The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-09-04 00:00:00

FRENCII AND DUTCH PAPERS. r Is, f 1 I• G . 23.-- HCT M aids ty the Empress con:inuec siuce her return, It the Maths Of Mal anai<on, uml it is believed that she will not make her appearance before the arrival or the Emperor, whit 1., according to the last advices from Vienna, is tot eNpeCteti to he long delayed. In fact, we learn that the Homo of Austria, after many torgiversa tion:, and muck repugnance, seems at lenrth to ac quiesce in all the conditions on which the Emperor Napoleon consents to giant peace. The last obstalles to peace being thus removed, the Pin i petrol tia ries reciprocally a p pointed to ennelude the Treaty have repaired to Altenburg, and net to Raab, as was at brat said, where they Will open their conferences. SANTA Or..u.LA, Ace. 9.—We receive this moment intelligence that the enemy's artillery which bombarded Toledo, has on a sodden ceased Sting, and that the English and Insurgents are re treating in the utmost confusion to the left banks of the Tays.. Thos a few days bare been sta. cient to confound and disconcert the absurd pro -I:ets of people, who carried the suggestions of insanity so far as to conceive that they shoved speedily render themsel►es masters of the capitil, and now deem it extremely prudent to place the T. 141111 between them and the French army.— (Royal Am•terdaas Gcnetle of 4:tg. 23.) VIEVNI, AUtl. B.—Accordirut to a resolution of the Prince Alajor.General (Prince of Nev chatrl or Wagcam), every soldier id to receive'so sons on the high-day of the Emperor Napoleon. and every Officer 12 francs. The French army in Ilornvia is nest plentifully supplied %%ill, all sorts of provisions, while the Anstrians, in their pun country, experience the utmost want, using to the bad marrgenteut of those who are to procure provisions for the troops. The utmost discontent is said to pr..vail among them, and a c o ngiderable number of superior Officers have demanded their It i 4 ',ow known, that the corps of the Prince of Rusenimre, which consisted of about 43,000 mcii, has been so north minced by some late events, that it has been found necessary to dis. Lund it ati.l incorporate it with other corps. 'llw Counties in Hungary have refused to raise their number of men for the ig,lirrection. The Emper.tr of Austri4 is at im.seot in Mo. ruin, at a cuuutry.seat of Count Cobentzei.— Count Wrena is expected at licheenbrunti in the course of this thy, or to-nifyrrow, with the aniwer of the Emperor of Austria to the propositions of reice made by the Emperor Napnlcon. LrNrz, !duo. B. A n Austrian Newspaper coutahis the following article:— •s Within these last few ? days several engage ments hare taken place is tote esni►ous of Ingo. Lena and Deligrad, the remit of which has nut been funerable le the ins. Caernl George has been wounded, in a seem actions Bich was fought near Tapolia; during his abience, hlelinke Las taken the chief command of the Serrian army. FRA%IVORT, Ana. 10.—No official account has yet been received of the reperted prolonga. lion of the Armistice, hut it is still asserted that on the Sth instant it was prolonged absrie die. However this may he, the negociations for peace do not proceed as speedily as it was supposed they would. Letters from Cutnorn state, Chit the Emperor of Austria and all the persons by whom' he is surrounded, appear extremely dejected, and the Emperor is seldom seen in public. Punts, Ago. 19.—0 n the 10th instant the Prefect of the Seine, and Counsellor of the State, Count Froshot, issaed a proclamation, stating, that the present ciremustanees rendered it indis- peusably necessary to re-orgaoke the National Gnards of Paris, and aecordin;,!y ordered the immediate re-organization thereof. Awzrzno Ace. 2.6.—The surrender of Flusbng is lui4s to be ascribed to the efforts of the besieging army, then to the tire which was kept up against the fortress, with uncommon vigour, by 'envy English salt of the line. Au English brig was sunk before the town. G.•ncral Osten was at the bead of every sortie which was made, and has deservedly obtained the admiration, not only of his friends, but also of the Enetsh. When he stepped in the boat which was to take him on board an English transport, Lord Chatham shook hands with him, and said, " Farewell, brave General." Dis Royal Majesty has ordered that no public festivals shall take place in Holland until the Dutch tcrtitory shall have been properly cleared of the Eagliih, and that accordingly all public re. joicings, with which it was intended to celebrate his Majesty's birth.day, on the 4th of next month, shall be postponed for the present.