The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-08-07 00:00:00

- Arr. wed. II aft. Dee. I Dublin I 2 Waterf0n1......... ..... ... 1 O O O ...0. thine, 1 . !MCI - of ISTOCKS rHis DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 perCeet.Coes. I% ex. dilv. Onseleue 1 f res. S per Celt Red. 68} i Laeg. .18 7-1 b 11-16 fler Ceeft.— .543 1 Elicit MN, es. 13s. rem .99 Inds Beads. 905.415. pros. Navy far Are Csssls Leitery Tickets, ID. 11s. /IV; i WAFER AT LONDON IMMO& rats Eteaiag N eta. past 11 clock. TilE STATESMAN. ruuruirn I.ONOONI MONDAY, AUGUST 7. • SUCCESSFUL OPERATION'S OF THE EXPEDITION. YarrsaDAT afternoon the following ennnnni eaLion was received at the Mansion !louse:— " Sunday, Four o'Clock. " TELEGRAPH FROM DEAL. g' Fleshing closely invested. Rest ut the Island taken." " With Lard MULGRATIL% compliments to the Loup MA Tuft." T communication was succeeded by the ant- vat of the Hon. Captain DuxcAN with dispatches, which produced the following Note front Lord CASTLEREAGH to the LORD Slvroa, between seven and eight o'clock hi the evening : (COPY.) " MY LORD, " Downing street, Aug. 6, 1808. " I have the honour to acquaint your Lunhhip that Dispatches have been received from the " Earl of Cal. Toast, dated the 2J and 3d inst. " from Middleburg, by which it appears that the " Island of Walcheren has been occupied by Ms gg MAJESTY*, troops, and Flushing invested, af. " ter some resist.mce, in which a considerable " number of prisoners were taken from the enemy. "The Nand of South Beveland bas been " taken possession of by the division under the " orders of Sir Joint Hove. (Sigued) " The light Hes. the Ws. Marna." " CABTLERSAGR. In a letter from Dover, recei►ad this morning, it h stated, that—" The Ides cutter, Captain 66 WEVIIIAN, is arrived in the Downs, and brings 66 an account of FLUSHING BEING IN " OWL POSSESSION; our ships began to 66 bombard the town yesterday at twelve o'clock, " and at eight P. M. the whole was in a blase, 66 the sailors them &Fasted a landing, sod took it poiBf/a011." Thu the Rest object of the lapsdition is ac. cqmplished. The operations of our breve army and navy were expected to have been detailed in a Gazette Extraordinary, bet no such publication had appeared when th,s Paper went to press. The substance of the Dispatches received by Government are stated to be, that the troops or. fectcd a landing on the 30th silt. on the North-east side of the Island of Watcher's. Micdlehurgh, the chief tow• of the Island, after considerable resistance, surrendered, as also did Rammakcns and Campreer. At the same time that these °pendent/ 0 were taking place in Walcheren, the division under Gen. Hope took possession of Schoweu and North and South Beveland--and when Capt. Dome A x left the fleet, Flu.hing was closely invested-- which, if the intelligence brought by the Ida: be correct, has since fallen. In these several operations, our loss is stated, in killed and wounded, to be less than 400, nor hal any °Beer of rank been lost... Gen. Disown* is slightly wounded. It new remains to be sees what resistance will be offered by the enemy to our further esitorpriwou in the Scheldt. The order with which the landing of the troops was effected is highly extolled ; and it is said that but for the tempestuous weather, so unusual at this season of the year, the intelligence which has now been received, would have arrived some days ago. GERM AN PAPERS tithe 28th of July inclusive ) arrived in town this morning. It is Ittserted in these papers, that to the weak ness .f the Emperor FRANCIS is imputable the ha sending " Armistice," against which the Arch duke CII 4 RLU is represented to have bitterly re-. m,nstrated. The Archduke Joao', who-had wit. nessed the efforts of the Tyrolese and coral. burghers, it is said is particularly chagrined at the disgraceful termination of the war—and in deed it seems, that although the armistice was announced in the Tyrol and the Voralburgh t at. tacks were made by theinsurgeab on the Bavarians, In open defiance of that communication. The \ THN ST ATIESIVAN, starch of the Ditch troops to Bremen—of those of Westphalia to Hanover—the intended establish ment of the kearLquarters of the Duke of A brantes at Hamburgh; the return of the Prince of Ponta CORTI) to Paris, fur which place he set out on the ?Id July--and the expectadon of NAPCSLION Mowing him immediately, all