The Statesman. — London, England, 1811-10-30 00:00:00

to raise the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo ; to supply it with provisions for a considerable period; to take the enemy's intrenched camp, his magazines, and his park of artillery, and, in fine, to give him battle." Although Meanoser did not succeed in accomplishing all that he expected, it must be confessed that he did every thing in his power to effect this, and would most probably have ef fected it, had not Lord WELLINGTON retreated from the positions which he held. The relief of Ciudad Rodrigo, the leading object in view, was, however, accomplished, and 1500 carriages, loaded with pros Notts, were conveyed in safety into tbat place. After this, the enemy attacked the rear-guard of the Allitel Army on the 25th, and compelled it to , retreat to Fuente Guinaldo. On this occasion, con tinues 31 sew 'NT, " our advanced guard only was engaged; our divisions of infantry were one march behind. If that had not been the case, the English army would have been ruined. We had the affliction to see all his divisions falling hack preciplately, in every direction upon their intrenched camp. If I had bad at the moment only 15,000 men at my disposal, the English army would have been completely taken by surprise, and beaten in detail, without the possi bility of uniting." Whether M A Rawer would have been as successful as he thought he would, we will not pretend to say; but as our army were , not allow ed to remain at Fuente Guinaldo, having abandoned their camp during the night, and retreated upon Alfayates and:Sabogal, it appears very probal"e, if they bad not made this movement, but waited the coming uppf the enemy,who were rapidly approech *leg, that they would have been dispeised. On the 27tb, the enemy again came up with the rear-guard of the Allies, which they instantly charged with their maims 44 The combat," sept MARMuNT, CI was glorious for the arms of ids MAJE,STy, and the enemy were driven back with great loss and in confusion. His rear-guard continued its retreat u, On Sabugal. We have taken the baegage of the Prince of ORANGE and of General Caatveu me Th. con fusion of the English army was so great, that ene of Lord WELLINGTON'S Aids-de-Camp, in seekieg that General, came directly upon out line; we have taken 200 of the enemy prisoners." In detailing the particulars preceding the atilt of the 27th.— General DoasEerse., who had an active part in iti states, that when he arrived at Fuente Guinaldo, he 4: perceived.with astonishment that the English army was not yet assembled. If we could have foreseen that the English General was capable of sech a fault, we might have cut off' a part of the English army by partial actions, but our infantry was not to be up till the night or the following day, the 26th." This General estimates the force of the Allies on the 27th, at 15,000 infantry, 3,000 cavalry, and 14 pieces of artillery, who, he says, " resisted with obstinacy for half an hour, but in the end the village was carried at the pas de charge, tied the enemy driven in disor. der into a ravine. Soon after, this portion of the English army was driven beyond the Coa." Hay ing given this abstract of the French official de. Ails, we shall not stop to draw a comparison between them and the accounts which we bad previously received from Lord WELLINGTON, because the leading fact, which is of the greatest importance to this country, namely, the retreat of his Lordship, with the army under his command, is un deniable. But there is one circumstance connected with the operations of our Armies in Portugal, which we cannot too often press upon the minds of ow Readers. Notwithstanding the immense military force which has been sent out of this country, and the incalculable sums of money expended in endeavour- IN to effect the deliverance of the Peninsula, we find that the Allied Army cannot, for more than " half an hour," stand before the enemy, when he chosen to attack it. The advance of Lord WELLINGTON to Almeida, to