The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-09 00:00:00

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THE STATESMAN

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of January, above a week after the day on
which the grit dreadfal tidings were dispatched, and
whiclitteere totelly'slient upon the subject of it, a
letter has been exhibited from the tonsil-General of
Saidinia in London, stating the arrival of accounts
from Genoa of so late a date Intik 26th January;
eleven digs subsequent to that of the article @erected
from the French Papers, which contain no mention
whatever of the facts; and the Sardinian Conielate
lass.sreary reason to hope that the rumour is:entirely
unfogioded. It is to be observed, that no accouot
whetever has reached this country of the above trans-
actions, except soc.h ti 'Owlet to a Genoese aura-
tire u its .soaree. -"-
The Law lOW Recruiting the Army was discussed In
the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, Tuesday, and
Werineedity, and will probably engage the atten-
tion of the Asiesibly for some days looter.- Among
the amendments which the Project has undergone, the
service of the Contingent is to expire in five, instead
of six years; sod the legions are, on the expiration
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Or their period of service, to be disbanded the last
day el every year, except in time of war. The Pro.
ject proposed by General Downer has been rejected.
The veterans, or those who have passed their 32d
year, or who have actually served it years, are, in
time of peace, to be exempt fron;hosne service; and
not liable to be organised into companies. On Tues-
day, the Minister at War touched a string, which was
sure to vibrate. Bespoke of the certainty, that a Re-
serve of Veterans would " repair defeats and restore
vidory," Ile qualified the introduction of such matter,
so as to gender it not absolu!ely a challenge to the
Allies; he represented, that a knowledge of this power
might prevent a necessity for battles ; hat the Cham.
ber understood him, as be wished, and received his
hint with " Bravo, Bravo 1" A powerful stand
appears to be making against the sixth Title, or
that branch of the Project which regulates, by cer-
tain provision, promotions in the army. It is
contended that the principle goes to the extinction of
the Royal prerogative, is contrary to the letter and
spirit of the Charter, and is likely to lead to conse-
quences destructive of the constitutional rights of
the Crown and of the safety and. happiness of the
People. The Minister of the Interior, however,
maintained a different opinion, and the question con.'
tinsel ander discussion. The Anyallits hate. op.
posed with vehemence the Project of Mjniaterat for
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the formation of legionary veterans, and dim Army
of Reserve.; because they dread. the recal of the re!.
voletiosuiry soldiers into active service. The Mini-
sterial feeling on this point seems to be, that the old
soldiers being already in existence, on the contin-
gency of .public danger or confusion, it, might be
more prudent to make an attempt at engaging them
on the side of the Government, than to leave them
• still in a state of animosity against
The Ministers have at length resolved to give the
discussion of the Concordat precedence of that on
the Budget. If so, from the rate at which legisla-
tion travels in France, we need not expect much
accurate information, with regard to her finance de-
partment, at a very early period.
The Doke of WELLINGTON had a private audience
with the King on Monday, after which his Grace
paid a visit to Monittun, and, in the evening dined
with M. DE TA LLETRAND. . The four Marshals.
Mrjors•General of the Guard, breaVasted with his
Majesty on Tuesday. The Duc na BERRI had been
somewhat indispOted, but it was hoped would be able
to attend a Court dinner, to which the King had
invited the Princes of the Blood Royal, on the 3th
instant.

