The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-12-18 00:00:00

ADDRSSS OF TILE SUPREME JUNTA. 4g4;PANIARDIO.--Otir enemies announce, as po. &Jody certain, a perm in Germany; and the Circumstances *hick acc.impenv this notice give it a character of truth, which leaves little room fur d ou bt. They already threaten us with the power fel re ieforcements w hick they suppose to be leaching to contelete our ruin. Already, proud. .I.tted with the favourable aspect which their a lso' in the North have assumed, they insolently , w h a rf us to submit to the cleinencv of the Cou queror, and tame') bow our necks to the yoke. .6 What unheard-of in-oleace! unparalleled e'runtery! ‘ii,.ll poiterity will scarcely believe, ~faith-tanding the testimony of public re catis. Titus do these barbarians dare to impute ti us the calamities which this country has suffered fern their scandalous a..-gression, and thus make ti t rt.t‘potbsible fur those which are about to hefal u, duets . , should we prolong out resistance. But a ht.ti have we ever seen the innocent victims ne. ,aged of the (eruct t v with which the iubanran tyrant sacrifices them ? Their declaimers very soon forget, tt:ett their armies entered Spain, how they entered —what posts they occupied—what was the signal o f combat which they gave—and the *hole series i tf gratuitous and un i .tralieled vrorities which t h e y committed against its. ll •CAllSe in their own e,.graded hearts they tied nothing but servile sub mission when they are feeble, rind insolent ,atro cily when they are strong, they, forsooth, ima. d ine that the Spaniards, equally destitute of the em port of native fortitude, will remeince their jest and lofty elpectations. %Vito has told them that our virtue was tuerha be assayeth drew by rester obsta so low a stan dard ? They may,. pps, g cles o ur way. We will redouble our efforts to surmount them. Our toils, our dangers, will be augmoted. We shall acquire the g reater g lor y . No I slaves of Bonaparte, waste not your time in practising hacknied artifices, which, at this time of day, can deceive nobody. Speak out frankly, and say, 6 Because we think ourselves the most powerful, we are resident to be the most wicked of mankind.' This language, however bar. barous the setstiment w hien it conveys, w ould be con sistent and intelligible. But do nut attempt to per. suede us that the abandonment of our just lights is wig lour, and cowerdioe prudence. Thoisgh your ini quitous aggression has placed us between ignominy and death, what alternative can you expect a mag. eanimous nation to adopt, except that of defending itself to the last extremity, rather than consent to so disgraceful a submission ? aut; murder s waste, and destroy : that you have been clothe for these twenty months past ; bet with what ef t : feet you well know ; aft lsu also du the provinces you occupy; where, in proportion to the injuries you indict upon them, ilicreases the insuperable aversion they bear tewards you, the etern tl ran cour and implacable revenge with which they in cessaatiy swear to pursue you. 64 To yield !---Are these sophists really aware of the advice which they are giviiig to a people the must jeabeis of thyir bottom' of eey nation upon the face of the globe ? After such admirable eft forts, such incredible successes, it wadi! be au act of infamy, for which no precedent Can . Ile found in the pages of our history, to fall deal at the feet of th- crowned slave that Bonararte has sent us fur a king ? And fur what should we du su ?—That, from the 'mast of his impious orgies, the pimps• and paeasites who an him adulation, and the impure prostitutes who accompany bits, lie may point out with hie linger the temples which arc to be burnt, the manors ehich are to be parti. tinned among his odious satellites, the virgins and matrons who are to be dragged to his seraglio, the youths who are to be sent uhf as a tribute to the French MinotaiN ! 66- Think not, Spaniards, that the Junta thus addresses yen to excite your valour by the arts of language. What occasion is there for wattle, when things speak for themselves with such per. suasive energy ? Your houses are demolished, yonr temples laid in ashe ,. , your fields ravaged, your families dispersed, or hurried to the grave. Shall we have made so many sacrifices, shall the flames of war have consumed one half of Spain, in order that we should shamefully abandon the ether half, to that much more destructive peace which awaits it it the hands of the enemy ? Surely, malady can be the delie of the insidious parade of reform which the French hold forth ill their Proclamations. The Tartar, who governs them, has decreed thit Spain