The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-20 00:00:00

S h.l-1E STATESMAN. .________..____ - .... Q. Did (l:e %entre recollect h:: ving been sent al:out the shipping off the coast 2—A. I should rather think Arr. mans. Due ly ratified, had put things to rest? Could he tell 0 If 1 them lie advocated the cause of national and indivi. II:di-m iald ist ein the evening of the 11th to General not easily. - 0 11' .ket:zie %,i•h (elections for storming the Fusee? Q. Might they npt during tl:e night have ar- 0 R.l? A. II- I.ad many communications in the rived at Tarragona without - any interruption from 0 - , •to millious, who were now blessing his lame in ceurse of II at day, both with General Mackenzie and our gun-boats?—A. Yes, I should think it possible, I Crews-al Clinton, respecting the intended attack of as gun-boats are of very little consequence or use in i PRICK OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT O\ I. O'CLOCK connection with that of the philanthropic WiLanie, - bole 238 Long. Ann. 16 7-166 PONCE, and in obedience to the expressed wishes of Fuvrte Reale. Ile could not recollect pal tiro- the dal k. S per Cent Red. 65i 6 India Booth 17 in p ler!) the 'moire of the communication at the time •Q. What is the shortest time that it would require 3 per Cent. t:,,ns. GNI F.:chequer tint, 25 p British Parliament and people ? Could he say our mentioned. , to march from Villafranca with field artillery, if the 4, P'r cents, 85,i ni titanium le d finances, and the whale of the British Empire, were Consols tar Acc. 65i; Q. Was not this cnmmtinication by orders from enemy was unmolested by our gun-boats ?—A. I ap- 5 p er ent. •- 4 in such a flourishing state that we could war with Fir Jni.., al urray,and was it not a direction to storm prebend the distance is too great for one march, I be. - • . - ._ the whole of Chart for twenty veers longer, wOotit that f o rt ? i lieve it is nearly 30 miles. THE STI T E S 2`11,1 N. feeling the pressure ; and that the peopie of this The witness not appearing to recollect the na- ! Q. Row much of the road from Varilla to Terra tu.e of the communication at the particular time gotta is exposed to the fire of the shipping ?—A. The -,.._-,-,.....;;;,.............-- .;...;......- . ..----i:—...n. co eery cared as little about the Property ' Tan as •• mentioned, road is very irregular; in some places approaching LONDON: they (lid about the 500,000 Russians now ready f a t Sir J. Mere's. said, that he had riot the least objec- very near, and in others receding from the sea. In the old ni oil: of cutting throa t s in Poland ? The lan. FRIDAY, JANUAR y 20 , 1815. Lion to admit, that up tie calf-psis eight, he had been some pasts it is so open as to be impassable, if shipsperi.,l Yoeth nt ho drank g.og with our sai:ors, and ---,we,— r es ei ng every ar r•reement for the storming of Fuerte were to anchor with springs on their cables. I 'Hisao Reale, and :hat about nine those arrangements were seen the dead bodies of men and horses above a mile It is now confidently asserted, that the Congress kissed our pub:item,' daughters, and the stai.l al e _ countermanded. Ili, admission of these facts might from the sea ; and the trees v ery much cut up; which . et. 'Vienna is suddenly broken up, or-at least that all tiara, who saw in is hat manner the voice of the save some time. Ile also admitted, that in the night I understood to have afterwards happened from the further discussion respecting the seizure of Poland British nation is expressed, could not, perhap s , of the 10th, officers were employed in making mor- fire of the Invincible upon Marshal Suchet's army. and Saxony is at an end; and that Lord CASTLE- pay mach regard to any moral or political preach. ta r-batteries. i Q. Do so not know that Marshal Suchet's army IIEAGH is actually on his way home. ings of this sort.--And hence we erfer, that These admissions having been received in evi- passed this road, notwithstanding the fire of the in. & ere , vincible:?- A. Yes, I do. T he I information we possess is not sufficient to en- being bent on their inte r es t ed b a l an ces, and . Tie witness preceeded to state, that on the night Q Would not General Decaen then have been able us to pronounce pos.iiively in confirmation of my Lerd CAsTLERLinIt seeing them iatcoree i . of the liaii some lotto-ries had been completed, which able to march from Villafranca, on the high road, this statement; but such a result to our high sound. ble, gave up his sermonizing in a pet, arid i s lind '•ectil... L .tni 011 (Li litil ; anti the °lira battery. was notwithstanding the five of the gun-boats?—A- Yes, I in hopes, and the proceedings at the Congress of now coming hones to tell us what heatlu.is he e illr , -(1, so as to cootabi six guns instead of four. do not think he could be prevented. It must be a Vienna, have we been prepared to expect ; anti for has diScovered our Allies to IL.; whilst the motley as. Ile 1.