The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-10-27 00:00:00

T TAX STATESMAN. gees, situated to the north of Gerona, with a suf &lent number of troops, ea Inch of the Soma. teams as be could tolkci on the road; to dblodge the enemy from that position, where they bad only a small body of infantar, mid to protect the lionvoys of provisions which wrest° be introdeced in that quarter. These ordersphe punctually executed. then repaired to the heamitage of Pedro, 2 leagues distant from San Ilari,w4tA the troops of reserve, to be ready to proceed wherewer assistance might be ecessary. From this point I detached the Col. of Ultottie, D. Enrique O'Donnell, with 1200 in fantry, and some cavalry, to attack the enemy's troops that were in Brunolas, with the design of making the French General think that the con. toy was to proceed iu that direction. Notwith shnding the excellent position of Brunulas, and Ms local strength being increased by entrench. moots, O'Donell and his troops attacked it with such gallantry, that they gained the summit of the mountain, and planted the Spanish co. fours in the entrenchments. The French kept up a forreitieble fire; but our troops received it with the coolest intrepidity, and without stopping to return it, climbed to the highest Apt. In the mean time, the enemy received a reinforcement, in consequence of an impression that this was the point which required to he more particularly guarded. O'Donnell, to prevent be ing turned, descended to the plain, where be voted.' Arm stand. A body of our troops, under the command of Gen. Loygurri, soon after ar. shed at the position occupied by O'Donnell. Our troops could have in an instant driven the enemy from Ma position, bad it not been judged more adviscable to make various evolutions, with the view of magnifying our numbers, and inducing the French General, upon receiving such infor mation to reinforce that point with the corps which infor mation, had on the Ter, for it was by that read I ietendtll to introduce the convoy. Those divi. slops wore, during the whole evening, in front of Beeman, which the enemy precipitately evacu. abut in the night. 44 Colonel D. Francisco Rohira, who was to the left of ihz Ter, and also Lieut.-Colonel D. Jean Clary., attacked, by my orders, the ene ray's ttoaps who were in front of them, and op portnre y attracted their attention to that quarter. 46 In the meanwhile 4000 infantry, anti 500 eava ry, order the command of General G.lrcia Con e t escorted a numerous convoy, consisting of f. out 1500 to 2000 moles, and, proceeding from Am :r, passed the Ter, directing their march for b • fo tress alonA the ri4ht hank of that river. They detested the enemy who were opposed to them, Urania:were' of their camps, awl effected their en. !mice Is t Gcrona. The French immediately abaft done! all their remote posts, and contracted their linepto prevent the return of the mules, drivers, and horses, that bad got in. It then became necessary to change our positions, and to make various movements to protect their departure. They re mained in the place a day and two nights, and subsequently effectual their return with such good fortune, that we ditto not lose a single individual, sot, perhaps, did so mach as a single mule ur horse fall into the hands of the enemy. " TheGovernur of Gerona was It.rt with a gar rison of 1000 men. The moment I rerrivu the detailed r eport of Garcia Conic, I sh a ll t r ansmit it to your Excellency. In The mean time, I send you extracts from those of O'Donell, Itubira, Clans, and Llanden. 64 May God, &c. (gamed) " JOAQUIM BLAKE. 