The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-16 00:00:00

TrI_rAITSMAN.

frorelht beady bf her empire. 'The Family-Consrt
Treaty, concluded in 1761, between the Crewnl of
France- and Spain, had for its object the re-con-
.
quest of Portugal, and the final-anuexation of it to
the latter of those nations. But the native weeklies'
of the country ; a want of Military skill in the Spa-
' nish army ; and the exertions of the Portugiese,
aided by the British, prevented Spain from accom-
plishing her ohjert ; but she never lost sight of it ;
and Portugal always, from that period, looked upon
England as her protector. And, when the British
Ministry had wantonly, improvidently, and shame.
lessly seized upon the Spanish vessels, France seized
the opportunity, and fired the ambition and revenge
of Spain by pointing out Portugal as the fittest place
where she could affect the interest of England, by
annexing it to her own European territory. A secret
1 treaty was accordingly formed between the two
Courts, which had for its object the introduction of
French troops into Spain, for the conquest of Por-
.tugal. Thus England furnished the pretext for that
measure which has since brought so much misery
upon the Peninsula, and that which has resulted to
onr own country, in consequence of prosecuting the
war in that devoted portion of the globe. In con-
, firmation of the last-mentioned treaty, and of the
. privity 40 it of the Prince of As as, since denomi-
nated FERDINAND THE SEVENTIN, NAPOLEON directed
a letter to that Prince, in November, 1807, declaring
him, in the absence of the King,his father, Generalis-
simo of the united French and Spanish forces, des-
; tined for the conquest of Portugal; in which he told
1
, him 44 to go and conquer a country he was destined
to govern." It was, no doubt, intended by Ne-
i eor.toe that FERDINAND _should reign in Portugal,
as the best way of disposing of that branch of the
800 itIION family ; but he never intended hiss to
reign in Spain also: he knew that the Prince,
after having violated the territory of Portugal, would
call with a very had grace upon other nationshted even
upon his own natural subjects, in defence of his claim
to the Crown of Spain. A-man who has notoriously
commenced robber himself,excites but little sympathy
in the bosoms of others when he is robbed in his
turn. In Portugal, FeaDiNeen would have reigned
an object of scorn to surrounding nations, and of
contempt to his own subjects; and NAPOLEON would
not long have wanted either the means or pretext to
have un-kinged him. Thus the Spanish branch of
the Bourbon family, by being guilty of flagrant ag-
gression themselves, would have fallen by piecemeal,
unpitied, except by their minions and dependents.
get circumstances crowded too fast upon NAPOLEON
for the slow execution of this scheme, and rendered
their expulsion from power more violent and 'less
just. Toe corruption, the wickedness, and clashing
interest of the Court of Madrid, made the monarchy
thereof ready for plucking much sooner than even
,the sanguine genius of NAPOLOON contemplated.
In October, 1808, the Prince of ASTURIAS was
eatignt out in a conspiracy against his Father and
Soy .reign ; and on the sth of November he acknow-
ledged his guilt in a letter to the King, and one to the
Queen, in consequence whereof he received a free par-
don. The Kilig, however, found to his affliction,
as a parent, and the less of his dignity as a Save-
reign, that his clemency to his unnatural son only
whetted his ambition, and enabled him the better to
carry his treasonable purposes into execution ; for,
on the 18th of March, 1808, he deposed his father,
and, on the next day, took possession of the Throne
himself ; which is confirmed in a letter, dated the
eed of the same month, addressed by the old King
to NAPOLCON, in which he thus pours forth the af. The Lally ot Eugene Beaultarnois, Viceroy of
fliction of his soul: " Under the pressure of the 1 Italy, was, on the 31st July, delivered of a &ugh.,
moment, and amid the clashing of weapons, and I ter, at Milhn. °I '
the cries of rebellions guards, I found• that I had to l • We are happy else;, state, that Mr. Fitzgerald,
choose between my life and death, and that my death though still 4alnreeitsCunder considerable indisposi-
would he followed by that of the Queen'e;—l was
ions:Shom the Atrpeious outrisge committed upon hie
compelled to abdicate the Throne." On the 4th of persop by the four prieatei in. the Carlow Militia,
May, the old King. at Bayonne, inally abdicated is now convalescent. ills wjfe,:who witnessed the
the throne of Spain in favour of N.teottox ; and, barber Ons Seine his since' bLett confined In child.-
on the 12th, Fenn's/AHD, and his brothers CARLOS, s
and ANTONIO, did the same.