-id no notice to prepare for a retreat previous very heavy fire to prevent the march of an army. such a confirmation of the accuracy of our views of sembly, whom the French are astonished to hear, to the sudden older %%Lich was given for raising the Q. When in a former part of your evidence yen siege, spoke of detachments being kept out, did you mean the generosity, wisdom, and justice, of 'this famous have preserved good manners so long, seeing toe (la ne ens then asked, whether from the knowledge detachments to give information of the approach of Cowlick have we endeavoured to prepare the minds parture of their 'preacher " broke the good rout of the mirror; about Tarragona which he must have the enemy, or to keep the enemy in check ?—A. To of oursinders. i pany with most admired disorder," and as Mr. derived fret; reconnoitring it, he could say how long give information by proper signals. On one side the We apprehend there can be little doubt that the CANNING would say, were 64 scattered into (rag. it would !alse air army of 80u0 men to march from firing might be heard from the Col do Balaguer, ant Congress has in some way adjourned, or disposed of merits" and atoms again. Anotiiiir day [1,1) amble) .Vii liars ilea to Tarragona, supposing the marc h by on the Villafranca road the si g nal might be received 1 us to speak with more accurate information on this the h.gh road to he intercepted by the position of from the shipping. I Abe armed vessels i—A. Ile thought that it would , Re-examined by Admiral Ilallcneeil. 1 TIAREAGLI is on his way home. His Colleagues can- subject. be trio long days' marches. lie conceived the dis- - Q. Do you recollect an arch near Torre de Barra, not again show their faces in Parliament without ; The Russian troops have not yet left Hambue g h, gorse front Tarragona to Vanilla, and from thence to and for what distance the road near it is within the him ; or without something like feasible information I One reason is given for their stay, which is so Wire. Villaftanca, was each of them a long day's march. range of Rho. from; lite sea ?—A. I recollect an an- on the momentous affairs which have kept the public 1 rive of the insolent and tyrannical conduct o f the but if the road to Villafranca was covered by the.fire slept Roman arch, but not precisely the extent of Mind in a state of anxiety and suspense so long. If ° Russian military, and so like what may be expected of the ships, and the other road being secured by our , roa I exposed to the Are of shipping. t it be admitted that his Lordship is on his return, the ° from them, that we will lay the communication its possession of the pass and fort of Balagner, he con- i Q. Wes not the ~rmy. with its stores, mules, and ceived that the French would have so great a tireuit field-pieces, disembarked in a few hours on the morn- - question will be " has he succeeded in his mission ? . which it is stated in this place before use Readers. to make, in order to find a road that an army could ing of the 3d of June ?—A. I cannot exactly state Are the important points settled for which he went 'ltis as follows : move on, that it must have considerably increased in how short it time. to Vienna ?" If he has gone to the Council of Eu. " Ilassetincu, JAN. 11.—On the evening of the the distanee of the march. Ile did not drink that it 1 Q. In point of fact, did not the cavalry and ar- I r op ean P r i nces , c h arge d w ith t h e preservat i on o f th e : 9th, some Russian O ffi cers having indulged rather cou:4l have been made in less than two days. I tillers , proceed to the Col de Balaguer, and remain . honour and interests of Great Britain and humanity, I freely in their. wine, thought proper to interrupt the Q. Was it, in your judgment, possible for the . there several days after Sir J. Murray's retreat, with.. . and spoken in the name of the British Empire in i performances and the music at the Il am b urg h eilulny to have prevented the army from carrying off ; out any molestation from the enemy ?—A. Yes, they their guns and stores F—A. Ile thought not. 'filet ' went by land,aind were embarked there without hay vain, or not spoken a word until all was irrevocably ' Theatre. Some persons in the pit, disgusted at this Avis ili.. opinion he formed at the time, and saw no ' in; any affair with the euemy except some little • settled to the disgrace and disadvantage of the Em. conduct, reproached them for it. This so enra g ed i gibed s'.i.ef-r rhatigii g it. lie stated that opinion skirmishing. . , pire he represented, what are the causes that have : tire Russians, that tieo of the Officers who considered to Sir .1. Murray at the time. ..., I Q. Was their entharketion interrupted?