The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-04-13 00:00:00

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Mr. Canning has been reeled to (Slat wrath by
tome of thestrieterei that have been made open his
sporting with the excruciating torture of poor Ogden.
A pamphlit Was published about tin days ago, en-
titled 41 fatter to the Right Honourable George
Canning," bet from the severity of the castigation
which It inflicted, it- was withdrawn by the beak.]
seller. The merry Member, however, appears to°
have discoverer; that copies of the pamphlet
were in circulation, and, therefore, as • valiant
man tried is battle, and a tree master of the vulgar '
tongue, hehat, hien the following method of gtv. li
ing the lie to tho Whereof the letter. Ile address*:
the reply that follows to the Unknown author, Ali'
appears to have se hr accepted the Right Hon. Geo.
liaison's challenge as to intimate, that 66 it shall be
his airs to provide the Gehtleman with soothe" opi
portenty of displaying his taste god talents in the
pointless of his character." We know not whether
there Is any thing very serious meant in this intim.-
tiara, bet there is something in the epistle from Glou-
cester-ledge, very enwortby, we think, of thecharac.
so eta Manlper of Parliament, a Privy Councillor/
a Cabinet Alinister, and, whit Mr. Canning may
. • •rierciqutily iahly; ibeiepetatints'of a Classic writer.
The Right Hon. Jeiter's anxiety to preserve his cha
meter in some of these capacities has, in the mean-
nne, tarried the joke against himself. There is,
doubtless, high ebthority for that sort of bravado
which consists in sending a challenge to an anony-
mous Imhof.. We shall expect to see Lord Castle-
reagh, or some other of Mr. Canning's friends in the
Milling, quote &precedent for it—
Then forth steps Mr. Calming, •
And no usury man wits be.
MR. CANNING'S LETTER. •
Ciluocester lodge. April 10. IRIR.
"Ittn.-1 received early in the tam week the Copy of your
Pamphlet, width you (I take for granted) had the anemias to
lend to Me
" 5i.400 after I was Informed, on the authority of your Pols-
fisher, that you had withdrawn the whole imprewiot: from him,
wish the view, as was 'opposed. soepresii.,g the :•oblieat ion.
tt loins, learn, however. that the Pamphlet, th.mgh not sold,
• Is circulated under blank covers
" I teem this from (among others) rse Gentleman so whom the
Pamphlet has hero industriously attributed. but v. ho has volun-
tarily and • bsolutely denied to ate that he has iisty knowledge of
It or of its A who/.
•" To yon, Sir, whoever you may. be. I ntelress in‘•eif !bus
directly, for the plummets, expreswne to you my opinion. that
" You area Liar and a Slanderer, and waut courage only to
bean Assassin.
I have only to add, Chit no man knows or onyvvriting to'
• • yet : that I shall ressintain the moue reserve so long ns I h,ive an
o•%llPClNtillii or hearing from yen in your own name; and that
I shall not give up that expectatiou till to-morrow (Saturday)
night.
4* The same address which brought me your Pamphlet will
bring any letter sae to my hands:
" I Sir, your Inonhle Persons.
(Sigurd) " lit.OlaiL CANNING.
• " For the Anther of A Letter to the Right
Hon. Geo. Comdex.' "'
[Mt. Ridges/is requested le forwardthis letter to its destine,
Sion.]
Kr no's TtiltaTtle..--After the Opera of u Bar.
Mere di Siviglia, en Saturday night, a new Ballet
1h as hreught out by M. Fasten, on a little 'abject
takes, from the Conies des Fees.
COVENT GARDEN TitiaTat.--On Saturday night
Mi. BRAllAil re-appeared in the character of Count
-Bella°, in the Opera of The Devil's Bridge. The
piece itself was a novelty at this 'limit', where it!
was introduced for the first time, by permission of
the Manager of the English Opeta.house. BRAIIAIt
Ives the original Count. Belino.
An official account has been received of the death.
of the Dey of ALGIERS, as before stated. Ills suc.
• tenor has'assumed the name of I satin's PACIIA.--.
Ile commenced his 'shin by ordering all the young
;Christian women and Jewesses, whom his predeces.
• nor had immured in the Seraglio to be set at liberty.
LORD PALNERSTON.—On Saturday, in answer to
the enquiries made after the. state of his Lordship's'
health, it was announced that no further Bulletin
• .woold be Wood, 66 M LORD PALSixasTon was quite.
4ecovered."