Ciudad Rodrigo, to Badajoz, and to Ciudad Rodrigo again, were, no doubt, enterprising achievements; and, to the engag..ments to which tilt se movements led, our brave countrymen unques tionably lost nothing of their military fame; but , alas! these marches and coantermarshes have pro duced no benefit to the cause in which we are. en. gaged. We were compelled to abandon Badajoz en the approach of the enemy, who could have driven us to Lisbon, if this had been any part of his plan. In like manner we were forced to retreat from Ciudad Rodrigo, and had not the French Generals had other more important objects in view, they could as easily hare compelled Lord WELLINGTON to take up Ms former positions at Torres Vedras, as they obliged him to recross the Coa. But RONAPASTE is playing a much deeper game. He knows that sick ness is prevalent in our ranks ; he knows that Great Britain is unable to provide for the deficiencies which this occasions ; and thus he effects our destruction, through partial means, by merely keeping us in awe with a formidable army which we dare not attack, and which, coraparatirely speaking, suffers little by tl•is mode of warfare. That Ministers are fully ae are cf this being the real state of the case, cannot he disputed; but so long as the continuance of the war affords them the means of gratifying their ave r e and ambition, and of enriching the numerous herds of contractors, placemen, and pensioners which they find so necessary to cry up their iniquitous measures, just so long will the sy stem they are pur !Aug, and which will undoubtedly ruin this country, he persisted in. Unless therefore the PRINCE RE. sews, who possesses the power of bettering our si tuatiou by a change of Ministers, stretch forth his 'tibia to save us , it Will soon be impossible ipu•evil, which, like a mighty whirlwind, ' lologulph us in its vortex. Three Anholt Mails have arrived in toT publication of yesterday. The most impoi cle which they contain, is a confirmation. merit we formerly gave respecting the condi King of PRUSSIA. Under the head Berli ber 26, it is stated, that " Increased hopes maintenance of peace upon the Continent surances which the King has received, rel friendly dispositions of the neighbouring have induced his MAJESTY to intermit tions and labours in the fortresses, which stances appeared to render necessary from - -The following article shows pretty pl BONAPARTE has set his heart upon the esl of a formidable navy :—" Flushing, 1' ter.—The Commissary of the Marine on of Walcheren, has announced to the fishes that his IMPERIAL MAJESTY has directed , ber of boys of eleven and twelve years of the public schools, shall he placed uncle' _ negement, and to assist them in their business, population of the coast not being every cie:'t for that purpo3e. These boys are to until they attain the age of fifteee years, are to receive 400 frank • with each boy." We have received same intelligence ft raccas, to the date of the 17th of August. counts ate derived from an official quarter them we find. that up to the time we hr General I .`fltnA VDA '.-td not succeeded it city of Va'; ;aria, against which he had with the army of VENEZUELA. It was th; Fe place was in a situation to endure a sik I onths. The doubts entertained as to the IheCommander-in-Chief to the cause of kid( hive certain!) net diminished. As the ; Laguira qn,i its dependencies were threatel army of CORO, an additional. force has been • he Caraccas Inrits protection, amounting to They are what are called volunteers, but and paid by the Junta of Caraccas. ficiency of arms i. complelno of. from Santo Fe were. yeiyiirokiriolle 'tp. of the revolution. .Several. escorts of ; been sent to Venezuela. .We have ! dispatches to 'the Government of Bunt received from FRANCISCO DEL RIVERA, pointed to a new command, in distrii round a place called Jesus de Machaea. It in two affairs in which he wasengaged with party, he put to flight and killed his . Near Arzesfmnal he had a conflict malcontents, when he killed five, wout and