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

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Rills, S.. 16.. peco.rg Navy 991 i India Hoods. ?Is. 2ls. • Gam* for Ace....68i Lottery Ticket S.IL 17e. Onsoiove 113 prese. _ 1, THE STATESMAN. PROPOsITI TEMAX. LONDON: SATURDAY, lIPTEMUII 9. ..-.... Faex the Armistice of Znaim, there was every reason to expect a speedy accommodation between the contending powers or Austria and France— but the exertions of the vigilant NAPOLEON, so far from Matting, have increased since that event. It will be remembered, that the Twenty-eighth French Benefits, which arrived in London with the Twenty.seventh, in which was announced the Armistice of Znatins, contains the following pas. sager—" His Majesty has visited the environs of 6 ' Spitz, which forms the fete-du-pont of Vienna. ti General BICRTRAND has been charged with " the execution of different works, which must 14 be marked out and begun this day."— Cannon, ammunition, stores, and conscripts, have been pouring issto Germany with activity as inces sant as if the Danube were yet to pass ; and, never losing sight of the folly of :citing in security on the faith of probabilities, a corps of 35,000 men kas now been furnied under the Duke of AIRANTES (Junot) at Bateuth, to oppose that of the Austrian Gene 9 whoa might attempt to overrun ( iazoay, in the possible event of the reeoinesencemeet of hostilities. The inflexible perseverance with which —NAPOLEON psi imp his objects, affords at once a striking illus. trution of the really vigorous policy of this extra. ordinary man, and a humiliating contrast !rid the imbeeilfrty of our sa-disant vigorous Ministers.... Imminently important as was the coutest on the Danube after the battle of Aspern, not a single re. 'Went was drawn from Spain ; and notwith. standing the serious impression that might have been made by our truly formidable armament on even the territory of France, the people there ere told, that " not a' soldier " from the armies of NAPOLEON Will quit his 16 standard, to come and defend the territory 61 of his Empire." Thus, it seems, that all oar diversions, as they are most ludicrously termoill.-- In Spain—the Scheldt—eed the Bay of Seplatil.a► have not diverted the atteittion of NAPOLISON for one momeut from the grand scene of contention I s Germany. That hostilities will be renewed Is not our opinion (notwithstanding the depar. tun of the Duke of Baunswics for Ger many is announced to be at hand). That event is certainly possible; but from the ab solute failure of all our efforts, may reasonably be deemed improbable. If Germany, Russia, and Prussia should, however, provoke the "imminent deadly" contest, it will, perhaps, terminate iq a numerous promotion of NAPOLEON'S Officers to the rank of Kings. Respecting the diversion of Sir Joan STUART, we must say a very few words. The guns, it is true, were not fired for this diversion, as they were for the battle of Talavera and the capture of Flushing--but The Post and The Courier took no small pains to delude the credulous public into a belief that some thing had been done.—But the public are beginning to recover their senses ; and it is high time they should. The Courier of Wednesday gravely in. forms its readers, that " Sir JOHN STUART'S dill " patches do not evince any intention of abets " dotting either Ischia or Prucida, which the " French Papers asserted we had evacuated."— That is very tree—Sir J. STUA RT, whose last dis. patch is dated on the fith, does not announce any such intention ; but The Courier knew very welt that the first French account afforded to was-dated on the 1151 h, and there were two subsequent corroborating accounts ; and yet The & wr i er would delude its readers into a belief that the two Wands which had thus fallen into our bawls by the diversion of Sir JOHN STU* It'r had not been evacuated. If to inform the pub lic be the legitimate object of a newspaper, we congratelate the readers of that monotonous pub. lication on this candid end unequivocal style of liformation. Its !eminent coadjutor, the Nabob's Morning Post, has, however, at hut, reliettnitfy condescended to inform its readers this' Milinieg, 64 that Sir Joan STUART, on being inforqici - of 41 the ill.fated Armistice on the Danube, eon. 66 wired that his retaining possession of the ~ _ - , _ ,+ THE ST " islands of Ischia and Proeida could no " longer 'answer any good purpose, and accur dingly withtirew his troops." We are amused by the same facetious Print, with a I:amorous description of the fervent attachment of the Tirrke to England—let but the people of England read, examine, - and judge fur them. selves ; and the delusion in which they have so long been held will be completely dissipated. WE have inserted from a Morning Paper two letters from Lisbon—the authenticity of which we cannot doubt—but the fasts detailed in Which