. • it XX ARD and Co. with pleasure announce that they
'hire cootracted with Goseatimesr for a New Lot-
• tery of 14,000 Tickets : the Scheme, with particu-
lars will be submitted in a few days, and which they
trust will meet generai approbation, as it embraces
.One Hundred oak Seven Capital Prizes, being more
than In the Last Lottery, although there are Four
..Thousand rickets less. HAZARD and Co. respect-,
fully acquaint the Public, they have proridorl a linok
at their very old-estallished Office, No. 93, Royal
Exchange, in which every Number desired will be
marked, whether for a Ticket or a Share ; and (un-
less the same should be'iwspoke at the Batik of Eng-
land) those who honour the Contractors, 'lawn
and Co. with their commands, may rely on receiving
their favourite Numbers as soon as the Tickets are
issued.
its addition to an Assistant-surgeon to each of she
vesiels destined to explore the Arctic regions, the
Leeds of the' Admiralty have judged it proper that a
surgeon shall be attached to each of the principal
ships, end have given directiopi to the Victualling
Board to select from the list of Naval surgeons two
Intelligent officers for this service, with orders to
repair on board without a moment's delay. The
Board has, in consequence, appointed Mr. Joule
Duns, surgeon of the Dorothea, Captain BITEIIAN
•ad Mr. JOHN EDWAHHE, to the Isabella, Captain
Huss. •
Coats EXCHANGE. APRIL 12.—The supply of Ferries',
Mises, caused dull tale for that of P-ogli•lt growtkot she l,riesi
• of this das ss es k.--liarley Is. lower.—Bean b. sigher.—Oats
Is. dearer.—ln Peas and othermticles no afterglows.

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Vino (Fcireigs) .... 66 96
Rye 46 50
liftrley 32 b 6 I
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K.. EDITOR.

write in performance of a last effete of ditty to
my Country, to Justice, end Homanity,--to the
Laws of Nations and of Nature, feeling that all-these
and the national honour are most deeply implicated
by the treatment of that most illestrinos victim, whom
a stretch of mere pewee, uneaampled in the civilised
world for ages, has detained for now near two years
and a half, at St. Helena, under the claim that bele
to be deemed and taken a Prisoner of War after a
General Peace, and without regard to the cireum-
Nalices of his coming to es.
It is in vain to say he is detained by an Act of
Parliament. He is no Subject of our Government
and Legislature, and a municipal. Law binds thesiti
wetly who •are Subjects of that State of whose slag.
trod consent it is a presumed emanation. There id
no such onaulpotence in au Act of Parliament us eels
Wpm& the Law of Reason, of God, and Nature;
•Iti is in vain to say. it is a necessary precaution;
'tithing is necessary which is not just. NOthingis
so necessary to a State like Britain, as to maims',
the character,* not Only of ordinary justice, but of
dignity, generosity, liberal and refined humanity.
And what precautions ?--By ,wOOO,
WHOM, and WHERE?
Against an INDIVIDUAL shot out from the wortd,i
with the few voluntary compeuieria of his fate, who
Sit present are suffered to remain there, upon a de-
isolate rock, accessible only at one point, sepal.
need by a vast distance from all other tend,
guarded by a land army and a maiiriuse force,
the force of Beitaiii assuming the functions of Prison.
Keeper to the Confederacy against oNe mast, who;
ought to have been regarded as neither her Prisonee
sior theirs. But if he could properly be so regarded,
a Prisoner of War is on every principle a person
under the peculiar safeguard of courtesy and boneor,.l
If he had the frees! range of the plains, unrestraineal
and unmatched, in every part of its interior, what is
there to apprehend ?—And what are precautions of
surveillance, prohibition of conversation, exclusloo I
of correspondence to or from his nearest relatives, err
to or from any person whatever, unless by letters
under previous intptction, what are such precautiorra
but unworthy and incessant irritation?
't What nation that respects the military character,
that regards calamity as a 'acted title to sympathy,
would subject an Officer, whom the common eventsj
of war bed thrown into its power, to such restrictions
as render the common use of air and exercise, an in-
' dignity at which the heart recoils under such condi-
tions. Yet such are indicted on a General and a ,
Prince, than whom one more illustrious the world,
; has never seen ; whose calamity has been signally
unexampled by its suddenness and the extremity of
the change ; who magnanitnoosly confided himself to
our generosity and honour—the spirit of our
Cosisti-
tutiott, the genius of our Laws, the high and sym-
pathising character of the. British nation.
If it be said be might have pastiche if be pleased;
so might I, or ally one hate food, if we would accept
it on our knees from a permit unjustly detaining u..
There are humiliations which the spirit and dignity
of man rejects, merely as man, even were he of
most private and homblest condition.
And is it to be expected, that NAPOLEON will
stoop la take from those who have forced him to St.
llekna, without even the form of lA+, tied detain
him there, in contradiction to the principles of all
law and right (the common benefits of stature), when
clogged and made odious, and changed in all that re.
commends them, by incumbrancts such as these.