shall have nei ther industry 7 nor connnerce, nor colonies, eur population, nor any political representation whatsoever. To be turned into a vast and so litary sheep-walk, in order to breed flocks which shall supply the French manufactures with our ea limbic wools; to form a nursery of human beings, to be hurried away to slaughter ; misery, ruin, degradation in every part of the Peninsula: — such is the fate to which he consigns the country the most favoured of Heaven of any upon earth ! But shooM our apathy even go su far as to in duce us to abandon interests so highly valuable, could we ever consent to the total destruction of that holy religion in which we were born, and which in all our proceedings, civil and political, we have sworn to preserve ? Shall we, thee, abandon the interest of Heaven, and the faith of our fathers, to the sacrilegious derision of a frantic banditti And shall the Spanish nation, cele brated in every quarter of the globe for their fervid piety, forsake the sanctuary, which, for seven successive centuries, and with the loss of thousaads of warriors, our ancestors de • 'led against the impious ferocity of the Saracens? Tau- -.1 Cu act the victims who have fallen in Were we ^ontest would lift up their heads this Me Morable , from their grave., ana.-air to 0.17' Per fi dious, ou t H av e we T A .l . cn sled. grateful wretchee our eyes. so fice ? Is our blood of no estimation td No! brave feitow-countrymen, din no more, rest in peace, and let nut that agonizing solicitude dis turb the repose of your eepulchres. Your glori. on; example has taught 'us our first and that greutthe est d u ty, end we are perfectly Convinced vote which we ought to seek is not behind but before us. It is through war and combats it is valour through war and combats, it is by tad noble doing,, that we have to Procure that tranquillity, that repose, of which those trai. tors have despoiled us. Do we fear death ? Men) , of our companions have already met it, and sealed with their blood the solemn oath which all of us have taken. Who can fly from it ? Who shall dis- , solve that alliance of glory and danger to which all of us are subject. Our country is laid wash:, and we are insulted, and treated as a vile herd of cattle, which are bought and sold, and slaughter ed when our master pleases. Our Kiug--Spa ',dards I Would yon have infused into your hearts that ardour and energy which lead te victory. Remember the vile, the treacherous manner in which this abominable usurper tore him from our 111T13. Ile called himself his ally, his protector, his friend ; he pretended to give hint the kiss of peace, but his embraces are the folds of the ser pent whieh twine round the innocent victim, and drag him captive to his cavern. A perfidy no. known to civilized nation', and scarcely practised among the most barbarous, was reserved in store rot our unfortunate Monarch. Behold, con demned to groan in solitude, surrounded by guards and spies, the idolized object of our hopes; him whom yon destine to the glory of the Throne, that ins may govern you with benevolence and jos. lice. See him incessantly fixing his streaming :eyes upon his country ! Hear him, amidst the anguish of his sufferings, imploring the valour of hid beloved Spaniards, and calling upon theta for liberty or revenge. Lie be eenfinteed.l • This Day was published, Price h. ALETTER. to the Hight lion. Lout ELLEN. BOROUGH, occasioned by big CHARGE to the JURY, isa the TRIAL of the KING v. F. WRIGHT, D. WRIGHT. and MARY ANNE CLARKE. Accotn partied with 041141 Docuovntt., illustrative of the Evidence. liv GM. LI.. WARDLE, Esq.. P. - Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Pdterivoiter-row. Arrived. I)ae. 1 ll e Gottelaborite 4 Cadiz 0 . Li•bas 1 i PRICL ()V st.)l.;liS fill 3 per Reduced 69ii per Cent.... 841). Cumuli. for Ace. 01§ Long. Anne .114 3.16 IM Y AT ONE O'CLOCK. 0 um.. ...•..11/ Sprat. 80ad5....114. Ete:i. 1111 k. Ss. lib. Lottery Ticket: 9.1 i. 15*. 7'HE STATESMAA. 'soros IT NIA X. LONDON: 11011 DAY, DICZNIBIL 18. -.r-- Orrtct.tt. accounts from Seville, of the disas. trous Battle of °CANA, were received yesterday at the Foreign Office. Spanish Papers were also re ceived last night by the conveyance which brought over these dispatches. The Treaty between France and Austria has called forth an Address from the Junta to the Spanish Nation, in which a forcible and energetic appeal 1:, made to the Pouple of the Peninsula, to redouble their efforts in resisting the Invader.— Their case is hopeless.