--(Royal Am sterdam:Ca:elk.) Aecordi"g to advice, from Lintz, dated the 12th, the F:ench army still reniained in the same . _ positions as at the conclusion of the Armistice. The Duke of Aucrstadt has his head-quarters at . Braun, the Duke of Rivoli at Znaiin,, the Dako of Ragusa at Krms, Marshal Oudinot at Spitz, the Pan Viceroy at Presburgh, and Marshal Mac. &mold at Gratz. The Saxon troops are on the side of Presburgh, those of Wirtemburgh in the envirdns of Vienna, and those of Baden and Darm stadt on the frontiers of Moravia: Two Bavarian divisions are in the Tyrol, and the third at Lintz. LETTER FILOM GENERAL PAUCONNET TO Tilt MI NISTER. AT WA It. " Antwerp. Ang. 2, 1909. " MoNSetromea—Yaur Eseelleocy has, no doubt.been informed by Generals Mannet and Cluunbarlhac or, the de scent which the English hate effected on the Island of Wel cheren. and the progress they bate made in Zealand, since, as I am assured, they have taken Middleburg. I have taken the measures width appeared to me necessary immediately to oppose any attempt which the enemy might make to land on the right bank of the Scheldt; I have in consequence consulted no the ground with the Commander of the troops of the King of Holland. We agreed on our live of defence, which I immediately ceased to be occupied, and shall this mese* reinforce, a' I have receive advice that the English have takes the fort of Bats ; 1 shall nut allow myself to make any redcctiue an the hasty surrender of this fort Shat I And setonishing is, that I was st it hin sight of it with General Taragne. from ten in the morning till past noon, and that we never h..ard a single enanon fired, nor n musquet discharged. General Charbormier has this 111010`11i arrived with a column arc isalry and infantry. " The forts of I.illo and Ltel i kensitneirk are in a state of defence. The marine is landing pieces of artillery, w hich to- IItOITOW, I tope, will be placed." LETTER PROM THE MINISTER AT WAR TO EIIS MA• JESTY TIIE EMPEROR AND NINO. Seat:—it is live in the morning. I receive the incon ceivable intelligence that tha Laglish have taken the furt of liatz. " An equivoral phrase ink letter written to the Minister of the Marine. made me suppose that Flushing wa bom barded, and I transmitted the same to your Majesty, but it was only Tcrveer that was meant. " I am with respect, Scr. " COUNT lICNLIIOURO, " The Minister :it War.' LETTER !ROM GENERAI. CIIANDAILIIAC TO THE MINTiTER AT WAR. " Avywrar, Ave:. 4.-1 arrived at Antwerp thiG evening with the eavilry under my conduct I the General of Brigade Valetaux arrived r moment afire with his brigade. When the lids serves to-morrow, 1 shall :zei to :14 e Admiral 51es sie7sy. and concert measures with him. . " Our troops communicate with those of his Majesty the Kali; of Holland by Bergen-op-Zoom, and we have agreed n WI the (ien►ral who cummattard them, to art in concert. " The abominable conduct of NE Brace, the Dutch Officer who, w About waiting for the ciseniy, lied from 13312, is one of tho e lastauccs of cowardice which mint proceed from in fatuation or treachery. This wretch is I;,e cause that the English ads anted posts are not more than six leagues from Antwerp, but onr troops observe them, and will be aide to maintain their posts. " The forts which defend the banks of the Scheldt are well armed." Tel N: MARKE T s% CORN-EXCHANGL—SarrucarR 4. The Market this day has but an inconsiderable supply of Wheat. Early in the forenoon fine samples fetched a small advance, but the sales in uneral were at little fluctuation. Barley and Malt likewise. Rye is cheaper. White Poas also. Beaus, of the two descriptions, nearly at late prices. There are large supplies of Oatai. and excepting fine, this article is quoted rather lower. Prices or Flour at our lag .currency. Fine American wholesale also. CE OF GRAIN. Tick Beans, - - - - 465. Ms. Oafs, Poland ditto - $4,. Pavane ditto - - - - to 40v. ItapeSeed- - - - £5O Xix 9. Fine Flour - - - - BOP. $6•. Seconds cuaRENT PRI Wheat, - - - - 756. lids. 916. Fine ditto - - - 1011. 106•. Rye,----- - -50 s. 544. , Barley, Malt, W. Peas (Roden) . Grey Peas, 4811. 595. limns - sis. 61.. SMITH Fl T•v sink the thial, Rrrf....4•. 1011. to .s. 4d. Intink 04. to 30. 6d. ,LD—SEPT: 4. , per stony of 81h. ilrrol ur Cattle this day : Remo. eil .taik• Oct. to 7s. Of. Sheep and Lanali 17400 Turk Oil. to 7.. 4d. Galway LA:att.-ss. 6d. to 63. 4d. Pigs HAY-MARKET. 11.1 v 11. 16.4. 04. to 21. 54. (NI. Claver 6l. 103. Od. to 71. 