1fa.14-quartets at Glot, Sept. 13, 1 1 10 g." Addressed to Dols Atuoinio Coml. SEVILLE, SSP?. 30. EXTRACT or A ERI I ATE LETTER. "The French forces in this country arc, at present, considerably less than half the titimbur of oar troops. Such dispositions arc adopted, that 141adrid is expected to be free before the expira. lion of a fortnight. The army of La Mancha, under the command of Seignior &tide, iw now very tvvivrctable. Them is an army of otriAration in Estreniadura, and another of operation la Castile, toasistiag of upwards of 30,000 men. In addition to these Papers, we have also re. eeiaed a Monileur to thu 19th, and the Journal 4IN Commerce to the 20th instant—in the margin of the latter of which is the following short sup plementary note 3.-- " Ce 90 October, 9 hearts do inutio„ le moose fait en snare, et tout atinooce use stets la routiroution de la tomivelle lo Pals, slatteele 14." " This 20th of October, at nine o'clock in the morning, we hear the firing of the cannon, and every thing announces that it is a conlirmation of he Mtn df Peace, signed on the 14th." The same Paper contains an account of the Treaty having hecn signed on the lith, at nine in Ike morning. The Moniteur of the 90th affords no information of any kind tin the subject. The Vienna article of the 13th is extracted from that raper. pAst is, Oct. wag known yesterday that !trace was signed with Austria, on the 14th iu.t. at nine in the morning. It is said that Marshal .Vey is to be employed in the army in Germany. The gerripoit of Senegal, forming a part of the 46th regiment elf the line, arrived at V.IIIIICII on the lt.:th inst. is here k will remain for some time, to reenter front the °Gets of a long passage. It was conveyed to France in English transports. Vesuvius, according to the latest accounts from Naples, still continued to unit demos , notwith. staqing the incessant rains which had resent!, fallen in that quarter. The violence of the crup. tion had abated ; but the volcano still dischargt•d a small stream of burninxtuatter, in a direction nearly► opposite to that ofitornyt•r eruptions of lava. OCT. IN--Iris dlajestyn4be Emperor was' still at Schomibrotin on the 11th inst. The adviees fro. Violas of that date contain teething autial • re sp e cting the ronchnion of peace, bet prepare. time easiieseil to be need. for the I.:apnoea do. portiere. The ellvenee of the Imperial goatd ala afteady oa its starch. On Saturday, Celine Matteivet; thi es Minister of the Interior, took the oath of once in the presence of the Prince Arch-Chancellor, and immediately after entered upon the eureiss of his functions. Marshal the Duke of Ragusa is, it is re. ported, to take the command of a body of troops in Spain. _ _ The supplementary !cry ordered by the Se flatus Consultism, of the sth inst. is carrying into erect, simultaneously, and with the greatest acti vity, in all the departments. Those of the fire cusses therein specified, who may have married previous to the publication of the Decree, arc, by the 4th article, exempted from the ballot ; and by the sth article, persons having stood thu chance of the ballot for the preceding cuntin. gents, and for the present contingent of thirty six thunsand, without bting drawn, shall be free from &I future calk, We arc assured that improvements, upon a very extensive scale, are about to be executed in the port of Antwerp, which will bu enlarged so as to contain a numerous fleet of ships of the line. It is also said, that additions are to be male to the fortifications of Ostend. Sblikens will be put in a state of defence, and the fine sluices in that village will be secured against the dangers of a coup.de.maise. The English, in their expedition to the seheldt, have lost several vessels of different rates. The following is a return of their known losses: A pinnace sunk in attempting to interrupt the commtnication between Flushing and the Isle of Calsand. 2. Three pinnaces sunk on the second of August, by the fire of the batteries of the Isle of Waleheren. 3. A corvette, cup per.bottometil wrecked on the 341 of September, on the bank of Oost.Callot. 4. Several bomb. vessels, lost under the batteries of Flushing, in the attack upon that place. 5. Two ships of the line abandoned by the enemy ; one of which, a 74, was lost of Zuricsee. 