The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-12-16 00:00:00

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OLIVER CROMWELL
AND TIIE PEasEEU cona ioF I'llE PROTROTANTs.
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It was in the beginning of May, 1655, when Crain-
TO THE EDITOR OF TOP. !ITATP.SMIIK. well was first made acquainted with the perseCsition of
" Richard commit sue 0-nude fame: la wale pert tire ein'on the reformed subjects of the Duke Of intny, who inhlt.-
hired the talleyt of Piedmont. They had in vein ap:
ur purduone pas aux Rola: II t-e wily,' : II se crut sans en:le-
ntil: Use mesons : In &mom& Ic. eisfantens."
t lied for merry and redress' to other quite tees. No
Ste,—lf Marehal NET, Prince of Aloskwa, ought ')
sooner had their agents. arriml in Eiseland that, he
to have been tried at all, it seems evident that the appointed a general Fast, and ordered Chat it4le con-
Chamber of Peers was the only proper tribunal. tribunat' throughout all Bilked, fur their aid.—
It remains, therefore, to say—should be have been This collection amounted to• 37,0971. 74. 3d. The
tried at all ? Protector applied to the Prceestarit Kings c f Sweden
The Convention of Paris, July 3, 1815, was a mi• and Denmark, to the Sotto of Holland, the Cantons
. of SA itserland, and the Refotneel Churches of G..r.
Mary Convention and suspension of arms, signed on- many and 'France; and suck was hls powerful iii-
der full powers from Marshal Prince of Ecsatunt. on (licence, that he procured liberal contributions from
t!se one side, by the Cilief of the Military Staff, the them. Ile wrote, moreover to the ring of France, I
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Psefect of the and to Cardinal Mazatiose,sed sent 881/1044 MOIPiAlld,
Department of the Seine; and on the other by like Esq. eith a letter to the D
rsuke, übrding him With
cruelty and injustice, f behp ai
aviour tweards his
powers from the Marshal Prince fir.ocurn, Com-
mander of the Prussian, and the Duke of WELLING. pour Protestant subjects; rid adding, that he re.
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eti;tl.d thern_as his brethren, and nett he Should
Tow, Commander of the -English Army. These were think himself wattling los leis duty to Godr to charity,
also in fact Commissioners and Ministers Plenipo- i and to religion, if satisfied with merely pitying, lie
Winery of those two of the Confederate Powers. did not also exert himself to the utmost of his ability
Art. 1. There was to be a suspension of arms.
to deliver them out of their disteess. Such wet the
fear of .his power, and such the terror of his 114111 •
2 and 3. The French army, with all its materiel ef
f that the Cardinal wrote in the wrist pressing language
was to retire behind the Loire. I to the Court of Tune, to give the Protrdor bona
11. Public property (except of war) was to be re- dick satisfaction. Upon this, the persecution baste-
spected : whether it belong to Government or the. diately ceased. The Duke recalled his arm), restored
th,eir -goods and habitations, with all their aticient
Municipal Authorities; and the Allied Powers will
not interfere in any manner with its administration . ! rights and prix ile(es.
Not content with this, he gave-nut, that as he wilt
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and manngement. ! sati.fiecl, the Pepe, and the p.ety Princes of Italy,
12. Private property was to be equally respected. bad been the promoters of this persecution, he would
lbe inhabit•nts, and in general all individuals its the koep it in mind, and lay hold of the first opportu- ..
capital, to continue to enjoy their rights and liberties nit) to send his fleet to visit Civita Vecchia, and
without being disturbed or calledlu account as to the
other puts of Italy;
non should he heard is Rome itself. He declerecl
situation which they held, or as to their conductor'
publicly, that he :could not safer the Protestant
political opinions. ' Faith tri,46 insulted in arty part of the teorlrl. lie
15. Difficulties in the interpretation to be decided thus procured liberty to those of Bohemia and
in favour of the French army and inhabitants. 1 France : nor was there any Potentate in Europe so
-16. Reservation of liberty to the other Allied
hardy as to risk his displeasure, by deny leg his re.
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:Powers to accede to the Convention, iu behalf of their quests.
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Agate, in the year 1656, the Protector had an op.
respective armies. 1
portunity of appearing for the Protestants of Fiance,
No mention of Lottts, or of any new Government : as he' had done the year before for those of the val. I
it being still uncertain whether any such, and if any, IP)s. The Court was resolved to runs the Burghers i n
s.,AIIII4ROUS MUM:MR—Saturday morning, event
of Nisei's, who were mostly Hugottots. Upon this
what would exist.seven o'clock, Robert Parsons, a confidential 'preset
a pr i y dspatch.ll .
' :After this Convention, Paris being thus occupied tb ivate Messenger to Cromwell, of Mr. Medford, stocking-maker, of Glastonbury,
begging his interpteiition. Baying heard his story, Somerset, on his road to Wells, with a carts DEB
by the Prussian and British forces, Lows Quiets it , . v.••
the t-sorector bade the messenger stay and refresh ' most savagely murdered by a fellow-workman, who
Bth Jul y+, led, as it were, by the British Commander himself ; and before he could return to Paris his beat out his brains with the boned n horse's leg, and
