The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-04-29 00:00:00

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BRUSSELS, APRIL tl.--The Swedish head.quar. [The following Letter *as writ*, and received before
ter, are still here; the troops are ordered to be in Allies catered Paris, which readers it less inteiettlog now
than it would have beeh at that period. We wish, however,
readiness to march at a moment's notice. Since the', in give publicity to the patriotic sentiments of oar enlightened
beginning of this week, all French Flanders, Ar- ; CorrPspoadeut.]
tiis, and Picardy, have hoisted the white flag. The.! TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.
few adherents of Bonaparte did not dare to resist Stu,—l think you are wrong in your calculations
longer. The Commandant of Luxemburg has de. respecting the desire of peace in this country. It Is
far less general than you suppose; and vie have such, Glared for Louis XVIII. and is negociatiniwitil
, formidable bodies decidedly for war, who,
Gen. Doernberg.
ultimate results, and rapacious of present • ON,
The. Scheldt is free. risk even their acquirements, and to a certainty
entail misery on their immediate posterity in sup.'
porting a contest from which the great bil)k!
of mankind can derive no advantage.-.Thei
commercial interest, including LLOYD'S Coffee-
house, are decidedly for war. The former enjoy a
monopoly of trade in the absence of peace—the
latter are enriched by extravagant premiums, and the
numerous body of Ship-owners, whose shipping is
mostly employed in the transport service, producing
to them returns muds greater than they could pro.
cure by any other species of carrying trade. The
landed interest are no less anxious for war, for there
is not an estate in England, the rents of which have
not been augmented more than a third, and many
doubled. Sir Cecil. W— told me, in 1800, that his
estate,in 1793,produced him 30001. per ann., but that
he had been enabled by the war to raise his rents.,
; 5001. per annum train oil in 1804 was 401. a ton,..
and the New foundlain: merchants thought their trade.
another Mexico and Peru. and were in extacies at

Yesterday, the PRINCE ItEGENr held a Court at
Carhod...house, which was attended by most of the
The new Sardinian Minister was introduced to his
Royal HiAhness by Earl EATMERST, when his Ea-
cellency had a closet audience of his Ito) al Ilighness
and delivered his ciedentials.
The PittNcE Itracsr gave audiences to Lords
LIVERPOoL, BATH URN; KINGUA 1115111 RE) and the
Duke of Moyrnose.
- Brigadier-General CAMPBELL, who has had the
command of a Portuguese regiment, was introduced
to the PRINCE REGENT, who was pleased to confer
tile honour of knighthood on him.
Soon after three o'clock his Royal Highness being
seated on his throne, received the Address of the
Corporation a the city of London.
Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT dined with the
Ltd of LIIIIRIDGE.

Yesterday morning, Mr. GRETILLE, Secretary to
FArl avrtwasr, and Mr. SALTER, the Messenger,
ill( town for Paris.

the profits on the above article. I am told it is 801.
or 1001. When human slaughter is productive of such
vast, such enormous gains, do you think yon will

It is generally reported o►► the Continent, that the
Congress of the different Powers for the definitive
arrangement of Peace, will be held at Brussels.
A number of the largest class of transports are
fitting nut with all speed at Portsmouth, as well as
all the troop-ships at that port, for the purpose, it is
supposed, of going to Bourdeaut, to take the most
effective regiments hi Lord IVE.l.LiscrroN's army to
America.

find advocates for peace amongst merchants ?—When
the landholder sees barley at 41. the quarter, will he
not rather support the Government that enables him
to receive from his tenant large rents ; and must not
the tenant keup up the price of his produce to pay
that rent ? The miller and cornfactor are not less
culpable by playing .sith the cravings of famished
nature. Look at your military establishments, and
will you find, from the corporal to the field-marshal;

