The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-07-01 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

is daily augmented by new corps. Its materiel is Fitaxarowr, JUNE 23.—Letters from Zurich, of
fast completing, and the promptitude and efficiency the 19th, state, that the Archduke Ferdinand has
with which this is done, and all disorders repressed entered Switzerland with 60,000 toed.
in the interior, evince that the presiding Government VIENNA, JUNE 17.—*—A.s the German Cohstitdtion
has still the confidence of the nation. In the House was drawn up in the Chancery br State oti the 10th
of Representatives a law has been passed, los put. inst., the hitherto dissentient Ministers declared
ting all supplies for the troops in requisition; they were now authorised to sign, and thus it is said
and, although the Assembly is frequently in tumult to be accepted by all the German Powers.
about the mode and the necessity of maintaining public .Baron Humboldt. for Prdssia ; Baron Wissenbere,
safety, and the rights and honour of the nation, the rir Austria ; and Lord Clancarty, for England, will
.'administration of the Government is characterised by remain here for some days, to be present at the
an appearance. of great wisdom and moderation.— closing of the recess and the disposing of the nu-
All the offensive caricatures, iu ridicule of the merous papers and documents which have been pre.

BOURBON family, with which the print.shops of
Paris lately ilioutided, have disappeared; and the
,Barop, ymnot.t.ts, an active Loyalist, taken in
the §outh.west of France, while supporting the
.Duchess of A Neatness; has been set at liberty.
.flut no desire is expressed for the arrival of King
Louts in Paris. These acts may be by order of the
Government, and may be meant to conciliate the
Bouniotos and their friends and it perhaps might
be well that corresponding marks of a disposition to
conciliate should be evinced on the part of the
80131111010 and their adherents—but we see no rea•
• son to believe that their presence or their Govern-
ment is much desired in France. They are still fo.
meeting disturbances in Paris, where some tumults,
doubtless in their favour, have been repressed by
the National Guards. The Plenipotentiaries, deputed
to propose terms of Peace to the Allies, were, at the
' date of the last accounts, waiting at Laun for an
answer to their request for passports. La•n dues not
• seem to have been yet occupied by the Allied Troops.
. There was a tacit agreement between the net-posts
not to attack in the interval without previous notice.
We are still told, however, that Lnsd WELLING:run
was raphlly advancing upon Paris, and that whether
louts was Killl the desired or not, he and his Lord.
ship must belting law to Paris by this time. We I
still doubt this, and we doubt much that the Boua.
soma will ever conciliate the French people.
Louts ou his arrival doubtless means to declare
every thing that has been done since his depar.
tore, null and void. 'rhe danger of such a bold
step is already apparent, and, much we fear, that
the reign of terror which the feeble Monarch is so
strenuously advised t' commence by the hired writers
in this country, will be a necessary consequence of
Iss return, and of the dissolution of the pre-ent
,rder of things.
We give a Proclamatian of Prince '4ciivrantXvw.
BERG, on crossing the Rhine at Oflenn.•i ", which
lay s nothing of the Austrian General's olject bring
to fight for the restoration of the Bouusows, for
they are tint even mentioned by him ; sad thus the
Duke of WELLtistrrox, who avows that be enters
the Kiog of FeAtica's territory to restore the legiti•
mate Monarch, is not borne out as to parity of ob-
ject by him brother General of Austria.
Two ble,sengers avrivrd tate taut eventri, with
dispatches from the Duke of Wei.i.t:Catou. We
understand they contain an account of the arrival of
the Deputation from the new French Government,
with proposals to treat for peace with the Allies.—
The dispatches, we further learn, encourage Minis-
ters to expect news of tie utmost impedance immedi-
ately.

tented by the various European Courts, and which
are now to be given back to the respective Courts.
The affairs of Italy are said to be terrillosted to
the satisfaction of the Bourbon Courts.