Ile came to ENGLAND in the full strength of life,
and of a most vigorous mind and constitution, neither
expecting nor meriting to he worse treated thati TUE.
attsrocLes, by the Persian Monarch. If our Govern-
ment chose not to receive him, to have refused the
reception which be sought among us, under free and
hospitable Laws, was the utmost rigour that the Law
of Nations would tolerate; and more than the Low of
Nature, if liberally interpreted, would have allowed.
To have instantly inflicted death, would bate been
thought most savage and barbarous—more and worse
we have done, and are doing. A lingering death
must be expected to be the consequence, if these re-
strictions, so unnecessary, so cruel, so reproachful to
us as a Nation, shall he continued, should that ever
take place—and even nom, probably, it is too late to
avert it ; no epithet is needed, none is adequate to
eapre3s the crime and the indelible dishonour which
all agea will attach to the conduct which have caused
it. We know what our own Laws—what Reason
anti what Humanity would call it, were the sufferer,
lAos deprived of life, a Subject of this Country, under
sentence of its Laws, of a staiioo she meet obscure,
and one who had newer seen prosperous and honoured
Yet, if °tie, to whom the contrast is beyond
lall words to express, or imagination to conceive, is
to have his life thus ousted out, this I know, that
the apathy *Lich, without remonstrance, without.
effort to prevent it, sitgifrs such a catastrophe to be
gradually produced, 'purposes to itself an unavailing
and hortible remorse, if any resemblance of a human
heart can exist in bosoms which can be thus indif-
ferent or inattentive to the first duties and most im-
mediate feelings of human beings.
To address the PRINCE REGENT, to address the two
Houses of PARLIAMENT, that such restrictions may
no longer be continued; but that, in that most se-
cluded island, the Guest whom we bate made a Cap-
tive may at least be exempt from unnecessary and
unworthy circumstances, so unsuitable towards him,
so onbeconiing of ourselves, would be doing at lass
something to retrieve oar injured name as ENGLISH.
MEN, and to save ourselves that compunction which
otherwise we must suffer, such of us at least as are
not secured from it by utter
I am, Sir, your's,
Busy, 7th April, 11i8. CAPEL LOFFT.

Saturday the &patches were closed at tke Fast
India.house, and delivered to the Parsers of the fol-
lowing shins, viz.—Scali•by Castle, Captain J. B.
SoTHEgy ; Cihalva, Captain J. DALRYMPLE ; Lady
Melville. Captain J. STEWART • Perseverance, Copt:
H. TEMPLER ; and Oracit, eaptain T. W. LEECH,
for China direct.
Friday evening the Doke Of LIIKSTER appeared I.
his place in the House of Lords. His Grace sat
the Opposition Beach.

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OF 711 R. S OF AFFAIRS ,
IN INDI4.
The quarrel, or rather liligationi lotiaeoit the
,Peishwa and the Chieftain of the Guseratesethe
tier of en Ambsesador, and the imprisonment sad
subsequent escape of his assissin, ',tracts long visa
on record. The conduct of the British Gottrionsitnt,
in the part which its agents base taken towards the
leaders in these transactions, may require a little
farther detail. The particulars are thus sopplied to
os :—The Fetishist and the Guickowar (who rules the
Guzerat) are, amongst other Mabratta Chieftains,
bound by treaty to submit their differences to the
mediation of Great Britain; It is the regular prac-
tice of the Mahratta Chiefs to declare war against
Itheir neighbours' on every petty disagreement ; and
teat excuse, should be granting, they always contrive
to retain porno's of landed property in each other's
dustiulons—en expedient which lsys the ground-
Rork of ,eternal claims, and, of causes or pretests
for hostility end depredation. Some dispute of this
kind arose hrtween the Peishwa and•the...Guickowar,
tabetel dominions are contiguous to the Gulphs of
Catch and Cambay, and whose capital, Baroda. is
north of Bombay about 220 miles. The British Go-
vernment rstfered its mediation, and the Peishwa in-
vited the Guickowar to send his Envoy to Poonah,
that the itegnriation might he carried an under Eng-
lish eespicesi but the Peishwa had lately received
into hie councils an 'demo urer, mimed Trinsbsjee, of
a 11"tartmttly profligate and abandoned character, and
familiar with every species of crime. The Minister
of the Guirkowar, not without reason, felt reluctant
to place himself in the hands of this reprobate; hut
at lengths consented, under aasurantes of safety, con-
firmed by the British Audios Wes. The first effort of
the Peishwa's Court was to corrupt the fidelity 'of the
Ambassador. This failing, they enticed him to a re.
ligious ceremony, where, after retiring to their pa-
goda, the l'eas;swe and his Minister barbarously took
away his life. What followed may be briefly told.
