The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-09-06 00:00:00

PROPUSITI LONDON: WEDNESDAY, SLPTCMILIt B. TUE Gazette of last night contains dispatches from Sir Joux STIIAIIT, detailing the operations of oor army in the Mediterranean—and also from General Caamicruer., confirming the account of the surrender of the city of St. Domingo, au. nounced in Loudon on Friday last. That ac count, which came through' a most curiously eirenitons route, was, however, premature. In the Gazette of Port au Prince, of the Ist of July, the surrender of the city of Domingo, Si. taste on the opposite side of the Island, which is as large as Enkland, was announced. An extract from this Gazette appeared in a New: York Paper of the 29th of the same month. The arrival of an American vessel at an Irish port early in the last week, furnished the Dublin Newspapers with the intelligence, which arrived by that channel in London on Friday last. The British forces ar rived at St. Domingo on the 2811 i of June.—On the 29th the Governor demanded a suspension of arms, whicb,ho weverocas not granted until the Ist of July —On the 3d, Commissioners appointed to nego ciate, met, but the French refusing to surrender, and their Commissimiers proceeding tardily, Gel.. Carmichael on the Gth proposed an ultimatum to be answered in-one hotir—the rejection of n hie!) would have been succeeded by an immediate storm of the city, for which preparations were accord. ingly made. At the expiration of the hour, the surrender of the place was signified, and out the 7th the capitulation was signed. The terms granted aro favourable, in consideration of the brave defence made by the garrison, which, in four days, was to march out to the glacis with all the honours of war.--the °dicers to be sent to France on their parole not to bear arms against England ur her Allies for three years, unless parsonally exchanged—the non.commis. sioned officers and privates to he prisoners of war,' to be sent to France for the purpose of being re gularly exchanged—the whole to be transported to Jamaica in the first instance. An amnesty, for the space of six mouths, is granted for any part of the political conduct of such of (he inhabitants as may tbek proper in that time to evacuate the island. There now remains to the French no footing in the West Indies but Guadeloupe, against whieh it is probable an Expedition will immediately proceed after the hurricane season. Tur Dispatches from Sir J. STUART commence by referring to a communication to Ministers on the 9th of Juno last, announcing his intention to make a diversion, 66- by a menace upon the king. dom and capital of Naples," in favour of Aus tria, " under the heavy pressure with which he " had learned at that period, she was bravely 66 but unequally struggling." The battle of Efling, which terminated on the 22d of May, 17 da)s previous to the date of the first dispatch, was probably knout' to Sir J. STUART, and may be ' presumed to,jm the " heavy pressure" alluded to. The I-lands of Ischia and Procida were accurd attackcd—and fell, together with their gar i-Foas, ordnance, and ammunition. The result f t:i.se operations is stated by Sir Jowl Svc ART to have been the precipitate recall to Naplei of " a considerable body of troops, which had been 4.1 recently detached from thence, as a reinforce -44 meat to the army in Upper Italy"--that recall precluded the hope of a successful attack on the capital—but the possession of those healthy islands was deemed important, as being a position from whence the army might proceed to ulterior , objects.—The second dispatch of Sir Jolty Stu- A lt? is dated the 9th of July, and relates an un. successful attack on the rock of Scylla, with the toss of our besieging train—but this place, it ap pears, was subsequently abandoned by the French, from :onto sudden panic, tho cause of which is .unknown.—The diversion effected in favour •r Austria is not the sole effect imputed to this Expedition, for it seems that it also produced the return of almost the whole " of the troops 14 which had been sent into the Roman States, " to aid the late usurpation of the Papal demi. " *ions." Whatever importance may be at tached by Ministers to the diversion in favour of Austria—we apprehend that the diversion in fa. your of " the Pope" will not be looked upon as very eflicient—and at all events we had, at the moment, more serious concerns to attend to than a feeble futile attempt to prevent the dismember ment of tho Papal territory.