tend to confirm our apprehensions, repeatedly expressed, that those who expect from the Expedition, under the com mand of Lord CHATUA74, that any serious ittrpres. slots will be made on the enemy beyond that of the possession of the Islands at the mouth of the Scheldt, and the possible destruction of some ships of war and naval arsenals, will be cer tainly disappointed. The critical moment in which the power of France might have been restraints!, has been suffered to pass away, never to return, in the life of the present generation. There is every reason to believe that the Preliminaries of Peace have already been signed at Vienna, and NAPOLZOK, released frum his imminent situation on the Danube (for such it was until the Austrian Army was beaten), ern now deride the fatally procrastinated efforts of England. Every arrival from the Continent furnishes us with fresh subject of regret. To the abandon ment of thu Tyrolese and Voralbarghers we have the mortification to announce the utter ruin of the Duke of Baurd , wica On.s. The Nuremberg Ga:elte contains the follow ing article : " The King of PRUSSIA has segues " hated all the dominions and estates of the " Duke of BXCNSWICK °ELS." " Several Newspapers assert, that the condi. " flans on which the Emperor Narottomgranted " the armistice, are of the utmost importance, " and will be productive of very momentous re ', sults." That the conditions on which the Armistice was granted will be productive of " most momentous results," will not be doubted-..-and we feel much anxiety to see on what terms the ci-derant Em. eror of AUSTRIA %ill be tolerated...-If any cir. cumstance can tend to diminish our sorrow fur the fallen state of the descendants of the House of Hapsburg..-it is, that in the recent contest it is impossible to deny that Austria was not the im. mediate aggressor; but this unfortunately gives NAPOLIoN the stronger claim to impose humiliat. ins conditions on his vanquished rue. nic contents of the dispatches to Prince STANNEMBEIG, brought by the Austrian Mesas. ger, whose arrival we mentioned on S.iturday,Go. remount have not yet thought proper to an. isounce.—lt is conjectured that they relate, mot only to the late armistice, but to the terms of the subsequent pacification between NAPOLEON and the Emperor nun's. _ _ The silly reports continued to be propagated by the hireling Ministerial Prints, 64 that the Ar mistice was merely a truce—which has since been successfully broken"—will naturally be treated by the pablic with that contempt which they de mew, and have universally excited. The contest in Germany is terminated—and the splendour of the Imperial House of Austria is as completely obscured as that of the H.,uso of Brandenburch, under the imbecile descendant of the Gloat Fite- DEKICIL. Tniretreat from Sweden of the Russians, for the purpose of reinforcing the Army in Gallicia, is i now become unneeesary—and that array, releasetl by the conclusion of the c,ostest in Germany, will instantly turn its attention to Turkey, which will again be forced into hostilities against England. Sweden•also must eventually come into the Grand Confedtracy—sad it may be expected as the na tural and inevitable consequence of the disastrous conclusion of the contest in Germany—that within six months—the entire Continent of Europe will he absolutely dosed against the commerce of Great Britain. A Spanish Officer, named Captain &mime, ar rived at the Foreign Office on Friday, with dis patches from Sir A. WELLESLEY. They were brought to Falmouth from Columns is four days, by the .4rethaisa frigate. Wu understand that they anuounce tho junction of the British and Spanish armies, and also that Sir A. WELLESIAT boreal to be able to bring VicrAtt to an engagement before the arrival of the combined forces at Madrid, whi. they they were resolved to advance. A large body of Russian cavalry arrived at , Lemberg, in Gallicia, early in July, under the or. ders of General Mtmt.sa.. Prince STA !MEMOIR% Admiral APO DACA and Don CevaLcos, had a conference of three hours with Mr. CANNING, at the Furriers Office, on Thu rtday. A fleet is about to sail from Portsmouth with reinforcements for Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY 'S army in Spain; and another fleet, with many Officers and men, for Sir Jolty STUART'S army in Sicily. With the first, go Generals MADDRN and MILLER, Colonel f.tatiw, and many Officers, under a strong Medical Staff, for we regret to hear by the kit arrivals that the army is lament ably sick. A large detachment of the Royal Marines, now in Stonehenge Barracks, are preparing fur em barkation otr board the Wombs/cis and Prevo.y. ante store-ships.