The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-10-19 00:00:00

7' AA D poftruovigE PAPE TAIMACON.ti f SEPT. 27.—As the city of Bar. celuna is in tif,: greatest distress for provisions, the French t:evernment has laden supplies All board a number 14 vessels in all the ports be. tweets.Touleti sad Gaho-Creus, which are glider orders to sail at milky' pointed time, under court/ ef.a French squadrirt trump Toulon. The English Adiffidgi, &Awl Cullingwood, in order to prevent tilisTnoveiment, has separated his fttuadrun into various divisions, and has sent the bun4uerue, of 74 'guns, Capt. Fellow( f, tb reinforce, and to take the command of the blockading Barcelona. SANTA Caux DE LA ZAILA, SEPT. 0.... The whole of the French troops that sere at Celine. nar, Chiuclion, and Arkanda, have fallen hack far as Aleala; and another division hies taken the same route, after laying waste all the villages-of the Snare de Toledo. Learns, SEPT.4.—On the 2d arrived a French Commissary and seven artillerymen, made psi. soneis by a party of patriots, between Panipeltina "antl*Tafalla. IVe also had the pleasure of seeing .the Chief of the party, D. Xavier Mina, a stu. dent who has itistinguishedhiniself by the patri. ofic ardour which he edifice! in hi: incursions ogling the enemy, aloes the highway fro:n Ne. vane to Saragossa. Many *Frenchman has fallen by, or into, the hands of this brave youth.— Amung others was a General of Division, who was shot dead in his coach. SETlr.r.t, SEPT. 20.—The Supreme Governing Junta of the kingdom bring desirous that the modeestahlished by law, with regartl to printed books and public journals, shall continue to be observed, has authorked the Supreme Council of Spain to attend to this departments, with the same powers which it has always possessed. The Cows ril has accordingly appointed the most illustrious Manuel de Larelitabal to eurcise the jurisdic tion uf , the press. • TheSispreine Junta of Estromadura has trans_ edited 'an account of a gatlant attempt made by Mariana Ricafort, in the night of the 10th, to surround a body M AO Frencipicu. who had passed ate to the left bank of the Tagus, and were quartered in Torrejoncillo. He made the attack Kith '2OO light troops, at three points, and thoffih the result NJ* not do complete as he in kiided, the enemy diftint effect their escape with. oot a Piss of 15 billiff,land 213 made prisoners. 0(1 our side thilorwere one killed, and 15 wcund ell. The enemy t3it the ffellowing morning twee. pied Torrejuncillo with 2000 men. -• A serjimnt and 9 privates lately deserted to our army of Estrepiadura, from one of those foreign voglineritS ttittch ,tonititute the principal force of the enemy: On their arrival in this city, they were rewarded with 1470 reels vslion each, for hiving brought off their horses with them ; and they will receive the pay of privates until they re. 11l Ili to their native country. These troops abo.. titillate a service in which they are at on the agents and 'Hints of perfidy and tyranny. Syrtr.t.r, Strvestscu 13.—The futlowiag cx. ttiet of a letter from a Member of the Junta of Merano hawbeen transmitted to the War Office by Oerieval Blake, under date of the 29th ult...a " The troops of this bravo garrison, nOtWith. 'Wetting the excessive fktigne to which they are imposed, the total want of wine, and scarcity of bread, performed, this morning, a most heroic Whirl-merit. The enemy, to the number of 1/10 Infantry; with five Ofltcers, occupied the houses adjoining the to‘ier of Gironella.. But 40 of our Soldiers doikolgectthom, with disgrace from th4l post, having killed the Commanding Officer and nine men, wounded two privates and one Officer, and token 20 prisoners. Lung live the protedion of If raven ! and Obi invineible tutelar Saint !" Sx•rii.r.t, 13.—The Supreme Jltitta of ' A ertrgon has transifiltted iillispatch fromAlgadier DI Pedro de Vlllacafhpa; glued the gfitlr ult. at Catalytic!, stated that the morning of thief day, dislodged 600 of the enemy from Porto D.-tiotastio and Al•namiii, with the loss of a Lien.. tiJ soldiers, anti two cuirassiers, utadeprisoners: The enemy's troops that were at Huesca and Rarbastro, suddenly marched off on the 17th tilf. for Saragossa, carrying with them their stores, provisions, and sick, after extorting, at the point of the bayonet, the Most exorbitant contributions. From both places, and also Caspeand other towns of Atraguii, they carried off a number of the most respectable iiihabitants, and among others all the Canons of Barbastro. The Minister of the Spanish Rota, D. Joaquin Polack', who is a na. tire of Ilarbastro, is confined in Panapelinia by order of Joseph Bonaparte. CAROLINA, SEPT. 8.