/ Tenders were received at Plymouth, on Monday, an marinate for peace?—Offer up your prayers to
by Captain OBLLOWE, agent to the Transport Board : Heaven that the war may cease in any of our sea-
from persons willing to contract, at per head, for port towns—Plymouth, Portsmouth, or Chatham-1
removal of the prisoners at that port to France. and the very waiters and boot-catchers at the inns*.
Vim emharkationNwill take place to-morrow,Sunday would fall oi; you like bull dogs. Contractors, i
and Monday neat. • - ; Commissaries, and other people, dependent for sub-
. Ire the liccifie de Francc we read the following sistence on a state of warfare, and the thousands,
°nukes and important paragraph ;—‘6 The delightful ! thrown by the pressure of taxes, and the enormous high:•
sime of peace is hoar() on all sides—Europe is price of all the first necessaries of life, on the Go.
awakened to the enjoyment of its benefits. Nego- vernment •for empleymeut, are all advocates, and
clations have also been opened to bring about the re. : unavoidably so, for the prolongation of hostilities,
establishment vase
sgeod untlerstandiug between Eng- : which administers to their wants. : Butchers' meat at
'land nod the Uttited.Mates, which has only been di:- a shilling the pound--enormous imports devouring
turb.d by the astet•Of the disortielyd sybtem adopted 6-10ths of your income—and the rapacity of trade ,
by lisrotcost. , it is known that tile Plenipoten- seising the remainder, leaving you only the alternative
tiarietof the two powers art to meet at Gottenburgh, of perishing of hunger if you refuse! Go to the
perhaps even they may negnciate in London. We , brutal and remorseless champions for the Slave Trade,
bate learnt with pleasure, that the Chief of one of ; who lives in Asiatic splendour, and talk of peace ;
the first tribunals in France invited to his house Lord i who will listen to you ? Travel westwards, and ap.
CASTLENEACU, and Mr. CRAWFORD, the Minister of ! pear the advocate of suffering and oppressed hums-
the United States, several persons of consideration, t nitY; will her merchants give you friendly welconist?.
both French and English, were present. It was re_ I The nation trained to the pike and the halbert; 4as
marked, that the two Ministers on seeing each other I lost all relish for Peace, aad fesintmed to' wit', 411-
for the first time, did not behave with any distance , damns repose. Your very morals prove your• de-
of manner. The toast of Universal Peace was pro- pravity ; and though you, and a few others, as con- ,
posed to them, and they cordially replied to it." atantly recommend Peace, your voices are drownad•
We have great pleasure in stating, from the au-
in the barbarous clamours for war.
thority_ of a respectable Russian house, that the With respect to the sovereignty of France, were
revolt lu China ii completely quelled, and that the , the Crown elective, and 1 had a vote, I would give
utmost tranquillity now pervades the whole of the it to the BOURBONS in preference to BONAPARTE ;
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empire. not because he is an usurper, or that I admit the
The St. Vincent, of 120 guns, ready for launching ! claim of birth, naked and alone, as legitimate,
in Plymouth-yard, and which was to have been : but that 1 detest a despot. I think that the
launched in May, is ordered, in coasequence of the former having nothing ferocious in their dis.
recent political changes, to season on the slip. ; position, are better worthy of a throne than the
We are concerned to say, that the Parish Clerk of man who has not only waded to it through an
Sittingboree, who was unfortunately run over by the Peean of blood, but who would also moat it, and
Tents himself on it, with human blood. But if
King of FRANCE'S carriage, on his way to Dover,
France prefers a tyrannical Government, for which
died in consequence of his bruises on Wednesday
she seems fitted by nature, and the habit of succes-
morning. • sive ages, I do not know that other States have a

Ott Monday, the 25th instant, an Inquest was
held at Sydenharn, before JOSEI'II CARTTAIt,
one of the Coroners fur Kent, on the body of Geo.
Prior, Esq. many years an inhabitant of that vil-
lage— Veldict, AccidcntalljiDrozzircti.—lt appeared
in evidence that the deceased .(mho was greatly ate.
belied to horticultural pursuits and training orna-
mental trees, Stc.) had roxentled a pair of big% steps
for the purpose of pruning a tree which overhung a
deep fish.portd itt his garden, when one of tho •
branches, only half Cut through, soddenly breaking,'
he oas precipitnied into the pr.nd. and lost his life
before he could be got nut. The deceased was about
47:3 years of age, a GuriCernari of considerable for-'
tune and great respectability—in him the nei;hbour-
hoed have lost a valuable member of society, his fi- •
raily a cheee fel and affectionate friend, and tha poor
a generous and constant benefactor. It is vary say
tisfactory to learn that a medital gentleman was soon
procured, who tried every means to restore anima-
tion, but, alas! it was all in vain.

right to force on her a system more in unison with
their taste. If, however, she chuses to support a
tyrant, for the purpose of reducing surrounding na-
tions to a level with her own degraded condition, I
think, in that. case, that the whole world would be
justified in combining against her, and rendering
her as harmless as she is contemptible; because,
with such pretension% and under such a leader, she
is a common nuisance, and deserves, by her own
conduct, the extermination she would inflict on
others. Thus thinking, I would gladly hear of the
fall of her present tyrant, either in the field or on a
scaffold; and I would prefer the latter, because it is
on a scaffold that tyrants ought to perish, for having
abused the confidence reposed in them. It enhardens
crime, and gives support to despotism, when despots
are permitted to run the ordinary career of na-
ture, and die in their beds. If Bo NAPA la L: had con-
ducted himself with a moderation proportioned to his
genius and his valour, he would, by ois example and his
elevation, have compelled surrounding so►ereigns to
respect the rights of the people. They would have
abstained from delinquencies which would have ex.
posed them to dethronement, and beheld the fate that
awaited their guilt in that of the Bouratoss. Put no;
this man no sooner became a Sovereign than he
became a despot ; he treated those who hail raised