The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-04-14 00:00:00

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Captain Mans'. design was to effect t &Sage *I. hoer). sad we
in the Governmrnt. Jonah followed his tholleflooll.:,orggki g similar ~t.
and proeured information of the snits of tbll4lllo4ll,lllllhir litho eirenmstseess
rid their menus of defence. The
.111111140 ;esgot the system .
Valentyn lent his house to the et9Miallitostilintemi beyond a doubt .
fir their meetings, and endeavoured to dimisillff... IlhalOnt for the publication es saw. ~.._
among the officers of the guards, if there wt llelf ally nts in Ireland is etiaverted into
Ilia' ie of a corrupt tnfluence Over the' fish periodical
on whom they could depend, in Case of an inissresie.
lion. Ihle was to it'd nut if the formerly -
guards wen Pr°°l4d... Pane. T. the Dublin Corregieediss,
independent Journal hat recently. ' ' the
with cartridges ; the merchant Verschur, hold lea
lammatery speeches, and described two paean irhe. ! it the Irish Capital, 4001, per. :• • •oi
were much devoted to the House of Orange fed Eiji no, this money. And tholltfikegg,. f.paper
bight be placed at the head of a Committee/11A km-saw some articles in faeomeig th.peopio,
surgeon, Lemon (a Jew), conferred with Mente"wn • filoverument desired the PrOktile *send in .
sundry plans, and promised to keep the Jewish , quarterly account, which gentle filetegaistmely pre_ 1 - irre'h";* . laiwinter,• Mateli.S.'4lM.
quarters quiet. The insurrection was to break out I vented the insertion of any further artieles. Slo-1.-,hrme received the !peewits! Silver. Cup
.of such : which the Leather 'Trade did me the great honour of
on the 12th of February, and the signal for it was to ,an offensive nature. We shall take an early oppor- mondial through you ; and I beg you to convey my
be by setting fire to the national house for receiiiing tonity of returning to this subject, and of stating' best_aeksomiedgments to our worthy friends for this
plAges. .mes circumstances respecting the mallet of Govern- very lattesing testimony of their esteem. •
On the 22d Feb. a Military Commission passed ment towards the periodical presi lb this to I regrat4hat I have not an opportunity of ' evinc-
-91 °f big my sense of their kind recollection of me, and of
sentence on the conspirators, Maas Jongh, Valets,' a nature similar to that imputed to them In the sis- their laleupport at the: tate Election, in ahy
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were all declared ..ter kingdom.
tyn Title, l'ericherr, and Lemon, ' more consistent with my oirn Wishes, and More sub.:
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guilty. Maas and Jongh condemned to death, and"' servient to their interest,. Bet I trust that the- on-
their property confiscated to the Crown. Valentyn K Illy * ide
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The COSSACK, accompanied
~ Resides Officer, operand, Impalitie Via, 'against which, hp union with
and !hie to fire years imprisnomnet, and a ins of ' who arrived ivt London QU &SW last, lossisilseir much abler wee, I exerted myself, will speedily. cease
• appearance this day in the CityVageseably to the no. a. to oppress the trade, and to Injure the country gene-
tooo franks. Verscherr and Lemon to two years
rally. Its repeal will afford a new proof bow tiro which which had been given in somatithe Papers. They
imprisonment, and a fine of 500 franks. Fallen I
met
the
LORD
mAyoit
at
the
Mansion
Hoene,
who exerted
the efforts of the People mist always prove, when.
11°. . exerted steadily and constitutionally, in promoting
was declared lunGcent, and acquitted.
accompanied them to tho Royal • Exchange and their inteeesas,er asserting their just rights: With
S. PETERSSURGH., PER. '2s.—The accounts from
Lloyd's Coffee-house, wile they were received.: every good v 144 ' . -- - -- -- 7 •• •
the Armies state, that they have abundance of pro-
greatest marks.' itf approbation by, the I ' I 'remain your faithful Servant,
visions and forage, and that his Imperial Majesty with the
has been pleased to grant the whole Army, without merchants and an immense concourse of. spectators, lair' jaaire.W4Wed3°' HENRY BROUGHAM.
, After passing through Lloyd's,. they were eta- i
distinction of rank, half a year's pay as a reward.
tioned at one of the balconies looking into
The Archbishop of liameneti-Podolak has mot
75 sons of the Clergy to the A the Exchange, when the Loan MAYOR appeared,rmy, who wished to '
and after silence was obtained, gave Success to the
be partakers of the glory of our warriors. His se. :
rene Highness the Prince of Smolensk has gratefully !Emperor ALEXANDER, with three times three, which
was given with enthusiasm by all present. The Cos..
received and appointed them to different regiments. I
! SACK'S spear was 10 feet long, and it was said he had
1 killed 37 Frenchmen with it.