---'f he head.quartcrs of the army of Gmseral Venegas are still here. This army has been considerably reinforced; the in fantry alone amounted to '26,860 men. The ca ralry is stationed in La Mancha, and pushes its advanced parties as frr as Madridejoe, and the vicinity of Tembluque. The divisions of this Army occupy, at present, the following posi tions first division is in Valdepenas, the 2d At Villutinave de les f nfautes, and one regiment has been detached to Villamantiqiie and Veuta Neut.! ; the.third division is in Cortaduza,. and the environs of that place; and the fourth in V iso. The enemy occupies (Nana, Temblecre,_ and Dasbarrias, and his advanced parties arc In Yams and Villasolas. The French artillery has been re moved from Mora to Almonacid, where the enemy fortifies himself ; and his movements are so ' riosis, that it is impossible to penetrate into his future plan of operation. Lisson, SEPT. 25.—Letters from Castellr Mane° advise, that the% French who occupied Celia and its environs Nary retreated into the in. terior of Spain. We also know, by letters from Aleotejo, that the Spanish army of Estremadora' is about to put itself in motion, probably for the' purpose of detaching 18,000 men, who are to join the army in La Mancha. CA DI Z, Sarr. 15.—The head-quarters of the English army are in . Badaj os, one division occupying an advanced position at Lobau, and another in Merida. - All the corps of the army of Estrema.' ' THE, dura are in La Mancha, The bridge of A rzobtspo is I defended by only 8000 men, although reinforce ments are said to be expected from La Mancha. By an express arrived at Troxillo from Ciudad Rodrigo, intelligence has been received that the. said place has been occupied by a considerable force, under the orders of the Duke be Parque. The army of Gallieia, commanded by Generals Mendiaabal and 13allasteros, is shortly to arrive in Cindad Rodrigo. ~ . OH the lat of September a division of 6000 men entered Gera, snider the orders of G 'rat Conde, with 6000 beasts, loaded u ith all sorts of provisions, and two hundred quintals of gunpossdct. Gen. Layton is with his division two leagues r from that city, and the fire against that important place has ceased.— (This is ()Acid.) BaDasui, Srrr. 20.—0 n the 11th of this month arrived in this city his Excellency the Marquis de la Romani. The tinpreme Junta, the illustrious Commander in Chief of the English Army, and all the Officers of the garrison, com plimented his Excellency, who, on the, loth, in the morning, left this town for Seville. FRENCH RILVARKS ON LORD WELLINCTOII CAMPAIGN' I+I SPAIN. The Monileur of the 9th October contains some remarks, in the shape of Notes, on the ob. serrations of am English Paper (the Morning PM of September I 3) relative to the conduct of Lord Wellington in Spain. Psvrn.—" We hnveesil. that in a military point nt 'IOW the santriacut. of Lord .Wellington were re wasted by his owe cboire." Nora of the MOnileur.— Lord Wellington has been very fortems4e to reach the banks of the Tagus, to be able to cover himself by this river, and escape destruction ; but that his retreat was regulated by his own choice," is a thing which can only be said in England, and soil; he believed no where. Why,- then, did not Lord Wellington retire by Placentia, -where his magazines were ? Why, at least, did h; not pass the Tagus over the bridge of Alinaraz ? Why did he pass that riser by the bridge of Arzobispo, whence he made his retreat over difficult mountains, and by scarcely practicable roads? Certainly such a retreat as this could not be a voluntary retreat, and Lord Wellington, unless we suppoae him actually in wide, could nut have taken that direction of 6 ' own choice." " Lord IVelliagton preserved during ten days, a poition, in winch the French troops, Li they thought theinsclvrt streag enough, !night have attacked our army, and lett it nu other me:unlit camping but victor)." IstiorrE.—This is a very singular assertion, when, according to the noble custom of the English, Lord Wellington had abandoned the army of Caesta, who had been beateit,on the Tagus, and lost 35 pieces of cannon, and all his ammunition. —The _ writer asks, why the French did not pursue the English army ? They did pursue it, fur they came up with the rear.guard.— This rear-guard, it is true, was composed only of the troops of Cucuta ; bet they were there as allied troops, and made a part of the pursued army. The French too destroyed that division, which they overtook. Two things certainly ce. suit from this—first, That the rear-guard of Lord Wellington was destroyed ; secondly, Thtt Lord 11fellisigtoti having to give Ito. post of hon Our either to the English troops, of those Spaniards of whom he speaks so ill, determined in favour of the Spanish troops. The post of honour in an army is that which is nearest the enemy. When Francis the First sent to Fick/nand the sword of Constable from the Con stable of Bourbon, the latter replied, " the King took it from me on the day when he gave the com. mend of the advanced guard to the Duke of A len con." Lord. IVelllngton had not the same senti ments with the brave Chevaliers of those times.