--they have wasted the pre cious moments in which the contest on the Da. moth: occupied all the disposable force of France. What hope can now be entertained of exciting the peopi e 4#l tlee Peuinsala tu general activity and resistance? - __ In a letter from Bailajoi, of the 30th of Nov. ' Lord Wet.t.lnsreon is said Co ls:tvc returned from " his hunting excursiux to Villa Viclosa."— NAroLt 0!4 defers his hunting excursions until be has completed his business. ‘Ve well remember the English hunting matches in France, about the period of the siege of Valenciennes, and the sub. sequeut attempt on Dunkirk. Nu one can have forgotten the result of that Expedition. The Spaniards in vain attempt to disguise their defeat. It is asserted that they saved their artillery—the loss has, however, been great, and their army is disjivrsed. The British Army its ' Spain, which is yet very sickly, must retreat. — `'This we have long known to be inevitable, and * our greatest apprehensiuo is, that they will linger until the arrival of the enemy, in whose presence a retreat certainly cannot be so conve. niently or deliberately effected as in his absence. — Gerona had nut surrtindered. The Evacuation of Walchercn is, perhari, at lungth effected. Tile arsenal appears, by a letter, to have been burnt, and the fortifie.itions - are blOwn up. Tns report of Lord hitt.mi..a's appointment to the Admiralty gains ground. The Under. writers are inconsoleahle under the apprehension of lusing their deer Lord Mut.savre• Tam Meeting of Colonel WAR DLL'S Frien&, at the Crows and Anchor, this day, ii expected to be very numerously attended. Stibicriptions have already been opened in the country. At Wor. cuter, much zeal and activity have been mani. fested. The Letter to Lord Et.t.essonousso, and the Appendix, will be found in the columns of this Paper. --........-. Tua report of an issue of ten shillings notes by the Bank of England, we are assured, is without foundation. Some reports had guile so far as to say, that an issue of paper dollars might be es • pec ted• A Mail from Flushing, with letters to the 14th, arrived on Saturday. At that time the whole of the troops were embarked, and lying in the roads, with the ezception of the sth regiment, which formed the rear-guard. •It•ty 1, (it 'a • r II! ar• ' grj ;p:t „ •AL.1`;...-....1"”' a a TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. conversation which I bold at the Theatre hart sight, with Mr. H. Harris, besotted to toe distinctly, that it was NOT the intention of the Proprietors to throw open wire theWthe TWELVE FRONT BOILS of the tier of Private Dose;. I am, &C. W. H. SkVABE. Satanlay. The "fortunate" Propositions acceded to at the Crown and Anchor—the whole of those Pro. positions—and nothing but the performance of those. Prepositions will satisfy the Public. And, unless the Proprietors, immediately come forward, and give to the Public, eq assurance, that the PRIVATE BOXES SHALL BE REDUCED TO THE NUMBER THAT EXISTED BE. FORE MR. KEMBLE'S ENGAGEMENT AT COVpIT-GARDEN THEATRE—there is reams Ie believe, from (every appearance by which we can judge, that the Public will con. sitter the Treaty to be wholly broken off. The Proprietors must by this time be pretty well convinced that, the disapprobatiou expressed at the Theatre, has nut been limited to a few restless, turbulent persons of attars condition. Persons of every rank /lave concurred, and do at this mo ment concur, in unqualified disapprobation of Pri. rate Boxes ; and had we been the parties to treat with Mr. Kemble, we never would hare acceded to the existence of one single Private Box, ex cept the four over the Stage for the use of the Pro prietors and Managers. But as the Treaty, has referred to a period at which there were 8 Pri vate Boxes; namely, four over the stage and four others ; that number must be tolerated, , if the Proprietor* trunk proper immediately to come forward and ratify the treaty into witich their "Plenipotentiarg 'entered in the parish of St. Clement. That, onr readers may feel no doubt of the terms to which Mr. Kemble acceded, at the treaty of St. Clement's, we give the fulluwing extract from our account of that Meeting—to the correctness of which we strictly pledge our. selves. " The Propositions were then read. They " were to the following effect : --. 