The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-13 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

Paris papers of Tuesday have at.* late hour arrived by
Eapress, from which we extract the following :
PARIS, MArwii I I.—" The Funds have experienced
to day a fall of about '2 francs. This decline is attribieed
to the certainty of now seeing the cotnmeneeweut of hos-
tilities. Marshal Oudinot basset Off to join the army. Many
General Officers proceeded last night on the same route.
" News from Madrid bas arrived, dated the 3d
instant. At that time the new Ministers had been
appointed by the King, hut bad not b co able to
enter into office.—There was much agitation
in the public mind, and private letters hint at facts which
are too important to state till the arrival of the Journals
confirms them."

After the arrival of the French papers to-day, we un-
derstand Consols fell to 73k. The French Funds are
stated to be 75.

M. LAFAYETTE AND THE NATIONAL GUARD
OF PARIS.

TO TiiE EDITOR Of Tile COURIER FRANVIS.
Paris, March 9.
An order of the day, inserted in the Ahmitenr, and
signed by the Colonel of the 4th Legion, Polisard
Qu'atremere, affirms that the institution of the National
Huard possesses a virtictilar character of unbounded de-
vo'ednees to the Government. I t:l),longs to a National
Huard of 1789 to correct this assertion.
The National Guard was instituted for the acquisition
lino the maintenance of liberty, equality, and legal or-
der. After enabling the nation to farm a Government
by its own choice, the Nutional Guard guaranteed the
independence of France, as it would since have done,
had the successive possessors of power in 1814 and Itils
been willing to put their trust in an armed nation, and as
it will, even now, 1 hope spontaneously, if the powers
of l'ilnitz and Laybach again invade our territories.
The natural enemy of despotism, aristocracy, and
anarchy, the National Guard has defended the authori-
ties instituted by the nation, and has protected peruns,
property, and opinions. Its nisi) was that the enemies
isf the revolution should be twice vanquished by the en-
ergy and by the generosity of the French peoi I
It would have had ..he honour of saving Louis XTI.
had the faction of the privileged rosters, both externally
and internally, permitted him to be once more saved by

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the p ttnots.
One of the greatest pleasures I have experienced in the
courseof my life, was the again finding, in the memora-
ble sitting of the 4th of March, the same sentiments
which, in 1799, created a National Guard, which, in i
1790, confederated four millions of armed citizens, wiich
have been manifest•d in different posterior cir-
cumstances, particularly in the two invasions of the ca-
pital, and to which the National Guard of 19'23 has, by
the excellent conduct of M. Mercier and his worthy com-
rades, just given so honourable and patriotic a tes-
timony.
Accept, Sir, the assurance of my most distinguished
consideration. LAFAIP.T rE.

The paragraph of "a certain morning paper" referred
to by our Stock Exchange Reporter, is one that appeared
in the Old Times. and is as follows :—A French Ultra of
high rank, and in the service of the Royal Family,
wrote to a British Nobleman to the following effect:—
"Be assured we cannot go to war; it is impossible;
" public opinion is every where against us. That unhap-
" py affair in the Chamber, out of which no one has
" come with credit except MANCEL, has paralyzed us
"all."—ln corroboration of this remark, wa ran stye,
that a despatch has hems received from Sir CHARLES
STUART, from which Mr. CANNING has drawn the in-
" ference, " that the counsels of the French Government
" are of a mapensice nature."
EMIT AND Wear INDIA SeGAIVI.—The following are
stated to he the grounds of the opposition to ehe eqnsiliz-
ation of the duty on sugars from the East and West

°dies.
" All anger from the West Indies row pays a duty of
275. per cwt., a duty which, at the present prices, is much
more than sugar can bear which sells at 551. to tale.,
and consequently the planters in all the West India Co-
lonies are reduced to a degree of distress bordering on
ruin. But the finances of the Government cannot admit
of the duty being lowered.
" What do the Agents, Merchants, and Speculators to
India, in their proposition of equalizing the duty, say,
but this ? Takeoff the Protecting Duty, of Ills. per cwt.
on all the sugar that we can purchase front the *wires
of India, and import into this city, we shall be by so
moth the gainers, and the Government only will be the
loser.
" Would this boon of Government (if they were in a si-
tuation to give up Ills. per cwt. on all the sugar import-
ed from India) he of the least relief to the natives of that
country—the MO millions' Nut one shilling! The ad-
venturers would not give the natives one birthing per
cwt. more than they now give; but they would pocket
Ills. per cwt. more titan they now do, and the Govern-
ment would be »duns to that amount.
" Let them continue to pay the 10s. Protecting Duty,
if they bring their sugar heir; or, let them try another
market.
" The East India Company have little to do with the
question; it rests with a few speculators, who wish to
enrich themselves at the espence of the Doverament and
the West Indies."