The discussions in Parliament, and the diminu-
tions itt the majorities on the Grant to the Duke of
Conaent.aND, show strongly the sense that is gene-
rally entertained in the country on the justice of this
very modest propose!, and the choice of the Royal
Duke, who has thus made the merits of his marriage,
and Lis ovrts deserts, topics for the exercise of public
judgment, and grounds for no trifling demand on the
public purse. air Readers will perceive that there
was another disision in the House of Commons !stet
night, on the grant of 60001. per ann. proposed by
Ministers to be given to the Duke of CvmaEnt iND.
This is the third which has taken place, and the ma-
jority has successively diminished from 17 to ti!—
Yet Ministers persevere in pressing the demand !
Yet the Duke of CUMBERLAND can accept money so
reluctantly given I Take away from the list of those
1 ' who have voted for imposing this additional burden on
I an already too much but 'hited and distressed people, ,
to confer the amount so squeezed from their int. i
povetivhed hands on the Duke of Cumexotase, who i
is already so well provided for, merely because he
1 is 64 the King's son," as a scotch Member reminded !
us he was ; or has at length given a Lady a legal
title to call him husband, and entered on a state
i which s generally recommended as one of greater
economy and happiness, than expense and misery, 1
-take away, vie say, from the number of those
who have conscientiously voted for this grant the
names of all those who are known to hold places
under Government, and walk in the train of the
• Minister and the Royal Family, and see, had some
other independent Members attended to the per-
formance of their duty in this respect, whether the
Duke's Majority would not dwindle into a Minority,
little calculated to uphold the Minister's 64 moral
as well as his political influence," and give still less
imposing ideas of the estimation in which the charac-
ter of his Royal Highness of CUMBERLAND is held.—
But the popularity of either will not he put to this
test. The Bill, however, is be pushed through in
Waterloo style. We understand that the second
' reading is 6sed for Monday, and that notice has also
been given, that the sense of the House will again be
taken by those who, so much to their credit, have op-
pnsed this extraordinary grant of public money.
We desire to speak of this subject with respect—
for it concerns high characters and high interests, no
leas than those of the state, of morality, and of jos-
tice. It is, therefore, ant, considerable astonish.
ment we have seen the sery estraordinary debates in
the House of Commons relative to the Duke of Cum-
aaRLAWEL That personage has certainly been very
roughly bandied ; aud from all which appears he will
have eery dearly parrhaed the 60001. a year, which
Ministers very injudiciously have come forward, in
this hour of national prosperity and abundance, to
demand from the Public Purse. We catinot but lament
that an occasion should have bees afforded for the
! dreadful exposate which this grant has given rise to;
bet we confess we do not understand all the dark
i
asysterloes hints which have been thrown out as to
the repatation of the Royal Pair, or se Mr. Tieawair
designates them, "the Lady and Gentleman." What
does all this mean?—What have they done ?
We understand that "the Lady" is the daughter
of the Duke of MECILENBURGII STRZLITZ, and
is, of coarse, niece to our gracious Queen : and
yet it is openly stated in Parliament, and with
strong accompanying memorandums, not of the
most flattering kind, that her Majesty considers
her Royal relation in so strange a poiitt of view,
that she would nut chuse to admit her into her Royal
presence. We have heard that this Princess was not
extremely happy, to be sure, either with Prince
Louis of Paussta, or with the Prince of SALMIS ;
some say that these Princes were net perfectly happy
with her. But it is a delicate thing to interfere be-
tween man and wife, and the less we say on that sub-
ject, perhaps the better. But what has the poor
Duke of Comes:awe° done to draw upon him such
a terrible attack ? We h•lve heard of his little inno.
cent gambols in his regiment, and that he is not quits
i
• popular. either with men or Officers. But these
are all innocent little frolicsome amusements, and, I
by :to means, tall for the awful mauling his Royal'
Highness is daily eucountering, and which, it ap.
pears, if the Niece Recourr's sagacious Ministers'
persevere, in the present most apropos grant, his
Royal Highness may, for some time, daily expect.
To us this is all a mystery. Otte ion. Gentle.'
matt says, in reply to another How Gentleman, who
states, he only belives " half what he hears ; that if
that half is true, it is quite sadicient."—This re-
Imark, although (its our immortal SHAILSPEASIt eb•
Mtn) " not as wide as a church-door, or as deep
ate a well, yet It is enough ;" and his Royal High.

