The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-12-06 00:00:00

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Sebastian, 1 t • 1. ;t:i of October, 1 O. it a—My fetter of the 4th August informed their Lordthips of the proposal l had made to Lientcriaet-General Sir John Stuart, that the islaarls of 7antc, Cephalonia, &e. should be seized mai before the French could tarn their regard from the defence of Naples to strengthen other points, and in which letter I inclosed to you a copy of the instructilns I had sent to blear-Ad. mini Martin, to be delivered to Captaiit Spranger oy tile - Warrior, w horn rhail gt•lccted t• command the naval part of the Expedition. The challge which tit that time had taken place be theitate of the armies in the North, required the Licutesant- General's consideration, whether an adequate force might he spared from the army, and do layer] their dila' lore from Sicily. until the 23d Septem. bee, whets the Warrior s.eled from Ifessins with the Philomef Sloop, and transports carrVing about. one threes end six liontlrc.l troops, under the cum mend of Brigadier-General Oswald. The Spartan I at the s*'nc time sailed from Nialti with Mr. ro resti and Count Clotho!, a Cephalonian Gentle :nano.- ho had for some lime taken refuge at Malta, and whoa heal knowledge and influence ita the country I ho l lo•.1 would ha atlcantNeous to the service. o.d •rs were also sent . to Captain Eyre Qf the Ni.igniscent to join them with the Corfu inattroc. I hate now great satisfaction in informing you, Sir, of the complete s iteccis of this expedition, and that thc• Fr,..nru garrison in the islands of &rite, Cophalottia, Ithaca, and . Cerigo have, after 4 -very faint resistance, surrendered to his Majesty's arms, the people liberated from the oppression of the French, and the Government of the Sept' Insular Republic declared to be restored. A 4 no preparation for so unexpected a chat* could have been matte by the inhabitants, it has been rotund cotivehienthy theofficas commanding, and by the principal people who are now to as. sume the Goy •rnment, that the British flag, with that of the Republic, shall be coutinnel to fly un til the several departments arc filletrand regularity is established. The inane ice of Mr. Foretti, and the estinsa. tion in e hid, his character is held by the people, very much fat ilitated the operations ; I hare writ ten to him to resume Isis functions of British lir sideet with the Republic, until he shall receiee the instruction s% of his Majesty's Ministers. 1 inclose, Sir, the letters of Captains Spranger, Brenton, and Crawley, detailing the several parts they took in the reduction of the islands, a copy of the Proclamation, and reports of the garrisons and stores, by which their Lordships will find with what good judgment ail the measnres were taken by• the Commanders of the sea and lased forces, and the zeal and ietelligeace with which they were executed. At Cerip the greatest recixtance was made; but Cal.tain Brentun's skill anti resources , arc such as would surmount 'built greater difficulties than they could present. [ an), &c. (iAne.l) COLLINGWOOD. His .114' tty'l ship Warrior, Bay of . j / Ante, Oct. 1809. 4 11— bite the Weisner to acquaint yon, for the information of the Commander in Chief, that, In pursuance of his Lordship's orders l .l sAiled from 111essina o t the `.2 3d ult. in company with the sloop two large gun-boats, and the trans. ports, with troops under the command of Briga. dier.Geu. Oswald, and proceederl oft Cephalonia, sham se arritcd on the 28:1s, and ciontinesti thp .Ist . joined, 'Windy arranged, by tlf Spartan, from Malta, and the Magnificent, Belle Pottle, and Kings_ fisher, from Corfu, and anchored that night in the Boy of Zante, just without the reach of the nearest battery. At daylight the following morning, the troops assembled alongside the Warrior, and under cover of • the Spartan, Belle Puule, and gun-boats, who 'loon silenced the batteries, landed a division of the army in the most perfect •order, about three L • miles from the town and whilst General Oswald was advancing, Captains Brenton and Brisbane, and the gun-boats, conducted by Mr. Cole, my First Lieutenant, were actively ernploied in keep. iag the enemy, who had re.manued their batteries, in check, and covering the se.