—A proportion of boys accom. patty them. The Bret sore frigate arrived from Comma on Saturday, after the abort voyage of four days. By this opportunity Government received dis. patches ; and a Spanish Officer, of the rank of Captain of Infantry, arrived with it fur his EaceHaney Admiral APODACA. The Informa tion through this channel is satisfactory. Gene. ral ROMANA had entered the %Junkier of Leon, and bad his head.quarters at Astorga, at the close of the last month. His force consisted of twenty four thousand mini, completely armed and equip. ed, and he had recruits to augment it to 40,000, if the deficiency of muskets did not prevent the accession to his army. He had actively, but ineffectually pursued Marshal keel.? from 'Oronse to Munfurte, and from the bliiiho to Pon ferrada, from whence the French took the direc tion to the Douro, and were supposed to be in the neighbourhood of Zamora, with the desigo-of proceeding to reinforce the garrison of Madrid. — It was toiderstood, that the troops in. the capital had been greatly reduced, in order to supply the ranks of the armies of VICTOR andSseaszt.s Pct. The acquisition by the arrival of Sout.e would not be very considerable, as the remains of his corps consisted only of about 5000 men, of which, however, a large proportion was cavalry. Respecting the situation of the Allies West and South of Madrid, nothing further was ktiowis than what we before stated ; one additional fact only we have learnt, namely, that in order to concert operations against the enemy, the two Com manders, Sir ARTHUR Wer.t.ssLer and General CuzsrA, had bad an iuterview, and had dined together near the Tagus. JoNov, who had advanced as far as Bayreuth, has met with a defeat, and been forced to retire. The Austrian General KIENMATER attacked him unexpectedly near Bayreuth. His junction, there fore, with the army of JEROME BONAPARTE has been prevented. JuNOT is retreating by Amberg towards the Danube. The Austrians are again at Maiden ; and the return of the King and Queen of Saxony, from Frankfort on the Mame, to their dominions, is adjunctied to an indefinite time, in consequence of the dispatches which they received from King JEROME on the 7th of July, when every thing was ready fur their departure. The Rus sians, in Gallicia, leave every Austrian functionary in his place; at Lemberg only they have established a gouvernensent ankle, of which the former A us trian Governor of Gallicia, Count Weausett, is a Member. The eel ected arrival of our Expedition is said to have kept alive the spirit of the North of Ger many, which the fatal Armistice of the Itth was se well calculated to extinguish. The Austrians are said to have re-entered Dresden, Leipsic, and other parts of Saxony. J earn has been defeated at Bayreuth, and the enemy has evacuted that city. Fifteen hundred Poles are on their march to garrison Haniburgh, and Jahomc BoNAv.tare:' was proceeding with his army to cover and keep 'down lianovers The Emperor of AUSTRIA, according to 'the Dutch papers, viewed the battle of Wagram from the top of the hill which commands the village of Ebersbriton. Ile was incessantly sending to the Archduke CHARLES to learn the state of affair.i. When heat length saw the centre of his army de. reeled, and the left wing almost totally destroyed by the fire of the French artillery, be preeip:tately quitted his station, and set off in a conch, corer. lug his face with a handkerchief. In changing horses at Hollabrunn, the rector of the parish ap. preached the carriage to pay his respects to him ; but the only answer the Emperor gate him was— " It is all over." Mr. SPENCER SMITH, with that patriotism which characterizes every branch of his family, has lately introduced that valuable plant, Smyrna madder, into this country. Mr. SMITH furnished the Su ciety of Arts with some seed, from which Mr. SALIssuRT, of the Botanic-Garden, Sloane-street, has raised plants that have grown in the most pro. nosing manner. He expects to obtain seed from them, and there is every reason to hope that this useful dye-rout will become naturalized in our