6. A cutter wrecked on the 20th September, off Flushing. This state. ment does not include several of the enemy's ves sels that have been dismastefl, or disabled, or more or less damaged, in the narrows of the Scheldt, on the attack upon Flushing. According to a letter from Leghorn of the 7th inst. prise goods, being part of the cargoes of res. sets carried into Corsica by French privateers, are declared admissible into Leghorn, and the other ports of the Mediterranean mentioned in the 13th Article of the Decree of the 241115/tine, 1808, with the exception of muslins, comet, cloths, stuffs, hosiery, and millinery, prohibited by the lit Article of the said Decree. VIENNA. OCT. 3.—The weather has suddenly changed. The thermometer, which was at 16, has fallen to 4, in the 11.1v.time, and it freezes al. must every night. The sun is seldom seen : how ever, it shone yesterday, at the moment of the parade, which took place as usual, in the court of the palace of Schou:brows, and attracted a great crowd. PRICK OF s rOCKS 1111 ti 14AY AT ON I.:O'CLOCK. J per Cenl. Com , . 69i Look Ami... 184 9-16 Reduced Oft I thomlum 141 prem. 4 per l'ent....Klii I India R00d5....'26.. OJ4 3 per Cent....l 1 F.‘els. Bilks 9r. I. prem. Coma, for Nut. (Ali THE STATESMA N. pitohnmiTi IrN I. LONDON: vanity, OCTOBER 27. Tut silence preserved by NAIPOLLOR OR the !subject of the Peace, is highly asisteriass it but we are without a doubt, that some object is con ! . ended with the mystery—which, when published, 01 / 1 " 90.4 thottiw l4ol 4 inetetaity esteno tit every event in opposition to their wishes. The Foreign Papers contain intelligence from which Peace mast be inferred—but, hitherto, no formai communication of that mat is to be found-an the Amateur. A private letter was received in town this day, from Holland, of so late a date as the gist—in which there is no confirmation of the re port of peace. The longer this mysterious silence is preserved, the greater will, necessarily, be our apprehension of the importance of the cause in which it hat originated. As to Austria renewing the scar, we deem it worthy to be ranked with the project of " a march to Pad)." For unto days a rumour has been in circula. tion, of something like an intercourse of negocia lion between London and Paris. That our Mi. sisters should have the wisdom to think of PEACE would, to us, be a great marvel. Dvspicable, however, as we deem the political talents of the Ministry, let them but cuter upon a Negociation fur Pace with sincerity—let them, ingenuously, seek to give I'eacu to the afflicted, suffering Pro t plc of England and of Europe, and they shall bare our sincere applause.—flut we fear, are not less enviruned with (Mortrs, than is the country. 11 ill they dare to fly in the faces of the hospitable IVar Fac tion of Merchant Taylors' Hall ? IVe don't re- I collect to have heard a syllable on the subject of IPeace at that "jubilant feast." It will be recollected, that amongst the moi -1 toes with which the Civic Illuminati were amused, both Latin and Ercnch were pressed into the service. Of the Latin one was as fol. lows : " Rege anathema PIC XI omnibus see est." The general sense of which in English is, " Whilst the Kin is safe, sill lire its perfect luiratirts." What pity it is that the ingenious selector did not furnish the Illuminati A id the Public with the wkole passage—the people had then been enabled to comprehend the sneer, intended for the prince. ly Personage who, in the course of nature, !nay be expected to succeed his [loyal Father. AS, however, the sentiment must of necessity be un known to our Readers, we deem it our duty to explain it. The passage is selected from the 4th Book of VIRGIL'S Georgics, where the government of the Bces is so beautifully described. The passage runs thus : " Rege incobanei —woes omnibus erne ret " .Isuisso were firleas—emstructique " Diri macre iwie—et crates solltect. tavarults." " Whilst the K Imo is safe, all live in perfect harmony— " but when he is dead