took eleven pcisoners. Near l'izacoma another engageme..: Nith !Key:when he kP' i took 45 prisonetay* "'Ad '4Bl#:ied . possess; I quantity of arms and other. booty. The foilowing Officers, it is said, are I . the rank of Major-Generals, in Spain and Brigadier-General GEO. MURRAY, Rica; the lion. E. M. 1 AlkENuAx ) and HEN NON. The Gazette of last in'ght contains meat of the Right Hop. Dtvin BOYLE to jesty's Justice Clerk in Scotland, in the . Right non. CHARLES Born, appointed President of the College of Justice in Scotia The Master of the Irisn Rolls, Mr. Cuan.ts, has keen down ou a visit for some days to Sir F. &K -arr; at Wimbledon. The Public will hear with much regret that they are to lose Mrs. JORDAN, as well as MTS. SIDDONS, during the present season. The former excellent actress is to appear for about fourteen or sixteen nights at Covent-garden Theatre, and then finally withdraws from the scene which her comic powers have so long enlivened. Mr. C. KEMBLE continues very much indisposed, as does Mr. RAYMOND, of the Lyceum. At a census taken on the 27th of May last, of the University of Oxford, the number of Members actu ally resident amounted to 1015., Mr.' YORKE'S approval of Mr. THORNTON for the valuable Admiralty appointment lately vacant, was, it is said, principally brought about by the pious in terposition of Lord BARHAM, who, with a mixed re gard for the eternal and political welfare of a Flasv LORD of the ADMIRALTY, assured Mr. Y. that Mr. THORNTON, although at present but a babe of grace, was the first man in the world 44 to Marshal him in the way that he should go both here and here after !" A singular occurrence took place yesterday on the River. A crown and sceptre of gold, together with other paraphernalia of the kingly office, were seized by the Custom-house Officers, in consequence of its having been omitted to make an entry of them.— These valuables were intended for the Emperor of HAYTI. Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, be• fore the Right lion. Sir JAMES MANSFIELD, Kn► g ght, Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Com mon Pleas, at Westminster, in and after Michaelmas Term, 1811. Sceptre, dated Oct. 11:--- We are at present watching the motions of the French fleet in L'Orient. Their force there consists of two SQ-gun ships, two 7 :rid several frigates. We got ieformation, a few. do's ago, from a fishing-boat which we cap tured, that the ships have their pilots on board, and mesa to start the first easterly wind. As the wind no blows from that quarter, we are in hourly ex pecation of their endeavouring to get out : if they do, , they may rely on getting a complete drubbing." Extract of a letter from. Idol) head, October 13 : C 4 Considering the late heavy gales, the destruction on our coast has not been so great as I expected. Two brigs and a ship were driven on shore; all hands on board the ship were lost. She was an American, bound with timber for Dublin, about 600 tons bur then, aild called the William, CAMPBELL, master. — One brig unknown ; all on board perished. The other brig was from Dundalk, with cattle; 11 out of 43 persons perished, together with the cattle, consisting of 80 horned, 200 pigs, and 100 sheep." The new Patent Oblique six Octave Piano Forte' of Watlen's, Leicester-place, is . now esteemed supp rier-to all others, for its many excellent An Amateur of high respectability says, that it will supersede all other Grand Piano Fortes; and Mr. C. W., a Professor of great eminence, gave it his un qualified approbation, but thought it too cheap at 45 guineas. We recommend those who intend to purchase Instruments, to examine and hear these ele gant Piano Fortes. • - The daughter of an independent Norfolk Grazier eloped a few days since with F. had been welcomed at her father's house, and who had contrived to borrow a few hundreds of him, in addition to ruining his daeghier. A fruitless' search was made after the fugitives several days, and they were at length traced to Half Moon-street, Piccadil ly, where