—Some how or other we are become mightily enamoured of the Purr sit's@ the comaeoeement of the French Revolution. It I s sa t a great many years since he was guarded by English Protestant Dragoons in Rome itself.-- Sir *NUN STUART now congratulates us on having ins& a diversion in his favour ; and, only yes terday we have a pompous account from Cadiz of an entertainment at a Welt theltarquislVELLlALEY, a Bo itish Ambassador, representing the Protestant Kiug of ExiaLtau, and sent by the No-Popery .-Idorinistration, thank the health of " His lb /Mess the Pope"...(cith three).---All this is cer tainly inconsistent with the principles of the Revolu. Lion-.-those principles which forcibly diverted the line of Regal descent, and placed the BRUNSWICK Family on the Throne of the now United Kingdom. What would have been the conduct of an Ambassador of ELIzAuLto or CROMWELL, had such a toast been given in his presence ? What would the Spaniards have said, if the Bri tish Ambassador had proposed as a toast, 44 The Abolition of the Inquisition ?" (with three)-- which he might have done with equal propriety and conshtency-as the representative of a Prince who holds the Crown on an express condition of maintaining the Protestant religion—this corn. plaisance of the Marquis Wzcz.zsLET is absurd, inconsistent, and hypocritical. To return to the dispatch of Sir Jon* Smut; from which his solicitude for " his holiness" has led us into this digression,—it is clear, that we cannot hope for success in rousing the Neapolitans to resistance against Mum. —For, he says, gi the great disunion of lc party" in the Province, was a material obstacle to every means of intelligence, and " led to the loss of a detachment of the 21st Re " giment." One of the parties of the disunion must be in favour of their new King JOACHIM and we trust we shall hear no more nonsense about the Counter-Revolutions of Naples. With respect to the diversion asserted to have been so successfully attempted in favour of Austria, we cannot help entertaining very serious doubts. Sir JOHN STUART says, that the stores which he captured in Scylla were' ig pi-eparatory to the " long-menaced, and 1 really believe intended, " invasion of the kingdom of Sicilg."—Accord ing to the dispatches of Sir JOHN STUART, the King of N.tew had sent a holy of troops to rein. force the Army of Upper Italy—another against the Papal territories, and had a third ready to in. rade Sicily. It is to be feared that no permanent advantage will have attended the capture of Ischia and Prucida; for the foreign papers which reached Loudon on Thursday contain intelligence from Naples of the '26th and 27th of July, announcing the evacuation of those islands by the English. General MoNYET and General Orme have ar ri►ed at Deal, in the Uona•ch, Captain Let.— They went to breakfast with Admiral CAMPIELL. General MOSNET VMS not in uniform : he is a coarse, vulgar-looking man. General Ostcx was dressed in a splendid uniform. The latter was as much beloved at IValeberen, as the former was detested ; and he has, on every occasion, shewn himself the humane enemy of any English sailors who have been cast away on the island, or who have bees carried in prisoners, always using his best endeavours to procure the liberty of aged sea. men. General OSTEN headed the several sorties made by the garrison of Flushing, and was forte. nate enough to escape unwounded. General Morgue? had the command at Flashing about ten years. lie has amassed • fortune of upwards of 100,0001. He raised a Contribution of seven and a half per cent. per annum on the in habitants, in the nature of the property tax, and he received a shilling a gallon for all the gin smug. glad. This last article produced him enormous su n,s. 'l'ho refusal of General Montarr to permit the women and children to go out of Flushing, previous to the bombardment of that place, is not the only instance of the sort which the Great Nation has to boast of. A t the siege of Savan nah la Mar, w hit+ was so, gallantly dekntled by General PREVOST, Count IYESTAIGSI, who com manded the French besieging army, • was re quested by General PREVOST to permit the wo.. men and children to leave the town : this he per emptorily refused. After he received the check in the assault, which led to the raising of the siege, lie sent word to Gen. Paerosr, that he would per mit the women and children to quit the place, which offer was then rejected with the contempt it de served. This was the D'EsrA 'cm who fell