we absolutely dare not believe. British Officers 4 e . return from the army ,without leave"—that Is, desert—and in the rerY moment of danger! . ! ! Until this fact shall have been proved, we ,will not yield our belief to so humiliating 'a possibility. The General Orders of Colonel PICACOCE, are, in fact, pregnant with matter of a most extraordinary deeeription—Officers and pri 'vales circulating false, unfavourable, and iqjeri ourreports, are to be put under arrest ! This, in plain English, means—that the circulation of truth, if unfavourable, is punishable. So then, it seems, that after abusing NAPOLEON without mercy for the tyranny he exercises over opi. nion....we are treading in the very steps of the man we daily and hourly abuse. This, if the fact be correctly stated, demands the most serious and vigorous attention of the people of England, whose detestation and abhorrence of the principle should be expressed most decidedly the moment that the fact is ascertained. Admit but this principle, and the finishing blow is put to liberty—From the Army to the Navy—thence to the social circle—and, finally, to the only pal ladium of the liberties of the people--the Press— would this principle extend —Adien, then, to all hope—we should at once be reduced to the hurni. Hating state of those nations fur whose liberties we affect to be contending—but, in truth, for whose commerce we are fighting. Thee' News" reported in the letters dated the Tid August, of several officers leaving been broken for " cowardly conduct," we cannot believe. Our 'humiliation and disgrace are already sufficiently sc. were, without an aggravation, which would abso lutely infuriate the nation against the individuals of whom thisove trust, unfounded accusation has been preferred. Spain and Portugal we must abandon; hut let not any *lion of the disgrace fall upon our brave countrymen...amongst the real authors, our vigorous Ministers, let that be equally distri. buted ; and on the Viscount of TALAVERA let us bestow the merit of having been twice surprised, as he certainly was. It seems truly ridiculous to continue grumbling at COMA. D Ministers and their hirelings vainly hope that the People of England are not fast emerging from the delusion In which they have so lung been held by the venal, corrupt press of this country ? At Talavera the French were, after two days hard fighting, re: pulsed —but the combined armies were incapable of advancing, and yet the Viscount very modestly insists upon the Spaniards fighting the battle over again by themselves..-that is literally the fact. The Viscount marches off, and because Gen. CUUTA had a sufficient share of common sense to see . that what could only, with difficulty, be effected by the :thole of the combined army....namely, the repulse of the French...was not very likely to be accomplished when half of that army ha•l marched off—the whuie blame truly is laid on CUESTA.—Let les, we repeat, hear CUE:ST.OS nar. rative—if ha to not excntp.ite himself, we are greatly mistaking—notwithstanding the assertions and insinuations of the VticouPyr. The Charter of the East India Company will expire in March, 181.1 ; and it is believed that an Inquiry into the present state of the affairs of the Company will be instituted after the meeting of Pat liament, with a view to consider of what is to ' be done when that period shall arrive. We have heard a report of a ludicrous plan, in which it is attempted to bo demonstrated that the division of the present establishment into Art separate Companies will be highly advisable : that is, two Companies fur Bengal and the interior ; one Com pany for Bemt'ay ; one Company fur Madras and for China ; and fur the Eastern Archipelago two, leaving the remaining trade open to all natives of the United Kingdotn. In the interval between the present year and 1814, the situation of the Peninsula may, by pos sibility, undergo revolutions which may render our distribution of the commerce of India super fluous. In troth, it is impossible to indulge even a hope, that our monopois of one of the fairest portions of the earth will be much longer eadur i ed. Whatever bo the sacrifice, France, if partieipa lion be refuted to her, will, in conjunction with Russia, make the attempt on India—which, after all that has been asserted, there are now substan tial reasons to believe will be attended with AA ottties less insurmountable than we have been so often told, and so long accustomed to believe. The very attempt to open the trade of India will rivet every nation on the Continent of Europe, blether with the United States of ♦merica, in the interest of NAP6aOI4. His Majesty's ship Medusa has captured in Qniberon Bay, and sent into Plymouth, on the nth inst. the French chasse mimes, La Ger Ounce and Trois Sours, with iwo others in ballast. THOMAS hIANTILL, Esq. WAS yesterday elected Mayor of Dorer far the year miming. 