The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-19 00:00:00

1)41 yell wider:rand the pea.atit himself. or ;. interpretation undo stood thi O. Did Ii ti‘e the or the f'.“alail dialect: -A. I tie t , hut aith a mixture of the si ;in n. Q. (2 Id ou understand a dialect so (Eirt`roilt fren. (In dialvet Spain that our h,.,t iu r•n eitql tilr(cers find it didicult to converse in ;; A• Y-s, will enough to nutke out %%lilt tItE , r.ea•litt tvi d. _ _ flow came you, Oleo, to retrito C-I.;Nlaticori i:. , t : I .roza:;ott ?—.X. I%•cauet there ono or .•,,!, in OW (:...tal%ll di elect %sldelt 1 dill :tot mitiiply • !,,• . a.id, tLe man iiirected Lib coo. . 16. w to Col. :113,, iu iv• cr hr n,lother cuter'., I:!at ts;:t , %l Si .1.111,ti.,;-ictl Its wutl to nu(lct: and 1 1 „;s1.,•:INIu:t slct Li:lt the Frenclt were V;!!•francs. Cai,toin John !4tod,lart, 'he next %situps:, corn mended the !to 111 1". 1 .5h of June, 1813. He uas sent on tie: day to Tolle de Barra, and directed by the Admiral to lal,e a posi tion fur covering the roll to Tar rl , ,arna, in case the enemy should adiance (tons the eastward. lie was ass. directed to obtain what information he could respiTtin; the sits: oleo of runty. 11 0 wen t on shore accordin,ly 1.1 Torre de liirra, and saw Colonel Zslareo,, sth s shlted to him, that he had re ceived orders ahem au limn• before to leave his posi. tion. 1.114 a Issd vial if Gl. troops wire about to em bask from Ta t r ? Ile r.. 1 , :e1, that he believed they were. Colorsol Mans"! expressed great regret and astonishment at heltio,g it. lie then asked Cu!. Nlan cut , whether Le could give bins any informa tion about the encas% • whether they were likely to askance Colunel Marssol gave it as his opinion that they were not likely to advarice. (7oort considered that the mere opinion of Colonel Nlarssnl e as nut evidence to be admitted. The witness then continued his narrative, and said that he had also been informed by other persons of the situviots of the enemy. He went on shore the next morning for the purpose of obtaining informs. tion. About ten in the morning of the 13th, he conversed with a peasant who had left Villafr•nca at half-past seven, and informed him that he had left a French division of about 50(X) men there, having two mountain-guns, two field-pieces, and a how- Pier. He asked the peasant, was it probable that the French were advancieg, but the peasant could not tell.—After having received this information, he - returned and joined Admiral Hallowell. The witness ilati then asked, was the Strombollo in a pairion to have plevented the enemy from corn:rig on the high road from Villafranca to 'farra go's:l ?.- lie answered, that there was a broad road leading along the b-aels, which he conceived that he was perfeer:v its a situation to cover. Ile did not know. how .vi.r, whether this was called the high road or trot. Admiral liallonell ohserved, that this was the road w.hi.ll he a b„,, l . The %. 'lite- • furtl.or sated, that he was all the Cane in inimerti ae romnwilic.ition pith the Athoital, and could have info:toed him if the enemy hal been advancing. then stated to the Court, that he Was t.kit mely st,rry that the information derived from the opinion of Colonel Nlattsol could not he al lowed to bo :;it en in evidence. That officer com manded the bri;;ade in adv.ture, and was the most likely person to he %tell informed of the situation of the enemy. ne, however, often received his in: formation front the accounts eileit by peasants. . 'rho 1 ) 1:1:stnt. NT of the Court informed Admiral Hallowell, that although such information might he Very good groutol for au oflicer to art upr•r, yet that it cool 4 not ea•ity he made good legal evidetice before a Court-Martial. 'Cite witne , :i was then cross-examined by Sir J. 1%1 o r y anti aslsed the foUowio4 questions : Q. %Vas the peasmit known to him, or a perfect b! , —A. ile was a perfect stranger. Q. Did the Al:altle, or any other respectable matt in the answer for the peasant's being &wir ing of credit, oc even for his not being a spy of the eneme C —A. No. Sir • t. AL:nay stated to the Court, that his ohject in asking those gnections nos to show on n hat slight grounds those charges were supported. The exa Ininetl as to his knowledge in the •;itanisli langua4e, said, that he did not under stand it sufficiently well to carry on a conversation in it, but he understood it enough to know per fectly %hat the peasant said to him about the Ftcnch being at Villaftanca. On hi, return to Admiral Hallowell, ite reported to him both the opinion of Colonel Mansol, and Is hat he hail himself heard from the peasant. Upon his re-examination by Admiral