under the guillotine during the storm of the Revolution. Per haps the unsparing laws of war justified Esr.sto NCI refusal,as the consumption of tow! by useless mouths in a garrison, must evidently tend to a speedy sur render of the place, if pres•ted by famine. On what eruutid of military policy General Mosser can justify himself, it seems impossible to deter mine. At IValcherett, it was attributed to his wish that the distresses of the iithabitants might produce sueh a degree of clamour as to furnish him with a tolerable excuse for an early capitu lation. Nine ships from Archangel, suppostcil to be worth 200,0001. have been taken by a Danish pri. vateer ; and by the last accouuts, six other priva. teers were cruising °tithe bar, to take the ships a• they came out, so that it appears impossible for a yes:cl to escape. The Lord Lieutenant of InELAND has fixed the 15th of September for hi• visit to the city of Cork. Glen that day his Grace is to dine %%WI General ovn. On the following day, the M.►ser will have the honour of entertaining his C race. On the 17tI• a grand dinner will be given to his Grace by the Merchants and Inhabitsnis. The next day he dines with the Bishop of Coax ; after which ) his Grace and suite take their departure. .- NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PoItTSIIOOTD, SETT. 4 —Arrived the U: fender, Lieut Nor, from a eruise. She brought in a French galliot the Captain of which says, that when our E sailed, there tra4 not a French Mildicr in the neiglskittetnud of Antwerp ; but when it Iva• known it had gone there, the people ia many parts of Urine.• volunteered to olefen4 It. into - - Came harbour, a Itut‘ian line-of-batCe ship; went out, the Port Mahon and Ant. Sailed the Retaliation, of 71 ow, Captain War.!, for the Downs. The Ant is appointed coma) , fur 6urrnwy. Pt.vxocru, SEPT. I.—Arrived this morning hi. , Majesty's frigate Amethyst, of 2t gum, Sir AI ichael Seymour. Com mander, from Flushing, lag from Pormosouth t sh.! went up harbour thin afternoon to go in dock, having trceived damage by getting onshore, when with the Expedition. I:ight or ten tnurports arriyOti to-day from the Eanward with troops on booed. 'opposed to be from Flushing, and immediately went up liantoar.e. Arrived the Nedra Senora de fleeona, Spanish brig, Ma nuel X. Conthm, Mager, from Ltilb n a bound to London, :a den with wool, &c.. the American ship Ontario, Ilaaiel Nye, Master, from the Mediterranean. The At..ritute Star cartel, from Morlaix, having carried ince' decrepid Fiench pri,•ooers and boys. Fat socstt, SCPT. rhed 11w three-needed schoon er. General Ileship, Captain , from St. Domingo, pswisge, with coffee, for I.lndott ; reports toot the city of 81. Domingo surrendered In the liritisb on condition of the Freath: troops being sent to Corope ; his SlaJestis ship Comet, el Roos, with a Sect of n ets from Lisbon, 21 days passage; the.scimoner l'iy, Ot nay , from LoOduo, for Lisbon; the Fretich lug.::(1 . 1. I ::prsat:ce :tad .:on Dame, prizes to bit Majesty'sship Mcda4a, in ballad ; his Majesty's store-ship, Tortoise, 41 day. from (Atwell:tr. IVest mortised, and T. Sheridan, Esq. came ortsr in her ; site is put nudes quarantine; andhis Majesty's schooner Piney-, 16 guns, Captain Dell, arrived here on the Ist instatd, to wait for 6.p:itches. A Large fleet for Lisbon, Oporto, Cadii. and the %feditcr ranran, parsed by last night. Several vesselr of the fleet (too of them tramports with horses on beard) are pout in here, in consequence of the beet tinder the COlllll4 getting intermixed with them in the night, and the corns',. Sailed the schooner, Patriot, Captain Trascott, for Lis boa. The Express Packet, lib Mails for Cadiz, got wider war, but missing stays, was obliged to anchor again, and v. ill sail to-morrow morning. The Captain of a vessel bound from Archangel, which had been captured by the enemy, and af terwards retaken and sent into the Downs, is ar rived in London. 