the young Lady had been several days un der the protecion of her seducer. The means the father took to get back his daughter was to arrest her gallant for the debt due to him ; and having done so,• he conducted Miss back to Norfolk. Amsterdam, the Irish Papers tell us, is rivalling Paris in dance and song, in plays, balls, festivals, and fireworks. - A dancing Dutchman is not aiming the least wonderful of the revolutions of the day, and the annals of fashion hardly expected to record the graceful movemements of Manhecr Van den Snodc. lnanfingen, who, we find, opened one of the Ims perial balls at Amsterdam with a gay Parisian dame!! A Paper, called the Bull Dog, has been establish. ed in New York, in the Democratic interest. The hostility of the Proprietms to Jour; BULL, has as. signed to it the name it bears. Alas of its authenticity.. , • It is understood that the Rerirrection Mne and the Anatonsisers mean to burg heir animosities in oblivion, the latter agreeing to the rise of one guinea per subject, upon condition that the rise of dead bodies shall be in proportion. Tie thieves who robbed the Banker's house in Or. mond-street, would have been greatly sty prized if they had met with a check instead of plate. CORN EXCHANGE, OCT. 30. —rbis H.!) we have few fresh arrivals of Wheat, and not much of re. maining supply ; sales readily support last price!. Barlec in short supply, and keeps ita price. Malt likewise. White Peas .at Monda)'s reduction. Beans of each sort rather dearer. There are pine further arrivals of Oats, but sales thereof maintain the late advauce in price. Flour without variation. CORRRNT PRICR OP GRAIN Wheat.. 861 10.).. 1204. Tat Dew. - - sti VA. Fine - =124.. 12.65. I Ditto. Oa , () - • • liSt 144. Rye - -- • - 544. J Oats, - - • 27% 31*. 40-. Harley; " Z 47.. 534. flatland* 4194. 44 , . . 1 1. - 46-. OR. W. l'ett44Soilen) 83*. 94-.1 Rape Seed - • • 446 £5l) lite ) Pea% . 62.. I Fiat- Sillier • * 67-. Semi* • - - , r ' 7.1T0 PRiZI•S AP FIFTE".N THOUSAND DOT OF THII RBI% • • , IN THE. LOTrRR JT,NT . SOLD AND SHARK® BY tiiiTON„ 2, COMISMILL. ARO IS. COVRReirr.sraxgr, WMERI' TVCR:•II. AN r) QMAR66 ARE SELLIIIo FOR 'THE SMALL LOTTRRY OF ONLY 6,5 in TICIK•FTS. • . ' TO BE, DR 141'N '9ll+ NOVEVRER. . Fia.:hury Repository, t•insbrry-square. TO HE SOLD BY ittlt I'ION, By M►. HUI. , TO-MORROW, Oct. 2, Al so'Clock, SEVERAL well-bred snow(' HUNTERS, mss. tun of high woights ; also some 4ronl liaekor•.., ttt good condition, and fast rovers ; several. pairs of 01444 B.,r o o r b e , 11.arlot, and Curricle Gelding:4 of di'f , rent colours ; sante single ditto; several good Gig Horses, perfectly quiet la bertiess, Mid , fan trotters; some very etym. Homes, which have been ride ith tniops ; and Ladles' Horses; 4 great many strannrirld . ings and Mares. It for machines, malt candies post t !mires, fe. ; niso several handsome Csallowars, P Ate. SURREY DISPENSARY. N OTICE is hereby gives, that tile MONTITLY cobois t TEE et this Charity win meet at the Di. l .'l:- la Chian -street, boutim ark. un Tuesday, the Stith day of November war, at Six o' Clock in the Evening pret-sseiv, the purpose of . Electing nu ASSISTANT A POTH ECA Yto 'thin Charity, iihn is so attend at the Di. , eiveiri ever. flay ( exceii . ted).- from Nine till Two, and is not e x p ecte d ticcard or to e thr •le the house; and th ose Deetiemeo w sn intepd gacbriugWs ea Candidates, are de.ired to istiend the Niid meeting, Rad • produce their respeetive qidlicatiem.—Dateti SUU day or October, 1811. • • By Order of the Committee. FRED, Whl. CARTER, S ec. 9, { t oot-lsoe, Southwark. ,` , . . . . y I \ • . , , 0 ' , 'FIESIATESMA.Ti -, . . • 7 l. . „., ‘,,,". „, . `a o ssible to evert.. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ud, threateus ' —asem.--- . i• . • • 1 PQRTSMOUTH, OCT. 29. • . List eight, the Opera of The English Reef was' • repeeiented at this 'theatre, in which Mr. SirrcLarit Arrived the Woolwich store-ship, from Gibraltar; awn since our personated Valentine, and Miss FEROB Katharine.