in Chief ; resumes the Throne ; dissolves the ter* business should be done. Accordingly, an express also cut his throat. It is supposed the villain meant
Chambers of the sub-isting Goversent sit by force, and was immediately dispatched with a letter to-the Kin" to rob Ike deceased of the money with which he was
of France, under cover of one to Cardinal Maza.
calls a new Parliament, as if he hail reigned uninter- entrusted to pay his master's work-people, hut in
mine; arid in his instructions to his Ambassador
ruptedly for so many years. which he was disappointed. He soon after confessed.
By negotiation the army of the I.,•ite, with its Li.ekhart' he commanded him to insist peremptoilly the foul deed, amid has been since committed to Itches.
thot the persecution at Nismes be slept, or else to
ter goal for trial.
officers, submits to the King thus placed on the /cave the Court inimediate
y It should have helot .
v.
On 'Tuesday last, an lequisition w*s taken by
Throne. !.premised that the flugounts were to blame, who had err. Lemnos, Gent. Coroner, within the Liberty of
In effect, therefore, the foreign 4iowers and their :raised a tumult in sheeting in their awn defence Thomas Hare, Esq. in the hundred of Clackrluse,,on
:against the Intendaut of the Province, vs he - came
Armies represented Louts: they came on his accept. view of the body of Elizabeth Tlsod v, a poor women,
ing tl.eir offer of assistance ;he enters Paris anti erecent an insurrection, in consequence of some
d of Downlism•market, who, on the preceding day, in.
Attune' ,etween the Burghers, on the one side, and cautiously threw a quantity of sulphur on the fire,
re-ascends the Throne, solely and absolutely it may hn ,be Magistrates and Bishop of the. City, on the other.
by which means she was immediately suffocated....
said by their means in his behalf—so small a pert 4f 4. e ill' made oo matter_to Lim, persecution argil'. Verdict, Accldsnfeirktah,—Her three chilsiren,who
a nation of near thirty millions doing any 'biog..... gotry ells what he looked at ; not taking into consi- were its the room at the same time, narrowly escaped
Be it that a milanq and temporary Convention deration the innocence' or guilt of the persecuted.— with life, through the timely assistance of the medical
would not necessarily and its general impost exerts!). ;
.Mazar.ine complained of this usage, as too high and attendants.
Impel toils. But Cromwell was not to be moved, and
lion from any but the Military Authority.THE 13LACIRREATII PEDESTRIAN —Eaton still con..
Where' he knew it. His Eminence therefore, standing in
Eminence, '
enamel his perseverance at Blackheath.—Betting is
however, these are particularly strong circumstances, t,;(,.mucls awe of the Protector, to quarrel with him, now in his favour. ...
the stipulation .for Public Property is. Civil, and 'sett immediate orders to the-intendant, to make up
done. J. . hi tiosToes Noes-nets ersm —Eleventh Diy— •
permanent in its nature : the regulation for Private the matter wl,well" he c"'ldlnhich was accordingly Dec. 'l4.—"Toffee this morning started at a quarter'-
Property is also permanent for the same reason : time Nlr Aal N nod says- the Cardinal would change after two o'clock, anti by twenty minutes before
stipulation for Persons is not confined to the
countenance whenever he heard the name of the Pro-
Min- four performed five miles, which at that that CM.
Lector ; insomuch, that it became quite a proverb in „tete,' 600 miles, being half of their task, arid a qua.-
tary, it embraces all in Paris. The Civil Power France, That Muzatine teat not so much afraid of ter after sit he had gone six miles and a half more,
then commanding in Paris was not that of Louis; Me Deed as of Oliver Cromwell.—Such was the
whets the boy set off, end by hell-past seten be went
it was an adverse Power. By the express terms of the terror of this great man's name. ,
. four miles and a quarter • Tulle', at nine, four
Capitulation the military force could not have i miles and three quarters; the son, at ten o'clock,
hindered any of the inhabitants from quitting . The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has, it is said, four miles ;at twelve, Toffee seven miles and a
Paris and France undisturbed. With regard to determined to strike out the name of every M
—*tit- quarter; at nee o'clock the boy three miles and three
the Officers of the Army, as the Army was to re• trate in the Conon:ash:its of the Peace in the pro. quarters •, at three o'clock they had gone 41 miles
c'aimed counties, who is not active in• the suppres- and a half; at six 55 miles ; and 20 minutes before
tire beyond the Loire, there was no Right to detain don of outrages, and the detection of firm-arms. ! nine, 05 miles, when they left off.
them on the part of the Confederate Commanders : , Several gates, doors, and other articles, were lately 1 The principal, interest, and compound interest,
there was no Right to detain any of the other Naha- ' placed on the road between Northwich amid Warring. upon the two WI. Bank of Esigtand notes which.
Intents by a Foreign Military Force, the place isv. ton, -which, it is conjectured, was clone for the par. were the other day sent into the Bank, after a lapse
ing surrendered—the-Metropolis of France—by Ca. pose of impeding and robbing the mail coach he- !of 91 years, will, upon calculation, be found to
tiseen those towns.
pitulation. Louts had all these imniense advantsges amount to the amazing sum of 84001.1! I
—the means of 'leering the Metropolis, unobstiuc . ,
THIATRE, Dalt alr-LANC—LaPt night the revived j ROBBERY OF THE NEWBURY BAWL.
ed and secure—the means of continuing his possession