1k states, that eight ships, from the same port, had been taken by the enemy, ono of %hid% was a valuable ship of sev...it bundled tons, raped the Neptunng. The letters from Comma present a troy flat. tering picture Of the state of Gallicia, as the whole population of that province is said to be. arming with the greatest zeal against the French. An army of 50,000 men, it is said, hare hem enrolled, and a great many of the partizans of the French arc stated to have been pithlicly ex. ecuted. flow far this intelligence may be de. pended upon, we cannot pretend to decide; b•st the movement which no know to have been made by SouLr is calculated to create some doubt as to the zeal in the common cause said to prevail in that part of Spain. From the circumstance of TAM ClSTf.tit F. r; it's dispatches of Saturday being addressed " ►o the Commander in Chief, Arc." instead of the EArl of CuII.THAM, at was the case previously, it appears that the Noble Earl is about to retire from the command. Ile has not yet, however, arrived in Own. The Duke de TRETISO (MORTIER) nu a clerk in the house of a merchant at Middleburgh, and was then considered as a man of great talent. Mr. Comnitcva will leave town this day to join the new Expedition. lie has retained all the people who were under his direction in the late Expedition to the Scheldt. Oa Monday the Duke of ElnuNswices Lo►y marched throu(h Newport from Cuwes to the different out-posts in the Islsmi.. . _ Ve yesterday communicated the information derived from the public papers by the Gotten. burgh *Mail. As far as we can form a judg. meta from these private sources, we do not entertain very sanguine expectations of any fa vourab!e change in the Baltic. In the harbours of Russia, the certificates of origin are still re quired ; and the same delays arc incurred from the necessity of sending them to Petersburg,' to obtain the sanction of the Commission appointed in that capital. Sir A. COCHRANE was about to leave the West Indies at the date of the lest accounts, to pass the hurricane seas o n with his squadron at Halifax.— The rumour Eden Expedition being in preparation against Guadeloupe continues to be prevalent. The Sea Fencibles in the late Expeditions, are ordered to be sent to the The Mes, there to be dis. charged. They received, while on service, seven shillings per day. On Thursday, the 17th ult. a child 'about sit years of age, was bit by an adder, at Garniture, Scotland, and notwithstanding medical aid, the child died ua the Saturday fulloaing. ROWING MATe/I.—Yesterday a wager for 20 gu ineas w a s rowed fur, between the Prixt..intit of litingerford and the Dun of the Tows r. They were both young men, just in their prime, and considerable sums of wintry were betted on the performance. Hen Paine, of the Tower, took the lead and maintained it, until they fell in with some barges, when young Thornton managed his boat with such dexterity, that, note i Itstauding all the muscular strength of the young man from the Tower, he made a short cut, by which he shot about 40 boats.lengths a-head, and won the prize. CRUELTY TO ANIMA/S.—Saturday seimight, a Lieutenant of the 6th Dragoon Guards, Carabi. nccrs, rode his mare, worths 100 guineas, from the race-ground at York, to the Saddle inn, at 1.-gds, a distance of upwards of 23 miles, in an hour and twenty minutes, including time time taken for a bait on the rued. On his arrival, this fine generous animal, s high was pro viously indisposed, swelled prodigiously, and aficr languishing in extreme tor. tare for three days and nights, during part of which time she was held up in the stable by pel!ics o expired. Arrived. Ainils. .. line. 1 Dublin 1 I o I &lnn 9 1 PRICF. OF STOCKS C 111,4 3 perCent.Cuos kit Navy 991 Cos 'h fur Aee....6841 Ominous prem. IIA Y AT ON F. %ch. Bills. BA. IS,. prem. Ina' Bonds. `ik. Lotter) Tickets, '2l/.17.. T E STA TL S N. THi STATHSM AN. GOTTENBI_IIIG II MAIL. 911 GuTTENETIIInIf, Aur.. `lB.--.1 report has been apead to-day, tshirh hili gained !rope coli fid e „ ce, that the. Prince of Angtisteuburf; Earl bven a:resit ti in N.): way, and that in, only had taLeu up arnia to bepport MI rot*. S j o ck 0 /.3d Ac{;. His ituy2l Majesty lias received the fullue. w; rrihat frutn General Count Waelett.eistei. : " 0 wirz to t'ac arrangements and unwearied ever tior.s of Admiral haruss Duke, the fleet sailed in titirt)-!:: :oury from liemoiand to Huta !Wad, Illicit it came 515 .a. - clior in a thick t N probably pri:Yented it Irmo brier, penciled by tbe Wadi cot Ail nut be done daring the wh o ;,. coarse 0! Ole t 4 c, Amer she Athui!ai odopted the MC:int. or prce:lLl:on uf throl4,h F.:LA Quartos, the zo:l.bovt% beta,! in ton or the slap of war. At two o'clock tbi; :.fiernoon the troop: nem oidered to di-embark. The vaichzt ing been la:rled with tile f.ra hriznide, Lay Adjutant. Cruet J . o.louel niarched towv.ll t. oh part of the said troop!: to occupy I)jeknebuiLs ; rind inouti:er part inaiclicd, under the order, of Colonel Baron lietwood, in the chrrt•tion or li•ozilea. IL Wive this moment received the report that 10jekneboda ba, bees taken I Cawala Ainle•von, who commanded the 6e,t division of cbassears, was wt.anded. I iatrod, at soon as pin,ible, td push oe agaiost Ehnen, 4,4 shall feel extremely happy hi being able to report to your (Majesty the redaction of that place. " (I. 11 ACII'C 11:1ST1SH, Commander in C..ief of tue Ar.uy of the Loam." " Ilead-quark.ni Ratan, Ana. IT, 1809." ( Stockholm ter:etle, .les:sift 4:1.) STOCK uoLm, AUG. 25.