— lie does uot pique himself on keeping for himself the post of honour, lie gives it up to his allies.— The French, after having beaten his rear guard, might "have entered Portugal, hut they did not wish it, because it was theik the month of August ; because the climate is fatal at that season; because only madmen, such as those who direct the Eng. lisp Government, would, in the months of Au. gust anti September, expose an army to perish in the marshes of Waleheren, or in the sands of Es.. trcmadora. ENG& rsu Psrest.--" It k certain that he was deceived in his expectation of dnliss;T provisiows, and means of con ve)aarts. The charge of want of foresight made against Lord Wellington falls of itself." NOTE.—The pretest of wanting provisions is always the excuse of Generals who are bexten, or who are rendered unable to attempt any thing. Would not one suppose Lord Wellington com manded an army of three hundred thousand in.. hairy, and forty thousand cavalry ? When a General has an army so considerable, the procuring of provisions may give him some trouble, but cannot absolutely stop his progress. Can it he believed, that an army of 26,000 men could not find subsistence in a country where towns are so numerous ? Such an army is only a strong division, which a single town of Spain could maintain fur two month!. Besides, if Lord Wellington was uneasy with respect to the sub sistence Of his army, oily did he abandon his ma. guinea ? His line of operation and his magazines were upon and at Placentia. Why did he suffer Placentia to be taken ? Why ?_ Because this Geoaral of Sepoys bad the imprudence to advance to tho very middle of Spain, without knowing either what force was before him, or what upon his flanks. We etc by his dispatches that he someti:nes be lieved that the Duke of Dalmatia had hut 8000 men, and sonwtimes that he had 16,000. tinder these false suppositions ho had proposed to divide his forces to go and attack the Duke of Dalmatia, when 411 on a sudden, sod too late, be learned that this same Duke was advancing upon him with a corps of 60,000 men. He then fled in the utmost haste, and he was in tho right. Had he been amused at Talavera, instead of being attacked, and had not particular - and local circumstances permitted him to pass the Tagus, and amps by ; sacrificing the corps which he left behind him, not if STATESMAN. a soldier of his army would have'agiin - seen Eng- 14414. If ever there was a ,Gencral wanting fore sight, it is certainly Lord Wellington. If he should long command the English armies, we may natter ourselves with obtaining great advantages from the brilliant combinations of a Geticral so inexperienced in the trade of war. r.Ltsn PAPER.—" We are bad that the I reach haves Millen/11$ flotilla, 'under the protection of the titteri,.. If the• should dare to come forward, we abet!, no dolobt, sire a rood accuant of them." • NoTs.— , -What a prudent resolotion ! We should be very happy, should the English Cita bliA themselves in .the Island of Walcherea, in order to take it. Wheu we choose to drive l ' them out, we can do it ; and then it will not be a simple garrison of is or 3,000 men who must lay down their arms, but an eutire corps of 15 ur 20,000. • I. G Lisa Pa r .-" Passage ma letter horn en Oicer at Hushing s—' I Now in a uagion thirteen Officers of Or 69th Regiment, suffering under Ibis cruel ditorder." NOTE.—If the malady which afflicts the rug. lish army were the consequence of laborious marches, the great fatigues of a long Campaign, br of some unforeseen causes, the English sol. diets ought to support with courage the evils inc. ♦itably attached to the noble profeatioft of arms. When maladies are a scourge of the climate, when it is known to the whole world that to send an army to (ho Isle of Aralcheren in the months of August, September, October, or even half of November, is to expose it to certain de traction, when it is only necessary to consult the meatiest of the fishermen of the Scheldt, to learn that dysenteries, hospital disorders, perni. dons fevers, and even the plagne itself, are less 4 dangerous than the maladies which prevail it, the Isle of Walchcren at this season of the• year, we cannot but pity the fate of the English sol diers. The frantic, ignorant, or criminal men who have thrown so many brave fellows into certain danger, deserves not only their animal. versions, but that of the generous of all coon. tries. I'O LiCE. CO V INT-GA It DEN THEATRE. Bowavrt El:T.