The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-04 00:00:00

MONSIEUR DE CHATEAUBRIAND.

The press ; the lying sto ck-jobbing London press, ac-
cording tO its invariable practice, enable to Ruiner this
gentleman, have assailed him personally with all their
Billingsga'e slang. They do not attempt to answer.
This is contrary to their principle. When they cannot
answer, they lay the subject on one side, and fall foul of
the person. Mr. Cobbett nseans to a:leaver Mono. de Cita-
teautriand nett Saturday, not by abusing his person, but
by remarks on the subject in dispute. Once more let us
observe how disappointed our heroes have been as to the
effect upon the French of those noisy speeches and those
hullockings of the newspaper press, which, for the last
eight anal twenty days have stunned this senseless wen.
Not the smallest effect has that noise produced in
France.

DOCTOR O'MEARA.
On Wednesday List we inserted an extract from the
Qunterlyßeeiew,containing what purported to be copies

of notes and 'titers written by Dr.O'M FARA to the Aid-de-
Cramps of Sir HUDSON Lowe, giving the Governor,
through that channel, certain pieces of information re-

Wire to the French persons living with ISTArotso.N.
Tiles, notes and letters were deposited (the Reviewer
infortned os,) with Mr. MURRAY, the bookseller, in Al-

betnirle-street, and now to be seen by any persons who

applied to Mr. M URRAT for that purpose. We went, fur

that purpose, and saw them; and a gentleman who says
he is well acquainted with the hand-writing of the Doc-
tor; and on which gentleman's word, we can rely, has
assured us that the notes and letters are authentic. This

being the case, we can Lear of no ch fence from Dr.
O'IttARA other than that which shall contain a denial
of the authenticity of the notes and levers; for, if those
notes and letters be authentic, the Doctor was a Volun-
teer I?y for the Governor, and statist those very French
people, with whom he was an inmate. If those notes
and letters be authentic, he betrayed the private conver-
sation of those along with whom he was living, and
whose lot he is said to have commisserated in his book.
IC those notes and letters be authentic,. he suggested to
the Governor the necessity of those very measures, of

the severity of which he is said to have contpla'ned in
his book. What can he say, then, in Ms defence, unless
he can contradict the assertion that these notes and let-
ters arc authentic? In the Morning Chronicle of yes-
terd::y there are two columns and nearly a Ipilf with an
a•tivie signed by Dr. O'Meara. We ran our eye bootily
o%er it to seek for a denial of the authenticity of the
notes and letters; but, alas' not one single word sio we
find tending to that point. The Doctor cilia the re-
viewer libeller, pimp, coward, save, hypocrite, reptile,
and some other names. A very bad man this reviewer
may be; and, though lie is certainly a very clever man,
we ourselves are very far from thinking him to be a good
man. A very mean creature he certainly is. for bartering,
his great talents for the money which he has been get-'
ting out of the taxes. But, what has this to do with
Doctor O'Meara's notes and letters? Sir Hudson Lowe,
Mr. Cruker, and others, may be all that the Untor here
says of them; but not one inch does all this go towarls a
vindication of the Doctor's own conduct. These two
columns and nearly a half do, however, show one thing:
and that is, that Doctot O'Meara was writing home to

the Admiralty, too, and in such a way as to give great
satisfaction to al: the persons high in office, and ercn to
the Prince Regent hintreff. How in all tl:e world does
this tend to wipe out one single line of the letters and
the notes, the origio3ls of which are lodged at Mr. Mur-

ray's? There are, it arpears, to be a series of numbers
iu the Morning Chronicle, by Dr. O'Meara upon this
subjeLt. The Chronicle say?, at the close of this first ar•
tide, " N.B. No. 2on the next open day." We should
supposs that there will not be another open d.y fora
long übile. The Chronicle will scricely embark in good

esrutst in a cause like this. We should ha 'e been very
happy to find the notes and letters denied as to their
authenticity; hut, unless that can be dune, it Is not to be

expected that writing about any thing el.e will produce
any effect in favour of the Doctor. lie may, perhaps,
ineulpat., and justly inculpate others ; for there appears
to have been a pretty deal of co very honourable
work going on ; but the answer to him eternally will
be: " Doctor, heal thysey:" IV NI. C.
A letter in the Chronicle of to-day shows that Dr.
O'Meara's intelligence sent home to the Admiralty came
voluntarily from hint; that Mr. Finlaison handed it to
Mr. Cruker; that Mr. Crofter had it copied for the use
of the Ministers, " omitting some occasional passages
" of an indelicate nature, soine of the:u reflecting on-the
" French Ladies and others; and that Mr. Croker expres-
" sed his disapprobation of these passages." GoodGotil this
comes from Mr. Finlaison. Here the Doctor was, then, a
volunteer spy for Sir Hudson Lowe and for the Govern-
ment at home, upon'those very French people whoa; his
ook accuses the Government of Ili-treating:

•
NTOCI(..iSZCIIANGE, itALT'PAST TIVELVII O'CLOCt.--

Priyate letters in down frotil Paris dated &Way last,
state that great discontent prevails in the above
capital; ail teen av at Lyons and 13o:.leanx,which,giv. sibs
French Illifiistey strite uneasiness. It is well latown that
most of the great commercial cities in France, are dt-
cidedly against a Spanish war. Consols opened this
morning at at which price they remain, with little
nr no business doing.
By private accounts from Madrid, we learn, that the
final preparations of the Spanish Government will not
be ready until the middle of April, when they expect to
have two hundred thousand men in the field, with 5"
Guarrilla chiefs who are each to command a band, au,•,
in case of invasion by the French, they will be joined
by Mins's troops, and enter the French territory. We
understand that a great Spanish Grandee, (now in this
Country), has already given instructions, in ease of an
invasion by the French, not to leave a stick standing on
his Estates in Spain; as the Spaniards are determined
as the French ath :ince, to destroy every thing in their
rear.