MATZ NW
the

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AUCTIONS.
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uf very numerous and respectable meeting of Ma-
, n cturers, Traders, and Shopkeepers, was assem-
, Ned yesterday at the Globe Tavern, to consider the
piropriety of memorialising the Lords of the Tres-
(wry for the suppression of the various Auctions
'that are now so prevalent throughout the country.
Mr. Beocorx was called to the chair, and stated
the nature of the grievance which it was the object of
the memorial to abolish. It was not the respectable
Auctioneer, but the itinerant, against whom they
wished to proceed. In almost every provincial town
in EtigliMO, anti especially tit the places of summer
resort; it was the practice of these welshing Anc-
tioneers to hire a room, and sell all the commodities
Most in request at such places, to the prejudice and
even ruin of the resident tradir. They evaded the
statute by renting small tenements from year to year,
and thus assuming the character of householders.
Inferior articles were thus imposed upon the public
under false representations, and a system of fraud
was practised which was equally injurious to the ar-
tisan and the pubic. It was to remedy this ry l that
the memorial which would be read was framed, and
which proposed various means of regulation with re-
spect to such auctioneers.

French Papers to the I Ith instant, arrived last
night, but their contents are not important. They
mention an advantage having been gained by BEAU
iIARNOIS over the Rns.iatis, but in sn vague a man-
ner ac not to deserve any attention. Priitc
SCUWARTZENDERG, from Vienna, arrived in Paris on
the 7t.► instant, and the most active intercourse is
carrying on between Narottow and the Ern seror of
AUSTRIA, but 110611 K has transpired on the sub-
ject of their negociations. We, therefore, forbear
to speculate upon toe probable issu • of these discus.
lions, which, at this moment, are of the utmost im-
portance to the interests of Europe, and cannot re.
mai►t many days undecided. We have some Tea.
son to doubt the accession of Denmark to an
active to.operation in the common cause, but
there is no longer a doubt of the neutrality
of that power. A letter has reached us from
Copenhagen of the Ist instant, from a most re-
spectabl• quarter, which represents the Kila to
have positively declined declaring against France,
but to have expressed a perfect willingness to
enter into amicable relations with &riser], so as to
secure to his subjects the advantages of the neutral
character. Sweden is certainly inclined to act more
decisively.

The PRINCE REGENT returned to town on Mop-
day night from Windsor..
Yesterday Viscount CAsTLEREAGit and Cabot
MUNSTER had audiences of the PRIRCR aIEeENT.:
The. Duke of Yoart transacted military business
with the PRINCE REGENT yesterday at Cal Iton House,
and afterwards went to his Office in the Norse
Guards, and held a Military Levee.
The LOUR MAYOR has fixed a Common Hall, for
Friday, the 23d instant, to receive the report of
the Deputation who waited on the Princess of WALES
with the Address from the Livery.
There will be a Meeting of the Inhabitants of
Southwark, as well as of 'Westminster, to-morrow,
to address the Princess of WALES, on the failure of
the late atrocious attempts against the character and
life of her Royal Highness.
A Meeting of the county of Monmouth is appoint-
ed by the High Sheriff to be held at Usk; Ott 'I hers.
day next, to address the Princes of WAw on the
death of her Royal Mother, and on the failure of the
late attempt against her Royal highness's honour
and life.