1!E 1... AN. NAVAL INTELLIGENCg. Poanstonn, Sun'. S.—Sailed the Hero, 74 goofs, for Flushing; the Wrangler, 18 gum, on a cruise. Arrived the Comm, 2I gum, from Lisbon, last true Fa!- mouth; al•u arrived at St. Helen's, from of Cherbourg, the Christian VII. and liarspitc, 74 guns each, blows off astir statiou by the S. W. winds. Last night passed by the China fleet, under convoy of the Nassau, bl gusts, Captain Campbell, accompanied by same transports from the Cape; four wh..lers ant two country ships, one of them from Bengal; the Warley lndiaman had parted in a gale of wind off the Ca.pe, where it was supposed she would put into. No tidings had been heard of the seven Indiamen missing in thelast two Bectl, but very little hope remains of their existessee. Do►rß, Se►r. B.—Passed by fur London the folios" ing shirrs, being part of the Last India fleet, ender convey of his Majesty's ship Na-sats :—Essex, Captain Lisboa, from Ben gal; Lord Nelson, Rezford, from Hayti trams - trey Plan ter, Fos, from Quobec ; WHliam, Horan, front Baltimore; Clarendon, limes, from Prince Edward Island ; &Tingly's tam, —, from the Sarah Seas ; Alfrestone, Craig, from China Carmarthen, Ross, from Bombay ; Maria, Smith, from Monte Video; Akio ick Castle, David Scott, Gems, Royal George, Weimer Castle, Dursetshire, Grenville. Exe ter, Gaston, Llphin,tone, and Witschelsea, from Chian. DEAL, SErr. B.—Early this morning his Majesty's ships Revenge and Amethyst arrived from the Westward ; also se veral American and homeward-bound West-India ship•, and the s'sip Midas, Capt. John P)bus. The ship mentioned yesterday as having been on shore on the Sonthaand Head, wus the transport 191. She arrived in the Downs last night. Mang of the transports which have disembarked troops at Ramsgate, have received orders to sail for the River, and sailed this day. The uittward-honad have sailed this afternoon under con voy of a gun-brig. The Humber armed-ship bus also sailed fn the West wart lu the Downs the Lively. Vice-Admiral Campbell. Re venge, ;1, and Newlriiro, ;1. Ilalf-past Four, P. M.—Ose hotteeward•bound East •Itsillt ritip iI al sight ; more are c j ectedthi. evetling. Scer. &—Arriited and salted the Protidipme, Timor., from \Mull fur Gard.; Alert, Adams, from Swansea f i Loudon ; Betsey, Lampert, from Burry Ear Wexford ; 1 .uony, 0 n en, and Hope, Thomas, from Che,tter fur Swansea; Providence, Lloyd, from Pnllhely fur Southampton; Mer• maid, Willidms, from Brirtal fur Dahlia; ludu4ry. Jones, front Bristol for Liverpool ; Providence, White, and Frieod ship, Hicks, from Portsmouth for 'lathy ; Maria, M'Hendy, front Glasgow', and Speedwell. Davi,, from Cordigao, fur Bristol. Sailed a large fleet of coacters to various ports, many of whom. by the embargo and contrary winds, hue beau de tained here a great length of time. The Fried&kip, of and from Bridgewater, Batten, Mailer, laden with timber, bound to Southampton. foundered on the morning of :he 2d inst. about eight leagues S. S. W. of thin lorbuor. The crew took to their boat, and after run ing about two hours they were picked up by the brie % ine, Hagbes, blaster, bound from London to Newry, his tuned them close into the Crow, and proceeded on her Ti), rage with the wind at S. S. F.. The crew of the Friendship ...rrived safe in this harbour. and loaded at Angle the same evenioe. The Enterprise, Bill, from Ipswich for Liverpool, holm with malt and beam, has been di Wen io very leaky, and must discharge in order to repair. EXTRACT OF A LITTER FROM AN OFFICER WHO WAS LEFT AT TALAVERA. "14 miles from Tft111111). Aug. 14. 1011. " We have jtut received a very hand.ome Iztter trom Mar shal hluaTtra, expressing his intention w offordiug every possible twhtww•ce to our Officers and m.•u tell is Talavera 4 indeed it does him the highest credit, and 1 ant happy to add. that the W3V in Which the French officers mil me.' aho fell iota our Zuni& after the battle r was nut undesee wing of the re turn they have made us.—Such acts as these present a pleas ing contrast to the severities of oar." By the Mail from Flushing, we have received a letter, of which the following is an extract : is MIDOLEIIIIRGU, Seer. 3.