Hallowell, he swot!, that those reports had been also confirmed, by meting the inhabitants of Torre tie Harra;74e -lurning on the 13th to their homes, from which they Lad tied, nu hearing that the French were at Villa franca. • The next WItIIPCS Xt'n; I,ieutenant-Cclonel WO n con,manded the nvtit!ery at the siege of relst of the preceding wit. , :; rr4,;n'~3. oar. (led by a c! cement in the-nay of nar rative'. About Itlf.rast '.levee, on the night of the 1 I th, he met a Itaiietricer, who inf.:riled Itiot that Sir Joint M array dt-iiie.l ro see hint at his heatl.quar. vers. Ile at rived thete about 19, and Sir .Jonn told him that he intended to raise tha siege, and desired him to make preparations for getting the gaits im mediately .-ti. He expt essed greot regr:.4. to Sir John upon the eiienmstance. and that he had not made him soo t ier aciptinted the t irenms::tnee. Ile also represented to hint, that as it was thin; liolf-jr.st 19, and that it would be daylight in about three hours, it would be impossible to get sufficient working par. ties, and to remove the guns from Oliva before day. light, when the mete would be exposed to the fire of Tarragona, which almost enfiladed part of the road to the beach. lie told him that he had never been led to suppose that he would raise the siege in a bur. Tied and precipitate manner, without previous ar. ringements or preparations; and pledged him. cell, that if Sir John would stay till the next night, he wont() take every thing safely to the beach, where, by the assist.ince of Admiral Hallowell, they Height heal! embarked by six or seven o'clock the nest morning. lie also assured the Ge.teral, that by this ‘l6.3C*;f3i, 4 ... _. ,____.......,, r ._ TIIE STATESMAN. n rrnngement all the stores that had been landed would have been safely emlw 'Led, and. no artich s left Ire. hind.' Sir John Murray approved of every thing that he said, and thea told him that he should wait till the next night. After this, the witness proceed ed to eine% e to the beach all the heavy gong that remained in the depots, and in the other batteries, intending to remove the goo, from Oliva the next eight. While the embarkation of the guns and stores was going on, on the morning of the I(2th, Cnnornl Doitkio arrived on the beach about nine o'cieck, and ordered that the embarkation of the wnis d:ould be discontinued. ll.' also informed the i twss, that General Clinton's division ‘Viti expected to arrive on the beach in half an hour, or three quar ters; and that it was Ge oide:s of Sir J. Murray, that as son', as this division had pv , sed, the guns at Oliva should be spiked, and abandoned. Wit no,; also desired to take immediate steps to carry these orders into execution. Ile immedi ately dispatched Officers with the necessary in. structions to the di ent pain's, but directed that the guns should not be spiked without further orders, either from him, from the General commanding at the pest, or. from the Commander. in-Chief. He the.' told General Dordsin, that those orders ill ac corded with the pi oft.ise which Sir John had made him rho preceding night. If that promise had been adhered to, every thing might be caruied off without noise or ennfusinn, and in a military manlier. Ad miral H. , llowell then begged of him to suspend the execution of the order fur spiking the goes till he had seen Sir John Murray, and immediately went to look for hint. On his return he informed the wit ness, that Sir John Murray denied that lie had gisen the order for spikin:: the guns, and said that he would remain till ht. 15th of November is an old date, but we are no I aware that we .have any later from New Orleans or ! any port near the mouth of the Mississippi ? The vessels which arrived at Liverpool from Pensacola cut and run from that harbour on the 9th of Novem ber, in consequence of Gen. JACKSON having taken Pensacola, the British who had previouly occupied it having embarked on board the .S'eahore;; frigate'and four sloops. The last American Papers brought no later news from Florida than the end of October. The witness MRS then asked, if the guns had been allowed to remain till night, would One have been any difficulty in removing them t"" tl:e beach His answer was, none in the leant. If Sir John Murray had given him but three hours previous no tice, he could have removed every thing in the night of the lath. There could have been no difficulty in removing the guns from Oliva on the night of the 12th, if Sir John had staid till then. The witness then stated, that the order to spike the guns was not given through him, but probably by the General commanding at the post. Two mor tars were lauded on the 