the union is dis-olved —and then• them " selves tear to piee..l the fabric Ili their boney—and demo " Ilsh the contexture of their Combs." What would this insidious selector, this organ of thu Illuminati, insinuate ? Having thus explained the rehole passage to the People of England, we leave them to conjecture what must be the feelings of his Royal Highness the Prince of %VALES, the lauful Successor und liar Apparent to the Throne 41 this Realm. Are these the " Lives and Fortune" Men who profess to support hereditary Monarchy IT! COVENT-G4RDEN THEATRE. " PARADISE REGA110:D"1 Such, with the hired Paper of the' Proprietors, called The Press (and thus will say its simple echo, The Globe of this evening).— 'vu the even. lug of the 2Gth of October, at Covent Garden. Of this " Paradise regained" our description will not be long. In the Dress Boxes of this Paradise were seated, or scattered rather, divers females...who certainly were dressed, inas. much as they were not wit/tow clothes; but the dresses were, for the greater part, those cf persons in the last rank of the middle class of society, obvi. ously collected to make so appearance on what would otherwise have been empty benches. We by no means wish to be understood as saving, that no persons of a superior degree were present ; for we had the very high satisfaction of seeing Mr. CUUKAY, the Master of the Rolls of the :a iiter kingdom, apparently in good health and spirits, in a side Box. Mr. GURNEY, one of the re tained Counsel of the Proprietors, scrutinized the audience with a silent but severe cross exami nation, fr the inquisitorial head.quie ten of the Managers' for, on the left—but net considering hint as a disinterested spectator, we cannot fur that reason include him, as we otherwise should do, amongst the audience. The sitiTation of the Ladies in the Dress Buxec appeared to be it ksome and constraintxl; some of them, indeed, manifested a degree of restlessness so conspicuous, that they might have been silt. weird to be seated on the gilded spikes in front of the Boxes, rather than on the seats of that region of "fusitionabk resort." The system of stsdfing the house with females was extended, last night, to the Pit—where about two-thirds of the audience, at the rising of the curtain, were composed of a motley collection of Ladies—among whom there scented to be many whose descent from the One Shilling Gallery to the Arena of Criticism, the Pit, appeared to have excited in themselves no inconsiderable degree of surprize.—Seriously—the company was packed— end as the difficulty of finding recruits begins to be considerable—a diminished respectability of ap pear:use° is positively visible. Qf the Two Shillings Gallery about seven rows were filled, bat dm One Shillini Pigeon Holes wet, deserted. Lqugk when sine Gan was the gy-,-that per. mission we have freer used even from the first nlgbt9t OPOttitti the rintltte ) aa4 lc have con. SUBSCRIPTIONS F°R the A.sistanrc of PERSON i considered as L.TNJUSTI.‘" PROSLCI;14:1) be the PROPRIL t()Rs and NIA N 1!; FA of CI) V I:NT-(S ARI) EN Ti I ATRE, are received es account of the truasurer, at the fal lowing places : The Oilier of THE STATESM % , c, 87, fleet-street; Mr. ti. Smith, Li, Giltspor-street Mr. IVehrh, Stationer, 1, S.ili,bur) -court. Fleet-stro^t ; Mr. Vokins, Statham .`2, St .aorstrect. Kssightsbrido ; Mr. Hourly, stationer. I, Dike-street, (irnsveuor-stpure ; Mr. Hill. tirorer, Ratcliffe; Mr. ‘VAller, Crir co and Anilior Inver.% Leadeuball-itrect; Mr. 'l'. Teri, Bnok•eller, I 1 l. rhedpside Mr. Peacock, 4.i, lilt-4i nitmien street ; Samuel Miller, I..sq. 13, Skimier-strect, (Treasurer). THE STA 'kW& tN TAPER - - Li 5 Tree Mee - 5 0 John Bull, ss WI his Bogle Ilona - 5 0 An Enemy to Impo sition - - 2 2 A Friend to the The atre. hat an Enemy to Private Busts 1 1 Onneed-r.tmet 1 0 0 Justice Hum apical Justice Bow-greet 1 11 0 11. A. Gray's Nu 1 0 0 F'. C. of tiandiute 1 SV. - - 1 1 F. P. - - - 1 1 0 .1. 