—Mast of the troops have embarked, or are embarking, for England. About 14,500 rank and Me are to remain, w hicb, with artiller), esigiseert lite. will make about 16,tX10 strung, n force considered at all times sulicient to retain the I-land, however vulnei able it may be on the side of Cadsand, North Beveland, and the Slough Passage. It will, huncver, require activity and foresight on the part of the General commanding, whisk qualities are eertaiuly very conspicuous in Major-General Gn Anat., who has been selected for the command." The Malta mail has arrived by a ship whith had a wonderful quick passage, it having left that island as late as the 14th ult. The only fact of importance we learn by this conveyance is, that a great number of French privateers infested the Mediterranean, and many captors have been the consequence of their activity. It is said that Admiral Sir It. &MAMA:4, pend ing the discussions between the Military Com manders in South Beveland, offered, with the navy alone, to undertake the destruction of the enemy's Ships, without any military aid whatever. Sir B. STRACIIAN was cordially supported iu the gallant undertaking by Admiral Kt.trs. By a vessel from Walcheren we learn, that at the time of her departure some line.of-battle ships had sailed for Goree, and were to proceed to Helvoct, for the purpose of effecting the destruc tion of several of the enemy's ships on the stocks at that place. Wu km yet Jo learn. a healer this is or is not a voluntary service of the navy, un. connected with the military foree. Letters from Holland annwince, that an army is fast assembling at Cadaand, and such prepara tions making for the ►ecovery of the island of Watcheree, as kill render it difficult for our troops to retain it beyond a month. The dispatches recei►ed from Lord COLLTNO• WOOD CO Thursday, stated that the Toulon fleet were ready to put to sea. The enemy's force consists of seventeen sail of the line ; Lord Cot.. umaiwoon had thirteen ships of the line, and thre.• more Were on their way from Cadiz, to juin him at the date of the last accounts. It is said that the Russians, having made a des perate attack upon the fortress of Ismael, were de. frated, with the loss of 3100 men killed, including several Gesserals,together withl7 pieces of cannon. It is added, that the Serviens have also been de. feated in several actions; and that the heads of 500 of the principal of them have boen sent to Con: stag tinopte. On Thursday next, his Highness the Duke of Haonesitco will leave town fur the Continent. A .frigate is ordered to fie in readiness off Yarmouth, to receive kis liiikauss and suite. ~= --•, - - SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. LVATE CORRESPONDENCE. T 7 " LISBON, AUGUST SI, IBA s' Several 0 0 Feers having arrived here lately without lira , per leave of ati.ence, the Commandant of Lisbon, Colonel PCACOCK, of the Guards, in the General Orders of Friday Was gllr's that all Officers who return from the army withimi the esmiumider of the Forces leave, are to be put under ar rest ; and further, tint in convequenee of the false and anis.- wintrable reports made by &wail Wirers ami tirioates, of the slate of the British arms its Spain, that in tenure all Otictin aad privates cireulsting such injurious report., are la he im mediately tried by a Court-Martial, and the •e to be I put in immediate execution. It has been ►ai.l, flint the ad vanced column of General BERESFO RDS army has heed taken by the French. It has been reported these three or 'bur days, with great confidence, that General Hs; it 64,0110 was in the rear of SOUL?, and that Sir A. W. was advancing iii his front, and that It was impos•ible fur him to get of. " Sixteen trancports arrived here yesterday front Cork, with 120 artillerymen, and horses. " By a vessel that arrived here yesterday from Cadiz, it is odd, and believed at 'Omar, that Gement' KTUAIIr, with English and Sicilian troops, had taken Napks; and emt the parrison were made prisoners of war.—Pwper '23 per cent. discount." " Its:son, Atm. 22.—The Princess Charlotte packet, which i,:ts to sail this morning, I, postponed antil to-morrow morning; the mail Is to be cloud this night at eight o'rinc k. I have pal a letter in the mail hot night, with the papers ni Saturday and yesterday The only nen% I have airs to a dd to what I have salS is that letter, Is, that Sir A. li'vt.sts- I LEY has bred ander the painful necessity (as he says himself) of breakingseeeral Officers fur Vick COWARDLY and inalfra thre eintilnd la the severe battles with lbe trench in Spain. One &Neer, who had the command of a detachment, asst WAY fROM 1111 NON, bat they were oo by the Ser jeants, and behaved he the most heroic manner. Ile h mantel in General Orders, and ordered to he arre.ted he 11 to be fotind. I mislaid he has been teen Isere, at Lis:wa. It i, ugele,i to name him." " MADRID, Atlr.. 3. " Whit can I write tit voo, in the insulated ,tate ill which we are ? It is now a capital offence to receive a letter or writing from any place not yet subdued by the Vandals, or to circu'n•e any news. Last night a vast cavalcide of Co i ...e.lots of Scut., Ministers (though out all), sad utter functiomries. ;and a numbrr of partioass of the French wbo did out chome to be left behind, set out from , thia city. There mere 75.1 carriages, of diderent descriptiou-, be3ides an innumer quantity of horses; till of a Mei; took the road into ( a.olo, by way of Rozas and Galapagir, with an escort of 3.) tit.; feintry. They took with them ere, a number of their sick and noun:led. The occasion ..1 this journey. is a mandate of JOSCPIi, which was communicated yesterday, ordcii.