The Statesman.
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Tilt .grATERMAN.

cord and union at home might secure ultimata gad
permauent success abroad. •
(Slarted) WELLEILIit

Byr, cambia's maser a Lard Liverpool
Mr DRAB LI VE. POO 4, Oloaremer Lndigr, May 18,>1819.
I have communicated to such of my friends as I
had an immediate opportunity of consulting, the
minute, taken in your presence, of the proposition
which you conveyed to me yesterday.
In a case in which I felt that my decision either
way might be liable to misapprehension, I was de-
sirous rather to collect the opinions of persons whose
judgment I esteem, than to act on the impulse of my
own first feelings.
The result of their opinions is, that, by entering
into the Administration upon the terms proposed to
me, I should incur such a loss of personal and public
character as would disappoint the object which his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent has at heart ;
and must render my accession to his Government a
' new source of weakness, rather than an addition of
strength.
To become a part of your Administration with the
previous knowledge of your unaltered opinions as to
the policy of resisting all consideration of the state of
the laws affecting his Majesty's Roman Catholic sub-
jects, would, it is felt, be to lend myself to the de-
feating of my own declared opinions on that most im-
portant question : opinions which are as far as those
of any man from being favourable to precipitate and
unqualified concession ; but which rest on the con-
viction that it Is the duty of the advisers of the Crown,
with a view to the peace, tranquillity, and strength
of the empire, to take that whole question iuto their
early and serious consideration ; and earnestly to
endeavour to bring it to a final and satisfactory set-
tlement.

With this result of the opinions of those whom I
have consulted my own entirely concurs: and such
being the grould of my decision, it is wholly untie.
cessary to advert to any topics of inferior import.
once.
After the evressions, however, with which you
were charged m the part of all your colleagues, I
should not bewarranted in omitting to declare, that
no objection of a personal sort should have prevented
me from uniting with any, or all of them, in the
public service, if I could have done so with honour ;
and if, in my judgment, a Cabinet, so constituted in
all its parts, could have atfooded to the country, un-
der its present great and various difficulties, an ade-
quately efficient Administration.
I canna{ deny myself the satisfaction of adding,
that the tanner of your communication with me has
entirely corresponded with the habits and sentiments
of a friendship of so many years; a friendship which
our general concurrence on many great political prin.
doles his strengthened, and which our occasional
differenies have in no degree impaired.
On dm public grounds which I have stated, I mast
entreatt you to lay at the feet of the Prince Regent,
togethir with the warmest expressions of my dutiful
attachment to his Royal Highness, and of my ac-
knowiedgment for the favourable opinion which his
Royal Highness has been graciously pleased to en-
tertain of me, my humble but earnest prayer to be
e‘',.sed from accepting office on terms w►►ich, by a
sacrifice of public character, must render me ineffi-
cient for the service of his Royal Highness's Govern-
ment.

I presume, at the same time, humbly to solicit an
audience of the Prince Regent, for the purpose of
explaining in person to his Royal Highness the
grounds of my conduct, on an occasion on which I
should be grieved to think, that his Royal Highness
could, for a moment, consider me as wanting either
in duty to his Royal Highness, or in zeal for the pub-
lic service; and of assuring his Royal Highness that
my inability to assist in forwarding his Royal High-
ness's purpose of procuring strength to his Admi-
nistration, en the plan which has been suggested by
his Royal Highness's confidential servants, does not
arise from any disposition, on my part, to shrink
from the encounter of those difficulties which press,
at this times upon the country and upon the Crown.
I am, &c.
(Signed; GEORGE CANNING.

An Explanatory Letter from Lord Liverpool t
Lord Wellesley, with Lord Wellesley's answer, will
appear in our next Paper.

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really Wish to appear independent, to give a ssemo•
tabloproot of this, by supporting a measure so essen:
Nally necessary for the preservation of all that is
dear to as as Britons.