We demanded of the Peishwa such a public declare.
tion a. 4 should exonerate the British name from the
reproach of participating in so foul a murder. This
was accordingly done by the Pelihwe, in a Public
Address to the States of India. TriMileiPe was,
moreover, given up to Lord Hastings ; but through
the negligence of his keepers made his escape.
—lie forthwith begin to levy troops in the
Peishwa's name, anti by his authority ; and Lord
Hastings having detected that Chieftiars in a trea-
cherous correspondence with other Moistens leaders,
whom he excited to take arms against the Company,
his Lordship ordered up the suhsidiary force to Poo.
nah. The Pe:sells consequently struck ; a new
treaty was signed. ceding to ts• some defensive po.
shims' ; and the Guickotear was released from every
claim on the part of his perfidious rival. Since that
treaty the Peiswah remained at peace; but when
Lord Hastings commenced his movements for the
destruction of the Piodirrees, the Prise ah, instigated,
nn doubt, by his Miiti.rer, took adiraistege of our
absent forces to prepare for imiisedtale war ; althoegh
he bad need h.s preservation from the Posdarrees,
as lot old his origin.l seat upon the Musnud, to the
power Or the British Government. '
The a know Wed bense of the Pitsdarree robbers
worsts--of me river Pies lnitirla, in the coon.
• try- which lies eastward of Ss:indiah and Holker;
encompasses to the north and west the petty
sovereigisty of Bops!. They have alternately plun-
dered, sod been employed by all their most power-
fel neighbour a.
The late incursion of the Pindarrees from this
distant region trite the English territory, was, by the
circuitous route a hick they selected, above 700 miles.
Oor readers know that they reached on this occa-
sion the Northern Circars, the district of Gunton'',
the .rieiglibourhood of Masulipatam, and almost of
Calcutta. Their cruelties were horrible, and their
spoil immense. The ruin which they perpetrated
was nothing short of that which Burke ascribed to
the Commie invs.sion of Hyde( : but the Pindarrees
are terrible only to a tolerant community, or an in-
active enemy. The whole force of these plunderers is
not estimated at more than 20 or 25.000 horse.
The object of Lord Hastings, we are given to be-
lieve, is to destroy their means of being mischievous.
Ile has for this end, with the concert, or apparent
eonei.rt, of all the Ilits.loatarree States, combined
ati egterisive military operation, of which the revolt
cannot be doubted. though the treachery of the
Peishwa and other Chieftains may interrupt and re-
tard its progress; while their interest in the success
of it 'is as deep and as indisputable as our nets. A
great army has beets assembled by the Governor.
General. The Madras corps, commanded by
.Sir
Thomas Hislop, and reinforced .by the sobsidiary
troops from ifydrabsd and Briar, have advanced
upon the province of Nialwah, 'he centre of the Pin-
duress' power. The Pootosh &vision hes, for the pre-
sent, been, diverted from this serrice by the Peishwa's
movements : but. sccorditsg to the last accounts, the
advance of the British army, under. the command of
Sir John- 'Malcolm, he& arrived at Iliodia, op the
soothers bank of the river Nerbutida. The subsi-
diary force froth the Guickowar's capital of Baroda
was advanciug from the west, and various other corps
frons-ifte direction of Bengal, under the command in
chief of Lord Hastings. The Pindarrees seem to
have no retoirce but to escape to the nortb.weit,
tooardi Ajmeer asset the Indian desert.
Itleanohile the Marqois of Hastings has succeed.,
eel in forming a Treaty of Alliance with Scindish,
who, as a Substaatial pledge of his fidelity, has
placed im our hands the strong fortress of Assert..
ghur, situated on the north shore of the Tiptoe
IU per.
The Government of the 'Undo°, Bother. is admi-
nistered by Meer Khan, the Mohammed'', desperado,
who was literally hunted down by the Marquis Wel-
lesley, and owed his safety to the swiftness of his
Amu. Meer Khan has a son whom he wishes to
succeed him in the Ministry. The fiolkar Govern-
ment is therefore peaceably disposed, earl cautioas of
Westering in any degree with our measures for de.
stroying the Pindarrees. A reference to the map will
show, that when our forces enter Mahwah, the two
capitals of Seindiah and Holker, Ougein and Indent
must IM at the mercy of Lord Hastings.
-On the death of Boonsla (the late Rejeh of Bere-)5
who toeight the Doke of Wellington at Atgaem, is
1803, &Wirth attempted to set aside the lineal sec-
Cession, and to nominates Chieftain of his owe choice.

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