We to-day received German Papers to the 261 b.

Besides the articles we subjoin, they inform us, that t he
King of Pausgt wag to set out from &Ain, for the
army, on the 2141. Great discontent and disappoint-
ment were felt in the city and derby of Posen, on

learning their cession tl Prussia. They did not con-
template this fate. of which the at notice they bad
was the arrival of the Prossian Commissioners and
troops, to take possession of that part of Poland.
FnaNRITORT, Jtiza 23.—.1 solemn fete was cele.

brsted this morning, on account of the brilliant VIC-
, tory obt.tined over the French by the English and
Prussian nrmips. All the Civil and Military Antho-
rities attended it. T.,. earricon, the magnificent
Proisciats pistil, a.: the landsturm, horse and foot,
were under armq.

It seems that vre lit -each the moment when the
Treat operations wi.' ►eb''. ; Prince IVrede had yes-
terday his head.qua►t..rs at Kaiserslautern, and in.
.tended to pass the :irer Sarre to day. Prince
Schwartzenberg imself is still at Heidelberg ; it Is
hoped he will he soon recovered. On ►he other side,
Gen. Baron Frimont has passed the Simplon with
his army, and has arrived at St. Maurice.
The first column of the army under Gen. Doc-
turow arrived here to-day.

Mammy:tat, JUNE 21..—The trains of artillery
which have been passing for some days through this
rity to the left bank of the Rhine, are immense.—
Yesterday evening a Russian corps of 11,000 in-
fantry marched OVPr.

HANAu, him!: 2t—Last night an express brought
the particulars of the journey of the King of Prussia.
Ills Majesty ail' arrive here on Saturday everting or
Sunday morning.

The second column of Russians which arrives here
to-morrow, consists of six regiments and three bri-
gades of artillery.

' 00 the 25th, there will arrive four regiments, a
pulk of Cossacks, and another train of artillery.
This army does not stop upon the Rhine, but goes
immediately to the left hank-18,000 men belonging
to it remain at Mentz as part of the garrison ; the
Prussians now there go to their army of the Lower
'thine, and only some Austrian regiments remain
stith the Rosiaus at Mentz.

ness ERNEST, the Duke of CUISORRLAND, Cid 0111,1
of his Majesty's 15th Regiment of Hussars, Chan-
cellor of the University of Dublin, Ranger of one
of sale Parks, Stc. &c. &c., will have, as long as he
lives, to deplore the day that he suffered his 11.r9
dl
Brother's must sapient Ministers to come to Parlia-
ment for a grant, the demand of which has produced
his Royal Highness's royal character such a bespsi-
tering. Tb be sure, it is stated also iii Podium('lit.
that it is the intention of the Royal Couple to reside
in foreign countries ! in that case it can be de-
cidedly of no grent consequence what passes here.
—However, his Royal Highness cannot feel over
comfortable while this Penalutt Bitl is in progress,
we humbly he( lenge to recommend, that he returns
as soon as possible to his Roj al Partnek abroad, who
IS, of course, quite inconsolable at his absence in the
very middle of the honev moon 1 We shall, there-
fore, take leave, for the present, of the Royal
Couple, wishing them every possible happiness which
they have so good a tight to expect from en union
So entirely concordant in every way, nail where,
from the perfect analogy of cherseter, there are the
isn't conclusive reasons to expect the most !abaft
harmony •