66 We presume that the public will be satisfied " if the following Propositions are this night acceded to.. " Firs, that the Private 1141 es are reduced to the same " numtwr that they were in trio!. " Mr. Cuvrottn. I understand the meaning 46 of this to he, that the Private Boxes shall be " reduced to the same number and situation in " which they were before Mr. Keinble came to " this Theatre [Yes! Yes! Yes !], and 1 am 64 told that that %sag not until after 180'2." Now we beg leave to ask, whether upon this I distinct explanatory comment from the Chairman, delivered deliberately aii.l emphatically, it was persitle for any of the Company in the room, to misunderstand or usiteuiteeire the conditiuns re lating to th.l reduction of the Private Ilexes? Mr. Clifford was heard with profound attention, and we undertake to say (from the information of others), that this proposition and explanatory comment were heard Sin the remotest part of the .....I + y t MEETING AT THIS cttorVN AND ANC 1110/e. TAVERN. roost. As Mr. Kemble was seated on the right hand of the Chairman, he must be presumed to have heard what we have quoted. That he acquiesced in such a proposition we apprehend his address .• the Company incontrovertibly pr o ves. _ " Mr. LEI RIX —Gentlemen, it become* my 6 ' duty to withdraw, in order to prepare fur 64 publication in the newspapers, what is twee , - " nary to be said on the Propositions which have " been so fortunate as to meet your approba. " (ion, and which I hope will lay the fouudetion 6 6 of a reconciliation between the Public and the " Proprietors of the Theatre. Permit me to re " turn you my very best thanks for the kind aid 64 polite treatment that I have experienced in this 46 room."--That was the whole of what Mr. Kettible said. This is the pleilge give's publicly by Mr. rem. ble at the Crown and Anchor—which on the stage and in the advertisement, the Proprietors have at tempted, and are attempting, to evade. We have thus given a correct, direct, and po sitive statemeut of facts, of which we dare and defy :t entitradiction. Mr. Kenible, on the behalf of himself and his Co. Proprietors, even deemed the Propositions " furturrele"---those Propositions they not only arc attempting to evade, but have directly de clared their intention not to fulfil, as clearly ap. pears by the letter of Mr. Savage, which we hate again inserted. Mr. Wienbolt also received from Mr. Kemble in reply to a direct question on the subject, an answer to the same effect. It may, therefore, he assumed, to be the determination of the Proprietors nut to fulfil the terms of the treaty with filar , ' to the reduction of the Private Boxes. We shall, therefore, now see, whether the Public, after il contention u f more than sixty nights, will at la.t sutler themselves to be bam boozled, defeated, and tricked, into patient, tame, and dastardly submission to the Manager's espia lstation of a treaty eutered into in the face of 500 persons. ••,•. ~■~ IIP•1 1 =1•• formed the 'conditions of the Treaty—vihicli he did not doubt—but which, we arc confident, they have nu intention of deing,, 'minis they are corn. ogled by the kind voice of Public inifignatinit. POT the sake of tekiiyelidity, we sincerely hope and eliraestly_reconaniend, that they will not have the prelim pßin ittlitirio defy the PrAOLE.,..kint that Mr. - 4.etuble will illi4 night announce thr litstentirmrat the Proprietdts to fulfil the Treaty of St. C.Jenterit'i, by reducing, the Private loges to eke tfaVir aud state hi ithitla they were in 1802. ** SLCOND I • TIO t. t YIrArES MAN OFFIgE I s . : 'nu t eur.oca. 'COLONEL WARDLE. At one o'clock this day PHILIP MALLET?, Esq. took the Cbair, it the Ore&lee of a numerous assemblage of Geo. tlemen, 4" the Great Room, and opeoed the bu. , siness, iu an address of muck energy, which was 'most loudly applauded. Mr. WAITHMAN followed Mr. Mallett, in 111 •!ts speech which also excited repeated plardits. '“1 Mr. JONES commented with considerable energy and ability on the late Trial in the Court • of -King's Bench. • • The tillowing Resolutions, inter being read, • were severally pat and carried, without a disscpti, 0014 _ ing voice, amklst repeated bursts of applause. • '•?...4. 1 f . v - At a Meeting, reinvested by Advenibenient iu the ii4bl • Papers, held at the Crown Anchor Tavern, Straildp Monday the lilth of December, Idetl, PHILIP MALLET'', EN. in the Chair. IT 111 1111140 That G. 1.. WARI)LE, F.sq. by bringing tbir respecting the • late Costentander in Chief before the Pea -1 moons iloa.a of Parliament, and by the enmity. Arm, an/ 1 6 independent manner in which he conducted II amidst grist • discouragements, undaunted by the threats of infamy and ' heavy responsibility, equally unconnected with and gimp ' ported by part); and for which he receive:l the Thanks of spa arch of 51) Counties, Cities, Boronebs, and Tows., has merited the gratitude of hi, Fellow-Citizens. That (1. L. W AItOLE, Esq. io his Kadeavours, I.nbtain sabstantial dustiest for the People of Ragland, bets, In addi dna to the Anxiety caused by an unprincipled, and harassing oppositiuu. su,taloed many heavy k;xpences. /That G. L. WARDLE., Efq. besides hazarding hi, private