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Bute Nsws.—The ship F.rin, of New York, which
was drove from her anchors out of our Bay, on the 31
instant, returned yesterday, after experieuring dreadful
weather in the Channel for seven days ; her Captain
having nufirtunately been on, shore when she was drove
out, bur crew are quite exhausted, and are much indebt d
to some of the Water Guard, and the. Captain and crew
of his Illajesty's brig Hornet, Captain Higley, fur their
kind assistance.—(Dublin Morning Pest, Mardi 1.1 )
The prohibitive system is at this moment agitating in
the island of Jersey, where, on a small scale, the same
arguments, interests, and passions, arc called intd action,
which so much divide opinion in a larger one of Great
Britain. It seems that an Act fur prohibiting the impor-
tation of French cattle, provisions, Sae. has been submit-
ted to the States of.lersey, which tun has very naturally
alarmed the great number of British residents, whose
chief inducement to settle there is cheapness and econo-
my. A meeting of t.• latter, in consequence, took place
on the :Id inst. at tshieb, after hearing a copious Address
from the Rev. Mr. Ilernby, the Chairintim, an appeal was
unanimously voted to the Goveruor and States.
Forty-one vessels fer the 871meries the ensuing season
are preparing at I full, viz :—Eighteen for Ilavis' Strait•,
and twenty-three for Greenland. The t ieere, Lee, sailed
on Saturday morning for Greenland, being the first ship.
INVERNESP, MARCH 7.—The South mail did not ar-
rive here on Wednesday until 8 o'clock in the evening,
having been detained fur 12 hours at Qtteensferry on
Monday night by a violent hurricane. The North mail
is still several hours behind the regular time of arrival,
in consequence of which the letters from time North must
lie here unlit the dispatch of the South mail the follow.
ing day. The irregular arrival of the mails this season
is unprecedented in the recollection of the oldest per-
son living. The weather continues to be very
woos ; yesterday morning there was a slight fall of
!MOW.

• -•:sl:llPy.l.piU INT.EII4UNSCA,

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13..s—Arrimi last pi;Lt au.l today,
sailed • fur the River, .Ple. Latona. Troia 1./ • .
merara ; the Harourry, Roherispn;frurn 14..eriffe; the
Aurora, Norfer. from Certkieitm Scratis, fiL
from Tenerife. Came trowufrour tie lii eight,
the Canadian parkit, Ilsrvie. for Jamaica.. ind Merv..
Atkinson, for ditto ; and Wiest this .afitirisOpat with the
whole of the out ward-hutin4..eicirpt.flisf Maiy, Burtor,
fur Jamaica, which slip still's rernaine---tuel W.! .W.
MANCII 12.--7Artired Wil-
son, from London, for Naples; th!,Suieess, irerstort,
from Berhadoes; liaised by the fiersi:itlibire.
—Wind W. .
,N 1 •
ni .! • .
rhiMol.l':ll, MARC!! 11.-1115 ajedi 44.0p,,juptteri,
still rellliitih at anchor in the Soand. wilynitt•Ujut .for is
shift of winds, Lord Amherst mut Swite,bolig it &B-
ram, the seat of the Earl Morley, ryAtlyirebeth.—
Arrived, the Nelson, Fox, from Linde...NU'
,ressismhuco ;
and the Atlas, from Ditto, for India, witlr ;tr00pa.7.41,e-
-pain wind-bound, the Rambler. fur the Sootb.Seati the
Nile. for Si. Domingo; tLe Reynolds, fort, ; the
William and Henry, fair Grenada ; Kitty, for :Ter-
vita; the Vcrcury, for Faro; the Harmony.
riße ; and the Barque, Charles, for St. 'flaomas's.-ZWind
.S.W.
Fatmorrit, Maim' ll.—Arrived, tie Tnetis, from
London, for Malta; the A gyhoria, from Ditto, the.elx-
rence ; the Brother., from Ditto, to Rio Jinciro ; tiod
the Lady
.Areliella Packet, from Lisbon, smiled the .24
inst.—Put bark, the Sandwich racket, fur Jamaica,—
Wind W.
ToanAr, Mown I i. —Arrived, the Socks., WPhersnv.
from Cowes, to Ceylon; and the grads. Reynold/. frina
D:tto,"to therCepe, both'with troops. .
His Majesty's ships, Gloucester, Commodore Sir EA-
ward Owen, Torte, Plccton, Bellette, Edeu, and Valor-
ous, arrived at Barhadoes on the 2J, 31, and 4:11
from Plymouth; the Forte sailed on the 6th for Antigen;
the Valorous the same day to the Northward; the
Eden on the 7th for Martinique; and the rest remained
at Rah:Woes on the 13th ult.

ORATORIO.