—The examination of the Pit Ora. tur of Covent-garden Theatre, who has held forth for several nights past, took place at a very late hour on Tuesday night. lie was taken by one of the patrole belonging to the Office, at the Ceri!.street Colfee.howse, when his friends, who had accompanied him from the Theatre, had left him. From what cause this young man has assumed the dress, manners, and language of a Natal 01 cer, is a mystery yet to ho explained. Upon his aeknonktiging himself to be a che mist, and being asked whether he was a shopman, he appeared extremely indignant ; he also, with scorn, objected to the term shopruan, but insisted upon the term assistant being used. After considerable difficulty on the pert of Mr. !Iran and Mr. Gnanan, to make him tell his name, or who lie was, he said his name was Sa. inuel Dudfield, assistant to Messrs. Kirk and Co. druggists, and that he lodged at Mrs. Barber's, Mr. Wm. Tolkard, of Great Queers-street, Linosln's.inn-fields, ironmonger, said, that this evening he observed the prisoner in the pit, making a great noise and disturbance during the whole of the performance ; that after the conclusion, he stood up, upon one of the benches of the Pit, and after calling silence, ho addressed the audience. lie commenced- with noticing his having obtained a former hearing, spoke at considerable length respecting the advance in the price of admission, and concluded with hoping that the approaching Jubilee might not be tarnished by theatrical tyran. ny, and desired the audience to give three cheers to his hl.tjesty fur protecting their great rights, while I hey protected their lesser ones. The audi ence cheered accordingly, and they agreed, For ticularly those in the pit, to take care of him; which they actually did, by carrying him out of the Theatre in triumph. Thomas Carpenter, of New.street, Covent-gar den, said, that after the performance was over, he saw the prisoner in the pit, haranguing the audi ence; and, addressing himself particularly to the galleries, requested them to join with those o:m the quarter-deck (meaning the pit), and they would make the Admiral of the new prices either strike or knock under. lle ennelnded by saying, he would head then, in the Piazza, eahorting them, at the same time, to persevere in the cassia, they had begun. • James Osborne, of Alilersgate-street, said, Alit on Monday night, and Tuesday, he sass the pri. sober in the pit, after the perfurmaitce was uver, standing up, and haranguing the anslimice . respeet t . ing the new prices ; and amine other expressions on Monday night, he said, " D—n my eyes, my" lads, if we can get within our grappling-irons Fair-weather .Tack, we'll bring him to book."— in his speech this evening, among other things, he said, " persevere, my lade and you will be suc cessful," and concluded by saying, while the King defended their public rishts, they would deTend their private ones. At the conclusion of his speech, there was a general " Hum" in the pit, and the general cry out wasi" Take care of him." The noise and tumult were, after this address, si milar to that after the half price, and so fond, that not a word could be heard of the perform. ance. Ile was ordered to tend bail, himself in 200 and two sureties in 1001. each. FORGERY._ 111 iRLso was yesterday charged at this Office, at the suit of Mr. Northwood, No. 70, Moliosausestreet, Mary.le. bone, with forging an acceptance to a bill of es. change, purporting to bnuf the value of 631. ; and Mrs. PlumLett, who was some time since charged with forgery at the suit of Mr. John King, was charged with uttering the said bill of exchange, knowing it to be a forgery. The Prosecutor stated, that he received the bill of Mrs. Plunkett a twelvemonth since, but uti pre. seating it, the drawer could not be found, and having phi it away, he afterwards piid the v,iltte of it. jle hid afterwards called on Nl , jor P ern. kctt, who denied ever having written the accet :- once: but afterwards observed, that hu did not chose to lead his wife into a snare, by answering the question in any shape. Th? Prosecutor con. linued, that Mr. Barker was present when the bill was s h own to t h e M a j or , and he observed it was a good imit ttion. Witness had no idea that the bill was a forgery, until he confeersed with Maier I'lunket►. Mr. PARKER, II Solicitor, requeshrti to spy few words to convince the Magistrate that thcrr WWI no foundation whatever fur the institution of this charge, which had originated in a contention betwixt the pectic*. In answer to a question frost tire Magistrate, the Prisoners left their defence in the hands or Air. Parker, who stated, that previous to Miss C 'ln ning having been married to Major Plunkett, she was pressed for money, and Mt.. Northwood, the prosecutor, bad discutmted bills fur her, for which he always received a valuable cnneideration. After Miss Gusuing's marriage with the Major, she, unknown to her husband, sold an annuity of 501. per annum to the Prosecutor fur 1801. the being then still pressed for money. This was