The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-07-05 00:00:00

YORK and LEF,Dci New Commodious, Safe, Cheap. sod Expeditious POST COACHES will set out from theGOLDEN CROSS. Charing Cmrs, mid BELL. SA VA • Ledgiste-hill, every corning at half- pme Rye ; Breakfast at the Red Lion, Barnet ; dine at the Diet, Ea ton; Sop at the Groans Ion; Breakfast at the Red Lion, Dowenster, and arrivlolit Leeds by Twelve, and York by One. at Noon. There are only four Coachmen employed, and the same Caned and Coach go throughout. Every es*. lion has been, and w;11 continue to he made. to render this the best conveyance on the Noeh Road. Inside, to York and Leeds, A'S 3s. Outside, ,M By GEORGE BOULTON and CO. From the Golden Cross, the following Carriages set out, be side many others too macrons to mention LIVERPOOL Expeditious Post Conchs.), only one night out, every Morning at Six. HOLY II F. AD and North Wales Maj) every evening. HOLYHEAD, Shrewsbury and Birmingham New Post Coaches. every Morning at Nine. LUDLOW. Worcester. and Oxford Mail every evening. sad a New Post Coach Tuesday. Thursday Mid Saturday, at Two. MILFORD HAVEN, Carmarthen, Gloucester, and Cheltenham Mail every evenin,;. CHELTENHAM and Oxford New and only Day Coach, every Morning at Sic. BRIGHTON, East Bourn, Worthing, Hailing:. Ports mouth, Southampton, Isle of Wight. Bognor, Chichester, Amadei. Little Hampton, Margate, Ramsgate, Dover, Deal, Hythe,Folholose, arc. &e. Coaches FROM TUB LONDON GAZETTE, Jcz.r 4. .4thnirafty Office, July 4: Cop;re. of two Letters (eons Captain 111 1 1Kinley, of his Ma- jr.ta's *hip the Lively, to the lino. William WeUsk/ Pole. Lively, Vim June 7, 1805 Ssa,Be pleased to inform my Lords Commis. l stoners of the Admiralty, that, yesterday even., lug, an express arrived from a Spanish Officer at San Payo to Commodore Don Juan Carransas, that the Conde Norona was retiring with his divi &ion of the Gallician army from Puntevedra to that place, and desiring boats might be there to convey the troops across the river (the bridge having been broken down on the 7th of May). Commodore Don J. Carransas requesting assist. ance, Captain Wynter, with the Cadets (who had been obliged to put back from stress of wee. ther), immediately sailed up the river with the Por. taguese schooner Curios', under my orders from the Hon. Vice-Admiral Berkeley, the Tigre Spa. nish schooner of war, and as many boats and vessels as could possibly be collected. This retrograde movement caused me much anxiety, and I very early this morning went up in the barge to San Payo, where I found Brigadier. General Carrera strongly posted on the South side of the bridge (the Conde de Norona being at Redondela); and in my interview with him, I learnt that the enemy, after the Brigadier-General bad taken Santiago, united his forces from Lugo to those of Corunna, amounting to 8000 men, 2500 cavalry, with several field.pieces, and some 12-pounders. Thin force being very limb superior to the Bri. gadier's, be retreated to Caldas and Pontevcdra, where the Conde de Nonni* joined. From the excessive and continued heavy rains we have had of late, much of the ammunition was unavoidably damaged ; and Pontevedra being too distant to re. ceive any more when attacked, the falling back ea such a strong position was well conceived and most ably executed. On a height above the bridge they had a battery of two 18-pounders ; and this army was increased to between 6 and 7000 men armed, and 3000 fine young men without arms, 120 horse, nine field pieces, acting under the imme. diate direction of the Brigadier-General. At nine the enemy appeared on the other side in great force; and although the Galliciao troops bad undergone much fatigue, and suffered greatly from the inclemency of the weather, to which they had been constantly exposed, yet, on the approach of the enem), nothing could exceed the animation and spirit of the soldiers : all was alacrity and confidence; and I left the Brigadier-General, and was saluted by the enemy from their feld.pieces, but without hurting us, although nearly within musket-shot ; at half past nine they opened their fire on the Spaniards, which was most spiritedly returned, and their field artillery was moved with great alacrity and well served. On my return on board, I landed my marines and 25 seamen at the Castle (having taken them on board some days past) ; and Lieut.