-and disembarkation, when the whole army moved forward and closely invested the Castle, to which the French, had retired from every; direction. A Proclamation was in the mean time distri buted to the inhabitants, explanatory of our views, and finding, as was expected, that they' rejoiced in the expulsion of these common disturbers of mankind, 1 forbore attacki with the ships ((strong battery on the Mole Head, which to *l4 not be taken without destroying a great part of the town; and have the satisfaction of adding,- that it the course of the day, the e n s-'I my, though advantageously situated in a most Pill- portant and commanding position, thought proper to capit*latc on the terms which 1 Jiave the honour to itteleee. I arn,•fsc. (Signed) J. W. SIMANGEII. ' Rea, Admiral Martin, &c. ke. Se. PROCLAMATION TO THE INHABITANTS OF CE PH•frONIA, ZANTE, &NI) OfHERd OF THE SEVEN ISLANDS. It having been represented to the C .mmander. in-Chief of his Britannic Majesty's Nell and Land Forces in the Mediterranean, that (he inhabitants of Cephaloalie, Zante, and other of the Seven Islands, wearied and oppressed with the violence and exactions of the French Goserameet, under which their commerce has been annihilated, and their personal freedom invaded, are desirous to.. shako oil the yoke; their Excellencies Vice Ad.' ((Oral Lord Collingwood, Y. B. and Lieutenant- General Sir John Stuart, Count of Maids, K. B. &c. commanding in Chief the respective Sept and Lind Forces, have directed such aid to be given as may enable them to expel their present oppres. surs, and re-establish a tree land independent go veronicas!, with the oncontrouled exercise of their rcligio~{, civil , and commercial rights. 'llse Under/40mi commanding the division of his Maj.::ty's sea and land futcei, charged with the execution of this interestine, and important duty, call therefore on the .iiihabiaits of all ranks! to Come forward, and share in the glorious labour of expelling the common enemy. We come forward to present ourselves to you, Inliehitants of Ceolialonia, not as invaderl, with views of conquest, bet as alibi who hold forth to you the advantages of British protection, in the tredons and extension of your commerce, an.l the general prosperity of year island ; contrast these obvious advantages with the privation.: you have laboured under, sincu you were passed over from the yoke of Russia to that of France, and de prived at one blase of your indepeitileuce as a tion, and of your rights of freedom as men. We demand of you 110 exerti.oi but such as arc sisee.ss•ry fur your own lib,•ration, no other idtat reciprocal advantage requires. ileistility, whether shown in acts of uplossilisio towards us, or iu aid to the enemy, must of coursr be repressed ; but no retrospect will ho made to the errors of the past, no other distinctions suf fered than what results front present opportunities eel, courage, and patriotism. tllh ands* oar bands nu hoard tr. Majesti's ship tlor rior, in Liute Ri•ada: this CJ October, 11109. (biped) By Briaadier 7 tiesieral OSWALD, coatiaandiqg a diri•ion of his lii r esty's Forces, and J. ritAfkaillt, Captain of the airier, and Scnior Deicer. Here follow. tha Articles of Capitulation agreed spun for Lite surrender of Tante; as alco of Ce phalonia, Cistiges, he. with the return of Ord. •ance, be. The Galion* tosrtaitis also an Inclosure from Lord Collingweod, giving an account of a very spirited atfliek made by the boats of the Expel. lent, Acorn, and Bastard, covered by the sloops, ou a convoy of the enemy, in which six gun. boats and ten trahaccolas were captured, by Cap. tains West and Clephatie.—Tii o marines were killed in the action ; and one seaman has since !died of his wounds. - Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood has transmit. ted to this Office the following reports of cap. tures mark by ships under his Lord hip's com. mand, vie. A Idler from Captain Ayscongh, of the Suc. cess, giving a• account •f the capture by the boats of that ship, on the 30th July, off Congo, of two French privateers, one mutinune nine car riage guns, and four b wir', with 78 men, and the other one gun, and 20 men. A letter from Capt. Peirce, of the Halcyon sloop, stating the capture, m thu 30th of August, of the St. Anna French privateer, of two guns and 46 moo, twenty days from Naples, without making any prise. And two letters from Caplaiu Rosenhagen, of the ♦olage, giving accounts of his having, on the 6th and 200 of September, captured two enemy's privateers, the Annuociate anti Jason, one of two guns and 40 men, and the other of six grins and 69 men. The Court of Common Connell me: plefilitakyi at one o'clock, in pursuance of the Summons is sued in consequence of the proposed Address to his Majesty, on thelithject of the termination of" the Expedition to Walcheren. The new LORD MAYOR addressed the Court, as usual, on his first appearatice in the Chair,l since his election, stating the ineutficiency he felt for the discharge of his high office without their assistance ; asset* them of his readiness to call them together, whenever they should mines% hint so to do, and of his intentions generally to attead to the duties of his Mayoralty, and the rights and privilege% of the Ciarof • bondens. Various Petitions nest . occupied the attention of the Court, one of Which was from the Borough of Southwark, stating the want of new regulations respecting their Magistracy, and the great ineffici ency of the existing arrangements, in support of which, Mr. Forma., of Southwark, was heard at lengt A motion was afterwards moved of thanks to the late Lord Mayor, expressing the sense the Court entertained of the easy access he had given to its members, and of the hospitality, liberality, Sec. he