soil. A parag raph which appeared on Thursday in several of the Morning Papers, announcing that by order of the Treasury all the old halfpence in circulation would be called in, and exchanged for nem ones, stud that such imitations as geuerally passed fur good would be taken, has occasioned very considerable inconvenience to the labouring part of the community, and was the cause of many a poor family yesterday being deprived of their Sunday's dinner. From a misunderstanding, or wilful , aversion of this notice, the majority of sli..pkeepers and publicans have indiscriminately refused all old copper, which occasioned very considerable bustle and confusion in the markets on Saturday night, where many industrious me. chanics, who bad been chiefly paid in clipper of this description, had it refused ; it is to be . hoped, if such refusal is persisted its, that the Magistrates will be prompt its inflicting the 101 l pen .Ities which the law authorises. We beg to impress it on the minds of our Readers, that those who re fuse to take good halfpence are undoubtedly sub. ject to penalty. Among the whimsical undertakings of the age may be classed that of a Colonel of Dragoons, who for a bet to a considerable amount, is to walk from Chichester to llarrowgate, a distance of 955 miles, and mot to expend more than three pounds. Ile passed through Guildford last Friday. Wefeel it our duty to caution the public against an old trick daily practised by a young female in the neighbourhood of St. Paul's Churchyard, New Bridge.strcet, and that neighbourhood. She knocks at the dour, and under pretence of inquiring for some une of the family, who she is well acquainted is fruits home, un being shown into the parlour, stie takes an upper. Wilily of secrelins any thing that is portable, with which she inakti otr. Several 'bats of tlits kind were effected during the last week. Vessels arrived at Liverpool from the Ist of June to the lit of August, 1809 : From the Illoited Slate) or America 217—• Amelia islands 16—British Aini.rica it -141evslavisdland id—Puringai and A sorrs 40—Mediterrasnean lu -.West Indies 71—Brasil, 3-11nliand ti—rrnuee I—Orre Awed s ?—Si'' 3 —Spain 4—lreland 110-Isletnan 10 —Cu:taloa), 103—total vessels, NI NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Dolma, Attu. 6.—Came ia the ship Rathy, at Marble bead, Captain Hammond, from New York, with rice, to Amsterdam, raptured yesterday by • French privateer, and retakes by his MaksWs brig Hattori. Mused by for London, the American brig Sown, Captain Dock, front Cache; also liketheld, Capitals Cooper, from Laths. PoaTSMOVH, ACG. s.—Aniced the Gannet. rapt. Ste venson, frogs, the Downs; ;owl the Selina mut-ship, from New lirumuick. Sailed the Goshawk, Capt. limes, for she station alt fin f - be rgh ; and the Sharpshooter, Lieut. Goldlq, with erin:dy fur 6isernsey. The Abundance store-ship, fres Gibraltar, was released (ruin quarantine to-disr. The Caledonia was illuminated last night, by the scarlet, in honour of .Idiairal Lord Gambier's ucquittal. The Jaseur brig of war, Limit. I. iiihorne, is lost is ihe East Indies, on her passage films Calcutta to Ithena, rids dispatches fur Adm. Drury•. A dre.ttlfel g a le of wlu4 ( - 4 ,,, e on, and s,►e bee luse water lagged, and finally foundered, with sli the crew. The Admirals who came here to tit ow the trial of Lord Gambier, hail; set of to remote their reispetive AVG. G.—Arrived the (h.impion frigate, ('ttpoii,i Heoder ion, with thirty-eight tail of troosiwww under cutler)), from Lisboa. _ _ . Put hark the goshawk to St. Heim's, the wind blotting gale from the South-west. It is apprehended that the French ships will get nut of Cherbergb, as the wind is °crash:malty from the Sauth-east ; but before the Warspite and Chri.tion the Setenth ran .et from St. Helm's, it shifts inure to tae Westward, and Lions as hard as is November. The Mediterranean aad avast of Portugal eonvoys en moored last night; the wind, howcver, coming round to the West this morning, the sLipu all moored r:g tin. I'Lynourri, A cr.usr 5. —Arrived the schooner N onsoch, Capt. Cleave, irons Baltimore, detaiard guii4; into St. Set.: 6..1.'8 hi 4 Majevty'v frigate Amazon. She iv tatieu n Usti vu gar aid coffee. Arrived the Woolwich and Weym.nit4 store ships, from Puri mouth, to take ha tbr hlariue► fur the 'mled.