by the submission of the Army of the Loire. And play of The Merchant of Bruges ; or, Beggars' I We understand, that although Pearkes, (he Bow.
Bush, was performed for a second time, amid went , street officer, has been using the greatest milieus
all this having been obtained at the price of so massy iof again will) universal applause.
al Lives of Isis Countrymen, ti h i The performers . in different parts or the country, be has not been
thouset
•ti 1 'I •g"i•"'t ; were snore familiar with their several characters, , able to recover the property stoles, or to detect the
the Foreigners by whom he was replaced—at tbs•
Iboured,under severe colds.
though both Mr. OxsunaY and Mr. Heat,re la.! robbers. All the circulation of the stolen notes,
price of such sudden and dreadful numifialion is 1
i which Pearkes has been able lo trace, has been at
France, it was reasonable to suppose, that as the' Preparatiena are making for illuminating the 1 the Abingdon Banks. where they were uttered within
Military Convention was apparently so mild, mode. j
whole cd the City of Dublin with les. When this is an hour of the time when the robbery was discovered
rate, and pacific, he stood virtually, and by a" int-, erected, it *id prove a powerful aid Is the Police in at New bury. Oa Monday morning early, whets it
plication, morally, most obligatory, and on honour, • the pregeolion of crimes. . was the fair at Abingdon, a man west ilea Crippt
I should presume, hot slight, pledged and bound,l
The late hours of dining in the fashionable circles and Co.'s Bank, dressed as a countryman, entered
that a fun and permanent AISPILSTY should be the '
were neatly ceiranred by the late Mr. Pier. 44 Mr. into correlation with the clerk about the fair, observe
result of his return. Thus circumstanced, had it'
PITT," said thispechess of Goitoosr, " I wish you ing that it was likely to prove a very good one ;said, he
been otherwise imagined, the means remained
of .to dime with me This evening at lets." 66 lam sorry was a dealer in cattle, intended to make a largepur.
continuing a very serious and sanguinary, if nuts vi. j Leftmost wait upon your Grace." replied the hi ir chase at the fair, but that it so happened, he had a great
timetely, a suceessrut. Contest. I sister, " as I am engaged to sup with the Bishop of many Newbury Bank notes, which the farmers would
We need not, therefore, go as Civilians into the ; not like so well as their own town notes, and
.
kgal effect of this Convention* whether in itcelfr ab.; I . Time head ;rmd horns of the non-descript animal asked the Clerk to change them for him, which he
I.ImCOVI at nine."
solutely and permanently, it operated an exemption
,lately
from future persecution and trial to the Ord Power discovered 13 feet below the surface of the very readily complied with, to the amount of 3501.
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!earth in the Isle of Man; are to be deposited in the 'she same man, from his description, went to the
of a Government not at thin time existing •, it is sus Briiisk
Museum.
bank of Messrs. Kilns and Cu's. its Abingdon, and,
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ficient that in point of general Morality, Humanity, The new play at Covent-garden is the joint pro- with a similar pretence, procured time etching* of
and Policy, and, as I think, Justice amid Honour, duerioo of Mr. amid Mrs. C ILI/ILES KIMMEL& Newbury Bank-notes to the amount of 5001. He
neither LAREDOTERE ought to have been sacrificeds About six o'clock yesterday morning a Are broke gave his name at both places as Thomas Williams, of
nor should Nay have been pot on his trial. UIISOC. out in (be hay-loft at Messrs. Croft and Lewis, Oxford, and calling himself a cattle.deakr. En.
cessful as the event was (from the pressure of im- t livery-stable keetwia, on the Whitechspel.road, quirks have since been made, but no such men could
mense foreign force, and not from his clemency) it is_ which, owing to the great quantity of hay and straw be found. Mews; Vincent, Tanner, Barnes, end
better to adopt the generous oblivion which NAPO- on the premises, burned with great rapidity. There. clancork, the Proprietors of the Newbury Bank,
'Arm used, that best and wisest, and noblest prero. were 24 horses on the prernieesesall of whom,syve nave issued notices to'their friends and the public!, kr
gative of exercising, on his bleodless return. To safely got out by the laudable ezertious of those, forming them of the robbery, and cautinning them
preserve a 'Throne may be impossible: but it is al- nu the premises. Its a few milliliter the,
engines Of. against IVO icing or exctjTging any of their circular
ways possible, whether in retaining it or in descend. i rived, and the Water being previously turned on,. notes, to prevelit, If possible, the circulation of their
log from it, to preserve honour. to' they instantly got into play, and succeeded in time notes which were stoles ' They also announce, that
A 1 am, Sir, your's sincerely, to prevent the-flames communicating to the adjoin. they are under the dissgreeable necessity of stopping
Tremors-WI, Nov. n 9. 18t3. t CAPLL LOFFT.
ingT hornet, which were principally 'composed of payment for the present.
- wooden materials, and in about an hour it was ea. Early on Thursday morning, the shop of J. H.
tirelv got ondnr, without doing any other damage Stevens, Newsman, Sc, 231, Tottenham Court.
than destroying the premises iu wtach it first broke road, was entered by some thieves, who stole agrees
out. . • coat and other property, to the amount of neatly 51.