had manifested ; and summing up the whole in the words used to him by the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, that he had conducted himself . as a good andooright man ;" which, huing se.. conded, was opposed by some members, on the ground of his' having twice refused a Common Hall. Mr. Ald. COMBE espressed his approbation of the conduct dl the Lord Mayer in such a re of which, he thought, first the disapproba tion of the Common Hall which he afterwards called must have convinced him of the laspropriety. If any attempt.were made at the next Guinmon , Hall to vote thanks, the subject consplaisied of would be fit matter of reprehension ; bet as the present motion contained no allusion to any thing connected with improper mmthatt in that respect, he did nut feel disposed to negative thanks, on the genetal grounds of hospitality, liberality, &e. Mr. WAITUNIAN was sorry to oppose ate thanks, since no person had more than himself re ceived every mark of attention and civility from Sir Charles Flower. But yet be could not pass over the objectionable party of his public mot. duct. Twice. he hod presumed to refuse a Com mon Hall, nut upon a party question, such at might have been supposed un a former occasion to Nava influenced Oise Politer- of Tier Ikon* W son, but opott a question oo which hardly two opinions conld be fund throughout the nation. As to his hospitality, he declared he thought the propusition for the cult' Ilea dieser an insult to the Corporatiou. It was only /keying ie other words, " I know your attachment to eating and drinking so well, that though you have nut agreed upon feasting yourselves, I ion sure yoo• will not like I to go up with the loyal address without a dinner afterwards, and therefore I swill feast you ;" and the cold heel dinner turned out to be a sumptuous , banquet! By this mean., in fact, the Lord Mayor,' feeling the just consequences of his misconduct in refusing a Common Hal!, was I,:ving the Vote of Thanks of the Coiymon Cooneil ! (A great erg of Order! Order:) Nit. W. resonated the expressions twice over. Llicre, as We!! as after ward:, there was it greatreunfnsion without the bar, owing to the number of auditors, and to se. vera! Members of the Court iosisting on bping admitted by that access, instead of going round by the Aldermen's door, which most of them did. The clearing of the Court was called fol loudly, aitil strangers were 'limit to he excluded, of whom many were actually pnt• ottt. Order was, how ever, rettored; but the'pressere remained as be fore.] . Mr. W. said, that fur the hosritality of the Mansion-house the Lord Mayor had been re- warded by hying made a Baronet. That honour would never have awaited him, had he acted only fur the rights of the City, and not fur the views of the Court. - • Mr. J defended the late Lord Mayor, and prai,ed his hospitality. lie said that' the dinner was misrepresented. It was not a splendid ban qnct. There was (us we understood the Worthy Member) no fish ; there were a few tureens of soup, and, little poultry ; but the dinner in ge neral conilisted of h o t r oas t an d w e .] b ee f. Mr. S. TRION said a few words on the same side. Mr. KIMBLE expressed hie disapprobation of the conduct of strangers in the Court. Mr. M A WMA N defended Sir C. !'tower's hos. pitality, and re:tits:lca the Court of the severity with which he hurt been treated, at the Common hall, in be iag eqmpelled to put a qnestion, the decision of w hich, It was evident, would convey a reliection upon himself. Sitrely punishment,. as it was called, had been carried far enough for an error. After tome further conversation. die question was put aunt carried by a considerable majority in 'mutts of the vote of thanks. F.XPROTTIO't TO - WALeiIEREN. Mr. NV AITIDIAN roe and reminded the Court of the important nature of the subject which they were called upon to take into their consideration ow that tiny. It had been but too little the fashion in that Court, as ho should after wards have an opportunity of shewitsg, to exer cise their ondontned prifiTeges oft matters of great consequence to every individual of the British public. If the City of London were prevented by courtly influenee, from the 'assertion of its rights, or were so. time-serving and base as to refuse to do _ . . the UM plies man, making any proposition that materially concerned the purity and welfare of the State, would have beet branded with the natne of Jacobin. Ile did out mean to intiotluce a subjeet of discussion of a military nature; but there were, in some cases, circumstances and facts that no man of mound sense could be deficient in forming a judg. meat of. There were matters connected with the formation, the conduct, and the•result of even a military expedition, which it did nut require a military knee ledge in order to appreciate. Our military expeditions hail, for a lung time past, whenever they were undertaken on e grief. Bade, anti for great professed objects, termed osl mist unfortunate and disgraceful to the