Dr. Caoyca's splendid Orstori of Palestine was repeated
on Wednesday night, and. according to the prospective lir-
rongement of these performances, for the last time. To
those who have not heard it, and who desire, tither from
personal taste. or from a more general and generous feel-
ing of national pride, to see the music of this country sin-
dicated from the slight and °speedos which have been cast
upon it, such au arrangement will be unfortunate. Those
who have heard it will have experienced a gratification of
the highest order. It is altogether a work that does honour
to the country which produced a PTRCELL and to ALINE,
and that, in many respects, need not shrink from competi-
tion with the subiimest effusions that genius ever inspired.
The cborusses are distinguished by an Imposing grandeur
that seems continually rising above itself, and increasing.
by the majesty in which it moves. Yet there is no crashing
and clashing,—no " sound and fury signifying nothing ;"--
all is the pure, simple, and sublime fulness of harmony
rolling and swelling as if directed by the immediate tows
of inspiration. This is the triumph of tree learniug asd sci-
ence. Without them. genial; will strike off the outline
bold'y and beantiNly : but in the filling up,- in the me-
chestiest completion of the work, her assist ints must be at
hand, or she is au untractable jade. Dr. CROTCH has most
happily seized the beauties and the Improvements—not the
fripperies, of the modern foreign schools, and engrafted
them upon the profoundness, not the pedantry. of our old.
elaborate, and etfectire masters. HENRY PUNCELL was
performing the same task, when he was snatched to the
choir from which his genius seemed to have been derived;
In
the freedom and brilliancy of some of the airs, Dr. Catma
, has particularly evinced this taste, whilst in others helms,
perhaps, rather too much confined the subjects with-a ,view'
to the effect of his accompaniment. The accompaniments
throughout the Oratorio are otthe very finest description.
and stand out in remarkable contrast to the feebleness or
other Composers of the present day in that respect.--The
principal singers, 11111111.111. M. NAPIO. Mrs. SALMON, Miss
Tarn, &c. gave their fasest efforts to the piece.
Previous to the Oratorio there was a kle:ectien from :leis
and Galatea. in which Miss STEPHENS sang " Rush, ye
pretty warbling Choir" with her usual excellence. Miss
FOR or also gave " Let the briyht Seraphim," la a manner
usost creditable to her talents and powers. Mr. PLAiT, a -
new horn player, executed a Concerto with admirable skill.
The house was very full.

Mrs. Glossop (Miss Fraron) is engaged to sing at
Naples at a salary of 30,000 francs a year. She made her
first appearance on the Bth ult. at the Theatre of San
Carlo, in Payese's Opera of Aruzinio, and was exceedingly
welt received.
In • recent French Paper it was mention,d that a Le
vourite actor hod lately been killed at Berlin by a greed-
son of Prince BLUCHER. Private letters give a very con-
fused account of the affair. All that we can collect dia.
tinctly is, that Count BLUCHER is, a young man about 21
years of age, ard that it was in the house of STIEII the
actor that a scuffle took place, which ended in the Coent's
stabbing him with a dirk, which he had under hiscloak.
It is further said, that Sven returned hastily home from
the Theatre, in consequence of receiving a letter advis-
ing him to do so, and that he fauns' the Count in the
passage of his house, and immediately struck him seve-
ral blows. On the Count's being seized, it is added, a
loaded pistol was found upon him besides the dirk. " lie
was then taken," saysa letter of the 11th ult. "before
the Commandant, who asked him why he had the dirk
and pis.ol about him Ile answered very proudly,
What would the world think, if they heard that, the
grandson of Prince &mica could be maltreated, and
suffer his insulter to eseipe With impunity?' He'was
then asked fur whet purpose he was there ? He said he
would answer that in the proper time and place. Mr.
Sr. ED is not expected to live. ' BLUCHER has paid court
nt Mrs. STI ru for this year past; she is a very handisone
woman, 28 years of age."
Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the East
Indialloose, when Capt. William Hay, of theship Charles
Grant, took leave of the Court previous to departing fur
China &vol.
General Humbert, the French Officer who, at the rionz-
mencruient of the war landed iu Ireland, and who
died, as we lately noticed, at New Orleans, emigrated
to the United States in 101'4 and acted under 'General
Jackson when New Orleans was atracked by a Britisti
force. For the last five year*, his mind has been
disur-
tiered, a deep melancholy preyed on his spirits, .and he
died without leaving sufficient to defray the expences of
his funeral.
SPRING AND NEAT.—The long wisited,for and antiel.
peted match between those heroes of the list for cAI
enviable and honorary title of Champion of England Its as
made last night; fifty sovereigns aside were deposited,
to he ;heed in tar Isaiah of Mr. John Jackson. This -s
a real made match betwren two Gentlemen amateurs, at
instead of a tparley it must be a figheeor a-forfeit. 'fee
articles are,that the men agree, to fight .11' fair stand-en
battle for two hundred sovereigns aline,, sln. the Tuesday
in Whitsun-week, the Atli of May, ilea tweuty-four feet
roped square. Umpires to be chms, n breach party, at..l
.Mr. Jackson to name a referee in case of dispute, whine.
voice will he final. Mr. Jack:son to name the place of
fighting, which it is underseaod witl'be toaccommodate
Londoners as well as Bristol miens. Betters were my,
but an) thing like even is about the mark.
On Tuesday se'unight the Caesarian operation sat
performed on a woman teamed Ruse MtCoasill, in. see
vicinity of Newry, by Surgeon lied, in the presence an 1
by tee advice of Hr. Morrison. The woman is doing as
well as, from the nature of. the eirsitost.nces, coubi be
expected. We undesitand that Dr. Morrison wean! to
;eve a detailed aecennt of this interesting case in one of
the medics) publications.— (Telegraph )