—A. No. ' p revented Great Britain from asserting her dignity I themselves insulted went dow n t o th e pit, an d had a Q. Do you knees ;Iry t ause that could have made Q. Do you recollect seeing the road which Mar and right, and the rights and libe r ties of matilnind I Hanoverian arres!ecl, whom they consid er ed as th e it two star, to rake the singe in the precipitate man- I steal Suchet was obliged to cut in consequence of the 1 ire, that it was raised?—A• I know of no cause that fire of the Invincible?—A. Yes, I uuderstood it to in general, for which her blood and treasure have been lavished so long? What is the satisfac,ory, tire I principal offender. It was intended h e s h ou ld h ave twit brought before General Bennigsen n ext morn .. marls it necessary . . be cut in consequence. • ‘:ir Jun iil ui ray objected to the mere opinion : Q. Do you know that when the army was ordered consoling information, the retu rn i n g Mi n i s t er o f; ing, but he made his escape the same evening.-- of !he witness being received as evitieuce a ci ainst to embark, we held a fort which commanded the the dictator or nations has to communicate to his 1 The Russian General feeling much disappointed sad him, road to Villafranca, and that the Invincible and constituents ?—Not ste•ely that he has been doped 1 reertilied at the circumstiorce sent word to the The .Tec ne. A nv , :•l.i.re replied, that it was usual ''!'homes were at the Col de Balaguer on the other? , for :nil Ceorts of Jostice to receive in esidence the , —A. Yes, I knew there was shipping there. by our brave end generous Allies, amid has to teal , Serrate that the :: aops, which had already been on opiiti us of i•arsons eeletiglc •to airy trade or pro.l Lieutenant-General John Mackenzie morn I the people of this countr, that they h a ve b ee ,. d u p e d i th e i r m a rc h an d returne d, s h ou ld not f i na ll y d epart . .„,• . ft..sion, in matters resrpoitig the trade or profession. ' Q. Did you command a division of the firma .. 4 %1U ; that the most Interim: points which he was sent ; until ti.' offender was found and punished. He nc e The wits , ess being the Conlin:m(l(r of (fie Err i'•.•. r,, array in Catalonia under Sir John Murray, hi the, to watch were sett'. ' mithont er f.. P ' ••'. ll :e of him. it is that We still enjoy the company of visitan t inimbt therefore I;., .1-I.t d his opinion 01 jud,onent iii I:J.)l , th of June, i el 3 ?—A. Yes, I did. ;We have as little e , , , sht that the chiet points in dis. i whom we .could be lei :1 cottlinted to see leaving.us this instance. Whether this opinion was well or ill- • Q. Did you receive any orders for spiking the • cession have been vettled in a way that will not aj I never more to return." founded, mould subsequently ho determined on by : ' , els on the 12th, from whom, and at what period mil. of much just exultation on the part o f our Ali- I the Court. ( 't . the day ?—A. Yes; Lieutenant Drewe, Acti ng • ;Fitness war then cross-examined by Sir John ilia 'Tog. Q. Do you know the cart period of the arrival of the /vetch troops at Villafranca and Vanilla ?-1. N.., I do lint. Q. Can you then t.i!:e te:on you to say, that the enemy creed not has arrived at Tarragona, befoie titee had te•cit gained for the embarkation of the bolt` attar, %%11'41 all the eutis and stot. ?—A. No, I caottot Lke epon on to say so. c%er, >,ue l ;osing the enemy to have adeatie; d, cur p;:rtlys could always Lye given such informati.in of their approach, that the oat •r to stop the embarkation .of guns and stores might be given at any time, and the troops embarked in si:fety. Q. II 7.‘c much time (lid the witness calculate as sullicient .ft r embarking the whole of the army, in cl editig the cavalry as well as the infantry, the artil lery evil their horses ?-- A. Ile could make no cake- Intion, as he hail no are runt of the number of boats which were ili.posalie f,ir that purpose. Q. What did the witeess Mean by his P't prossion of the troops belie; embarked. Did he include the ravish) as well ;is hit:nifty, the field artiil, , ry and the infat.try t.rs ? —A. lie certainly did hot mean to include the Cominiss•lries' metes. Ile conceived that some of the hor'ts might be lost. lie ceaceived, bower.•r, that Capt. ll niters arid the naval officers rP best qualified to speak upon this .ebject. Q. Do y on mean to say th IG7 bones and m u le, (which was the number ise had re; shore) ;.....hi bare been melt rked, if we had been pressed uy the ?-- .X. Certainly rot, if the army was pressed by the emry. I think, howernr, that it mould be teat riskiug tha lu,s of s,ene in older te. save our •_:1111f. .