10s. Friday afternoon, Captain Guaeiss and 100 recruits for the 24th, 83d, and Snth Regiments, were embarked at C.'wes, on board the Lady Carrington, for the Cape of Good Hope. She was to sail yesterday. The Special Court of Criminal Justice at Paris has just applied the Imperial Decree of the 6th of April last to Lours V. M. ne ROMAN, a son of the former Prince of GLYEMENIE, convicted of having carried arms against France, and of having served in the armies of a hostile Power, snbse. quest to the Ist of Sept. 1804. He was con. demned for contumacy to the punishment oaf death, and to that of the confiscation of his estat e an 'effects, in conformity to the Penal Code. We are sorry to state a melancholy eircum staece, which took place on Friday last :—J. J. TODD Esq. (brother to Colonel F. TODD, of the Ist regiment of Guards) went out shooting in the, neighbourhood of Handel's', Hampshire, whew his grin accidentally went off, whilst he was taking out the ramrod, and the contents of it being forced through his body, he lingered fur twenty minutes, anti then expired. The deceased was on a visit to his sister, Mrs. ilautarr, the Lady of Captain ff. of his Majesty's ship Ganges, who resides at Catherington House. • Among the attractions of that annual scene of amusement, Bartholomew Fair, the most prom'. nent is Mr. Potato's exhibition of Wild Beasts and Birds.—This beautiful and extensive collec tion, which has been exhibited before his Majesty and the Royal Family at Windsor, and which has attracted the universal admiration of the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, may now be seen near St. John-street, Bartholomew-Fair, where Mr. POLITO has so provided for the accommodation of his visitors, that these wonderful productions of nature may be inspected without the slightest in convenience or danger. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Szpr. 2. Dor:mint-street, Sept. 2, 1809. ••' • A Dispatch, of which the following it a ropy, was, oil the 311th alt. received •t the office of Lord Viscount Castle reagh, one of bis linjestv's Principal Secretaries of Stair, front licutenalit-General Lord Vienna Wellington, dated Deleytosa, Aug. 8. MY LORD—I apprised your Lordship on the Ist instant, of the advance of 1 French corps to wards the Paertode Bands, and of the probable embarrassments to the operations of the army, which its arrival at Placentia would occasion ; and these embarrassments having since existed to a degree so considerable as to oblige us to fall back, and to take up a defensive position on the Tagus, I am induced to trouble you more at length with au account of what has passed upon this subject. When I entered Spain, I had a communication with General Cumta, through Sir Robert Wilson and Colonel Roche, respecting the occupation of the Puerto de Bands and the Puerto de Peralcs, the former of which, it was at last settled, should be held by a corps to be formed under the Mar quis Dc la Rcyna, to consist of two battalions from General Cursta's army, and two from Btjar ; and that the Puerto de Pcrales was to be taken care of by the Duque del Parque, by de tachnients from the garrisou of Ciudad Rodrigo. . I doubted of the capacity of the garrison of Ciudad Rodrigo to make the detachment to the , latter, but so or the effectual occupation of the forme!, that in writing to Marshal Beresford on the I7th of July, 1 desired him to look to the Puerto de Perales; but that I considered Banos as secure, as appears by the extract of my letter which I inclose. On the 30th intelligence was received at Tala vera, that 12,000 rations had been ottlered at Fucntc Duenos for the 28th, and 24,000 at Los !iaottis for the same day, for a French corps, which it was believed was on its march towards the Puerto de Bands. General Guests expressed some mixiety respect. ins this post, and sent me a message, to propose that Sir Robert Wilson should be sent there with his corps. Sir Robert was on that day at Talavera, but his corps was in the mountains towards Esca. lona • and as he had already made himself very useful in that quarter, and had been near Madrid, with which city he had had a communication, which I was desirous of keeping up, I proposed that a Spanish corps should be sent to Bands with. out loss of time. I could not prevail wit!, General Cnesta, al though he certainly admitted the necessity of a reintorcement when he proposed that Sir Robert should be sent to 8111439 j and he was equally sensible with myself of Lie beadt to be derived to the cause, from sending Sir Robert beck to Escalona. Ad this time we had no further intelligence of the enemy's advance, than that the rations were ordered; And I had ho