• terratimm. Arrived nls o the American ship Cunt, Captain Mooney, from Wilmington, with turpentine and sta.. et, for th 4 ports wad the British brig Fly, I)as !:vans Master, from Gibraltar, with wine, fur this port. _ _ Arrived last evealog fuer vicinalkra from the fleet it Roth. fort. They bring ass OCCialfft of a mug unfortestate attempt that was made sot the night of the 27th ult. by too boat; (Beard fur the night) belonging to the Gibraltar and Die d nought, to cot out a men-of-it ay brig, under the Livid of Aix, iu which they were repulsed with the toss of 'u lilted, amongst whom are a Lieutenant and a Mid.hipown. It ap pear. that the crew, of these bant,comiit..-d of twenty-seven persore, seven of whom only Foe ant), one of whom hit mere died of his Wounds. It is stated that this ;tine.: nil merle unbend any orders, and tint the boats nere suit pre pared for 'tech an attempt.—iince n riling t 'le above 1 learn, that Lieut. One. and Mr. ilavuter, midshipman, siert tilled, and Lieut. Foreman. wounded. The Lyra gin-brit came with the victuallers. At rived the Seadaeer brig-of-war, fruits ►Madeira. The „Austrian Commissioner:(leneral at In. spruck addressed, on the 12th of-June, a sum. moils to the inhabitants of the Bishopric of Augs. bftrgh; inviting them to co.operale seills•the Vo• radian peasantry, an I premising, in the pease of the Emperor FRA NW, that both coun•ries should always form IV part of the Austrian Mo. Isere fly. Although the citisens of Vienna were cosr• pelted to mount the several guards, they were not allowed to retain their arms ; but were obliged to lodge them io the arsenal each time they were relieved. • At the commencement of hostilities between France and Austria, the son of Sir J. Si NCLAI It, (about 20 years of age)' happened to be in the neighbourhood of the French emit% its pursuit of agricultural knowledge ; and conceiving any at. tempt to "escape or conceal himsolf 'eight induce suspicion of the purity of Isis views, he deter. mined to proceed on his journey. Ile era=, however, soon made prisoner, and suspicion being entertained of his being an English spy, he was taken before the Emperor hinsself, who in terrogated him, in the presence of licirriiiva, as to his country, 'same, and business ; but before he put the questions, he obsersed to his General, " Now we shall hear of this Englishman being the son of a Duke, or Lord at least." The The youth replied, " I ant ass Englishman, my name is SINCL %lA, and I am the son o f ..a English Baronet of that name, who is President of the Board of Agriculture; my only elsj,:et on the Continent was the improvements of ti;e agriculture of my cousstry." Bosses Ittli ob served, " 'fhe name of your father is h er l known in France; and as I sun an encourager of the arts its all countries, if you can make out yo ht story, I shall furnish you with a safe escort: for in :he present state of affairs, I ens as:ute ),I •• the Continent does nut require British cultivatioe, and my advice to you, young man, is, , that %sill+ such facilities as I shall give you, you make the hest of your way home to Estglatist." Mr. St el. st K produced letters from Isis father, a hick set.- stautiated his statement ; he was then issonesliat , :y furnished with letters to Ji.nomr. llossesitTs Westphalia. and Louts !loam. %sere its the latter of a Isom was required to furnish a res. , ' to convey M r..Si sr'. tin to 1....v.1*nd. Lioutelsaut I von v K N , ), of the Ist halt I li of the 50 h regiment, arrived At Nees port, Pe Wight, on Wednesday , fi tun Vigo, its e h.' had been prisoner eith the leres,eli some time 44 in a delicate state of health, eit Is '" 100 men, who els° elected their e:capc from • sou, and joined him at Gijoss. The Austrians, on volt:filo; Dresden, liberals , ' number ref convicts aho were contlonited to 1.1 hour on the fortifications its chains, soil earn"' them of ; five of these people are, Sovk•rk r. to have escaped front. their deliscovN, and bail tarily returned to their fetters. We widerstaii.l that the profits of :he ft night's represeniatioa at the flew theatre, in t.. , vetit-gardeli, a.e to be now/11)631A to the r to „r th e famibes isf the utifortimati: iresuen others, a ho• perished in the ruins of the ',IS"' rhos is on set of justice, the Proprietor , • recollect, Chit to thu cutting and Action:, ' sake esilirsing. she Mil crass liiiilitai ' calamity auger - am Wah chiefly 10 11; Gibed. M.