dose. ' unknown to the Major, who, ou b :coming pos. sensed of the fat s shred to reporchsee the au ' nutty, and pay lye per cent. for the title of the money advanced. There was a Lalance of money due front Major Plunkett to the Pro seeutur, and when this bill of exchange oat presented, the Major neither denied nor me keowledged the acceptance to bc... his hand-writ ,ing, but he was willing to pay the balance of the account betwixt him and the prosecutor, proi Ned the latter chose to admit some pecuniary deli. culty betwixt them'. The prosecutor was offered to be paid for the bill of exchange in this settle ment, but IN• refused to settle the accounts, and said he would arrest the Major. Air. Parker stat ed, that he had several interviens subsequently with the prosecutor, .:nd he said, if the Alaj er not pay him the whole sum due to him, he would take up his wife for forgery. Mr. Parker continued, that he never heard a syllable about a forgery until Major Plunkett re. (mused to comply, with paying thy sum of motel Mr. Northwood required, which was about .4uol. Major Plunkett had always agreed to settle the balance, but nothing further. There had !seen several money transactions betwixt the parties, and Mr. Parker concluded by observing, that the very purchase of the annuity of Mrs. Plunkett, after her marriage, was a gross fraud upon her husband. The Magistrate asked Mr. Parker, whether he was ready to swear, that, in his several interview with the Prosecutor, he had never heard about a forger), until Major Plunkett refused to pay him his alledged balance: Mr. Parker replied, that he was ready to do so at that moment. The Magistrate observed, that the parties stoofl charged with a capital felony, and it was Ms duty to commit thorn fur trial ; but he won't! 'wont mead Mr. Parker to make out his affidavit of facts, and repair to a Judge, and the Clerk at this Office should attend him, and hay before theJudgo the deposition of the Prosecutor. It was the Judge alone who bad the power of bailing for a capital felony. Until this could be done, the pri. Men should be kept an oustody at the. Office, as they were entitled to this indulgence at his hands, under ail the circumstances of the ease. Mrs. Plunkett, on being represented in a, pregnant state, was allowed to retire to the house of a friend in :he neighbourhood. The Magistrate also observed, that although Mrs. Plunkett would meet some little hardships, he thought it would operate as a caution against a description of persons who g u t into money transactions with people, and then charged them with any offence to answer their selfish purposes. The /fled goes round Tu-morrew .11urninr. Another Day, and all is over! nu Chance left fur those whoneglect to buy to.morrow. Two Hun. died Thousand Ponnds Sterling have given rise to as many new adventurers: every body seems so well pleased with the idea of participating in so capital a sum, that they cannot resist buying its fact, it is nu loss to the Public, for if it was not' voluntarily subscribed to, every one must pay their quota in another way. Hon‘say and Co. have Tickets and Shares fur We, ut their 0!.I Is. tablished State Lottery Offices, 2G, Curnhill, and St. Margaret's Hill, Borough. 't The public have for sumo time past shewn an esieratess to have Four Tickets of a Number, which the Office Keepers could nut deliver them, owing to a regulation in the Bank, not to let the Tickets in CUSS D Ire isitied, until those in A, LI, and C, were disposed of. , Fite [ Sank, within these few days, have begot' issuing the Tickets to thy; 081 re Keepers in Class D; therefore such Ladies or Gentlemen as choose to have Tu.', Three, or Four Tickets of a Number, may be supplied in great variety, at the Old Established Offices of T. Buss , 4, Corn hill, and 9, Charing Cross, 1111 Thursday night. One Half of the Capital Prizes, in the last Lot. eery bat one, were sold its Shares (including two Prizes of Twenty Thousand Pounds); and in the last Lottery nearly the wilule, viz. Thrre Twenty Thousands, one 'fen Thousand, Two Fitt Thou sands, &r. &c. Ity KYTON (late Pittner with Alit JAMES linAsscomit),.removed to No. 2, Cure.' it 19 pretutned by tt;e l'at,tte, th a t th e Whole of the Capital Prises (which are unusually tiumrrottl) in the presewt Lwtirry, hill will he ilr.iwn nett Friday, will likewise be bold at thh 3brive Ul lice, as for the Pile tfiree - AworEtlON's Unice has been unitsuaNkillrroltstidlbr tile Votaries of Fortune. • Pit Illt 1E1). On Snt;:rilas last, at M. hettOt‘tia . ) ClotOst .11410.1, Cot. Joseph Spear, of the Rola! to A: gni Genre ( ; r I, Intent' Ilansplevol, hat now • of Voter Iforbitly-iiLler, MO 0.4 Cat', yourinest .nnntee ~of the Into Car. taletnlet Grant, of ktbotkand.s. t:canot, ut M•ocrsty,leollniel. LONDON Printed and Puldeolied Lovrt at the STATE 3 Orts. Li What-ttrec . .