o qs that the enemy might be deterred from advancing, by the intelligence of our success on the 213th, and that the troops in the Puerto might n►ake some defence; and that uoder these circumstances it was not desirable to divert Sir H. Wilson from Escalona. o'. the ;;oth, however, I renewed my applies cion to General Chests, to send there a Spanish division sufficient strength, in a letter to Gen. O'Doonghue, of which l incluse a copy, but without elect ; and he did not detach Geuenti Bas secoutt till the morning of the 2d, after we had heard that the enemy had entered Ilejar, and it was obvious that the troops in the Puerto would make no defence. On the 2d we received accounts that the enemy had entered Plasencia in two columns. The Marquis de la Reyna, whose two battalions consisted of only 600 men, with only 20 round, of ammunition each man, retired from the Puerto and from Plasencia, without firing a shot, and went to the bridge of Almeria, which he declared that he intended to remove; the battalions of lie jar dispersed without making any ressistance. The General called upon me on that day, and proposed that half of the army should march to the rear to oppose the enemy, whilst the other half should maintain the post at Talavera. My answer was, that if by half the army, he meant half of each army, I could only answer that I was ready either to go or to stay with the whole British army, but that I could not separate it. He then desired me to choose whether I would go or stay, and I preferred to go, from thinking that the British troops were most likely to do the business effectually, sod without contest ; and from being also of opinion, that it was more im portant to us than to the Spanish army, to open the communication through Plasencia, al. though very important to them. With this de. cisiou , General Cuesta appeared perfectly sans. fled. Tie movements of the enemy in our front, since the lit, had induced mu to be of opinion, that de spairing of forcing us at Talavera, they intended to force a passage by Escalate, and thus open a communication with the French corps coming from Plasencia. This suspicion was confirmed on the night of the 2d, by letters received from Sir Robert Wilson, of which I enclose copies ; and before I quitted Talavera on the 3d, I waited upon General O'Do. nughue, and conversed with him upon the whole of our situation, and pointed out to him the pos. sibility that in the case of the enemy coming through liscalona, General Comte might tied himself obliged to quit Talavera, before I should be able to return to him; and I urged him to col_ lect all the carts that could be gut, in order to re move our hospital. At his desire I put the put.. port of this conversation in writing, and seat him a letter to be laid before General Cuesta, of which I inclose a copy. The British army marched on the 3d to Grope. sa, General Bassecutirt's Span ish cur 1), being a► Centhiello, where I desired that it might halt next day, in order that I might be nearer it. About five oclock in the evening, I heard that the French had arrived from Plasencia at Naval.l moral, whereby they were between tie and - the bridge of Ahearn. „. . Akiefitillintentrtifthet.llollll t .4l.e•Pitet from Ge. tttseal Oitliono . ghee. the leo* held itt in el oftere., of Mich I incluse eopiesi enNencing to me the in. felitiar, of Gen. Cuesta•to march. from 'relater* In etch ng, and to leave there my hospital, etc. cepting such mon atm cuitid he removed by Mu tricans tic already had, on the ground of hi” ..ppre hension that I was not strong enough for the corps coming from Plaseocia, sod that the enemy wee moving upon his flank, and had returned to Santa Olalla in his front. I acknowledge that these reasons did not appear to mu sufficient for giving up so important a post as Talavera, for exposing the combined armies to an attack in front and rear at thy same time, and for abandoning toy hospital ; and I wrote the let ten of which I enclose a cnpy. This inifortain.itely - reached the General after lob had marched, and he arrived at Oropesa shortly after day-light on the morning of the •Ith. The question, what was to be done, was then to be considered. The enemy, stated to be thirty thousand mat, but at all events consisting of the corps of Soult ond Neyi either united, or 1.0 ve.. ry distant from each other, and supposed, br Marshal Jourdan and Joseph Bonaparte, to MC sufficiently strong to attack the British army;' stated to be twenty-five thousand men, wei• twt one side, in possession of the high road to the passage of the Tagus at Almaraz, the bridge at which place we knew had been removed, al. though the boats still necessarily remained in the river. On the other side,' we had reason to capeet the advance of Victor's corps to Talavera, as soon as General Cuesta's march should be known, and after leaving twelve thousand men to watch Va negas, and allowing from ten to eleven thousand killed and wounded in the late action, this corps would have amounted to tweoty.five thousand.