10th, and every day throughout the siege stores and provisions were landed. A supply of stores sufficient for two or three ►lays' consumption was landed in the first in stance, and every day after enough was landed for the consumption. Ile never found the least difficul ty in being supplied from the ships with every thing that he required. Admiral Ilallo►relt anticipated all his wants, and gave him the most prompt and ready assistance at all times. The witness also stated that he was present when a Spanish officer brought a letter from General Copons to Sir John Murray, stating aVivision of the French to be at Villsfranca. lfe bolieved that the order for spiking tl►e guns was given almost immediately after the receipt of this letter. Britain should have to say, she had favoured the re establishment of justice and peace, and respected the unalienable privileges of States and individuals in another. Had America been united to us in the bond of honourable peace and listing alliance before the disgracefut Conventions were entered into, which we are declared, by the " High Contracting Parties" themselves, to have consented to, and which we are now desirous of disavowing and setting aside as inimical to honour and justice,—had this Treaty with America, which is now conceived to give us such heartening to stem the torrent of ambition from the North, been concluded a twelve month ago (and it is the opinion of well-informed men that it might have been so upon the same terms), would Russia and Prussia have venturned to lay down such an insulting proposition as this to Great Britain—Assent to the Union of Sarony to Prussia, and Poland to Russia, and Peace—or Dissent and Wart No, never. The Protector of the rights of nations, the arm of the weak, and the avenger of injustice, in all hemispheres, would have spoke in thunder to tbo consciences and the fears of the half hardened despoilers, and scattered the half-formed " evil imaginations of their hearts." They would not have had to instance to our teeth the meditated, the defeated injustice of our own conduct—the expe ditions, and their fate—which will cover our arms and our name with an eternal stain. Are we now The furthtir examination of this witness was Fost poi.ed till to.naorrow. The vial is expected to last till Tuesday next. E•sratunr—ln :%emerttaN'.. report, for Capt. Sam. Hood, R.N. re.,cl Capt. 144:1e1ie1! , , It. N. to have pence dictated to us at every Congress ? Is assent to this or that proposition, however mon strous, or dissent and war, and a coalition to pro long the misery into which we have been thrown, to be flung in our face with imperial insolence, to push us from our purposes in eery future delibera tion where our interests are concerned ? Are we no more to be allowed to talk of liberty, because we have proved ourselves hypocrites in the case of the Slave 'tirade? If there is a cup of this sort p'cp•ir ing for us, as a reward to the People of Great Bri tain for their exertions to rescue the Continent from thraldom, and to our Ministers, for their matchless policy in conducting, or rather prolonging, the war, let Lord CAsTLEItEm; it look to it.-- The people of (; rent Britain, humlded and enfeebled as they have been by foreigu and domestic blood-suckers, are not yet inclined to drink such a mixture of bitters.—We wish that the " great sensation" that has heels excited ot Congress by the news of our American Treaty, has been such as to elevate us in the estimation of our very conscientious Allies, and to favour the work of general Peace. We wish they may not sue the nakedness of that honour which we have obtained in our struggle with AMerica. We wish that the proud stand which the British negociator is represented to have made in favour of the rights of nations, after hear. ing of how well we have settled the point with Ame rica, may be considered as warranted by the success of the Administration to which he belongs in this last contest. We desire they may have more confi dent ideas at Vienna that the American Govern tment will be satisfied with the Treaty which leire l every thing yet to settle, than some people in 1; : i s country. Finally, we shall be glad to see thiv quetting assembly of Royal Rivals, more ineli,l to reduce those immense establishments for whir are paying, and returning contentedly to !Lei, pitals, than itt prolonging discord and by their political bickerings and rivnhitioes burningv ; that the burthens of the peopl e this country may be allowed to that we may be relioved from that purgatory the heaven and ht-Ilstate of neither war nor occasions—for really with such an undittM:i.l.id weight of taxes on our backs, and so rn 