• A paper wss then Lindell to him by Sir .'oh,, Atilt ray, and he admicte , l it to b: his hand-writing. It v..as transhition made by the witne,f of a memoir sent by. General Capons. lie e e.4t elite rat of the Spatii•li laugua i ;e, but could positively ay, that in his tra;:,latiori, he had giteu tee sense and meaning of the memoir. The witness was then ticked,--from his !time ledge of the country aboat Tartago , a. c;iald be say bow l much of the need from that city to Viiiafraec.l was Brigade-finarter-Master, brought me an order to that effect, about a quarter before ten o'clock, lir the mime of General Donkin. Q. As you are acquainted with the roads both to tln , east and westward of Tarragona, will you state 3 our opinion whether it was possible for an enemy , to prevent our taking off the guns and stores in the event of raising the siege ?—A. No, I do not think, ililSt our army remained there, that there was any chance of the enern, interrupting the embarkation of the gusts and stores. Q. Did the enemy appear in any force to the east. ward of Tirragoita before the 16th of June 2--A. Ctiderstanditig that there was a division of the enemy at Valtlilos, Sir John Murray sent me with a body of infantry against them. They retired, and I entered the town of Valdilos, I believe on the night of the 15th. Q. Do you know any cause whatever that could niake. it necessary to raise the siege of Tarragona in the manner it was raised by the British army before Tan agona ?—A. I know of no other cause than that , assigned by Sir John Murray, that the French were at Villafranca. Q. Do you know whether a great quantity of beef, pork, corn, flour, spirits, and forage, was left behind at Tarragona ?—A. I Saw a considerable q.enititi of pros isiiiiis lying on the beach, and found fault with the Commissary for refusing to take charge of it. Q. Supposing an army of 8000 men to have been at Villafranca, could they have marched in oi.e to 'Tarrag ona, so as to have attack e d th e army wit h e any prospect of success?—A. With re spect to the question of distance, I consider U pot; sad,. ''or an army to make the march in one .daf ; but i,t the case of their making an attack, their roc cesi must have been very tioubtfts!. I should ra.i , rr have eadei.ted .:••cess on our pest, the equip. !rent of our foice was c. , mplete. Adjourned till ten o'clock nister, as that we are now writing in the month of January, 1815, with disappointment In our hearts, when we ought to have hail to an nounce " glad tidings of great joy " to man kind. How then comes this to pass ?—What has occasioned a British negociator to he so disregarded ! What the settlement is that has doubtless token place in regard to the two principal objects in contention, namely, Poland . and Saxuay, the public already . pretty well knew. „Russia has, by the late events, been enabled to arlvance her already enormous power Into the most fruitful provinces of Furope, and to overawe the whole of the Continent, perhaps, a. no distant period, to give the world such another speci men of regard for freedom, science, and civilized in stitutions, as the Goths and ':medals did of old; and Prussia, who, for the mere norpose of gain, could lay an enormnus impost.opon cie 'corn in her ports, when the inhabitants of this copittry were nearly iu a state of famine, has added all &army, from the Elbe to Lusatia, to her poksessions ; Saxony, hitherto the constant ally of linglaild, and though lately pnserished by the immenne armies who have preyed upon her, naturally so rich that one city, Liepsic, s without being entirely exhausted, the burtlicn of a seven years' war. Is this settling the balance of power? Have our energetic exertions, o.:r •oemis and our strength been strained for 'so 1—.4 a tine merely to transfer the seat of empire f:oni Paris to St. Peterburgh, and lay all the inferior I:!at,sti of Germany, who have cried to us for freedom and protection against the overwhelming night of arLitrary power, prostrate at the feet of Kingly and Imperial despots? And m by is it that time voice of Great Btitain has not been hcard in defence of the rights she pretended to guard, and striking terrorinto the hearts of their invaders?--' Why has a British Minister, from whose torgue the assembled Councils of Europe, who owe to England their safety, should have taken lessons of law and If a•ar should be renewed, u we fervently hope • it will not, well knowing there are othor and better H method , of securin t , a nation's happiness pros perity, if nu r Ministers could only find them out, thap I eternal warfare, nisi the Property Tax be continued i n despite all the petitions against that obnoxious measure ? Perhaps Lord Castr.enzAc.n will tell os, Iby way of reconciling us to a farther exertion • der its pressure, that Austria has been so struck with the policy and wisdom of the measure, and the benefits it has conferred upon this country, that she has adopted it. If so, she is welcome to all its bless ! legs. 46 What is Hausa to as or we to Hearne," Ithat