— We could extricate ourselves from this difficult's!. tuation only by great celerity of movement, to which the troops were unequal, as they had not had their allowance of previsions for several days, and by success in two battles. If unsueeesafel in either, ne should have been without a retreat ; and if Souk and Ney, avoiding an action, had re tireebefore us, and had waited the arrival of Vie.. tor, we should have been eapost•d to a general Action with fifty thousand moo ; equally without a retreat. We had reason to expect, that as the Marquis de la Reyna could not remove tho boats from the river Almaraz, Soult would have destroyed them. Our only retreat was, therefore, by the bridge ofArco Bispo ; and if we had moved on, the enc. my, by breaking that bridge while the army should be engaged with Soult and Ncy, would have de. prived us of that only resource. We could oot take a portion at Oropesa, as we thereby left open the road to the bridge of Arco Bispo from Talavera by Calera ; and, after consi dering the whole subject maturely, I was of opi. ni•n tbat it was advisable to retire to the bridge of Arco Bispo, and to take up a defensive position upon the Tagus. I was induced to adopt this last opinion, be cause the French have now it least fifty thousand men disposable to oppose to the combined armies, and a corps of twelve thousand to watch Vitae, gas ; and I was likewise of ()pinkie, that the sooner the defensive line should be taken np, the more likely were the troops to be able to de fend it. Accordingly I marched on the 4th, and crossed the Tagus by the bridge of Arco Pipe, and . have continued my route to this place, in which I am well situated to defend the passage at Al mares and the lower parts of the Tagus. Gen. Cuesta crossed the river on the night of the sth, and he is still at the bridge of Arco Bispo. About two thousand of the wounded hate been brought away from Talavera, the remaining V. teen hundred are there; and I doub►, whether, under any circumstances, it would have been pos. Bible or consistent with humanity, to attempt to remove any more of them. From the treatment which some of the soldiers wounded on the 17th, and who fell into the hands of the enemy, esprit:l;mA from them, and from the manner in which I hare always treated the wounded who have fallen into my hands, I expect that thete men will be well treated; and I have only to lament, that a new concurrence of events, over which, from circumstances Iliad and could have no controul, should have placed the army in a situation to be obliged to leave any of them behind. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY. A dispatch, of which the folluwing t a copy, was yesterday morning received at the Office of Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, from Lieutenant. Gencr.'l the Earl of Chatham, dated Hcad.quar. tors, Butz, August 29, IEO9. MT Loan—Major Bradford delivered to me your Lordship's dispatch of the 21st inst. signify. ing to nie his Majesty's commands that I should convey to Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, the General, and other officers and troops employed before Flushing, and particularly to those of the artillery and engineer departments, his Majesty's most gracious approbation of their conduct ; and which [ have obeyed with the most entire wiz.. faction. I had the honour in my last dispatch, of ac quainting your Lordship with my intention cf proceeding to this place, and I should have been most happy to have been enabled to have an. iviunced to your Lordship thefartner. progress of this army. Unfortunately, however. it becomes 1.1 duty to state to your Lordship'that, from the concurrent testimony from so many quarters as information, the lease no doubt of the truth of the the enemy appears to have collected so formidable a force as to convince me that the period was rived, at which my iostractions mould have di. rented too to withdraw the army under my cum. stand, even if engaged in &etre! operations. I had certainly early understood on my arrival at Waicheren, that the enemy were assembling in considerable torn on ail points; but I was 1 1 • 4 • • 1 , 1 S • 1 • 4 P 4 t• I $ t t , ( Olt 0 kt 1 ' ~i r