I PUBLIC DEFAULTER. Ibirtly billtso is In a fide wiry" of. recovery. One of
hiest!meitooce-hoseue.—ah• - Masathridgc a tax-collector, the offeekletsrea the public ore informed, is held to
The cowardly persecution carried on against sr
mesh. and resident in Lower Brook-street, was INSiI, I:ol4.FeelfaiS
•OS beard what proaeediuge hails
Wieass; and the numerous publications i,sued from tfrontlit.mrto gig
S by summons, on Friday last, at the suit tif h‘,„,..
the press during the progress of the Aeterican and the parish, he kitting neglected to pay the mosey accruingfront ....,.. Instituted past the other three.
French revolutions, had diffused a blaze of political LasneLhveerhas.d ciati,i,ecastellttihdtobthetitatroifwetinose appointedh by his PEntAiatc,ittts
te. tta•ktehtilistaamiteilteitillt- N.—.lotiathttn Waring, a Lancashire
ipeclestrian, started frone,Lotadon, on Thursday, for
light around unknown to the world before ; but no fain had ern so much deranged of late as;
people in Europe had profited so little by it as had from hts bunks, w,iich was the cause of unavoidable errors. Ile it Wager oft 100 gnineee,' to gre lit Northampton and
the inhabitants of Spain. Yet they knew enough to grdnemitalr lonfearniyii.inpterontieunnytowatita.,weoilitieslt,aropueraTnednuthntist
number; hours,
reeero (ii heststredmodithirty-sia Mites) in thirty-foils.
enable them to see their own political degradation ; who were bound in 50t)r. each. 'the delanit is something more hours, which is, within two miles, at the rate of four
than two thousand seven hundred pounds, and the Defendant milesaa,heur without stoppages. He weut the first
but still not enough to enable them to adopt a mean was committed to Neagate till it it paid. 1 twenty-fouemiles he•six hours, 55 miles in twelve
between violence and submission ; a state of things ,
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always dangerous both to a Monarch and his people. :
The Nobility knew how to complain ; but with- I Our Correspondent at Huddersfield, under date a half. After resting atehour and a half he started
out having sufficient prudence to take advantage ey ,ef the 10thinst. isays:---44 SE/fetal persons have been on his return wither hove etsViet goad, and he hisd
the imbecility of the Court, and the discontents of apprehended on various charges of Luddism, and somethiog under five'
Mile, to perform. in the- la's
the people, to remove them both by a single blood- are now in custody here. A number of others have hour. Ile get through the, busioess with three lee
less stroke. They felt themselves degraded by the this week abjured their illegal oath and taken the nutes to spare, with ezeessice fatigue, aod it is cone
upstart PRINCE or PNACE • and instead of seeking oath of allegiance; they see the calamities they hare sidered a wonderfei performance.
his removal, by unfolding the' manly voice of truth
clone depredations they
brought upon themselves and neighbours by the atro- A very melanchelygeerdent heppened iti the here
to the deluded Monarch's ear, they sought the de- have committed, and the de- I of Linlitheow, on Monday, the' rhiettant, Mehl'
struction of him and his millions by complotting lesions they have laboured under ; and it is to be I Steel, a residenter theieh had a buy run over the
the overthrow of the Monarch; and an ungrateful hoped they will all follow the laudable example of; head by ts coech and killed, aud what renders it the
son suffered himself to be made the instrument of to ' these their associates, in discharging themselves from more remalliah!Y depliasable, the
,s/tna man ha a
point the dagger at his father's breast, to compel him • that unlawful and ruinous system in which they have I fine child run over by a cart at Bo'aess about twelve
months ago.
to yield up his Crown. Yet this is the brave, the ' unfortunately been engsged, and return to their duty
Baxtere--Carter, Oregson's formidable Lance-
'generous, and the much-beloved FERDlNitlith in and allegiance before it is too late. .
shire candidate, is needled to fight a thirteen.ston?