ON TILE EFFECT OF THE CONVEX
?lON OF PARIS, Jetr 3, 1816,
WITh THE SUBS! QU I.NT CM( UNISTANCES.

PREVENTION FRO /1

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It bowleg nppbareil that the utsforillweite Peeve*
It hp perished in the Sorpeblineliitet On garishly lost,
by lir9skins IlsrHugh 1119 irri visa 1415 t Porn the irstit
orptcper irliteemessis to give hint vonti:ltinee,
Nista)), gras imitared to Obbtrtft to the Jury on (Le .
Inquest, cortte twartoinso, colcu;iitia tFt caret
'tory %junior eve of &S tress seith fotility. Thlif
were most highly opptOretli find the Jury 0141445 yd
their intention to send in a. meotorisl to the Royal
Abloom, Society, urging then to prw.ide such an Bp:
Oates for the Serpentine sister.

1. A Reel', 1% rut AN orEN rns& st.inaNc
wenob2l4 the hiittoto of the isnopp•to pre-
letwe it die *st:led, a piece of %whalebone is witbi;d; at d
owet 1•0111 nieorh are 6 vet! to keit If stoat.

At such a distance Goat, the hell! of to be Within
easy reach of the ittoloti4. rotund Whim it might be
driers, an oval piece 44 cork was fastened. Wheat
a perina aim lids fallen t himself, and is still struggling
above water, or linogbig on the edges their?, it*.
not be approached to be assiiteil by hand, ropei
is in he thrown Its him: On ill felling Within hie
reach, lie fp icpq it with one hand just Awee the neat
piece of cork, which eteibtes him to retain if in hit
cram, and is thus thippOrted, while with the other '
hand he places the noose over hr,t head snit under
his arm ; and by pullitie the wooden button by e hick
the rope slides towartiti his theft, adjusts it tb his
size. lie is their easily drawn by the imp., either tat
a firm part or the ice, or the shore.
t A GRAPPLE OSI A ROE.—The rod is fornieti of
*Peersl joints. and may be lengthened at will. The
joints were six feet Imtg. The code and sockets of
the joints are at' of the same s;zA, that they rosy; as '
occasion requires, be instantly put together without
the delay of selection. They are caught add held
in each socket by a spring; but to guard action tats
possibility of their separation, a rota.. is fixed to I
ring in the grapple, and kept in the hand will' the
rod, by which, if the rod shouhl.usiust probability, '
break, the body is still held and may he a. Used as
well as by therod itself. At the ends of the arms of

• Luallee.—Nntee !Ur Gvsta Savttli Britanniehr di ”eitouj.
Loadrre, 1913. P. 167, tl.
Poe the tact of this date the Letters 110pol/el to Mist Hobert
Manta NILLIax3 Slay be (paled. •

the grapple are sharp pnints, for the purpose of
catching hold of the sunk body, but Pi guarded tint
they cannot by any accident pierce deep euesigh 10
prcduce any material injury to the body.