— . iportant art,- • ience she sailed on, the' 18th inst. with dispatches, Of the former we can say, with confidence, that he a of the state- inging an account of the defeat of Ballasteros, and left us nothing to regret for the absence of Mr. Bar , - f his having been driven under the walls of St. onduct of the LAity, as he executed his allotted airs with more spirit pre- Roque. The French' had had temerity enough to titan we have ever know!' him to display on a ny . . rlin, Septem- , hopes of the vious occasion.—An apology was made for Miss is F... approach as near to Gibraltar as that place, the in- ron, by Mr. 131..tecnaets, requesting the indulgence habitants of which had tied to Nostra' Ground. lent, and as- of the audience, because, as he ass..rted, she was relative to the Arrived the • Dexterous, Llislesaat Tomlinson, horse from a cold; tut we could trace no sympto m ring Powers, from a cruise 'r ' •- ' ' l ' '. • ' ' 4— • . : ••' • - ' of any such physical drawback upon her powers, b y . Sailed the Port Mahob and +y am ' ' th a convoy . it 44 *1 the prepare- her performance, as we have not heard herm . ore full in '...'" ". - • . tone before; bat in science, 10 inging, and in appear- for the Downs. . . hich circum- -.; r - i. r. e .-:, :. , Miss *flaw schwa', t - Lieu perseded m prudence." Went out of harbour the ance, she was certainly not equal to Mrs. Drceoas.ie the same character.—Mrs. PoweeL su plainly, that tenant Ramsay. • Loom. in the part of the Crintees, and she looked establishment 1 YARMOUTH, (icy. 99. .: ' like Bellona on a Court day' 'among the Gods : she 19th . Septa m- the Auckland, King George, and La r k. was impressive, elegant, and majestic. — w e packets, from Gottenburgh. Pallas ever wore a helmet with more bewi tchin g a the island PLYMOUTH, OCT. 28. pace. semen there , -- - - -a Sailed: his Majesty's ship Menelaus with Lord • doubt i f I that a num- 9 SPORTING . INTELLIGENCR. William Bentinck ) for Sicily ; and the Shark sloop of age , from of war with a convoy for Cork. NEWMARKET THIRD OCTOSHR i or, HOUGHTON er their ma- M)ik:TING, 11111. business the T UESDAY , FALMOUTH, Ocr. 27 .°crowns le. . where ' Arrived the Nile. • Mr. Watson's Dimity, het. 71b. best Mr. Blake's Sprightly , suffi- Sailed , the tVulsingham and Marlborough packets 7st . tom. Ab. M. 50gs. 6t04 on Dimity, :e serve them Fifty Pounds for 2-yr olds, earning a feather, 3 1 1 . 1 ._? 1419 ', " : 1 rs and they 91,. former goes to Gibralter and Malta ; Francis Free- and agt'dt llst . WU) : Last three nodes of 5* C. 1 Mr Craven s b. f. Stingtall, 3-yrs old - ',4lArge, for Surinam •;- Diana, for the Brazils ; Mary, Sir J. Shelley's b. c. Manikin, 14. yrs old - s Lord , Hinchinhrooke's ch. c. Juncos* 4-yrs oil - From the Ca- for the West Indies ; and the Queen Charlotte, f or . Lon' Lowther', b. C sister to Bri . Lass, ,frpoold 4 st. Our ac- New York. . s•to *apt Stingtail. sto 1 apt in. i ill i apt Jaye. nal. sto 4 apt Lord Lowther's b. f. rter, and by •• Sailed his Majesty's brig Foxhound on a cruise; o._----- • have named, and the Helicon sloop of war to the Eastward. CITY BU.SIAESS. in taking the _ --..m...-. Yesterdayh the Lord Mayor, a Court of Aldermen was held at Geild - d been sent C ame d own f rom Bl ac k S ta k es, an d anc h ore d a t hall - at wh ich bought that the Great Nore, his Majesty's ship Princess Caro- i Elect, 14 c Aldermen, and the City Of f icers, were liege of some li no, C ap t a i n D ownman ; as soon as s h e i s pa id s h e i p rosent. the Lord Mayor he fidelity of will join the Flushing squadron. His Majesty's ship The Chamberlain delivered an account of the stir- dependence, Queen . LordCol v ille , came , Ca p t a in likewise down plus in his' hands of the Orphans Fund, and the to the Nore from Ch a th am , province o fCourt ordered the sum of 12,6001. to be paid off and - when she is manned and annihilated on the sth of April, 1812, and he was aened by the paid wages in advance, she will join the squadron of directed to give notice thereof to the parties in- een raised in observation, about to rendezvous at St. Helens. ter-sted. to 4060 men. --rem.