'i'. - 1 1 0 A Cobbe11111! - 1 1 0 7'. R. - - (1 1.1 6 _ Thy lignite that Jack Jinx-Keeper's Osith U 7 built - - 2 2 One of the Gods, con fined with hoarse ness - - 010 .1. 14- - • 1 1 Arthur - - 0 14 M. %V Esq. - - 1 1 Mr. Thomas Tegg, aseapsidc • 5 5 Oh, wt A itcbes 1 0 7 Choi. kobarts, Esq. 0 10 A Carywnter • 0 5 " What doyouWant" L 1 Ausall ta.stefurlilack Jack - - 1 1 Father Justice - 0 111 rddy Iberia! —his discarded w ife —aud Rasa Matilda, 21.6 d. each - 0 7 6 A Wanton Roy ! So kas pis dicers At oms. Rudest l - 010 6 Mr. Rock - - 0 10 6 *Woods to the Likely of Mr P:ople. From a Club hrld at the LosidanCoffee. House —The suls scrijitionaftheCish 5 5 0 lodisation r frau. the Mrsnhers: A Laval SoNeel - 1 1 P. 11'illiams, Log. 1 Ilarbert, F..q. 1 1 '• Ile seam become The Chairman, Sao. Wright, &yy - 1 1 0 Sir W*. Rawlins - I 1 0 Mews. Lellfid (;04IXI 1 1 0 worse to 441 the Iles Priam good - 1 1 A Detester of Impo sition - 2 2 One who revolts a PrterSrholey 1 1 0 Tbn. Km - bey I 1 0 David Laing 1 1 0 Cladf.Scheler 1 1 0 Jaren Wairdir 1 1 0 theunjostiti Alec*. tortioo of the Pro- James I•as toll 1 0 Jobe N irkeh 1 1 0 prietors, nisi is dis- Ant:twiny to mijusti gusted pith the Bahl.• demands— presum ptuous isms- Link-ft cuerritio— linwe of the Masa- and utensil? dis ger of the New tissethin. among a flu-sore - 10 0 0 free People - 1 0 0 Mr. t'ourtenny - 1 1 0 Th^ Public are revs-Welly informed, that a Committee will be appointed in a few dare to investigate the claims of such indivialnah as may consider themselves entitled to 's alaam*. tinted nightly from that time to laugh at the al surd coostruetioa of the House—the ridicule' perseverance of the Nommen—the ■ukwar deportment of the inhabitants of the Prim Boxes...and the lying @mounts that arc diur. rally published by the futile, hireling , purchased Journals of the Proprietors. The sanctic of the Managers to indulge in laughter, was. i n troth, fortunate...for had even J nay llnenshend commanded a rigidity of our risible muscles, obedience bad been impossible. " Laugh 'her, yam can" was gravel, applauded by the order/p in the Boxes; but two or three invalid soldiers in uniform, the Hibernian Ladies of Covent-Gar. den Market, the Firemen, Watermen, and Po. lice-Officers in the rit, were, at times, ob. streperuusly vociferous in their plaudits. The curtain dropped amidst the usual roar. In dm course of the Piece, the Police Officers snap.. pert two persons who dared to express their disapprobation, and hurried them off so suddculy, that the company had not time to interfere. At the commencement of the "Jabi:ce," which followed, we counted the Pit several times, but could never get to 200. The activity of Profc3. sor Brandon, au far from diminishing, appears to have increased. lie seems, in truth, to liav-• ac. quired no inconsiderable twis fur this net.: brand. of the prqession. in the course of the evening . Perry, the fireinan,struck a young man, who its, t't ti to, and reduced the petulance of Mr. Peris to so. bee reason, by ■ very decent drubbing. It %s think, highly probable that the company in the pit will eventually feel themselves constrained t:i resist en masse the presence A* any persons by the Broprietors, whether Constable:, Officers, Firemen, ur Professors. Of all the insults that have yet been offered to the town, this same Jubilee is, perhaps, the great. cit. To give appearance to a inure natural Commerce, a number of persons attended her cm. blematical car, arra} ed in their ordinary dresses of lamp-lighlers, turpenter., blacksmiths, au,: other artisans. Of these persons, ur of their oc cupations, we beg nut to be understood as speak ing or thinking disrespectfully—it is of the Mt. augers we mean to express our contempt, (or in, troducing them, thus injudiciously, before ths. Public. As well, and as consistently, might be introduced a woman of couciiion at thy :cash tub, to convey the idea of distress —as artificers in their dresses of daily la