FOREIGN FUNDS.—In tht earlier part of the mnrning
Spanish Bonds were on the cis; with a brisk market;
since which they hare declined: opened at 3tIL, and fell
to 293.
Chili, 674—NewSperish, 2911—t Old, SS —New Pressler,
73176—01 d, ditto, 79 74—Danish, 7714—co-
lon:hien, 471—Spanish Scrip, sq.

Reduced shut today; also Old Fours. They open
again on the 24th of April.

Private letters from Ma.lrid, stare that the occasion of
the 'King's decree fur changing his Ministers, was their
urging him to prepare his mind for removing from ti,e
capital. This advice. it appears, theßoyal Family, had
without exception, refused to adopt.

The Orange men of Ireland, accoidinz to Dablin pa-
pers, are making an active rally, and ate determined to
chew the Government and the Country, that they mist
„see. one of these Jourralsin their interest, rrteivrd
be the Baling Pari.y, in appearance as well as in sub-
st
this morning, says—" Four of oar county Metub..rs, hi.
therto strenuous supporters of Administration, and the
warnieit friends of the British Cabinet, weltering Minis-
ters ou Tuesday last. They expressed their I run owatrioN
without qualification or reserve, at the condi:et
of the I rish Government. They derlart d that they ivinild
not lend themselves to the system now pursuing in their
ill-fated country. One of these Nleinhers, the heir to
the Earldom of Farnham, the Representative to the
county of Cavan, resigned to Lord Liverpool, as an ea:-
nest of his feelings, the situation of a Lard of the 'crea-
my." The other Members, it a:Tears, are, Sir John
Stewart, Member for Tyrone; Mr. litowtdow, Meunier
for Armagh ; and Mr. Forde, Member for Down : and it
is announced in the saute paper, that " the alley atioa
from the. British Government of several other most
powerful and influential personages will be drelatcd in
a few days."

Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Conrail ROC lied
at the Foreign flee. Do vning-street, st birli was SIM.
owned by Mr. Secrcta'y Peel, On Saturday. The Doke
of Wellington and Earl Ba•burst came to town, front
Brighton, to ;attend the Council. The Ministers conti-
nued in deliberation till a quarter past four.
The following are the new Scciesia‘tical arrangements;
Man Arbuthnot, of Cloyne, to be Bishop of Killal sr—
the Bishop of Killaloe to be Bishop of Down, arol the
Bishop of Down to be Bishop of Meath.—(buldin
Reciting Post.)
A requisition, signed by about four hundred persons,
was present«► so Taos. Besse', iliw High Sheriff of Dee
von, on Wednesday last, by Capt.' Tlanttyn, fur a county
meeting, to consider the propriety of petitioning Perna-
silent for a Reform in the House of Commons. In an-
swer to the Requisition, the Sheriff drelared " it win itith
considerable regret he himself was compelled to decline
giving his assent."
Sir Compton Doinville having resigned his seat for
the Borough of liosaiuev, in or ter to become a candida•e
fur the county of Dublin. where he was derewed by Col.
White, was re-elected by his form •r constituents, on
Mon lay la. t. . _ _

A person m in Annan has comoinnicatel the foliowii
information 'Asti ng to ti.e African Expedition of Ds-
curery :—`• Anconnts hare Fccri re, eived, so late a.; N..-
vemher last, from Dr. Oudenay and Lieutenant Clapprr-
ton (of -Annan), they were then on their way to Bonin:,
in go -PI Iscalli and spirits. Daring, the vay of the Ex-
pedition at Murzouk. Ventenant Clipperton visited
many towns, and. by his astronomical observation-.
has precisely fixed the longitude and latitude of various
places, where Europeans never beore trod. As was
previously arrange.', Dr. Oe.denay riinained at H mum
as sub-consul ; but Lieutenant Clipperton prosecutes 1,1
arduous journey to ascertain the terminatiun of the
Niger."
De r.L.—A Teeing took place early on Saturday morn-
ing at Finchley ('ommon, heto rrn Mr. S —A —L soil Mr.
6 L—T, in cons, trence of a lisp me which originatc.i
at the else of the inves!igailn of Lord l'ortrsatavilfs
ease. Mr. 6 was wounded in the simrlder in the first
alp 4, sever, ly, and he was rein .vat I) the house of a
friend at Kentish Town. The }sill ?enetr4te 1 throulia
thetlesl,v part of the shouldsr, ar.,l !;razed the bon-.
We are happy to sly, tliat ail the persons whom we'
last week staled were hurt ir. the lanientah'e ao,•Pletst
at the Tt.catre, are in a lac way of recovery.—(-Vert-
ea.sfle Chrw;.)
Ihe Thea•re WAS re-rre7ed on Monday right, sr!t's

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the piece of-Tom a: Jerry, au.l U 1,1: crow Jed in every
part. The additions( uto,: Fir exit from the gallery in
case of nce'i, have ord the front of the
house is now lighted with vil gas.—(Aid.)

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S--MARcm3.

CLARLT.-13 to 4 agst. Moses-7 to 2 agst Postbuma-4 to
1 agst Swap-7 to 1 agst Wanton.
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Carbinaro-23 to 1 agst br to Parlitt-97 to I agst
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DONCASTER ST. I,EcF:rt.-9 to 1 .agst •Sherwood-15 to
to 1 agst Tinker—lb to I oast Miss Fanny-18 to agst br to
Violet—lS to I apt Paleis Royal-23 to 1 agst Fanatic
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