whose behalf our Ministers tell us, it is our duty to I On Monday, ee'nnight, about one o'clock, the matt of the name a Bone; and the combat will take
Spend our last shilling, and spend the last drop of Woollen Manufactory of Messrs. Richard Lindsey
Our blood; while his own subjects (if such a bur- ' and Sons of •I in the West Riding f dace this we 4 '
o
tesque can be admitted) look at the rollinotempest ; Yorkshire' I .11"e'
. was attacked by a number of mete, who,
1 aplacidity which 1
to their count/ 's liberty, or that they are. tired' Of shears, of the best and injured
kind, greatly the ma-
the House of URBON. l'Ailler7 used in raising and dressing the cloth. This
Had the plan, which NAPOLEON laid dean far the depredation was completed without lights, and the
groduei subjugation of Spain, not have been fres- time occupied in its perpetration did not exceed 12
tasted by the treason of FaRotNANO, the •Spaniarth minutes. The depredation at Southowrans, on
woad Stave received "his yoke with their characteristic Thursday,
thp hd hat. was committed on the mill of
%cavity, and esould have retained all their animosity Messrs. Waterhouse. On this occasion so Wears
wads Epgiaed;;ltuthehen heavy bodies are set in. were broken; but,two gig-mills were destroyed !Rh
lent motiop by some sudden and unexpected shock, their furnituti; iM ilmliviltidOws of Mr. BrOkftint,
4odtice'a concession in the elements of which the Superietetilefiref ejlile sou; watitalak, . titatti
'etiitaktt,'Sicri easily te .be allayed. Thy" baled. .. ,nHI et T' Mt Ur-
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it was in Spain : the Spaniardi'iVere suddenly aroused
• to action by the event just named; and thereby net
only prefented the hasty conquest of their country,
but gave time for them and the English Government
to reconcile some of their more prominent differ-
-1 ences, and the latter to aid them with their Armies,
and to raise up confederacies against France in the
iNorth of Europe, which have constantly retarded
' her work of Conquest in the,retiblisula.
ILike a lion that lets go . bia•Prey to.turn upon his
, gtlial le
uoet .resti wwill eorta rScpadii in
,e. II
iar„ gil mkt bpi r q
808, to burievaekr saastulni ids
eb att:ikt ,
hostile alliance formed agaiust hint by„England and
4 Russia : the battle of Friedland broke .the hostile
charm, and the plighted faith 4 Ai.Z.TAtetrit.t, ilt Tii-
. sit, justified his opponent in again withdrawing his
• armies from the North. Ile bed nut demanded the
•
, liberation of the Poles, es „plight have been ex-
1-pected, for the purpose of restoring to prospe-
rity the influence of : Frew joartliat quarter of
Europe : Austria held petek of thiamin 'uondage, and
1 ert he was courting the fair •ha.of .the Emperor's
daughter, to consolidate, by joint Imperial influence,
Cibis authority ill France. This prevented the enlarge-
.prient of the Poles at that time ; still they looked up-
-1 911 him with admiration, as being the only man ca-
pable of humbling their cruel oppressors ; they flew
, in thousands to his standard ; he received them as
j useful instruments, and placed them in posts of ho-
-1 nour. This excited the jealousy of the Czar ; and
i hence mutual animosities arose. NAPOLSON might
I have quieted the Czar, but then it must have been
at the expeace of the faith which the Poles reposed in
, him, and it would likewise have heightened the arro-
gance of his opponent. He, therefore, once more
determined to risk the protraction of the conquest
of the Peninsula, till he had settled the affairs of
1 ALEX O,IDER ; knowing that by reinstating Poland he
I should fix an eternal barrier against the western pro-
-1 gress of the latter; a barrier consisting of a powerful
nation, that must be enemies to Russia from motives
;.of resentment and personal safety, and friends to
France from feelings of gratitude. Having once
! settled the war in the North, he will return to Spain,
with armed confidence in his rear, and excited by
1 motives of ambition and revenge in his front ; and
lan honourable oiler of peace from England is the on-
ly thing which can save that country from the hand
I of slaughter, and the yoke of bondage, except the
Spaniards themselves assume that dignity of soul,
which is befitting a ration determined to be free ..
and as yet, we are compelled to state, that no such
spirit has hitherto made its appearance amongst them.

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POLICE.

MANSION-HOUST.

Ticncr-Poftwints.—A complaint was on Tetestlay exhibited
by certain ticket porters, plying in Bishopsgate-street, aghast
IV. Brantan, the Waterman of the Flower-put Inn, cliargiqr
him with carrying parcels, whieb it Was their exclusive privi-
lege, as freemen of the city of London, to carry: The Defendant
said, he had only carried parcels in their absence, and was not
conscious of commit tins an illegal act.