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OUSE OF LORdS, fijpg 911.
, •
In Ihi calm! SirW. clarrnix, A t iiirnes•Geiieral of the Prince Of
Wales, against Sir Jtiliri St. .iihfn and nowt!, ('nun-el were
ordered to heard nett the ahe her
Hee fax.rt Of Exchequer wid any juri.dirtlon In the cause as
anted is the information.
The w tar Commissis ner Bill; the million Exchequer
Bilk Hint- 4t niilliuds Exthequer itsil, Hill, h 4 county
Kridrs Hill, the Won! Duty Bdi, and t stook
Offices Bill, Dittillery Hill, and mttelt, acre biongtli u i hunt
the and lead a Erin time.
Ttse f;ritiii. Load Revenue Hill wag rend a serarld joie.
The l'heixta Prn•iancis 8111, Kil.n.iinhain fliapital Bill,
Tltaiio Bathing Hill, TObairo Bill, I/all:pay Hill. Fnie.En
°Alters Hill. and etlibasert's Accd‘iiit Hill tteee tumeniued
and minute&

PARLSIT APPREtaTiCi.it.
Toe Marquis of LANDOWNE moved,the com-
mittal of the Perish Apprentices Bill. He .rated
that the practict of. spnrotiticirg Parish Ciarl.y
Children with matters at a great di.tatice, so that
the Overseers of thek utilise web anti their Connec-
tions had no oppottunity of -ertitig heti the) mere
treated, had been abused. The object of tins Bill
Was to endeavour to remedy the abuse; by Hosting
the space within which they might be apprenticed tai
within (wry miles of the place of their residence.—.
A Noble and Learned Lord not now in his place
Yesterday, at the early hour of I% o'clock, a CAA-
-1 (Itedesthle) had thought the limits too confined, and,
net Council ens held at the Foreign Office,
Cabinet Ministeis, except the '
which
Was had suggested various amendments, especially that
attended by all
the Justices of Peace should be directed tti decide in
the
Loeb Clued late, who was engaged with the' each cascase.a hat might be a proper distance. When
these and
PRINCE REGENT, and in consequence did tlot•arrive •other amendments were introdeced, the
at the Council till two o'clock. The C..uncil broke Bill would be printed and circulated, without pre.
in the present Session.
up a little before three o'clock, when Viscount CAS. reeding farther in that House i
TLERLAGII proceeded to Cariton-hotise, to lay be-1 The Bill was then COMlllitted, and the amendment*
agreed to.
fore the REGENT the result of the deliberations of
FORE SLAM. TE. IGN SLARAD
the Cabinet, and at the same time took leave of hitt I •
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE. moved; that the
Royal Highness, previous to his leaving England.— I.
The Noble Secretary dined at his house in St.., report of the Foreign Slate Trade Bill be taken Into
James's-square, and every thing was ordered to ! The Earl of WESTMORLAND opposed the mo. consideration.
he in readiness for his departure at eight o'olock...
(ion, repeating the arguments which he- had before
His Lordship is accompanied by Mr. Mottme, the
stated, and moved that the report be further cons'.
brother in the Under Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs ; Mr. PLANTA, of the same office, as his pri. died this day three weeke:
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE argeed in favour
flue Secretary ; and Mr. Rtcnooen, the King's
of the Bill also on the same trouteit
eat ls whinh he had
Messenger. His Lordship, it was understood, pro.
, formerly taken—that a great &ttted, and that
reeds direct to Brussels. •
I At the breaking up of the Cabinet. Mr. KAYE, the this would be, if not a complete, yet a minable
King's Messenger, was ordered to hold himself Is, remed•
TheY LORD CHANCELLOR vilified the trifle
readiness for a foi eign journey, and left town soon
abolished, but opposed the Bill as very crudely
after, to precede Lord CASTLEREAGH, to make ar-
. raw:news and preparations for him
on the
road. drawn up. He himself might be subject to the
punishment in the Bill, by ordering foreign Welt Many distressing instances have occurred to aid•
India Securities to be taken in the administration of
tate the feelings of parents and friends, who have lost
justice in his Court.
their relatives and companions by the dreadful battle
Loid HARROWBY supported the Bill t and
'of the 18th. One Gentleman was told, on the first
day of enquiry, that his son was safe; on the next, Lord moagros opposed it.
he was informed that his only son was no more! A Lord ELLENBOROUGH repeated Its chin.
• Lady in Ilarley-street bag lost two sons; anti a vas lions to the Bill, and said; that though entitles fee
luahle Officer of one of the Hussar regiments, was the abolition, set in order to protect the blacks they
• killed by a Prussian, who mistook him for a French. most not sacrifice white men, nor rashly give way
men.
,and most deplorable from grief. The widow of the Officer is in a state of preg. to those crude and savage measures which a fanatical