-Col. Carroll, in the most zealous and handsome manner, offered his services to assist Captain Crawford iu defence of the Castle. Sixty soldiers, whom he brought from Gijon with him (part of our army, t ), at his earnest request, were landed, and I supplied them with arms ' • and every thing was put its the best possible order of defence by Commodore Don Jean Carransas, Don Bernado Goncales, the Go vernor, and Captain Crawford, of his Majesty's ship Venus. I have the honour to be, kc. • (Signed) GEO. _ SIR, Lively, Vigo, Jose I• 2. 1809. I concluded my letter of the 7th instant, which I did myself the honour of writing to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty, that the enemy had be gun an attack at half past nine that morning on the Spanish troops under the command of Brigs att.-General Carrera, on the south side of the bridge of St. Payo. I have to. request that you will be pleased to _ _ - - make known to their Lordships, that the enemy, having taken post on the north side of the bridge, a pistol-shot across, in houses, and in a wood • little below it, kept up his attack, supported with field artillery, and three twelve-pounders, with great vivacity during the whole of that day (the 7th), which was sustained by the Gallician army with great coolness and bravery. During the night of the 7th, the enemy ergpted a battery. Commodore Don Juan Carransas sent up three gnn.boats, one of which Captain Wyn. ter manned, under the charge of Lieutenant Jef ferson, his First Lieutenant. At daylight in the morning of the Bth, the enemy opened his fire, both on the Gallician troops and the boats; the latter of which, from the tide being up, got near and destroyed the enemy's batteries. At the fall of the tide the enemy made two desperate attempts to cross below the bridge with his cavalry and in fantry, but the great courage and spirit displayed by our friends repulsed them with great slaughter. A body of them went higher up the river to the bridge of Sotomayor, and that active and brave officer, Don Pablo Murillo, was detached with a THE STATESMAN. division to oppose them, an the enemy, after per severing for an hour and a half, were obliged to give way to the superior gallantry et the Spaniards, and retreated to San Payo, where another attack, during a thick fog, was again made by the enemy, who, as in the former ones, were driven back.; and Marshal Ney, who commanded the French troops, consisting of eight thousand men, two thousand five hundred cavalry, with field artillery and two twelve-pounders, experienced a defeat from a new-raised army, consisting of six thousand armed men, and three thousand without arms, and some small field artillery, with two eighteen. pounders, and in the night he retreated, leaving some of his wounded. The enemy burnt many of their dead, and in one pit has been discovered thirty buried; his loss must have been great. The loss on the side of the Spaniards has been trifling; only one hundred and ten killed and wounded. Captain Writer, who was some time at the camp, and who had a narrow escape, a grape shot having grazed his hat, described to me that such was the animation of the Spanish troops, that it was with difficulty they were restrained by t►eir officers from pushing across. Thus, Sir, the spirit and good conduct of this division of the Spanish Gallician army, who, though without almost every part of clothing, and exposed to homy rains without shelter, had shown to their oWn nation, and to all Europe, that they are inspired with ardour for the deli►ery of their country from a cruel Usurper, which alone a brave and loyal people can feel; and the merit of their Commanders bears so conspicuous a part, as their Lordships must appreciate much better than I could take the liberty of expressing of Officers superior in rank to myself. And it is but justice to say, that the Officers employed in the gunboats executed well the instructions they received from Don Juao,Curansas, whose unwearied attention .to give every aid and assistance to the army with the most active promptitude excited admiration. Lieutenant Toleda, commanding the Tigre Spa nish schooner of war, wlo was up the river to give succour, was most active; and Lieutenant Alves, commanding the Portuguese schooner Cu rioss, was alert and zealous to support the cause; and yon will also be pleased to express to their Lordships the happiness I feel in being enabled to inform them, that Captain Wynter, and the British Officers and men, felt all that ardour to assist real friends, which is inherent in their cha racter. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) GEO. SPKINLEY. SOUTH AMERICA. PROCLAMATION OF DON SANTIAGO LINIEZI, VlEZROV,Govaamott AND CAPTAIN-GuircaaL or THE PROT INCES Or RIO DE LA PLATA AND THEIR DEPENDENCIES, KNIGHT OF TUZ ORDER tilr Sr. JUAN, &C. The Genius of Discord accumulates his acts of frenzy; but his Sleeting triumphs have already ceased to exist; and be perceives with shame and rage, that his hopes must yield to the valour of the Spaniards. Waveriug between guilt and despair, he multiplies io vain his seductive arts to shake the Idelity and bembk the dignity of the Spanish American Pro vioces. His criminal calculations, and his ceaseless clash of falsehood and trutb,forin thew eak supports of those papers,aud lying rumours spread by the infamous satellites of N a Po Leon. I would condescend to refute usiautely those false reports, al though the enetradictioos with which they abound prove suf ficiently that they spring from ignorance and partiality. were I not adclressiog a people so Illustrious as that which I have the honour to commaSl, and did not the unconnected relative of the MICININS of the enemy, although described in their weal Mead styk, compared with the intelligence which we ben received. awl to which we may give credit, show beyond all detest the reality of our victories, and that 80-1147141111 1147141111 MA his satellites are hastening to the tomb.-- A thinkieg maw hears with contempt of the Pairs/ice of the French at Madrid; because be well knows that it will testy NM to ksgtbeu the list of our triumphs. What ad• onstage can they reap from their penetrating into the heart of a nation, where they cannot subsist, and where they have no other alternative than to fall victims to huts pr, or surrender to our troops, by w bons they are sur restaffed i—Let us recollect that when, during the War of Suemssims, the enemy entered Madrid, it proved their ruin. Spain now contends with a Sirs& foe ; then without foreign 'lslamism, or any other force but its own, it caused Europe, whose powerful kingdoms bad sworn its ruin, to tremble. The numerous armies which then entered Spain in every direction to take possession of Madrid, and the greatest part of the Peninsula, were completely routed aid con quered. At this moment, when our forces and nor resources are infinitely superior, what ought we not to hope from our tried and intrepid warriors ? What isapmsioa ought the mi serable and ephemeral success of the French at Madrid to produce oa our minds? Before the middle of last Ja rman', it has eadeabtedly passed away like smoke. The heat which the political affairs of Europe has taken, and the inbaesee of the Cabinet of St. James's over all the world, give us well-fnuaded hopes that Austria has broke. off its diplomatic relations with France, whose frontiers are threatened by a formidable army. The Turks have openly resumed hostilities against the Russians. England has seat her fleets aid armies, and transmitted her energy to Naples and io Donned. In a word. all the kingdoms rise from their lethargic slumbers, and the last victories of sour armies are the harbinger of liberty to Europe. Our whole nation is united soder the protection of ais ire and regular Government. The Spanish and British Empire: have calculated their forces and real power, and tive and twenty millions of souls shall never yield to the sophistry of no impostor. This is the true state of things, which will perpetuate the honour and glory of the Spanish name, and its immortal allies. Buenos Apes, March 13,1809. The Election of a Member to sit in Parliament for the Glasgow District of Burghs, took place at Retherglen, the 30th ult. The Delegates for Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Renfrew, haying voted for ALEXANDER HOUSTON, Esq. and the Delegate for Rutherglen for WILLIAM Stiatano, Esq. (eldest sun of ANDREW STIRLING, of Drumpel lier) of course Mr. HOUSTON was declared duly elected; but we understand a protest was taken at the election against the eligibility of Mr. Roos., Ton, upon the ground that he and the late Mem. ber, Mr. CamrsEt.t., had entered into a corrupt and illegal agreement, by which Mr. Ilootron had bound himself to support Mr. CAMPBELL at the last election, upon the condition that he should vacate his seat at a certain time, and give his sup port to Mr. HOUSTON. COLONEL 111.4RDLE. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Honoured as my Parliamentary conduct has beett by the approbation of so many of my Country men, I feel myself called upon in consequence of in event that yesterday took place, immediately to address you, and that in vindication of my character, rendered open to attack from the verdict of the Jury upon the evidence of Mrs. Cr. . tr. sc and Mr. WRIGHT, the brother of her Uphol sterer, in a cause in which I was Defendant, in the Court of King's Bench. The detail of the evidence the Public Prints will afford. It is with me to state, that my Counsel, satisfied in their minds that the Jury would not, upon such testimony as had been given by the Plaintiff's bro.: ther and Mrs. CLAIIKL alone, find a verdict against me, did not comply with my earnest en treaty (repeated to them in writing daring the trial in the strongest terms) that Major Donn, Mr. GLENIE, and other respectable witnesses subpcened by the Plaintiff and myself might be examined, as I knew their testimony would be founded iu truth, and be in direct contradiction to what had been sworn against me. Under such circumstances the Verdict was obtained. There only remains for me now, before my God and my Country, to declare, that it was obtained by Perjury alone; and I do pledge myself to prove that fact the earliest moment the forms of the law will allow me to do so. Anxiously, therefore, do I look forward to that period ; and I trust that till then the public will suspend their judgment upon the case. With sentiments of the deepest gratitude and respect, I remain your ever faithfully devoted Servant, O. L. WARDLE. Jaases-street, July 4, 1409. Arrived. Malls. Due. 1 Dublin 1 O 040.6 Guttenburgh ....... .... _ I ' 0 O PRICE OF STOCKS Ili IS DA Y AT ONE O'CLOCK. Ranted 6Bl I Each. 1181 i . 194. 4 per Cert. tin Irdla Bonds, 20m. 194. Omits • I I prean Lund. open 691 THE STATESMAN. PROPOSITI TENAX. LONDON: wzDzmnAir, JOLT 5. -........- IT is not easy to account for the interdiction of all intercourse with the brig Cadmus, which brought the dispatches from Captain WKINLEY, that appeared last night in The Gazette. A letter from Falmouth states, that g ‘ Nothing 44 has been suffered to transpire relative to the news brought by the Cadmus, nu boats being 44 suffered to go alongside, from which it is in " ferred to be of an uufavourable nature."—lf no other intelligence than that which it has been thought proper to communicate in The Gazette of last night, has been brought by this vessel, there surely could be no occasion for this rigorous prohibition of communication with the shore— and if such be the fact, it is greatly to be la. mented that a measure so apparently superfluous should have given birth to conjectures that the affairs of the French in Spain are not so desperate as they are daily represented. The particulars of the evacuation of Ferrol and Corunna had not arrived at a tate hour last night, so that the public yet remain ignorant of the real cause of that event. It has already been seen, that when the public expectation was raised to a very high pitch, by the sanguine hope of the expulsion of the French —news, most unexpected, was received of the en.. trance of their troops into Gijon, from whence RoMAN% and the Bishop of Si. ANDER() had barely time to save themselves by flight ; and the re.captnre of St. Andero by the French, on the night of the very day on which the Spaniards stormed the place, is an instance of premature confidence—so recent—u to require no comment. Upon what principle the French can have march.. ed in the direction of Portugal—if they had been expelled from Corunna, we are at a loss to com. prebend. The first letter from Capt. I%l 4 KttnaT states the Spaniards to have made a retrograde movement from Pontevedra to San Payo, that is, from Gallicia t?wards the Northern frontier or Portugal ; this movement was, in consequence of the enemy having " united his forces from Lugo to those of Corunna." Now, if the French bad been driven out of Corunna, they surely would not have joined the division from Logo to march in the direction of Portugal. We, however, find them endeavouring to force the passage of the river II at St. Payo, a town at the heat! of the bay of Vigo. In this attempt they were finally repulsed ; and retreated, leaving behind theta many killed and wounded. This is the substance of Captain WiEt !may's dispatches. Now, although Gijon is reported to be again in the hands of the Spa. i,iards, St. Andero is in the possession of the French, and whatever losses the French may have experienced in their different eagagements in Gal. licia and in Portugal—it is clear that the loss of the Spaniards cannot have been inconsiderable.. At Oviedo, at Gijon, and at St. Andero, masse. ores of Spanish troops have been specifically dc. tailed, and as to the army of Rom AKA, it moot be now believed that it is considerable.