Fortune. has given Numerous pronfs, of the parity of the Motives, by n nit+ he was actuated ; and i, now, more than ever, entitled to the Praise and Sapport of every honest mad independent Man. That G. L. WARDLE, lisq. having honourably perse.. erred, is perforusing his par:, towards the People, this Meeting, declare it to he their Wangle° deity, to call upon the Public, to indemnify bin against all loses, charges, and expence., he may have incurred or be liable tu, is come qaeace thereof. That a Subscription for tits pawpaw be immediately en tered into. That the following aentleusen he requested to form a Committee, with rower to add to their number ; to ma nage the Subscription, 'stitch they are desired to pay, from time to time. taro the hu.l.b of Messrs. Drummond% Ban kers, in the Name/nal for the Use of Colonel W A RDLE : Messrs. Philip Moffett (Chairman), Timothy Brown, • Sarnia) Brook', Majo , Cartwright, %% Thom Colsbett. H P: Cliford, Rev. Draper, Stlllflei Envefl, William Fstadhir- al. • Ald?naan Gioodbehere, James Gliffiths, John Hoppe, Ed-- I bard Lauutley, Samuel Join Plash, Sturch, John Slater, Henry Hare Townsend, 4hdrid . Wood, Robert Waithman, and Andrew M Aso°. That the Thanks of this Meeting be gitro to PHILLP rit•LLETT, Esq. for his able and judicious Conduct in the Chair. . • We arc sorry to state that the ffurrijr f r i g ate, of 313 gums, Captain Szcsve, which sailed from Torbay uts the oth instant, to resume hoe station. off Guernsey, hat been %sleeked on that reeky coast s and out of 300 persons on board, only three tnen hare Ween saved. The above intelhontras - cached Plymouth un Thursday, by a yowl ar rived at Cawsand. No confirmation, however, o f t hi s me l anc h o ly ev e nt was brought by plater. day's post. Sir R. G. &taus is appointed Governor of Malta, in the room of the late Sir A. Batt.. The Lords of the Coital! stet updil Oita at peals on Friday at the Cooneil Office, Whitehall. The Doke of PORTLAND has had . ebisut 400 deer shot in his park at Bitlitroilv. ..,'' • , The Earl of WlAlrmottr.AND arrieitrindsor ' o n Thursday eight, oil a •isit to theti r lC .l s s i qs ). • 1 Twu of the pout der.mills near.lloo4ll, were I blown up en Thursday evening. . -: . 4 „. The Trinity Board have appointed ittetsisahlor. able number of pilots, for navigating o*kb ess. different parts of the coast fio‘n Dm ' se SATURCAY. 'Dartmouth. At the conclusion of the performances (The On the Titian alteration is iiitended to betitiV 9 Exile, audatil the World's a Stage) a Gentlionan i in the appearaace of Bank Notes, chisly in ha ~ v in ate Pit addressed the Company on the sehject I ing the date and number printed, instead of being of the refusal of the Proprietors to reduce the Pri. written as at present, and the number printed oil rate Boxes to the state in which they were priorto the words, 66 I Promise," and " ur Bearer," with the engagetient of Mr. Kemble, at Covent-garden. the omission of the names of the entering clerks. butt the company were evidently ignorant of the We arc gratified a ttempt the Managers are no w making ; and oon- in hearitte that the address of s id er able opposition was made to his address, un _ Ft %Bern Beacom which, upon in q ui ry , in lit the letter from Mr- Savage, which a pp eared in t regard to a legacy bequeathed to her , could nut 1•': found out for softie years, is stow left at the !hop'. Tux STATRIMAN of Saturday, was pretty gene. tal, at which she was educated, in Loudo n. rally circulated, when the com p an y expressed strong and marked indignation at this attempt at The PERSIA\ Retinae. on their areirai 111 this poinstry, .evailan. Mr. Swage, who was tinder the in au - 7,7ew;`,C7:. r',4‘.l*(et4,„"Z."lifonsgl."(ritnirn"leher6l7l"l Stot once of a violent hoarseness, atiliounced his in- present, have hen e tunas: Aft, a deep - invest Iron .Iw' (in tension of appearing in the Pit TMs air ENINO, and 'he Prr - eneer r 1 . 11 ! ant dewy). nt?,t u;iiiity sea G ), th ey With requested then - I rinds te purchase Tirane :tad Shares is tho pledged himself to support his assertion. 7 t olic; tamer% . it Ertolsstwity mare (late partner with this ttie company were satisfied. the . ..erased ;Si. a awes Ms* sewit so, d i taliartly 'triclinia' Mr. Dud fi eld addressed the company from the :"`"ati", Dear the Marino+ Idolise. Corea 11, avowing. es i the tOile. elm a penpuenu Ceasteliatinu directly rill to 7s. gallery , recommending forgiveness and re- ' t h m i r uctoole ,pot—so. . .. . ..-• • I i-t.. 14.: Pi t• 4 .' • . 1 • a ! . . ;, .• • • • , - •:.. •-.. ' a'"F‘le•lllit k s * o • t. 4 4 ' . ' .. ' . " • .... ''. . . • ' 41 . ' 4 " Is eri,*1.,,,-. • • - • .' • J. .i.:l t•. to- I