The Lotto hiavost said, that he had no power to make any
decision. and advised vie parties to bring their action in the
Mayor's Court, which they expressed their determination to du
One of the tribe of Jew fruiterers, who infest the avenues
leading to the 'Change, was brought before his Lordship in the
aussady of an Officer, on a charge of ,proinoting riot and coo,
fusion in the front of the shop of Mr. f osier, the Stock-brok..r,
The Loon MAroft observed, that complaints of this descrip-
tion had very frequently been exhibited before bin, ,end he had
no doubt much inconvenience was experienced f:o al the swarms
of those troublesome itinerant merchants, who were continually
haunting the neighbourhood of Cornhill and tile Bank. He
wished it now to be undeistood, that ,if any of the .1 were
hrought before him in future, under similar circumstances, he
should feel it his duty to commit them to Bridewell. and h-ye
them fogged; and this determination he begged the officers
would make known amongst the °Minders. Tae buy against
whom the present charge was preferred, was discharged under a
promise to emigrate to same other part of the town.
CUILDFI a 1.1..
James Fr (Maw who bad been taken into custody by ones('
the Officers on Thursday eveniug, in tioldeu-lane, ith i cam-
ber of wedges of now rought brass in his possession, and who
bad been remanded till Tuesday, was brought upfor re-exami-
nation. No person as yet appeared agaiost the Prisoner. nor
was any of the property found upon loin owned. The Officer
stated, that on searching the Prisoner's lodgings. be found other
articles corresponding with those found on hit person; a parcel
of knives and forks, of different kinds, which bad never been
used, some silver tea-spoons • void a nuinherof keys of different
sixes. The Officer had apprised several of the principal trades-
men in the brasiery line of the natnre and description of the ar-
ticles found upon the Prisoner, each wedge of the brass being
marked in a prominent and legible manner; and io consequence
as he understood, varitios letters had been sent off to iiitMlng-
ham to some of the principal mannfacturers there, to width,
however, no answer could yet have been received.
Under these circumstances, the Worthy Alderman (Mr. 1141-
sotto JONATILA7C S!/ITN) ordered the Prisoner to be reinaiL.
and to be brought up for farther examination on Thursday.

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In the ever:Mon of his duty, on the I ith of June Lie. It utt'
;reared, that the Prosecutor had a,weit In eietruse against II 3 '
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unn-aiot.itheod,:tanisfdthititieiyn en„unenarded moment she .distit- Might he
near She premises they met two of me Ilattint:gardeti Officer-,
trim tel gone there ill consequerscenflfueinotion. that IlLes;
die.illetion was i.arriel on epos the
ermind the fortress MI near ahel
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portnnity occurred Sit surprising the gerrispo,, ,irshtes( that, teetri :
itowevee, a %cleat:. whose premises
Woke by.a- private signal that
Was seat to thefront window to reconnektce, and elves let,, ,
parley with the s neatly. l)nring the eonfriffiece llownrd impru-
dently ventured too near the wisalew..anderdsios .perceives be
Moore, who jutaped seddenty up, touched fiitu oi, the.shooldci,
and declared he was his Prisoner. The siftßiow Was Mull&
diately polled down, and Moore t,hoit qtotght in a trap ;, hid
whilst its this situation beaseo about toe slioulders anti Ipad by
Love erove.and Mn. Howard. From Cars vitiation he.sras et-
trimmed by Isis sun and assistant, who drew hitn out by Itisheels.
As soon as he was extricated, Inve,erokelortoped out of the
window, and attacked him again: lie was, howevers heater of,
and the officer and his assistants g.t nett admission by the.ssin.
dove, where Mrs. and Miss Howard Mond ieadieo receive tlehst
anted with a pitchfork and a rick-axe; herenicain . the oilic4
met a ith a determined oppositiOn, buteventitalfy:tanoved Vic.
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tort ton.
set up. was, that the officers' I:og matfe in illegA
entrance Into tits house by breaking open the window, and het .
committed the first aisault, by presenting altivtol, and snapping
it in Mr. llowanTs face; and cm Mrs. Illosvard's going tip to as-
sist her husband, giving. her a violent Mow iii the min with it.
The Jury, however, found the IDefend tins guilty ; a,;,', the
Court senteoced them to three monthif imprisonment in the /louse
of Correctitm.
Daniel Preneh, Esq. was then charged with assaulting William
Simmons and Richard Squires, the latter a coastaLle, in the ex.'.
ention of his duty, on the 11th of June last. There was a cruet
, indictment, charging the assault the opposite way.