nation,•witk else exception of the Evpedition to Egypt. Fore 'eat armies had, in fact, been sent from this °sentry, only to swell the account of disgraces, said to increase the sum of our sorrow and our woe; end the farther we proceeded in our sys tem, we proceeded only from worse to worse. Whim the public mind was agitated by the failure at Minorca, in the reign of George 11. the city of London did not liesitatcto gd op with her Ad dress; end the answer of the King, and his subset. quest communication to Parliament, expressed his Majesty's satisfaction in the iottireat iris people took in the successful ',sue of public affairs. The same words that were sited in that Ad. dress, he had used in the Add real, he proposed sifter the dis4rateful capitulation of the Hel. der ; the conclusion of, an .expeditioni by *hick one half of our army was lost. Then his Address was negatic :d, out the ground, aneeed by Pone, that it was a direct iii,tilt to the Throne. Liven the shameful Convention of Cintra, he had again utcs similar words in the Addrew he melted :• but, 'putt that .occasion, when hardly a matt could be found who did not cutertain the same Opi• nion as to that Convention, how bad the City ct London been received at Court Z Whey were told, that " the iitterpositiun •of the City of 'London"' was nut wanted, iw a matted in which the ho. motor of the • British arms was tia!liol into epos tiots. 'Elie wisdom of these conncik, in which great operations neve origiiiiticul, anti hy• which they were planned, and the conduct of their Com atitaders who executed Chum, were wallets of the any first importance to tht w hole -cummu: Amity. lie then , prow...led to make 'some ob. Int.vations on the conduct of the General (Sir Ai ihrelleeley) In the Portuguese campaigts, in whisk odha bottle of Vitalism w fangh t awn' wrist on to notice the Expedition ottotwueds • sent out TO iiipaiu under Sir Jolla Moore, wile appeared to base had the benefit of no well-cotrorted platiof operations, to hate been compelled, against his don better judgment to, advance, whets he had tip aid ,/ itssistunee ; by! wise certainly .by tette it, i 0110011 his witty from destruotion, afti:r - enduring, itmot unheard-of privations and calamities. Mutt not such losees and diggracisi as these stoney the aateation, nay, evewthe indignatioo of the British public, and particularly• of the ritigens or l o on. don ?• Another Expeditigin followed, and Sir' Arthur 'Wetiesley was . again sent to Portugal and to Spain with a large British But that General, whatevet 'Melt be his activity of courage, had laid hitn:4ll . • o;:i•ti to' the im putation of raghliais in the advances he had made, and the avarice of glory—the desire of doing something which he had inlmifeeted. Courage was unquestionably a coasideretiun of great mo ment ;•tut he could not. but consider courage in a* British General as something loss than the first of his qualities. Conrage, he believed, must be long to him in summon with every man in his army. Bat though much more than con. rag e could not 'always be displayed among the inferior individuals of an army, yet in a General we mu.t look for higher qualities. Of a good General, it must' be expected that he would not sacrifice his - troops to any romantic or ambf. tions xiews . ; that he would 'take into his view, and • neigh well, all the -circumstances of a cam. ',sign with a sound military jodgmene, or be was nut that sort cif 01ficerintd*hose hatittsthe coon. try could commit her force. Now, if he looked at the dispatches of Sir A. Wellesley, of w hich ct e had pretty longsamples in The Gazette, he found some very curious passages immediately after he had recited the success •of 'the Battle of 'Talavera. Among others [which he read] was one passage in which that General, speaking of movements after the liertle,states iithis dispatch, 46 We could extricate ourselves from this dir. difficult situation only by great celdrity of more. ment,• to which the troops were unequal, as they had not had the allowance of provision for trete. rat days." The same dispatch slated the leaving of 1500 Of our sick and wounded at Talavera, at which place it was understood we had gained a complete victory. What a strange result this was of a complete victory ! What was meant by great celerity P It would be supposed generally, that a retreating movement after a victory, of great celerity bordered a little on what was called Iv'. ing away. (Order! order 1) f,ct every think ing mair look fairly now at the result of this se. cond expedition into Spain, for which, tinder all the mortifyitig circumstance , to which he had al. luitt.d, the Commander had actually received a high title of nobility. Hitherto he had spoken chiefly of matters that were, pCrhaps, less important than the recent one to Which he !rad called the attention of that Court.-- , --The expedition to Walcheren seemed to Claim a sort of pre-emhtence in the 11.! of these dig. gritadal transactions. 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