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mock more probable that the family' interests
are new cementing in the " bettor 'telethon Dever"
style of Hymeneal preeislea, acs Oiliiiinktion of the
renewed bustle at Carlton-bone.* Laud SIDMOUTU
has certainly conceived himself in-great danger from
one of his challengers, and if a bele should un-
luckily be made' in the Grain Beg; be may
want defences of another kind. The noble and
',Went Secretary is indeed supposed. not to feel, eau
tirely at Isome,sioce the loss of bissespendiug pownta4l'
bat-it is shrewdly surmised that he will not retire etit''
ill be can do it with safdy.
.eserrihtitstion. For this
event we must wait, like hisLorriship .we
.believe,'
until the private investigation-iota medic transactiose
can produce the necessary conviction. We can
assure oar Enders that, theagb it Noble Lard high'
in office observed, that if theilmite agniast Oliver
could hale been maintained, the: morn who were on
their trial (be chose to forget Bran4reth's dying de-
claration) could have called Mr.- Oliver In thole
defencet and, consequently, -that the accesed..Re.;
fortneri were to Milne for not citing Mr. Oliver to
criminate himself in their • Moor.* The Ministers
and employers *of thii same Mr (Vier are itomanely,
resolved aot to allow either him es rinji:iif his brother*
Spies, in er out of office, to,,crisnierite theniselves be-
fore the Secret Board of Enquiry,' justly conceiving
that the establishment of the guilt of these 'secreted
11 persons would he no defence of the crimes of their
employers. Another circumstance may Nottably be
adduced to account for the future non-appearance of
this notorious Spy ; namely, if report be tree, his
sudden departure to another world, in a way not
unlikely to be adopted by persons of his character—
and dead men,•they say, tell no tales. 'l'he Leeds
!Mercury, received this morning, says, a rumour had
reached the place of its publication, but that respect-
able Psper does not pietend to authenticate it, that
" Oliver, the Spy, feeling himself incapable of
braving the indignation of his countrymen, had re-
tired to the Continent, and that his dead body was
found early in the last month, with a razor by his
side, on the skirts'of a wood between Hambargh and
Bremen." This is more than the 'People of this
country could have anticipated, and, probably, than
they will at brit believe. No Patriot weeps sates
such villains die--so there let him remain, and we
care ant. though the Suspension Act were suspended
over his head,,as his most a ppropt iato epitaph. We
have, however, bead 'from pretty good authority,
that this pestiferous *Oat of wickedness was In Len-
don on Thursday Ism.

It is surmised In the private letters, that M. ac
Gnus., hating been created a Peer, will take to him.
self the Department of the Interior, and merge in it
the Ministry of the Police. M. Want, according to
public opinion, is again on the eve of his elevation to
the Peerage. There are still some rumours of a
coalition between the Royalists and the Ministry.--
A conferepte was to take place a few days ago at the
hotel of the Dechesse Dlt Donne ea the subject, which
tie Dukes of Riciistisu and WILLLINGITOX, With M.
LAW"' mere to attend.

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Mails from Flanders, with Brussels and lined
Journals to the 7th inst. have arrived. The abolition
of the Special Extraordinary Tribunal has been pro.
posed on the part of his Netherland Majesty, to the
Second Chamber of the States-Genera. I. Several new
regulations and imposts are about to be adopted for
the protection and encouragement of the manufac.
UM of the Netherlands.

We read in the el:lentil Papers received to-day, es-
pressions of the strongest congratulations on the Re-
peal of that Act which clothed the Governmen't with
the attributes of despotism, and by which the People
.were degraded to the level of slaves; as well as the'
pouring forth of feelings which are the natural fruit
of the most evident and daring acts-of oppression, at
the flairaist disregard of public opinion and decency
manifeste4 by Ministers in their secret manoeuvres to
trump up a justification. of Alseir conduct, and con-
tinue• their machinations against the liberty of the
People. Tb• country may welt express its surprise
it the cirenseltenCe, almost as extraordinary as the
concurrence' given to the unlawful act itself, that the
persons who have so unnecessarily atd. wantooly out-
raged a nation's rights, should be, permitted to justify
themeless by such means as theSeeret Conimittres,
EompOsed of Placemen Ministers: -That
the Government is no longer. a Geveinment of
will, bat of law, is undoubtedly a heart cheering con-
sideration, bet the People who bate witnessed the.
arbitrary and persecuting spirit of this Government,
its aversion to Reform, its eitravegcre, and the
means it has put in practice to silence, the constitu-
tionally expressed wilt of -the nation, night net to ,
rest satisfied with the mere divestraiiiienf thehe
trary powers. They know 'nothow soon thryimay
be'ageirt put in practice—they kee-iiinillsovi soon,
upon the evidence of Ministerial-fi'rektpuls, thrown
among an injured and irritated psitstetiort, similar
acts girlie hurried into esecation, and the cestntry
'ruled and eppolled- by all array of un.
constitutional end armed 'power. tit :nii—have.
the dreadful doings with which errantry
was, and the Ministers now aria charged, sifted
to the bottens.—lf but one 'Wirer was em.