The memorial being read, a Gentleman frotasthe
Auction Mart, and Mr. MURRELL, the auctioneer,
stated their concurrence with the object of this meet-
ing, in the suppressiou of so great a nuisance, but
wished that some conference might be had with the
Committee of Auctioneers. . .

' Yesterday, an account was received at the Admi.
ralty, of the arrival in port, of a Messenger from
Sicily; but who was detained to perform quarantine.
Orders were sent for him to proceed to London with-
out delay.
Private letters received yesterday from the French
coast inform us, that after the Senate lind voted all
I the supplies, they wailed on the Estetaoe, and pe.
titioned him not to quit Paris for the army. Whether
this was done to give the EMPEROR the opportunity
of refusing them, and thereby to prove his con.
tempt of personal danger, or to afford him a pre-
t tenoe for ►rot leaving France, is not explained.
In addition to the usual charge of a cannon or
carronade, the Americans put into their guns a bag,
containing a large quantity of iron balls, about the
size of our musket-balls, which bag they use instead
of wadding for their cannon; and, when fired, the
bag bursts, and scatters like a shower of hail among
our men, if at all near. Besides this, they fire from
their muskets la large shot, which they call buck-
shot, weighing one ounce and a half, besides write-
ping ball. This, when at close. quarters, cuts Op
our men ten ibly, and, uuless we resort to the same
destructive mode of warfare, our brave tars will not
have a fair cuance with such au active enemy.
An account has been received that the undermen-
tioned Indiamen outward-bound arrived off Madeira
on the evening of the 18th of February, viz. Essex,
Bridgewater, Atlas, Princess Amelia, Rose, Met-
calfe, Baring, Marquis of Wellington; also the
country ships Providence and Clarendon, under
convoy of the Davtaius, together with the Brazil
fleet, under convoy of theAmilon.
At the last interview between the PRINCE REGENT
and Earl MOIRA, his Royal Iligh►►ess requested his
Lordship's picture,.to place amongst the distinguished
characters, whose portraits are exhibited at Carlton
House. His Lordship, in consequence, humbly pre-
sented the whole-length of himself, by LAWRENCE,
just finished, which is cow hung up on the left hand
of the comlral drawing-room, immediately opposite
the finaportraft of the late Duke of BEDFORD.
By the President frigate, from the Cape of Good
Hope, we learn that the following ships were all well
there on the llth January :—Earl St. Vincent, Lord
Castlereagh, and DoverCas/k, from Madras ; Prince
Regent, from Bengal ; Admiral Gambier, from
China; the Thousas from the Mauritius ; and the
Kingston and London, from the South Seas.—The
above ships may shortly be expected to arrive in

Mr. WOOD, of the New Auction Mart, defended
his plan of dealing, and defied any one to point out
any instance of fraud at his Bales.
Mr. WAITUMAN their stated, that at' one of Mr.
Wood's sales, he had seen some of his own goods (all
of the same fabric) put up at different prices, and as
being of different qualities. In proof of the mis-
chiefs resulting from all such auctions, he mentioned
that it one place a piece of linen which had been
stolen' from his shop was exposed to sale, brmeans
of which he had discovered, that he had in one year
been robbed by his servant to the amount of 3001.
and the stolen articles bad been disposed of at even
respectable auctions. In one week he had traced, at
different auctions in and about town, n• less than
six hundred pieces of his own goods, which had
been put up as foreign goods, the property of a
llamborgh merchant. If even respectable auctioneers
beetteethe dupes and unconscious itistrilients of such
delusion, how important it %yr:is that all those petty
auctions should be suppressed, whose very basis was
fraud, and whose tendency was to encourage every
species of theft and robbery.
Some other facts of the same sort were stated by
other Gentlemen present ; and a" string of Resolu-
tions, proposed by Mr. IVArrrisrAsr, was agreed to,
expressing abhorrence at the immorality and mischief
produced by these auctions. The Memorial to the
Lords of the Treasury was then agreed to, and also
another Memorial to the Lord Mayor and Common
Council.