t
irregularity of mind had a tendency sometimes ill
nancy
PARLIAMENTARY REVORM.--Thursday the Livery bring forward. His Lordship alluded to certain re.
po which were i cion res a ember
of London, Friends of Parliamentary Reform, had
or
London
Mrtsembers of then Sierrarculati Leone Cumptpectinguy, rind ex-
their Anniversary Diener at the Ci'y of
pressed his hope that it was not correct that any of
Tavern.—Mr. WAITUX.sw took the Chair at about
ovo o'clock, supported by Mr. nyma, Sir Jowl the Members of that Company hod attempted to
counteract the purposes of the abolition, contrary
11110CIMORTON, &c. ; and after the cloth was re-
ted, the usual toasts were ar,„„heit4 which were to the professed objespee of the Restitution.
wed by '• The Prince Regent, and may he re-
said, that if the Noble and Learned Lord had read
• to mind the principles that seated his Family
ro
on The Earl of ROSSLYN supported the Bill, and
g
the answers to the reports t which be had alluded,
tile Throne."--" The People, the source of all le- lie would have seen that the rtes were unfounded.
themes authority." The Chairman then read so-
Lott' ELLENBOROUG , in esplanation, said,
tbral letters from Mr. WHITBREAD, Sir FRANCIS
%aim; Mr. BROUGHAM, Mr. Alderman Coonsa, that he had not asserted that the rumours were true,
i on.
and others, excusing themselves for not being present
but only that they were in circulat
On this occasion, and espressing their regret. The The Earl of LIVERPOOL considered the Bill as) very benelficial, in so far as it went to prevent the
health of Mr. Bymo was given from the Chair, and
that Gentleman expressed his gratitude to the Meet-
inve•ting of British capital in foreign colonies, and
said that justice to our own colonies required that
log, 11, well as Sir J. THROCKMORTON, Major CART- the slave traffic should, if possible, be universally
WRIGHT, and Alderman GOODSEHERE., on similar me-
abolished. He wished the Bill to pass.
lions being proposed and carried with great applause.
The House then divided,—
I The health of the Chairman was moved by Mr. Prevent.. for the Bill.. tiii-Against 11..19...9 •
IBirtso, and Mr. WAITHHAN took the opportunity of Nolan'. For the Bill.- 10.-Agnin-t 1t..1Y-5
going over the many difficulties he had had to en. Total...eor the Bill, 19—Against it,ll4,4llnintity lignin's! it, 3.
counter, and his ultimate success. With this price-
The Bill was accordingly lost. --,Adjourned.
dent, he could not doubt of the final triumph of the _ - f' _b '••
cause of Parliamentary Reform. Major CARTWRIGHT HOUSE 'OF COMMON%.
recommended that the Petitions laid before the Wards Mr. PEEL appeared at the bar, and stated, that his Royal
Highness the Pnnee Regent had reeetwed the Address or the
shituld be numerously signed, as the only mode of ob-
retative to the Monuments of Oenentle Hon, liible. and
tam in attention from the House of Commons. He there relative
who fell is America and bad ordered them to be
hoped to see them presented from all part- of the erected. '
The 11;adnd Tax Commissioners' Names Bet was read a *MM
kingdom. After a number of songs, and many other c
characteristic toasts) the evening concluded with the! time, and
FPIanIKITZGERALD having moved the third
utmost hilarity. I reading of the Irish Distillation Bill,
The Scrip receipts for the Loan were issued from 1 Mr.-CIIICH ES lER proposed a clause for impos-
e the Bank yesterday: taking the profit on Omnium at ing flues on town lands.
Pt per Cent. premium, there is absolutely ass increase After some conversation between •Mr. Fileterahl,
of property to the Loan Subscribers of Z 1,320,000 ; 1 Sir Henry Parnell, Mr. French, and Mr. Chichester,
this, it must be allowed, is turning (lie penny.— the latter Gentleman withdrew his clause, and the
There is another source of acquiring wealth, to , Bill wasr read a third time and passed.
which the Public are looking with no little solicitude i Upon the motion for the third reading of the Cole.
—we mean the Lottery ; it contains Prizes nn. brooks Estate Bill, a conversation took place be.
equalled, and presents to those who were in the Ir. een Mr. Preston, who opposed it, and Sir J.
Loan list an opportunity of still further increasing .
reliant, who supported it ; and after a few words
their fortunes, end to those who were not, the chance from Mr. Baring, the Bill
was
passed.
of acquiring, by one Ticket, a sum to gratify the •
THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.
most avaricious-440,000. The CHANCELLOR of thee EXCHEQUER
A I.IST OF THE MiNoRITY brough in a Bill to make a further addition to the
Tear verse AGA 11•0 TDB DOKE Or CUMBERLAND'S BR-
EVITY' BILL ON EDE MAT ar.Aoitdo: JU•E $), revenue of the Duke of Cumberland, in consequence