From Mr...Siuturons's statement it appeared, that he was sitting
t in Isis parlour on the afternoon of the day mentioned, when,
some person knoekiag at the door, he desired they would come
1 io, and the Defeinlaist entered ; he asked him his busitue.s, raid
he said he came respecting a young lady who lodged up stairs,
1 and who held been struck and ill-treated the day befiwe by the
' Prosecutor. The l'roseentor said he had struck no Oke, it nieit
be . mutt/the ;. to which the Defendant replied by using very
alsosi se Language, and threateniug him; upon this he called to
Squires, who war a pence Officer, and chanced to he In the house
with hiat,.and Squires coming tip, they tried to pennade hint to
lease the room ; this at last they did, but on his getting into the
pinsne,e, he seized a !arc:, stick. with which he struck the Pro-
! secutor, omit wounded loin dreadfully, breaking the stick by the
Wows. Squires then produced his staff of authority, took hint
.into ctistixiy, lined inaveyed Min to the watt-114mm. The testi-
' m .ny of Sinknons was corroborated by Squires.
Mr. Fteench *as called on to bring fontard his charge. He
' addressed the Jury, and stated that his easesse for presuming to
do so was, that he had formerly pra-tised at the bar for sercial
seem, althonels k had !wen obliged to retire en account of ill
health, he had not, Joie ever, lost his taste fur- study, and was
at present engaged iii tatiffj•ing rte. IfehreW language under the
direction of a Miss mein, a Jeerer, an intisiate ftMn. :mid of M
Trench's, who lodged io the Defendant Simmons's house. Ma.
French had for'some time previous to thelev mentioned in the
ttdleinseal, beep coafiiied to her room by ill-healtb. hut oat that
day he had taken her to visit Miss Lynn—it wait Sendav ; and
Wi dmbrarerival at liteledlgings, they ilssaid tier coldinrd so site
room,' by ebe very severe ktulhurfition occaslyaid„.as she in-
! formed Miir: French, by the Violent eiindoet nf Mr. Sitinnohl
OW/WI her lisil lbejsreefniing do. Upvt reediting thisinferme.
lion, and at the desire of Mrs. French. he went down stairs to
speak Wilifit. %whoa on the subject, and on his admission into
the parlour,;,.was :denier to sit donor but the moment. lie
mentioned Mlis 'Lyon's ann., Mr. Si,amons rose in a paston,
and began toils's* him ; caned hint st•d—essd• Jew, and said
he was come to murder him, .pointing to a stick which he bad
in his hand. Mr. French immediately threw the stick from him
is:to the hail, and requested Mr. Simmons to he cool ; ho, hon.
ever, still continued to absent; him. and called to Squires, desiring
he would take Min into coetody, at the saute time holding op its
fist.ln a threatening ,attitude towards Mr. French. Mrs. French
alarmed at the untie, bad come down, and pert:riving her he:-
hand's sittuitioo, fen between them, when. Simmons ttrnek at
her. Upon Seeenx this, Mr. French ackaowledged that he took
op his mirk, vHneh he bad before thrown down, and struck a
blow at Situnoos,,atid the stick coming in contact with the wail,
was broken. Squires upon this immediately came up, Mr.
French was &cocked down, received anevere crown:thin over the
eye, and tiltinsately was drag el through the strm tto la- watch.
house, Where he Witi put dowu into a dungeon, and kept till rent
o'clock al sight, when an, order from Mr. Con.tut. the Nlaet-
sttene
raiote, procnred: by one a Mr. French's crieLdi, obtained 4.0
Mrs. French, Miss Lyon, and several other respectable wit-
nesses wele.called, who confirmed this statement ; and the .hut r,
withoot.hrsitatista, ac uitted Mr. French of the a...atilt, pod
found Simmons and Sstires Gully; and the sentence of tile
Coup vas, 161 they ould be imprisoned six months in kb
. .
House of Correction.

MARRIED.
irtltrolaf:Phillis'OlniftEnirg,inf4he Inner TeriplP,
fisterat List tq LZreiq•aesortd daugjtter of Hugo WU, Ltq. of
A IderigatO am treet, t." ,
DI F.D.
Al Hurnthlarit, tou ty of Fite, North' Britain, on Sondayt
Anent SO, after Iwi elytewdinp Divine Service nt Chorcli, Re•
Bert Borg, Esq..one of the partuent in the Edinburgh Dank.—
Mv. B. Itad left a widoitlatii four children.
On sundstv Jagt,_pged 27, at Hromptoo, Mrs. Mary PeorsoL
relict of th.• 'gee Mf. W. Peafson, ooe of bid Mhjesty's Meucc-
i gab in Ordinary. •

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