—Under date of the 0 9th July, Captain Wahlstedt, of the It tyal Nary, who commands the armed ship Neptune, has re. purled, that on the '26th July, at nine o'clock in the morning, he gut a pilot on board, who brought him intelligence, that the enemy must come to an chor off Pohl, since the communication with S ae_ dish ships uas nut yet permitted. At a loci o'clock 6 , 4 dropped anchor. Captain Wahl_ steclt innuediattly proceeded to Wismar %alb a 11,4; of :Iwo, went to the Governor, arid the, reason why the Conroy ur; nut permitted 1.1 sail up the town. The Governor answered that he had oi , Jere not to permit any shipb la:leci with Slim:kb pro. duce to enter the port, brit te'.., Hai, at the saate time, that the Duke of Mecklonlinri, n:in nag acquainted w ith the arrit al of the convoy, wished to speak ss!.h the Cuinmul r of the convoy, mid s..c Ms orders. The Captain itivneili its ly n ?ited on his Highness, and produced I,;s ordefF, and a return of the ships und,.r cont,y, and their cargoes. The Duke told however painful it proved to him to la the convoy go back, especiaPy as he foam! that the greatest part of the cargo belonged to ilk Ottli :.übjerts, yet he coil I nut allure' thi ships to unload without the r et.::h Emperor having granted the necessary leave fur fiat purpose, which could nut be üb. tatted w ithin Nis than sic weeks ; but that his highness should be glad if the Captain would procecal to llamburgh, and eudearour to obtain from the French Minister residing there, leave fur the convoy to unload iu i eimar." The Captain determined to . go to Hamburgh, and from thetsco to Travemoude, where he found the French Mi. nister ; and this measure succeeded so well, that the Minister seat orders to Weimar and Rostock, that all Swedish Pomeranian and neutral ships, laden with Swedish produce, and furnished with authentic certificates, should be allowed to tin. load and load its the above ports.—(Stoctlivint Commercial Gazette, Aug. 25.) CORN-EXCIUNGE, S'rrr. G. There i 4 again but an inconsiderable supply of Wheat, and the sales for fine samples are at a small increase in price; Ne new for seed upwards of 1 I us. per quarter. The supplies of Barley are short, and maintain last prices. Malt and White Peas at little variation—Grey, and Beans of the too kinds, hardly at last prices. There are considerJ. ble supplies of Oats, and those of first quality arc rather dearer. Rape Seed also. Flour as our last, and tine American iSs. to h2s. per barrel. CURRENT PRICI. OF (MAIN. Wheat, - - - -;44. "4 LUO.. Fine ditto - - - - 104. 101-. Rye, - j2-. .1.. Barley, Nlali. W. Pvt.( BitiierA) - Sl4. 9,)4. “rev 4ll. it 24. til4. Tick Beam, - - - - 0310,'114 ditto - • -,- Polatur ditto - - - . R.lpe Sere! - - -4: Fifty Flour - - - - Lady WI7.•;TNIORt. ND and T. StAttro EA:I. hate arrived at Fal:nouth from Gibraltar, after a passage of twenty-three days. Fctract of a 1.....tter received, dated S,trin June I`2, 18(9:—" As Airs. CLARKE and IR Duke of Tonk's ptory must be fr..s'i in our im - - mory, yon r.. 3101 have forgotten the name of SAMUEL CARTED : that very pers•ui is now at this place, a Lieutenant in the I Gth cut I font ; he is a very gay and genteel young man, very well liked by his hrothei Otneer,:, and is a great favourite of the Ladi-s. When the iicus appeared concerning his former situation. the Of ficers met to coasnit if they conld Pin, to remain a messmate among them, and it %las agreed tin! he had never coti4.ietcd hiniself itero . ..tattit: to the cluir,ieter of a Gentleman, and therci,:t they would rake it:, notice of hid) appeared in the l'apers. lie has lately fought a dila with an officer ahe made solve unhandsome allusion to the Inisiiies%, in n hich lie e uutided his anta. goisist." on Friday, the Ist inst. an examination took place :it Ito* ....lc-genus' H a l!, when Eon %nu se, Esq. of Ilit• fool Di G.ll - in Ireland, answered tisii 11 ex.in,iitation , , in a matnier a Rich r. fleck the tiron himself, a n d : 1 1, 0 un (li, t,l it • di: his s:tillics (Dublin).