1 ,,.. tli:',icolties still bofore oc, we have tioto, national disgrace, of which we have 1., enough, nvertml, to see our country at; I the whole civiliLyd trot Id again plong , ql into war for the snke of either l'oles or Gerto..ov. j„,,, c Lord CAsTi.ritu‘rat is not 111,ifig [of Iv sjile (nia ',HIS With, to us, such 41(L0 . ..r00t objects ill Ike as the Ghent Negochtors did in racketing about tte We still see no passage out . of the political labyrinth of the mioified Congress at Vienna. The crisis is represented as increasing rather than de creasing in difficulty. By three ilamburgh Mails which arrived last. night we have further advices from Vienna, but not of later dates than our yesterday's communications. It is stated in one letter from the Austrian capital that the fate of s;axony . was fixed in a secret article of the Treaty of Pali , . from Alieuce it is inferred that the difficulties in Congress do nut originate in the actual transfer of that kingdom to Prussia, but in some contingent circumstances.— ! Other accounts sta4e, tSilh apparently more areuf ;icy, ! that Poland and Saxony are still the stumbling blocks.' expect 'liens are entertained at Calair ant ,To such a height are the disputes said to have been Dieppe, of commercial prosperity, from the fellow. cart ioil on these subjects, that it is conceived possible jog a r t aiigement as to what i s known i n F rance b y the distinction of the Law of 'Transit:—'• Foreign the next arrivals from Vienna mny announce the merchandise will be admitted to enter the kiiisilie n suildon and angry departure of their Russian and without the payment of duty, if forwarded from the • Prussian Majesties, if their pretensions are not ac- flee ports, conformably %jib the law of the Sth Ho ceded to. It is remarked that the tone of G r e a t real, the year 11, or from the ports of Calais an d Britain has become more energetic since the con. Dieppe, which will, under certain restrictions enjoy all the immunities of such free ports."—lt is t o b e elusion of peace with America, and that the news o f • understood that this regulation applies only to g oo d s our reconciliation with the United States has oval. in tranvia, or in the course of conveyance through sinned n great sensation at the seat of the Congress. the kingdom, and the egress of such goods is to 1w at There was certainly great necessity for this peace, Gives, Charleville, and other situations particularly and Ministers have shown how much they wanted it , distius;" ll "" l . The merchandise, in such cases, is to enable them to speak at all at the. Congress of not wholly exempt from duty, but it is so small as t o ! be called a droit de balance, or 15 centimes for' the Vienna. Miserable drivellers ! they have tampered ' value of It/0 francs, equal to about lid. in 51. ster. with the nation's interests and honour till a con- ii„ g . federacy has been formed, and organized into strength, I The correspondence with Vienna was, we believe, which we scarcely dare to oppose, and which is never so (active as at present, or recently; as the bets ready to undo, in a moment, with the faithlessness are always most frequent towards the close of a rate and ferocious cupidity of their characte r , the st ruc - or a battle. On Pridny, JottxsoN, the Messe tt go r , • lure of pulilic liberty and human happiness whi c h we arrived; and on Stturday, METER ; on Sunday . VICK ; and on Monday, Buowts. BROWN left have toiled and bled, for se many years, to raise from Vienna about seven hours before Vice, who came sy the general wrecl:. How galling; to think that this the way of Ghent. Lord I.lv cnroot is still at Bath, glorious fabric, which we fondly thought we had to which plice a Mess Pager was sent off with BROWN'S and Virtec dispatches. Itcrc, ree, the King's Nl e sse ttger , erected for so many nations, is tottering on the brink wag in readiness to leave Engla n d yesterday, a n d w ill of ruin from the mere folly of the arc hite c t s ! Well proa set off did we know how necessary it would be i n order to the b prec bl e y ding nig ht s morning, if not in the c o urse of . restrain inordinate ambition, and protect the tights His ltsy al !lightness the l'etNes: RECENT remains of men and nations on one Continent, that Great : still at lb ighton. TnE BI KTII.D.I Y. —lier MAJESTY com. phetect her 70th year on the 19th day of May last, which was celebrated yesterday, according to annual custom. The day was celebrated in a private man ner at IViiidoir. The QUEEN received the congra tulations on the return of the day from the lto‘al Family: the Duke of Yonx went from London at eleven o'clock for that purpose, where he was met by the Duchess, from Oailands. In the evening her MAJESTY gave a sumptuous dinner at Frogmcre to the Royal Family and a select party of the Nubi lity. A sister of Miss KT:LLY'S iv about to be brought out at Drury-lane Theatre in the character of Juliet. She is young and beautiful, and has performed with great success on several provincial stages. THE PRICE OF WOMEN BY AveTiox.