— Upwards of 20,000 ounces of gold were sworn elf t are clothed SCOTCH S HICKS. . as foreign, previous to its being exported. - A Brent de- Dowmr's Wharf. Arrived. sails. Commissioners of tho. Court of -Requests for-No- Hazard (Johnston), Leith 18 Oct., 34 Oct.-IS, A. M. vember were appointed. The advices amoge (Strochno), Inverness 18 • 3 Nov. —2,P. N. 'rho usual precepts for Lord Mayor's Day were or- the ( Wishart), ditto 23 31, 12,. A. M the progress hlatchleis ( Baldwin), Leith 24 7, Nov. —5, P. ' M. dered to be printed. - • - • money had Forth (Tullock), ditto 123 3, -. 3, P. M. • .• Diovatrhs(Lyon), Dundee 25 -2, —3,P. M. TRIAL -Ow Ma. WIIITE.-119 a former number wp also some Huh. (Stv herland), Nlontrose 26 7 , 5 , PM I i 9 .-- P. M . 7, _5, P. si, acquainted our Raiders, .that this 'rung-pending trial pries Ayres, Hop- ( H anel),ll/1.1.1 Lei t h h rf Was expected to be brought to issue as yesterdays , who is ap- Trusty (Ballingall), Leith 21 31, --• 1, P. N. , Indl. ditto 24 3, — 3, P. N. but, instead, of the-trial taking place on the first day icts ranging 4ra i iii h ie "Y k tr:t thi r7 l ) D d and I . ' •-ule, un ee of the resumed Sittings; wh i ch was yesterday, as we It soems, thatlly expected, we have since' been informed, that Bro Pe u r ttv Castle (Si ers), do. 26 2 • . 3 k -- 1, P.M.1) 1 : 1 1 ' h his guerilla Caney (v uo ,„g ag ,) , L e i t h 2 9 ' 9 l, _,.. 6, A . M. the etiquette of Court _winked that a specific day . should be nominated by them. •That day. was, how- s antagon i st ., dritarrnl Britannia t ( l ß ß: w ni n wr ti:,eiWthharf. 99 - 94 -. 42, A. 21. t with 200 Neptune (Finley), Berwick 29 ..91, — 14,.A. M. I ever, yesterday, by order 0 . the Court, Axed psi.- unded eight . • tively for Friday next, * whe - o, no doubt, the trial - ', • HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRUME; Oi-r. 90. . will tat plaep.—We can assure 'our Readers, that coma he ha d Morning, 31 minutes after l'2. I Egiesin s a, 5 minutes anal. ( no twithstanding Mr. White is much opprewd with killed 15 and - • a minus- and painful illness) it la nevertheless, his ession a . Another fact of some importance has transpired by .. . .. . determination to conduct kis own defence. ' . the passengeri arrived from Cadiz in the Homy. We • P rif!it use between the Scourge-men, G AL Lir r a n d : • , learn, that . about 3000 British troops had actually FLIN'I4 we under-stand, has been comprom;sed, promoted to re i c k e d c a dii f rom Sicily. It was stated some time We are extremely happy .o sobserve x , tha , the ac. ad Portugal : ash that their arrival was expected. Much warm count of the horrible nuted.ri *fa female, said t o h av e LARD HULSE, di s C uss i on, i t i s sa id , h a d b een exc i te d at C a di z i n been committed near St. Athan's, and whi c h f oun d lay fil‘litai- consequence o f a report h av i ng gone a b roa d t h at t h e its way into some of the Papers a has b e e n o ffi c i a lly . : Cortes had it in contemplation to revive the luquisi- con i radicted by the Town Perk of it. Alba i es. We the appoint.: t i on. copied the paragraph fr..m a S••nday Paper, though obe his Ma- E xtract o f a l etter f rom an officer on board the in such a way, alto thew that we entertai n ed s t rong doubts of its room of the au th en ti c ity .., I Sceptre. dated Oct. 11 :—" We are at present. IN TERM. T LOWOON. Friday 'fhunday ........... 14 Friday Thursday ...... ..... 21 I Friday AFTER TERM. Friday We understand that a packet sailed from Heligo land on the 16th inst. which has not been heard of since : some fears are, therefore, entertained for her safety. 'The state of the atmosphere has altered much with in the last few days, prior to which the heat of the nights was such as to render themanufacture of mould randles impossible, an inconvenience which the tal low-chandlers say, they never before experienced at the same period of the year. MIDDLESEX. • ~.. y... ' _ i 4