American Paper. to the Bth ult. bare arrived since
our last, but their contents are unimportant. After
repeating the former statement of the negociations
between Spain end the United States having ended
without any satisfaitory result, semi. of them in.
klelge in a variety of conjectores relative to British
interference, of which we are far from being so ap.
prehensire as the Americans appear to be.

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There have been some fresh rumours in► circula-
tion of intended changes in Administration, but it
is much feared they are not true. To say that there
is no foundation for such changeiwoohl argue a total

ployed in the way that there is too mach reason to
believe he was, it is sufficient ground for the most
serious impeachment. A hundred such men, prat-.
rising spots r balt-tamishod population, would have
created a civil war !

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tate eitikaav3tigpi,
g SPENSION 4GT.,
P. .l
(rso Tit;tirl7;
The Act for ' ndiug the tai7eariOntrpus is,
pealed, and the Government is no longer a Govern,
went of will bat a Government of law. To seer
man, with the feelings of an Englishmani.thiszt
be a heart-cheering consideration ; but to pabli •
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who have opposed themselves' Its the encroaches.*
of power, who have advocated the cause of Refers,
who . have exposed the 'selective machinations of a
pestiferous agency, and whose sense of public duty,
even in a time of despotic sway, would not suffer
them to compromise their principle', either by pro.
striding themselves at the foot of power, or by silent
pcqeiescince in the measures of those who had sus,
pended the public liberty, the return of the blesvirr.
of the Constitetion avast impart enteigaed grs,
tification.—What may be other Men's feelings
we cannot Say, but for ourselves we breathe tam
freely this week than we (lid the last. ft must not,
however, be supposed, that the protection of the law,
which is once more spread over es, will induce us to
write with violence, or went of proper respect for the
institutions or Government of the country. As the
teriors.of absolute power did not intimidate or lower
mar tone, neither shall the happy return et that stets
of security, which we now feel to possess, elevate it
aboie the pitch of free and liberal discussion. Ilia
same disposition that pronipts a man to be firm aid
dauntless its the hoer of danger; leads Mm to be ten.
petate and discreet in the time of safety, and nest to
the honour of being superior to slavish fear, we would
aspire to the reputation of using oar liberty widest
licentiousness.
As one of the first consequences of the repeal of the
Habeas Corpus Suspension Aet, the Auurney.Gi. •
rat has judged it necessary to move for and proem*
the discharge of all the terognizsnces of the persons
who had been immured in the different prisons of the
kingdom sunlit that Act. Ministers have, however,
a very setious account to settle, both with there
individuals and with the country, for arrogating to
themselves, by means of suspicious documents, sub-
mitted to secret Committees of the Leo Houses of
Parliament, the powers by which these innocent men
*ere torn fromitheir families, and incarcerated, for
mouths', io loathsome dungeons. Innocent. 'we call
them, because theta ors of this country presume that
every man is innocent till a verdict of his country.
men has pronounced him guilty. And though we
can easily suppose that many of these victims of
Ministerial vengeance ' have suffered their zeal
in favour of Reform to harry them into improdeat
acts, yet it is our firm conviction, that the crime of
High Treason, under which charge they were all cost.
mitted to prison, could not have been established.
I against any one of them. Ministers may again prove,
l to the satisfaction of their Secret Committees, °nevi.
Idence of their oat) producing, and in the investiga..
649 of which only one side of the question can be
stated, that the sospension•of the great bidwirk of
our liberties was necessary ; but such proof wilt not
satisfy thecnentry, eni we have no hesitation in says
ing that the general belief IS, that he ordi-ary power's
of the law were quire equal to the support o(the pot.
tic tranquillity, and the putting down of every:CPA
of •the disaffected.
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Witsosou, FEll• •R.--Friday the Duke ,of Yong