--..Eseb..—

An Anholt Mail arrived this forenoon, bringing
accounts from Gottenbargh to the 17th instant. The
! rumours which reach us through this conveyance are
in general so contradictory, that we always receive'!
them with • considerable elution. The tale of a
i Treaty of Alliance having been concluded with this
country and Sweden has been so often, and so cond.
dently told, and as often and as confidently contra-
dicted, that it destroys all credit in the reports com-
ing from this quarter. We are now assured that Bri-
tish cruizers are to have free ingress and egress to
and from the ports of Sweden, and that every as-
sistance they may require is to be given them. We
would caution, however, the Captains of these ves-
sels against venturing into these ports, lest they find,
when it is too late, that the assistance now proffered
is only a bait held out by the enemy to ensnare
them. It is stated, that when the account of the
fall of Badajos reached the Swedish Court, BERN A•
DOTTE immediately dispatched a special Messenger
with the intellirnce to St. Petersburgh. no
doubt, be inferred from this, that the CaowN
Palerce is favourable to an alliance with Russia
against France. But the statement is either false,
or it is not the feu, that tie Emperor ALILEANDER
has left uis Capital ; for if be had, the circumstance
must have been known by BERNADOTTE, who would,
! of tonne, have sent his Messengerto the place where
he was most likely to meet the Russian Emperor, in.
stead of ordering him to St. Petenburgli, whence he
had previously departed. With regard to the report
which is egain revived, of Russia having announced, as
het ultimatum, that she will enter not Into any ne- '
I godation w ith the French, till they have completely
evacuated Prussia, we do not consider it deserving
of any credit; because these troops were admitted
!by the consent of the King of Pnussta to occupy his
territories; they continue there without any com-
plaint on his part; and no power has a right to as-
sume that he Is dissatisfied with them, unless he de-
clares so; far less Is Russia entitled to stipulate as
a condition of entering on a negotiation with
France, that she must withdraw her troops from a
country over which the Autocrat has no controul.—
Were the King of PRUSSIA to resign his Crown
into the hands of NAPOLEON, and his subjects
sanctioned the deed, as they did in the case of
Sweden, even this could not aford a pretext for
the interference of ALEXANDER. But it is idle
to talk of Russia going to war with France.—
If the EMPEROR has really left his capital, which we
think very probable frvre the departure of BQN.I-
- from Paris, the purpose of their meeting must
be something else than an appeal to arms ; and we
do not think we hazard much when we anticipate
that it will be found, that the deliberations of these
two Sovereigns entirely related to the exclusion of
our commerce from the Baltic. If the councils of
Kusssia have been so impolitic as to determine on
hostilities with France, we venture to predict
that ALEXANDER will not return again to his capi-
tal, possessed of one half of his present Empire, or
perhaps in no other character than that of a fugitive.
The following are extracts from the German Papers:

GOTT 1•.!‘ BU RGII, MAT lb.

The Vigo, Admiral Molts's, with a strong squadron, sailed
yeste;clay for the Baltic. ano immediately afterwards the Orion,
and some smaller ships of war, proceeded with the convoy from
England. The Briseis sailed a few days- since, and the Zealo
aqd Rose this morning, for the Sound. It is expected that 1.t.,1-
lish ernizers will soon hare the liberty of entering tbeSwedlsh
ports, aqd that orders will be given to render them whatevie as-
sistance they may require. The Russians are said to havt- given,
as their ultimatum, that they will not enter into any negJelation
with the French, till the latter have completely evacuated Prus-
sia. When the news of the fall of Badajas reached Orebro, the
Caowx PRINCE immediately dispatched a special nwqenger to
Ptiersburgh with t • • intelligence.

IV..tr 16.
An embargo hos been laid at Llehatt on an veer's, ay order
of tie French ; even on those which had cleared nut.

ALTONA, • lAT 6.

We arsertcd, in one of our late Journals, that Baron'mats,
immediately after Mc late disembarkation at Border- or, had
dispatched a courier to the Ambassadors et France art Austria,
at Copenhagen ; we bare ruqd reason foe believing this Weill.
genre was unfounded.—(Absiik du Nord,.May 9.)
RATISIION, Apau.
Count Gorroar yesterday passed through this city on flimsy
to Vienna.—(Same Paper.)
EXTRACT OP A LETTPR PROM VIENNA, DATED APRIL 29.

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The head-quarters of oor army In Galicia will be at Statildol.
vow. It II reported that the Archduke CIIUM= wilt command
this army.—(Saine Paper.)
AUGSBURGII, APIUL 22.

Letters from Trieste of a recent date state, that an ~ors
feet has appeared in the tiolph of Trieste; ft endeavours to
seize upon all merchant vessels. The English have she made
some attempts to pillage the villages on the coma of Istria, aid
cut out laden vessels from many of the small unfortified port! I
bnt all their attempt, pare been frustrated, the troops of tbeline
and national guards baring, in every iostaace, drdve them back
and forced them to re-embark with loss.—(Some Paper.)
NAPLES, Arlin 9.
The English guard the oast of Sicily, opposite Calabria, from
Messina to Agosta:.nd Syracuse,vvith sosevere a vigilance,that a
fishing boat cannot proeeed from the coast without running the"
risk of being obliged to retorts by caw* M musket shot from
gat-boats placed along the coast firs. "tat pittpose.—(Same Pe.
Per.)
FRONTIERS OP PRUSSIA, Aran. 22.