The Gazelle of last night contains an account of
an enterprise most judiciously planned, and gal-
lantly executed, by a party of sea and land forces
from Sicily, against Pletra Nola, OQ the oppo.
site coast of Calabria.--In this short, but de.
cisive affair, fifty armed vessels of the enemy,
laden with timber and other articles of value, belong.
ing to MURAT, were taken or burnt ; the batteries
which covered them were tarried by storm ;,qud a
large body of the enemy was driien, at the point of
the bayonet, from a strong position on a commanding
height, with the loss of 163 prisoners, and nearly
the same number killed. The British loss was corn.
paiatively trifling, with the exception of Major
Simmr, the Commanding Officer of the 75th
regiment, who, after acquiring most distinguibhed
credit for the able and spirited manner in which he
led his troops to victory, was unfortunately killed
by a random shot as he was returning in the boat.

The extraordinary conversation which took place
last night in the House of Commons, between Gen. ;
MArnEw and Mr. FITZGERALD, cannot fail to excite
considerable interest—an interest not arcing from I
the petty consideration of the personal quarrel to
which it had nearly given rise, and by which, we
lament to say, the attention of the House was en-
tirely occupied, to the neglect of the infinitely more
.31portant considerations of a public nature con-
',cowl with the subject. The facts of the case ap-
pear to be these :—The EDITOR of the axamell
&raid had, in the exercise of his independent suffrage
as an elector, thou lit proper to vote for General
Manus". and his Cvileague, the Candidates in op-
p:,ition to Government—immediately on this, the
advertisements of Government, for which 10,0001.
was last night voted by Parliament, were with-
drawn from that paper, and in addition to this, the
goods of the Proprietor were sold to satisfy the de-
mands of Government, for en arrear of *Waive-
mut duty, although the most re.pectable security
'vas offered for its payment. To all this Mr. FITZ
uERALD asserts that he knew nothing of the fact of
this Editor having voted for the opposition Candi-
dates. Mr. FITLOIRALD appears to be a man
hose word it may be dangerous to dispute—but
this, at least, is clear, that from the close coin-
cidence in alma between the two occurrence/I the
Lditor bad no doubt that the one proceeded (rota

Sir ROBERT Ken PORTER, who lately brought over
dispatches from Petersburgh, is at present engaged in
writing a Narrative of the late Campaign in ltussia,
illustrated with Plans, &c. of the general movements
of both Armies, during their advance and retreat,
which will lee published in the course of next month,
by Messrs. LONGMAN and Co. The work will con-
tain information drawn from official sources, and
from intercepted French Documents, hitherto un-
known to the British Public. Sir ROBERT having
been on the spot during the whole Campaign, and
from his extensive information concerning Russia and
Roslian Affairs, we may expect he will given correct
and faithful Account of that most interesting period.
There is now living in Strathaven, Wm. [tighten,
tinker, who was born at Whiteshaw-gate, in that
parish, 23d May, 1090, and who of court* entered
into the 114th year of his age '23d May last. He has
nearly lost his sight, but his intellects are no way im-
paired.
Ott Tuesday the 2d battalion of the 9191 Regiment
at Leith for Loudon. While the soldiers
were going en board the smacks, one of them stepped
let* a public house on the shore, where he called for
sell of spirits, and having drank it, he laid a Si.
piece on the table, put the mutate of his firelock
luto his mouth, and blew out his hrains.
A short time since a gold coin of Edward 111.
called the Rose Noble, in good preservation, was
ploughed up near Alfriston. Its currency was es, 80.
4141 teem a. pound of gold of the old standard) 41
. Nobles were cotnrdr amounting to 141.

England. -
Extinct of a letter from the blockading squadron
off Cherburgh, Aptli ft, 1813:—" The French squa-
dron are dismantling very fast ; we have no intelli-
gence what occasions this step, probably to man the
batteries on shore, as all the regulars have been
marched away. The Galatea, Captain LOSACiLt
stood in last evening to reconnoitre within half-gun
shot of the strong batteries. but they did not lire a
shot at her, which we wondered at, as it was not
very light ; and probably they imagined we had as
attack in views yet there was uothkui sear aweigh
to try for."

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