we who have so many taxes already should fa* !emits in this sad book of taxation frovn a country that till now has had none. As we are on this subject, we shall observe, that we experience satisfaction in perceiving at this critical period, when it is so necessary the 'sense of this country should be expressed on the momentous topic of its burdens and dick ; culties, that those who were deluded, aid at tempted to be deluded, Kith the expectation that this tax would be relinquished by Ministers, are now recovering from the influence of this impression ; aria that Meetings continue to be held and called ge nerally throughout the kingdom. In addition to those we have stated at different times, we give the interesting particulars ( , f Meetings at Nom ich and Liverpool; and we also lay before our faders the Resolutions adopted at the Meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of Lanthe:ll, the proceedings tit which we detailed yesterday. It will be observell that the . strongest feeling is universally and justly expressed against thi: pernicious and debasing impost. The expression of the same feeling is now only waisted to extend to a project equally inimical to the p•ib!ic • interests. We allude to the measure still likej be resorted to of keeping up the price of Corn, anti cousin ' - 'arrow (this da, Ile late Nabob of OUDL has left 17f millious sterling of specie in his Treasury. It was his parts cub,: wish that his second son should succeed him,.tA Ow exclusion of his eldest, and he was in negocia. hot' with the East India Conioany on the subject.— Thew:: two sons are now rivals for she throne. Lord MOIRA, in ~.eAt stare, is gone up the country to settle the dispute. The money, it is reported, will be offered to the Compan s, -those debts it would al most pay off. expo•Pelto the fire of gun-boats -Lisw,.e,l that veneration for human right, been lessened down to a luiteg the onerous cause or the general pressure• i!e could form no calculation. reed imes _ . In sore 1 f :he counoies the landed interest have aura " moral Preacher" sent out like a Missioanly to t 1 m i st • . . a..ri i; l y eliti:ll-red to alleviate the • severe pres sing Psalms to savages and talk to the idle w : ind . sure thq feel i ts p romot i ng P et i t i ons- f or a Corn ilill, Did he talk in " the energetic and decided" t one o f . instead of Pit.; et-onv against the P ro p er ty Tax—that *the ()curler, end make " arm and unentharrassed iv, instead if reliev:,..4 thetns-lres from an i m p os t O f ' In per ccet. and freeing the community at large attitudes" at last, baying his opposer about t..e ,at the same time from tuts ' obnoxious butthen., weight which he and his Colleagues possessed at 'lmes': they have. thereby eadenvot d ire: to reli eve themselves and the ittfluence his country had, nuder their admhis- : h -)' tercmmending another tax upres the public, and (ration, obtained abroad ; their maritime triumphs in that upon the most necessary art ic!. , of sustenance. lt America, and cleverness in dispatching business at is Ilop i ed they hare seen the folly of such attempts, Ghent, till his unbelieving auditory laughed at hint ? and_ t at . they will cordially woe tt it. the .of the ' ' h rest country in Petitioliing against the Inconie Tax as one ' • is with the Could he say we had carried all our.pont . 1 great means, at least, oft weting-the pressure they Americans, and show the royal. and princely Personages ! feel flout the reduction iu the price of the d• - pre v..) of how well the Treaty ) so long in frantiog and EO prompt. land. approached very vicar ;he beach, and ;vas conse quently exposed the tire of wini-boats. At ether places it receded from the beach, and was conse quently less exposed. lie did not suppose, howeier, that there was any part of it which was so exposed for two miles together. Ile thought, however, the , Lids was a (ov:ion upon which the Niival Wicers cool- Mending the gun-boats were better qualified to speak. :Those who had often fired from their gun-ves-eis ppm' th:s itSt have had better means of ob. tsPrwatiot!. tr.; tulmw much of the road exposed to their lire. . IND, A POSTAGE Act.--BOOTOII the passing of this Act, No.bspapers were rer•tarlt put into the box at the India-house, and transmitted free of postage; they cannot now be forwarded to any part of India, unless a fee of four guineas per annum for a Daily Paper, or one guinea per annum for a Weekly Pa per, is paid t,. the Post-office. A like grievance is felt by the charge of postage on India Newspapers. Besides the diminution to the revenue, this exaction imposes, in many ii..‘anees, an enormous lax on se veral houses whir)/ have India correspondents. Q. I::4ht not the enemy by a short deeper from C 4: tn.,io rt;ad have easily avoided the frte from _ "T .- . , 3 _., . .411. t i t / ) 'l^ • 1 .