assembly, end the Judges
are to be appointed by the Senate. The Elections
are to be for flee years, the Lord Commissioner
to hem) the power of convoking or proroguing
the Parliament, but not of dissolving it, except
by wide, of an order of the Government here.
Each Island to have a local Government. 'l'be
dominant religion to be the Greek Church, the lan-

'sew to be Greet. There lo to be a general printing
estabii•bment at Corfu, ender the immediate direc•
Lion of the Senate, and the superintendence of the
Secretary-General, and no other printing establish-
ment i•'to be allowed in any of the Islands, without
the permission of the Senate, and the approbation of
the Lord Commissioner.

Yesterday morning the Duke of YORK and Dochoss
of GLotmerrca visited the Qualm and PRINMSKS.
Soon after one o'clock ber MaJOTT and the Prin•
altos AUGUSTA and ELIZAISZTU left town for
Windsor.

Lord BUMMERS!! and CoilDe MUNSTER had ao•
diences of the PRINCE REGlNTyesterday, at Carlton•
house.

Considerable astonishment and some =aliment
have been occasioned by the statement in some Pa.
pers, that the Prince of Hesse.llosteuna's carriage
was blown away by the wind on Wednesday night.
It is thought not impossible that the Prince's family
estate may have disappeared, in like manner, from
some equally unpropitious cause, as report says, it is
net visible even to the microscopic eye.
Yesterday . a Court of Directors no. held et the
East India-house, when Captain J. Facciaart was
sworn into the command of the ship Lord Keith, con-
signed to Bengal direct.
In Le neighbourhood of Maidstone, several of the
largest tan-yards have been given up, in consetiotnee
of the Leather Tax.
We have the satiafaction In say, that Charles
Finney, the person suvected'iffltaving entrapped the
two boys, Kelly and Spicer, into the crime of uttering
forged notes, fur which they are condemned to the,
is in custody.
The harbour of Dover was nearly dosed be a bar
of sand, which had been thrown up by gales of wind,
prior to that of Wednesday night. The packets
from Calais, after landing their Mails by boats, nn
for shelter to the Downie.
Flu AT BRISTOI.—On Tuesday 'night, abnet
half-pest 10 o'cloik, it as discovered that Acta*.
mime ,of Mr, Langley; tea-dealer, hi Small-street,
were on firi. From the narrowness of the streetoke
combustible nature of the buildings, and thews
tremely high wind which prevailed at the time, that
flames spread with the mosleirful and destructive re.
pidity. They speedily communicated to the two
houses adjoining Mr. Langleyfs, belonging to the
Copper Company, one of which was formerly the
batik of Messrs. Dean, Whitehead, and Co.; and
notwithstanding the timely preventives which were
applied, the devouring element continued to rage
with resistless fury until about five o'clock oil
Wednesday morning ; by seven it had considerably
abated, and by eight o'clock its further pro..
gress was happily arrested. The ire is under.
stood to have originated in the carelessness of a boy,
in the service of Mr. Langley, by letting the spark of a
candle fill among some loose papers in a hack-room,
while setting a rat-trip, a few minutes before the
premises were locked up for the night. The fronts
of the houses nest to Mr. Langley's fell down In
the coarse of Wednesday, and no farther damage Is
apprehended. The property -was tallilaiared.

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DOORNTlllll,—Bratoss his manifest that there'
has been no widely-spread trefterott conspiney, sort
even any extensive dbratfectiers to the Govemthent,
since the Secret Committee, whom Report is the
sole foundation of this proceeding, de themselves et.
press their satisfaction in delivering their decided.
opinion, that not only the country in general, but
in these districts where the designs of the disaffected
were the most actively and unremittingly empiood,
the great body of the People bad remained
even daring periods of the greatest internal diffi-
culty and distress;" stating further as facts, " thin
the insurgents were not formidable by (heir numbers,
though actuated by an atrocious spirit, and that
though the &visage used by many persons ongagral
in this enterprise, and particularly by their leaders,
left no room to doubt that their objects were the
overthrew of the established Government, yeethat
such objects were extravagant when compared *kb
the irordvquate means which they possessed; and that
not findirre their confederates had arrived, es espeer.
ed, to, their support, and that in the villages through
which they passed a strong indisposition beleg tennis
fested against their cause and project matelot them
had thrown away their pikes before the ap.•
peered, and that on the first show of force had dies
pessed—hlieit leaden attempting in vain to rally
them." 4
4d—Decease is such a state of things, so consol;
!ugly described by the Committee, and so almost 10.
dittoing destractive, of every idea of an armed re.
hellion, et dangerous insurrection, mere 'especially
against a Govermegit supported by sock an on.
tainted Pimple, and such an Immense militate, foam;
we cannot brat think that,* different and less alarm-
ist( course aught in wise policy to have been pur.
sued, and that tranquillity might base been equally
restated by • • vigorous execution of the ordinary
luxe and the exertions of a vigilant Magistracy,
without any suspension albs public freedom, since it
is the prompt selection and speedy execution of a
few palpable offenders, rather than delayed proceed.
legs against numbers uporicinubtful testimony, that
invest the Courts of Justice wish a salutary terror and
force.