—At Black. burn market, on Saturday seUtnight, a man exposed his wife in a halter for sale by auction, when she was knocked down at 2s. 4141.!!! Yesterday the Lottery began Drawing.—Friday, the 27th, is the Second Day. The Wheel contains Two of 20,0001., One of 10,0001., &c. &c. The First Ticket drawn a Prize above 251. will receive Twenty Thousand Pounds in addition. fit: lls. lacbnn llamburgb France Holland Ilelego!and I'.;ICE OF !..10t:KS THIS ~la~.k 3 , Cent. red. 6."; 6 ;,rr Cent. lion. 6JI 4 i• r t,r-ots. 12j 3 5 per (e ;t. Nuvy 1,1;:i Due Dv( AT oNE o'CLOCK t..iz. Ann. 16 7-16 i India Hoe& 17 IS p Exchequer Hills c.! 5 p ()minim d Consols for Ate. C6i THE STATESMAN. LONDON: THURSDAY, .1% NC ART 19, 1815. A very unpleasant rumour, which we have nn means of contradicting, has been transmitted from France, regarding the British Expedition to the Mississippi. The communication is made in a pri vate letter from Paris, enclosing an extract of a let- Fa id to have been received in that city from Paiute a la Ilac/ze, five leagues from the mouth of the Mis sksippi, dated Nov. 15. The writer expresses him. self thus:— " You have no doubt heard of the Expedition rightist our unhippy country, under Admiral Cecil- Ittxx. The following is the news given in our Gazelles, and though, in general, they are full of fakehoods, l think they hare told us the truth this time. " The fleet destined to net against the Mississippi, and commanded by Admiral COCIIII A NE, Was in the Culph of Mexico, when a gale of wind dispersed the ships. The Admirars.ship was separated from the rest of the fleet, and we should have been ignorant cf the fute of the crew, if two sailors belonging to it had nut given us the following details The vessel was driven into St. Bernard's Bay, and the coast appearing deserted, several of the crew received orders to go and water. The Admiral himself landed to reconnoitre—when the savages in great number fell upon the English, who not being able to defend themselves, took to flight, and the greater part got back to the boats that had landed them ; but the Admiral fell into the enemy's power.' 44 This news, which had at first been much doubted, is accredited by the arrival at New ()olefins of Rear-Admiral COTBORN (Cncxnuits), and part of his crew, brought in by fishermen, who had picked them up after their shipwreck on the coast of Ba rataria." We , rnish the shove letter may prove untrue, but we cannot say there is no foundation for it. The I. ...... A NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Dr sr., JAN. 13.—Remain in the Downs his Ma. jesty's ships Bombay . , Ratiksnake, and Scourge. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 18.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Cornwallis, Orpheus, and Rorer, with the West In. dia fleet ; ships for the Cape and Isle of France ; and the trade for the Brazils. Also sailed the iftnphioi frigate, to cruise off the Western Isles; 11(wtze mal of war, for Cork; Ringdore sloop of war, to th; westward ; and the Haughty gun-brig, for T'l• mouth.—llis !klajesty's ship Wirrior, fur the Wu,: Indies, remains. F 11.MOUTII, JAv. 16.—Arrived the Tzo Reothco and Diana, from Cork ; Anne and Sitsunnah, from Southampton; Assistance, Jenkin, flout Dub ' lio ; and the Teatskill, Jewel, from l',yrnouth.— Sailed the Norton packet, with Alai's for Lisbon lull Surinam. M ARC; ATE, JAN. 18.—Carne in (he Poring L/o1:1co, from London for °item!, pith the loss both nuehors and cables. Jets. 13.—Cnnie in yesterday eve,• iug nod to-day, traders for shelter; among them, ti , ;: sloop Nancy, M'Cogan, from Swansea, for Loh d;:n, with loss of anchor and cable; all the rest hie without accident. HARWICH, JAN. 18,—Carne in the Oc-an, bell, with timber, from Nova Scotia, hound to N castle, with 10 ,, s of anchor and cable.—The Townes, with coals, fiiini Suns!edam!, after b nn sliorc on the Ship 11'ash, was brought in by 1t.,• salv;.ge sessels.—.ltrived the /.ai/N Neperin pokk••• with and passengers from lieligoland. NEWCASTLE, J AN. 16.—The Raffrd, Boil% from Brion, with t i m b er, arr i ve d i n the T yne I 0 night.—The Captaia Jackson, of this port, S clair, Master, on his passage from London, whi , standing into Bridlington Illy, Was ruu down the Pegily, of Shields ; cicw saved. ~: