The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-09-14 00:00:00

Donut, Sart. I.3.—The ship width I slahhil lad Weft to have hero captured of here lay the emit, ptivaderrs, and ru ppased to have bees an Americas, was asco-tvolaed to he a Prugdas, trite a very dateable taws, based to Laois. The and Permitsa dlops of war returned this morn/a& fro an onsaectssfal chore after the privateers. la the Roads, the Zephyr, Peruvian, and Rolla sloops of war. Arrived the Primer. ConiA, fray' the roast of Africa; memer, Stephenson. fists 3t. Thorns',; Eliza A on, Au,. f ro m Virgiuia; and the Surinam, lirstlanan, ft om Sulam I 311 Masi Is Condos. Powesmorra, Merv. 13.—Arrived the Lavinia, 44, Lord W. Stood, from Flushing ; and the Urrot, o hit a convoy from the Downs. Case lute lowbrow the Dryad frigate, Captain Gainey and the Twerday ftwolawdelp. Arrived the Sally 'West fadiaman, which parted from the himieward-bawd canto, its a gak of wind, in charge of the Captnio, 74. Sailed the Defender, Limit. Sops, for Corunna. A detadosierst of the Guards marched in this morning, and embarked for Spain, winch every one is sorry fur, as it ism evident netlike dilemma buts. Ptornotren, Scies. lt—Arritred the Holphia, Jahn Tre etaine, Master, fro* rilbealtar boom' to Lewsdon, with wine and barilla ; D'adens, of London, John Caret. Mailer, hem (lbrattar, with wine and !brandy, basil° tiorrisoy4Alfrod, of London, John foi;wier. frill Catlin, with Mk ; Harriet, James thief, Masker, from redo, laden with brae:4 and wine for 'mien; nem Wldlians Tielik, Master, front the Medirerrs•tat, with wise sad sett, far this pert. is :Movie, SitlPt. the Princes Elisabeth parket, for erg Tart ; mad fire • Ludy Arabella ditto, for Sarbsdoes and Jasaiea. ..r EAST INDIA HOESE. Yesteeday a Court of Directors wps held at the Beat India House, when the following ships were taken tip, in part of the number to be employed in the ensuing season s r 4. Cirencester 1.400 tons, Capt. Itolbett. Anatole liart Camden WesS•rd Elp'-irodeee . • l,lOO -- Grdig. David Scott Eerier - Million. Wiarhebra - AI Aran. Atomic,' A trued -..-- Weletessol• woodford Surat Castle - =ssii. Caesium .. t'e' lee ee• •• • 818 Pluunix . . rer u n ians ton ' $7l ...—... Optuvik • _N. S. Plinte of Wales - • MO "Adis - William net Hart St. Vlore* V SOB -- fir l ot et ander - .eplondes Sr Williams Bogey • . bid --- t i ret 14. 1miumberiii . na MO 610 —v 567 --4 rriet Iluddiet . Lord Ektoa M -- t,— Cartnari Iwo Sir Stephen Libido...le SOS --. Total 19,913 teas of shippiog,inpert only at As awe II weber of vessels to be eespie)ed by the East ?edit' Cosepasy ia oaelear ! • ' In the late engagement between the Swedes and Raab's* la Bothnia, the toss on both sides was more c o nsiderable than we had reason to suppose from the first access/Its. Our Correspondent 'at Stockholm adds, by way of P. S. to his last communication, the following particulars : .••••• 44 Yen must have heard, before this reaches you, that there has been an obstinate and sanguinary tattle. Our loss in killed and wounded amounts to 1400 men; that on the part of the Russians is estimated at 4300 in kilted, wounded, and prison. ers. The Swedish troops in the Acid were about 6000 men; those of the Russians exceeded 10,000. The Swedes attempted to cut off the retreat of the enemy, but is this they were unsuccessful, as the Russians beret et fasirsayed the bridges which had favoured their liglit, Os is weber side of Lames, a here they bare to op a strong poal. deo. Shirrork. Patter.cen. R. Hay. ci►fax. Graham. J. 11. Sumo. Mason. Mania. Trite. Hetbert. Hooper. C F ninck I in. Wckdca Lvich. Nesbitt. Irma* Russ. . 3. H ay. tion." There have beta a number of sick men from the diderent regiments la Zealand, landed every day fur the last week ; the number now cup& 2,000 at Deal, abode ten of whom are bold daily. The nature of their disorders has proved very fatal, and, contrary to expectation, DOM takes a serious turn, being contagious, and pro. ducing a speedy delirium, which shortly terminates the existence of the patient. It was expected, that after several of the regi ments from Zealand had bees refreshed at Ports mouth, they would be re-emberked oe a second Expeditt , m, but this cannot take place fur some time. The Surgeou-Gesseral bas been at Ports. mouth, making every preparation for the com fortable reception of sick and wounded soldiers, a number of whom arrived there on Tuesday after nuou in the Zoom (Amelia* transport, from Por tugal. Arraagemenb ars making for the COM. towable reception of MOO, if the fortune of war -shall render it necessary. Ou Saturday the Perten frigate arrived in Mar gate Roads from Waleberen, having left that coast about noon on the day p_r_eceding. She landed Lords FRIngIiACM and WILLIAM Dias. tuna, Colons) Ihssiv of the Guard', Certain ETANI of the Artillery, the Hon. HaLEY calor:re (the brother of Lord H.), Hon. Captain 'Wausau ozn, and 114 other military and naval °Seen. Many of them being sick Wen Wight ashore in their hammocks. On Thursday last, se Yr. Gibson, of Lees& place, Commercial.road, was shoothig, with a party of friends, a t ilorschureb, hi Esse:, his gun burst, by n were which accident three &ge blown off, and several parts of his body lacerated. but his life is dearth - Amputation was reso rted to, ed of. late Deputy Regis WILLIAM WARD, E s q . hsr at Riehntowd, la the county of York, bias sec. ceedcd WILLIAM N icisoLLas Esq. as Prieelpel Deputy Registrar of the diocese of Chester. .....7.11••••••••••••.• ..1.0•••i•MINIANA•1•1 THE STATESMAN. 4141111ING7Vti, J•sT 28. [ TM fallowing is considered as Tam official. &ni l de:) There are features in thi late Order of the loth of May, that it may be of soma service distinctly , he metier. I. Thwarrangements made by Mr. Erskine, it is said, are not such as wereauthorised by his Ma. jesty's instructions, "or such as his Mirj.sty can approve." Here is an avowal by the British Go. vernmeut of an indelible purpose, unlimited by time or circumstance, either not to make a proper reparation for the outrage committed on the Che sapeake, or not to rescind the principle of her Or den of the 7th January and lltleof November. S. The temporary eclantions of the old Orders in Council ate all coupled with one sweeping con. ditiou, to wit, a withdrawal of protection from any vessel that shall attempt to enter any port " actually blockaded by any of his Majesty's ships of war." Is there not reason to fear that the whole of the enemy's ports will in this way be hi Jckaded by a naval force alt ogeth cr insuHiicient for the complete investment requisite to a legal block. ade, and that vessels leaving ports thus " block. ailed," will, on their return reptile, be seised on the high seas by British cruizers, and carried into British ports fur adjudication, for a_ nub'. don of thu blockade r There Is the more rea. son to apprehend that the species of blockade here referred to is not that recognised by the law of nations, as, if it were, there would have been no reason for such a provision. 3. The Order professes to indemnify Antedate merchaists, indeed to avoid any interference with their adventures under the arrangements made with Mr. Erskiesi. Bat this wilt be found, on laves. ligation; to be an idle pretest. The larger num. ber of American vends were destined for, and will have entered, British ports, with cominodi. ties, in part meant for consumption in England, in part for consumption on the Continent. The value of these commodities must materially depend en a sale fur them on the Coutineut. This being almost totally cut off by the Order of the 16th of Aprili substituted in the room of the previous Orders, the prim of those commod.ties in Bri. tish ports have actually sunk, and may be es. pedal to fall much more; and the American mer. chant, instead of making a profit, will incur a ruinous luau. A large portion of these shipments to Euglaed were, dutibtless, meant to be depo sited iu that country, with a view to future trans. venation to the Continent. This resource being now almost entirely cut off, a great anti steady depression of prices will he inevitable. By the disavowal of the British Ministry, the Order of April last conies into operation in lieu of the Orders of January and November, 1807. Now the Order of April, although otherwise so. presented in most of the public prints, will be found evils more rigorous and oppressive to oar trade than the preceding Orders. Under thane Orders, the direct trade between the Utsitial States and the Coloeics of the enemies of Britain, sod from the United States to the Continent of luvn'm through a British port, and the treas. portAtcan of American preduce, cotton esesptod, *rough a British port, to enemies' ports, Eider certain conditions, were allowed. By the Or4kr of April they arc, with trifling exceptions, interdict. I tal. Thu principal trade authorised with the Coo. tinent by this Order is to the ports of the Baltic, allowed, no doubt by Britain, for the express pur. pose of obtaining naval supplies through American bottema, a track which will be likely to beinbibited, as soon as it is seen to have this effect, and which, independently of this circumstance, would be of very little value to us, but a small portion of our produce would there find a market. Besides this trade, the Order allows a trade to the southern pans of Italy, comprising Naples, and a part of the territory of the Church, the whole of 'but in.' considerable importance, compared with the ports of Genoa and Leghorn, in the northern pert of Italy, with which all trade is interdicted. To this may be added a qualified trade to certain parts of Spain and Portugal, dependent epos their possession by England, which arc, however, toe trilling and precarious to be of much value to ea. Under this view of the subject, the arraiigeenelMs made with Mr. Erskine, attended by their recent disavowal, will be forted to operate as a mere decoy, the emollient leuitives of the order of May 21th to the contrary notwithstanding.— IVe.; tea Inlelligencsr. HERBY MARTIN I ESQ. and S. WHITBREAD, Esq. M. P's. were a few days ago admitted to the freedom of Nottingham, pursuant toe vote of that Corporation, fur their patriotic conduct in Par linnet. A letter from our squadron in Basque Roads conveys the following deformation :••••• 44 As for the Rochefort squadron being wholly destroyed, there arc eight sail of the tine now afloat up the river. The three-decker has been fresh cuppered. They have only their lower masts standing, and have neither men nor stores aboard. The Captain of a vessel we have just detained and sent in says, that they are marchieg every man they east find in the country into Spain ; they march them with their hands tied behind. A letter from Cadiz, of the 28th ult. contains the fallowing particulars, which will be interesting to our mercantile readers " Several alterations have taken place in the Spanish custom-house department, favourable to I the British commerce. Besides the admission of all cotton manufactured goods (hitherto rigorous. ly prohibited), a great reduction has taken place in the duties nu woollem and other goods. New. foundland fish only pays27' reals.of vellum, instead of 43 Am.:riots; and Norway fish are excluded from those iadelgencies. These cessions, se highly favourable to British trade, it is presumed, will irSducc the Government to put the products of Spy, en an tine footing with the most favoured murices, particularly in the ankle of Spanish red wises, which pay the enormous duty of 12t. pet toe mere than wise from Portugal. With respect to tarter:en trial's to South America, no relate. time has takes piece, or alteration wk, in the former regolatiou." Tile 1,47,11 EXPIDITION. ; 1111011 11111 ARGUS (ritaxen PAPILIt.) . (this was written before the intelligence et the surrender of Flushing had reached the French capital.] 66 The saws of the armistice, which arrived at London on the 26th of .Inly, has spread a eon iternation over the Ministerial party, which the hope of thu success of the Flashing Expedition could not efface. ' 6 At London, as at Paris, the issue of this Ex. *idea may now be foreseen. The letters which are every moment received from the North of Festive, the seal which is manifested every where against the English, who fancied its coast with out spy means pf defence, have already caused their speedy tight to be presaged. The delay alone of their first attacks was a defeat. They could only hope to succeed by a surprise, or by treaeon. They have lost the first by their timid procrastination pies lenteurs ihnider). They have seduced bet one traitor, and soon found thousands of heroes . Flushing, and the Fete* Beet ' might possibly have been taken, by au ewe. pectedcoup-de-esoini hut all the vessels are now in i safety n the Scheldt. Flushing is vigorously de fended : succours have been sent irs under the cannon of the lingllsh ships ; and, if this fortress had yielded titan unforeseen attark, It would hay. beeo a short conquest, and produced only imam disasters. The glorious epoch 2t which we live, is fas distant from the days whoa the enerey held a garrison in Cahill. If they have now the power to destroy, they have net to occupy. Their whole marine could not prevent Flushing trues sorsa fall ing again into the power of France. -46 It is Polarities, that the British Government witnessed, with profound regret, the opening of the Scheldt, and the cession of Flushing to France. Mr. Pitt said, in the House of Com mons, s that if France %%ere permitted to retain that maritime and commercial position, they weight even abandon to her also the mouth of the i halms, to which a favuuralde wind might in It hours transport a French expedition, prepared with se. curity in a vast base'', so well protected by art and nature.' Bet victory has, nevertheless, se. cured this fine cenqnest to France; which the po- Alliesl faults of Mr. Pitt contributed to, and which atl the genius of his successors will never tike away. Thus the expence of their immense 'expedition will be loft. The Island of Welch*. ten will be one of the bulwarks of France; the Scheldt will he free fur the felicity of her rich northern provinces, and to the perpetual terror of the Mistress ref the Sews. • " Already national hiniour calls Frenchmen to the defence of their insulted coast/. Those of the neighbouring departments have nut waited thoeura. mons of the Prince and Senate to fly thither. The tempest thickens round the English: they will stay on the shore with their sails unfurled, if they do not wish to pay dearly for the temptation to which they have yielded, of setting their feet on. the French territory. " We did not wait for events in order to jud4e conceruing this expedition. It has been ill coo. lashed and ill executed. As an ally of Austria, it is not possible that England should nut have lat. tend her with this diversion. Why then has it been so tardy ? But if Fleshing ken been always the object of this enterprise, we may infer from it, that the greatest disasters will never cure the British Government of its incurable selfishness and jealous cupidity, since the desire et catching a few ships has been more powerful than the possibility of steeling a diversion more useful to her ally, either in Spain or the North of Germany, in aid of the robbers whom it has in pay there. On the other hand, if it be true that the knowledge of the Armistice has deranged the first plan of the Eng fish Ministers, the precipitation was imprudent, and the change may be fatal. " Certainly it is an affront to the British arms, that an Expedition, prepared at so enormous an ',teepee, composed of numerous and select troops, trumpeted Curtis as une that was to elect a revo lution in European affairs, should terminate In the bombardment of a town, leaving the field of battle to a few garrison troops and nationalguardr, without experience in war. Is it not matter of scandal, that in oppos ition to so mighty and costly an effort, France should not (in spite of the asser tions of the English papers) be undei the neces sity of detaching a single man from her own armies, and that the conquerors of the Danube should, at the same time, hear of the insolent attempt of the English and their defeat 2 It is thus we may judge of the relative power of the two nations, and see at what price England purchases that maritime superiority, which is raised on the calamities and divisions of Europe." It is said that Lord WetAttroron has born forced to destroyed his ammunition, in order to make the waggons carriages for his sick and wounded, which it is said exceed ten thousand. Captain Cocteau, of the Buffs, son of Mr. Colman, one of the Proprietors of the Hay. market Theatre, is among the prisoners taken by the French is the retreat from Talevers. He had effected his escape, but his jaw having been free. tared in the battle of the 28111, he was enable to cooties° his flight, and thus fell into the hands of the enemy. We have been informed that vessels sail from France - with English licences, under any colours except French or Dutch.... They are easily forged. Ali meta of war have nut got the list from Go. verament of what are granted, sad if the French . merchant sends half a dosee with the same, except the same man of war meets with two of rhea,' the faeiy is not detected, and they pass safely. y bring nothing bet French produce, es, Stc. On Friday last S. JACLAIIIAN and Si.. TI101:11. Wit t Esqrs. were ammo Bailiffs or Chief Mails. traces of Ipswich Welty year ensuing. Daring divine service last week at Chokes. ford Church, the nose, cireatnetancts occurred of a woman standing up and forbidding the banes of a marriage in which herself was a party, they baring, as it appeared, beep gebilatied, without her AWOL .1 ell THE COMAIISSAIiti't. There is no public department has so mach engaged the anxiety, as well as notice of the public, as that Ahich belongs to the Commissariat of the Army ; yet none which most unhappily Sois given less satisfaction—ne4robably from any will et rapacious machinations of its agents, bitt 'from some infatuity or ignorance that have coml. ly prevailed, in point of fatality, to midst abortive some of the o Ft expensive and formida ble armaments that ever left the British shores. In Spain, the defects of this department were de. plored by the army ; tho officers and men under Sit John Moore, and that • General himself, enu. morated it under the heads ' , 6f other complaints " that he so forcibly urged. ` j lin Spain again, tooter Lord Wellington, disastert, wore than defeat ) . 0 are imputed to it in his Lordship's dispatches. It ought not to be endured, that those concerned should set up the apology, that we were to lo ,k up to the Government of Spain for commissariat supplies for our forces. The indolmee, city, or apathy of the persons whose agency was to edict that object, had already given proofs so co evincing of their disinclination or imbecility, I tat no reasonable hope could have been Collided 'ea their exertions. It is therefore plain that no dependence being to be placed in (bens, we should hese been prepared against the worst, and have provided such a Commissariat as if our troops Iltod ben, not in an ally's, but an enemy's Come. lg. This would have been sound policy, and 'wird have amply repaid the contingent charge esproze, by the preservation of many a good and brave solltre. It is reported that Mr. Golan, the Gentleman at the hyoid of that department in 'England, means to resign, ream bodily infixed. ties. Ile has been a useful and honourable man, aud, it is understood, has done Ms dot,' to the public. It Is now, therefore, cordially to be wished, if that Gentleman shnuUr resign, that his place will by fillet! by one whose competence to the station will be supported by integrity, omi t and assirl pity ; and that uo man will be appointed who, as a Commissary or otherwise, ever elicited the breath of suspicion, or created trouble in t h e iurestigation of his public accounts. In that case public coofidence will be given to him, and it will extend itself to the department. CORONER'S INQUEST. —mew— An inquest was taken yesterday at the Angel Inn, behind St. Clement's Church, before ANTIC. Goa., Esq. Coroner for the City and Liberties ut. Westminster, on the body of the unfortunate Gee. tieman who shot himself oe Monday, in the wa. ter.closet . of the Inn. The waiter and ostler of the inn were examined —the former to sbew the apparent state of mind •in which the unfortunate Geotlemas appeared pre. rives to committing the rash set. He stated, that he came into the Cofee.room about one o'clock, about the room much agitated, looked in the glass, and then turned towards one of the ta. biles where a Gentleman was sitting, at what he stared a consitkrablo lime, then returned to the glass, at which be stood fur a short tinse l thee quitted the room, and in a minute or two after. wards the report of pistols was heard, as if pro. needing from the water.closet in the inn.yard, where the ostler and himself went, and fogad the unhappy gentleman had shot himself. On search. ing his pockets, a pocket-book, containing a let. t ter, was found, addressed to a near relative, seve ral bullets, and about five shillings in silver. Ho lingered for twelve hours without speaking, and then died. Mr. James Young, Surgeon, stated, that he wen called is to the assistance of the deceased, who then lay in the water-closet. Upon examining him he discovcrdd that he had discharged • brace of pistols at his head, the bullet from one of which I liad entered the left cheek, and lodged in the bask part of his head ; the other bullet had fallen on the ground. The unfortunate Gentleman's skull was so mangled, that hid brains were scattered over his person, notwithstanding which he lived fur twelve hours. The Person with whom the deceased had lodged for upwards of two years, was examined as to the state of mind of the deceased, previous to this me. choty affair. He described him as having been • widower with three children, the eldest about eight years old; that his age was twcnty.eine; that his wife had died in child-bed nearly two year* and a half ago, since which time his mind bad been in a low desponding state. Tho witness declared that he had nu doubt in his own mind that the unhappy gentleman's malady had inereas. ed considerably ; he had been to Margate, mid re. turned to town on the Sunday evening previous to the death. A Gentleman to whom the letter found was ad. dressed, stated the substance of that letter, which recommended his children to his kind protectiun when the writer should be no more, and declare. tote of his determinatiun not to exist any longer, as life was becomes burthco. Another witness stated, that on several occasions the deceased had exhibited symptoms of a disor. dered mind ; that his melancholy was so great it was impossible to rouse him, or to read his recol lective faculties. The Coroner (Mr. Grit.) observed to the Jury, that if they were satisfied with the evidence, they must find a verdict of Lunacy. Several of the Jurymen were of a different opinion, and thee it became necessary for Mr. Gets. to collect each one's opinion, when oat of Astern persons imperiled, else of them consider ed that the unfortunate Gentleman had committed etifonarder, and seven that he was in • state of as la deratigement when be put an end to his salaam. The majority of ewe therefore made it imperativieu the Coroner to record a Verdict of Frio di se. omenewnowlitelmolat On Ilatetds7 and Sunday last shout 90 soldiers were brought up from Harwich to Ipswich in tie wherries, excessively 111, several of whom have shies died. More are daily espeoisd, but the wind brio oentrary, keeps them from ipills4 to tl a 1 1 (1 !. 41