% the transfer of the Court to St. lidefonso. CAIII4IIIIOS and ARRIVALS remain Isere; the former, in order to Impose a contribution of 10 nsillitios of ;Talc, which 40 merchants have to futni.h in Vi hour; and the lat ter, being cruel and magaisury, to terrify those who are dila tory in paying these a• imposed with threats of thegallows. They have before Wised 2.) millions of rents. thttuso is said to be at Mostoles, with 12,0.11 melt, phihdering the towns they pass thraugn : here not &single horse oor any cat tle whatever has been left behind. The garrison consists of :1300 infantry, and very few cavalry, with a great masher of masuitod cannon, bat so arsilleryna mto serve silent. In the course of the week more than 6000 wounded have conic in, the malt of the battle of the 2 •th, a d man) of these de parted with the rest last might. CA.. aacs has stripped the Custom-house, and carried away the public funds. Come silos, foe God's sake, and deliver us; yon have no idea what millions are tarried away In looney and jewel, at niett. though great qsastitles still remain in the Retire. Tbey, however, will be sent away to-day or to-taJr.ow, if hones Can be stolen ftw that purpose. Alt wha go with then; carry more money than they are worm. .4welt, very much, kis been taken from the homes of the Grandees. " It is said that BELLI&R t% =arching away also, ;i3l that Gawral Puts, wh ► commands at presmt is the lir tam h to stay here, in =sirs to cap.tniate wit!s so:u^ 8j) men. " The Treasurer-General •:nes also with them, and takes with him all he has. It is said that the Administrator of t h e post at Aranjuez sent iu ao account of the adv.usee and posi y dam of our army ; if so, be ought to be bangel." " MADAID, [no &del " From ten of the eveniog of the 49th of July to the fol lowing night, there had been great activity and haute among the Ministers, Generals, soldiers, country people, the French, and their Spanish partizans, all employed in carryin4 their effects Lao the !twins, where they ►hut thriaselve. up. Coache► and carriages of every kind, postilixo, Etc. were all employed. The tumult is the palace, in the Cas.i de blooeda, Btc. was very great; women and children mooing in all di rections; aU together presented a seem gratifying to ante Spaniards. The streets were tilled with people of all cleric., who ill concealed their secret pleasure. The cause of this !mush was imelligence, that the advanced guard of Va% e ats, &c. was approaching, and the garributs here cou.i.ted of only 5130 ti men at the inmost, and a very kw cavalry. In order to Lake watch, four engitreen asceoded the tower of Santa Cruz. '• Bat this day all is changed again. Many individuals hare tx.ken their effects back Into their hoaxes, and the Coinnii..•- ries and other afeaiheni of the Police hate retained to com mand and tyraanise io the city. wholesteriLay exercited their functions in the ftetani. • • • • - • • " From the 31st of July to the 9d inst. we calculate there have bees brought in more than 5.kXl wounded, aid among them st) officeni. Of those brought in on the 2d, Al) were put iota the Sentittivrieete Nobles ; Leal on the same day came in from 30 to 40 ammunition waggons, five carmen., and live boats which bad been carried, iu order to peas the Tara. — .4 dispatch was forwarded to the Cotwui.sary General, or dering him to prepare immediately 360 beds at the General Hospital. Or. the violins( of the 2d, four carriages arrived, in nisich were officers of rant. They were directly sent to the Kent,. On that day, three persons were command) in the oh,ervatory, employed looking with telescope,. " Thew oundod whis have arrived here cannot deny their defeat, but console thenwelves with saying, that they di I loci reach iu resisting so great an unity as that w hien amitked them. The KING is to-day (the 9d) at V lletias waiting t.r sot; LT, who a, gone by the misonsains of Airla and Cava'. lerus. towards Estrensadura, in order to unite their whale force, and make an attack. At the same time every thing it prepared fora retreat, awarding to the ordero glees. It has heen'observed, that is the houses of some French Generals and Ministers (Counsellors of State). escry thing was taken away t and this day, tint 3d. even the paper , . This hat kern done cunningly, sad nisch has been pachta .? Wean) in the Hearn. Castaways weal away at half-gra eleven, said the nee et the Governor of the Palace, The Marques of RON •i A i. any:truing by Valladoli.l, and the Frew h :tread intercepted. They are trying to unite, in order to hrs , •ni the line and eeenpe t bat some think they will try to etre* chi. by T way of Gumhd:ixna. •80 u x that a great force is cull..eird against than in Castile. and that tney will endeavenr teach Navarre, feari ig much the army of V kninas, oic."