bour, to curroburoto the effect of emblems of Cua►tncrcr, metaphorically introduced with thu ear. The inscriptions of the banners we enume rated yesterday, wit!; the omission of Jiff i3pru detect., followed, must rithen:ousle, b)• two men bearing each an opened batik. We last night examined, ssitli serupti!uus attentio❑, the various hamlets, conceit lag that, in thu first representation, we had overlooked, nut only one impudent, but very recent trans. action, which the Ilas.l-qmin Claricr had coen., pared with the fields ut Cr-,;:ryr and 4gincourt. Now, AS the day on which the Jubilee was cow memurated, happened to be that of St.Cs ipion, un which day was (ought the •famuus battle of 4gincourt, we sat in momentary expectation of seeing " though last not least," conspicuous TAL tVER3. how it !segment, ire knuo nut. But, although " sat there, " 7 1 40i:era," by soma unaccountable omission, does nut appear. Have the Proprietors, Alagistrates, Counsel, Matta, gers, Performers. Bow-street Qtticnrs. Coasts, til e s, Bruisers, Jews, Ruffians, Buz Professors, and hireling Newspapers, sat in judgment on the day of Talavera ? ‘Vliatcver be the cease of tha omission, we should liko to know it—for, Cer • tainly, after what has bean dune, and said, and written, a banuer of increased dimensions should have hued appropriated to Tho music of the pantomime of Oscar and W ising, was almost drowned by that in the Pit. The performances on the Stage at last con.. eluded, and the C Many separated without having encountered much opposition in the display of Placards. The Officers have adopted 3 new sys. tem of tactics with respect to the placards...they mix with the Company, and seizing their opportu nity, snatch down the placard, and immediately run out of the Pit. This was successfully executed its three instances, but the nppositionios began to counteract that mancurre, by a counter- • arch to the sides of the Pd, where they laid perdue in waiting for these niuranders, bat no further at. tempt 1934 role. On a large paper appeared 3 Skull and Croci Bones, with an inscription be. neath of " R ESC RCA NI. Shillinri, Pit Three SkiHim.' and Citpesee." `• to Theatrical..*eiluctiaa (a Uttar of a Ley )- -N Pa nte Itnitee." " (4eolletnen are particularly rt.-gin-led not to go to the Nitrate Boxes in bout* and spur:, at it way he ia•uiu•• nient." A person apparently sitting as a Magistrate, on a placard, with an angry countenance. front his tountli issued so " What nut applitud !--Commit him directly. ltved " The good Old King for ever bean! and Old Prices !" " Mr. Ketnlrle will sink' Since then I must; composed by John lull, expn•esh for tine °erosion." Witk and groan , make the Mailmen tremble Let them see we are n u t to be gowned by KIMILL." A perm I►abited as a sailor, but apparently under the influence of gruff, delivered a few inf. connected phrases from a BOX. The following fund-bill was thrown into the Pit : M. PIIII4LIPS Flatters herself the Frequeidei's of the Pit, who have so long been considered THE 111.sT JUDGES OF THINOs IN UENERAL, a ill, on the present Occasion stand her Friends in sappecting a small lOW 44 *) per Cent. nu HULL SEC U It IT' ES. The additional Price which the Pistils., are taxed with, at the Kentbleiliabus Toll-bar, num Niusti) affect the Ladies in the Ruse';—and as tbeY will, siacnbirlv ia the Privets. Prisit: gal, or Aural Ci mc I. a• —ncersodly be obliged to raise their neasaeds fur AIIMI S4lO N. Mrs. P. hopes her Bala will be allowed to Ise a jirtice due fu the Celebrity and Protection of her COMMODITIES ; that those Como try Gentlemen, who wish to be admitted in pants, should not abject to a getak Rise in ass Article, which has never ad vascei slate Tat. It h as d QUEEN ANNE , although every oilier lassiraace has Ogled Soap Ditties to their NE ista. _ . 8. A rew Awortwent of 11 . 11SHGn?es. ELL. W . ID . L i p -frrd for she PRIVATt. BU R LS. soil m b e Ing of 11l Ilw /*toil Woolen. eii ru ►rd ate Jr. lon ,