arriied et the Castle on a visit to the QUEEN and
• Princesses, from London. In the evening his itnyal
Highness left for °Attends.
Saturday night the Prince of iletse- Holism
arrived in town from Brighton, andyesterday called
to pay his, respects to the Palace REGENT, lli•; 1)4.
of YORK, and the Duke and Duchess of Gsarogests*.
On Wednesday the Russian squadron, Command-
ed by Rear-Admiral VON MuLgast, consisting at
five sail of the line and three frigates, which put into
Portsmouth on the 21st of December, sailed fir
Cadiz. The squadron will not complete the voyage.
to Cadiz, from Cronstadt,' in leis then five mouths.
The names of the ihips are—Dresden (Admiral
,M ete
Lza), North Adler, Lubec, Truse Swotertey, Nee.
Inuenes„ 744; Mercurial, Afatroil, and Patrickey,
frigates. • When they hate been delivered up to the
Spanish Authorities, the crews will proceed home.
ward in transports, which will call at Portsmouth
for supplies to enable them to perform the ultimate
past of the voyage.
We regret to state that Wm. lioNewooo, Esq
of Mark's-hall,, in &flew, end of Sibton, in Kent
died at his home is Charles-street, Berkeley-square
yesterday at noon, in the 5.9 th year of his age. He
represented the county of Kent in Parliament from
the year 1808 to 1812. . Wit:mast Pima, [Joey-
*ono, Esq. his eldest son, succeeds to his valuable
estates in Estee and Kent.
On. Saturday evening last the New Frienth Plik
ssce-verrel, sailed frqvn Plymouth. with seven pew
'tenger", for Portsmouth., with every prospect of
, ...
Ireacliinglitat noon on the following dsy ; but, in the
rousselif,f Ise night, by a sudden charge of the wind,
.k became necesssry to resolve, es the only.•chanca
esOrseving the Uses of those on board, to run the
tessiel on shore near Chapmair's Po,.lis, off the isle •
a furbeck ; where, providentstly, they were all
safely landed. Lieut. MALLANN it. M. a pass
sengisrs who had given up his bed to one of the sick
women-, jemped upon deck the moment the 'Master
of the vessel gave the alarm of danger (shot six
o'clock in the morning), and knowing the coast', head-
vised that th 4 vessel should be kept under sail a gear-
ter of an hour longer, as there was no possibility of
escape there. His advice happily prevailed ; as, It
afterwards proved, the vessel was row upon the only
spot that, fur revere! miles, is free from dangerous
, - rocks lying at a distance from the shore.
.WreDsbit CASTLE,
,Flen• 7••••••" His MAJTITY MR . •
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heinfant son of
.the Doke and Diu-hers of Rol'
continued through the last month in a very tranquil
_ Ans Ty's bodily health 1,47° idie4l
and comfortable state. His 114
worm', Castle.
on Friday evening, at their Grace's seat,
is good, but his disorder is undiminished."
Mr. M sr. 1.31 se, the author of the Tragedy of Patio,
&tardily night the Patrice itoncrcr, rather_oner- bar lately been appointer' to ON' Rectory of Reading.
pected, arrived at Carlton-house about half-pat On Seaside), the Glee Club had a very wearers*,
eleven o'clock from Brightopv attended by Lord and distinguished Meeting st the Crown and Anchor
STOIART• • • Tavern. STYPIIEN GROOMBRIDGE, Ego. presidedi
Yesterday the Michels of.GLoncssasa visited her I .11)r. Goan was the Vice,Prosident, Mr. SALE as'
Royal brother, the Rum?, at Ceelton-boose, upon Ms. LEETE were in their places as Directors
hie-arrival in London& and eteweined with his Royal A new %Vrit" was -moved for on Thorp's', night,
Highness several hour,. , . and ordered for Plymouth, in the room of Sir ii. '
• The LOUR CIIANCELIOR, the Earl afidonarooL, Broostercr.o,
...14 has accepted the office of Ks
and Viscount CASTLEREAGH) had audiences yesterday. of biz Majesty's Privy Pane.

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Thoogh the details in these Papers are sufficiently oblivion okeireseistances that can never be fosfet,' '
confirtnotovx sof the Serowe epees* front, GP4166, it *test, 410 *hick *ill sally. vsith.en @Wald Stan the'
is with incressed.satisfeetion that we- refercto the pri.. hieing Otipei coretry.. Th.- 444, hp lweltibat
se* advice. which' mid eensidershly
.ditOvrilj Ihr. faeidel.tfuttet(4l"oed $1919v1.• .wr'4._ to:!retire't aud
atsriniiii news Oil: Algiers. BesidetlbiriniVite the snivel' of the Rieneritt entltonqtailb.lute been- 1
accounts which bps lima remised, behoisilinte AR ..IMPROIed to give Strailth' ta-tittl"lll446 - `-Bat,
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