-.. That the Spaniards in the attack on their post at St. Payo t hare evinced great spirit, it is most satisfactory to learn—but we are at a loss which most to ad mire, the intrepid courage of 3000 unarmed Gal. licians, or the active vigilance and vigorous ef.. forts of the Ministers of Great Britain, in sap. plying the Spaniards with " arms, ammunition, " and every necessary which the inexhaustilde " resources of Great Britain can furnish."—The courageous eahibition of an unarmed multitude o' Patriots od the Coast of Spain, oner whole year sifter the commencement of the efforts of our very vigorous Ministers, certainly forms a sub ject of just and honest triumph for those truly active and vigilant Statesmen.—From the conduct of Ministers with respect to the Peninsula, it might really almost admit of a doubt 'whether they arc actually sincere in their wishes fur the expulsion of the French. It cannot he forgotten, • that, immediately after the re. turn of our Army from Corunna—it was an trounced that another and more powerful effort was to be made in the Peninsula—and how has this powerful effort been made ?—by again senl ing a handful of troops to Portugal, where, after having driven Soutr out of the country—they have now for weeks remained inactive, by reason of the insufficiency of their numbers to effect any one important object.—glad the preparations for the " Expedition," which is only now preparing ...been commenced immediately on the return of the remains of our army from Curunna—and at the earliest moment directed against Spain—not Portugal—the powerful reinforcements which Na. roLlon has drawn from the Peninsula, and those too some of his best troops --could not have stirred. ...Such an effort would really have been a diversion —Ned a most powerful one, in favour of Austria. Ministers boast of having 40,000 men in Portu.. gal, and 40,000 ready for the " Expedition." What would have been the result of the contest in Spain, "if Sir JOHN MOORE, insteacrof 26,000 effective:, vahich sae all he had at Sahogus, bad been at the head of 80,000 British troops, while the French were waiting for reinforcements, in trembling expectation, behind the Ebro. This army would then have been, as Mr. WI sea tie molt happily remarked all armies ought to be, capable of prolPting itself. Of what use have the 23,000 cavalry which we are taxed to support been ?—Mr. 11116KISSuN may, perhaps, think that the Police services of our cavalry amt ly compen sate the espouse of their support, but those who find the money—the people—out of whose poekets the money is extracted, think that the gallant and incomparable British cavalry might be more usefully employed against the enemy—thaur as Police Officers, or, in other words, to over.. awe those who pay them.—Of the service to which our brave army would give the preference, there is, happily, no doubt. Their only wish is to pro tect their friends and country...by meeting tho enemy. PORTUGUESE PAPERS to the 10th inst. bare been received by a vessel which has had a lung passage. These contain a variety of details of a favourable complexion, which, however high may be the colouring•, tend t• *hew that there is in Spain and Portugal a spirit from which, if vi gorously supported by England, the most happy effects might be anticipated. The abundant ex perience we have bad of the correctness of Portuguese Journals, prevents us from indulg. ing our belief of the successes of the Sva niards to the extent that is stated. But there is enough to induce us to believe, that, bad there been some months ago on the Peninsula a British army, such as it was practicable to have sent—either the Peninsula had, by this time, been emancipated,—or 80,000 of NAPoLEor's beet Troo;,s must have been withheld from joining him on the banks of the Danube. As it ic, Ire are too late every where—and for every purpos.:— ever preparing—never prepared. 41/.4 Yesterday afternoon a CeLine4 Voineil was hail at Burlington-house, it which were present Fri Grace the Duke of / l oan Afro, *Lotto CuArs C21.1.01t, Eatls CALATHAM, LAND, and BATHURST, Lords MULO It 4TE end CASTIARRAGII, Mr. Secretary (.3.tntwu, and tto4 CHANCYLLOR Of the EzCiiIQUEn. By an arrival from Rolland, letters of the Ytth were yesterday received from Itotterriam, Anti ul the 46th from Paris. They do nut contain a sin gle article of interest. iVe du not wide/410pol that any Dutch or French Journals base bees bretlttii la tuno by the i:1314 conveyance. r of sccl ; illed Rain ijon ipa. the lave s of Lssa. dc. it be the tyci t . y to ad- ef. Lice, tiLb The le o' year our sub. ruly duct t, it ;they the he