3d.—Becauselhedeparture from this just and juin.
cieus mode of proceeding, gave as indiscriminate
ingiortariee to the accused, whilst it exposed the ad.
ministration of the Government to a dangerous dis-
respect.
41b.-ABecause even when the Act of Habeas Cor-
pus is suspended, none on that account ought to be
apprehended upon questionable suspicion, or, to use
the language of the Report, upon "such espectatione
of evidence as Ministers have unavoidably relin-
quished," but upon such grounds only as -would be
just warrants for arrests and trials in ordinary times,
the only.legal effect of the Suspension being that it
suspends die deliverance of tbe accused; we think,
therefore, that a general Indemnity for such nume-
rous cad Jong impritonments, ought not even to have
been proposed to Parliament, until an open and im-
partial investigation had taken place.
Mho—Because, from the mistaken principle of this
Bill, policies* and ofteritovinus illvgatits are equally
protected; on the false and unfounded assumption
that Informations ought to be indiscriminately and
perptindgy secret, but even if we could agree that,
whilst traitorous conspiracies are actually in force,.'
and extraordinary powers in action for their sup-
pression, secrecy could in all cases be justified, yet
we never atild consent to its continuance after order
was restored; the laws being then sufficient to prp.
tee( good 'Wiesta for having honestly discharged
their duties, and beeaese holding not such general
prospects of Indemnity is a dangerous encouragement
to mercenary Informers, who make an infernost
traffic in the lases and liberties of mankind, deceiv-
ing and disgracing the Government, whilst they be-
tray the innocent whom they accuse.

6th.—Because it is not the occasional resort to
such secret and impure sources of evidence in eases
of obvinuv necessity, but ate systematic encourage.
'sent of it, which we conceive is sanctioned by this
gill that we protest aponst and condemn, since the
successful persecutions of the worst traitors and
libellers can Wing no security to the Government of
this enentty, soles. the conduct of its Ministers and
of its Parliament. by a faithful adherence to the free
principles of the Constitution, shall curios n tly on pose
the malignity of their tressouS Ind the falsehood of
their libellous complaints. '
ERSKINE, KING,
AUCKLAND, CARNARVOiIi
• • VASS.II. HOLLAND; t:RosVENflit,
LANS'S/NOE, LAUDERDALE.,
JIOSSLYN, 110NTEORD.

IiONAPAMTE AND LORD BATiMNIUM

This following is an extract from tha
purports to be published under Oijk urea botiedlits
of Napoleon:— ..
-"The first instructions Ode Minisfryitated, that
treasure would be found on board the Bellerophon ;
that Admiral.Corkbern leap to seise it ;that it %TO
to bi placed in the Bank of England, SW' that the
interest was to be employed is. defrayiitit all the es-
peaces of maintenance at St. Helm*. the Asiniirvl
foetid. no treseure—in arriviug -at St: Brien., he
was embarrassed on the score of expeuce—he
premed some concern at, the defect of his instruc-
tions; yet he went beyond thein—nothi4 was asked
of him by the French—he arranged matters as he
chose. He estimated the ordinary (annul) espenc.
at 18,0001. sterling. The new Commindant salved
it in May, 1816, at 19,0001. sterling. 'ln the July
following he received fresh orders; he communicated
them on the 17th of August; he wrote the atinese:l
letter, marked F, to Count Montholnn, and thus es•
pressed himself :—6 Haying used all efforts to eff.ce
a reduction in them (the espences of the eatablishment
at Longwood), I am now enabled to transmit to you,
for Gen. Bonaparte's information, two statements,
furnishing sufficient precise data whereon to fouod a ,
calculation of the probable anneal expence,'
• •• • • ' The instructions I have received
from the British Government direct me to limit the
ezpenditers of General Bonaparte's establishment to
80001. per amuses. They give the liberty, at the same
time, to admit of in, (whet memo being hawked