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of his marriage, and to settle 60001. a year upon his
consort, should her Royal Highness happen to sur.
wive him.
Upon the motion that the Bill should be read a
first time,
Lord A. HAMILTON expressed his conviction
that this Bill was totally _unnecessary, anti therefore
he should proevere is oppasinCit. Such a prop.
sition appeared to him not only objectionoule in
principle, but in the which it bad been in-
troduced. Heretofore he marriage of any
branch of the Royal keg dcugtom was to call
upon the House, in the.first Instance, for a rote of
approbation upon the auspicious event. But no such
vole had been proposed on this occasion, and no
wonder—for what party ift the country could deem
such a marriage auspicious? He was, he declared,
much astonished at the refusal of the Noble Lord
(Castlereagh) to answer the question put to him hiss
night, 'whether the Duchess of Cumberland would
he received at Court—nay more, at the Noble Lord's
reprobation of the question itself, for if the Duchess
of Cumberland would not be so received, if she was
so disrespected by the female part the Royal Fs.

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end+ of the candles which had been furniOired try
the Plaintiff to the Theatre, he had, to sit intent.
and purposes, rendered himself liable for the pay.
ment of them. It was impossible for him to got
over that. If he intended to have prevented his
liability, he should have avoided those ends of can•
riles as he would a pestilence ; but as they had got
kto his box, his motley must find its way into the
Plaintiff's pocket. Besides the expression used I,'
him to the first witness, " on what terms tars wa
lighted now ?" pet the question beyond duebt, and
proved that he held himself out as responsible (cir
the lighting.
Verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages 7171.
40s.

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THURRDAY. Jima %..
GALOT V. C0.81Y1191.
This was an action of (rover, 'broegitt b l pPTIOII
who was described as a musical composer, against the
publisher of the Rejected Theatre, to recover I me.
tauscript play, sent for that work, called Tesphoti,
the value of which was laid at 5001.. The fact was,
that the Defendant had lost it. It appeared from the
testimony of Nir..Galt, the editor of the work, that be
thought the play unfit for publication. and recollect.
ed returning it to the Defendant, with others;ttpoe
I his leaving town. The Defendant never having re-
! (used, but only excused the re-delivery of the play
to the Plaintiff.
Lord ELLEsnottouctr ruled that there was n 9 con.
version, and that the action should have been case
upon the bailment for not safely keeping: bat
added, that it became those who entrusted to others
literary property upon which they set so high a
value, to guard against the risk of its being loft by
keeping a copy; and alluded to a set of persons who
infest the town by leaving books at the doors of houses
to be subsceibed for; and afterwards calling for the
money or the book. Ile should rule that they who
thrust so unprofitable a bailment upon an individual
would not be entitled to be paid for the book shoubd
it happen to lae,lost.—Nunstrit.

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