The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-08-05 00:00:00

STATESMAN. Several persons assert that the enemy intended to hate retreated to Hungary, bet the events of the day prevented them. Some pretend to say they have recognized upon the field of battle the bodies of 20 Austrian Generals. The number of wound ed Generrls is far tbore considerable. Jut,z 12.—Our Nstional Gazette contains what follows : The complete victory over the Austrian army on the 5111, 6th, and 7th of July, was again obtained by Napoleon's superior genius, by so guiding the movements of the army, that by small sacrifices on his part, the Austrian army was forced, by manoeuvres, to quit its positions, in which it supposed itself invincible, when the French Grand Army rushed upuu it, and occa. sioned its defeat." All Moravia and Bohemia are open to the Con. queror.—The 'id Bavarian division, under Lieute nant General Wrede, had a glorious share in the event of toe day. Ott its arrival at Vienna on the sth inst. it had only crossed the Danube, and was led into battle. Lieutenant General Von Wrcdc had at first a horse shot under him, after. ter wards he received a contusion on the hi! , by cannon shot, which is not, however, dangerous. When he ordered himself from the field of battle, he encouraged the troops to perseverance and va. lour by a speech. In the b.►ttles of the sth and Clth, the Archduke Lewis is also said to be dangerously wounded.... (Correspondent.) coutt 1,14411:Alf LORD:ajtilER. • NINTH DAY. • I- FRIDAY, AUCIOST4. . The Covert assembled at ten o'clock, and lined • Gainbies. As. ing taken his usual place, The PREStnOT asked his Lordship whether , he had any thing further to submit to the Court, in addition to what was already before it ? Lord GAmatito replied, he had nothing further to present to the Court beyond what was con tained in a paper he held io his hand, and which he begged might be read by the Judge-Advocate. The COURT having acquiesced, the fallowing paper was read : ma. raestoeprr, " I closed my evidence on Wednesday, in the full persua sion that bnvingestablisbed every part of my defence, it wax unnecessary for me to examine farther witnesses, the more especially as I ha.l called all the Officers who were in Aix Roads, and bad been actively engaged in the attack on the enemy.—Their teitisony would, I conceive, believe accept able to the Court than that of other witnesses deride' their knowledge from subsequent information. " The Court, however, in the decision of its discretion, t►ought proper to call all the remaining w kaisers, and 1 heartily rejoice that nothing has been omitted to render the Inquiry most complete. It is with no incoostderable degree ofsetisfactioa that 1 find is their depositions testimony equally honourable to me with that of the Officers before examined. " Some positions laid down by two of these witoemes hive been so completely refuted by other evidence brought for ward, that 1 feel myself the more confirmed ie my opinion, that the meanies 1 pursued for the attack of the enemy, were those hest calculated for the advantageous attainment of the object In view. " GAMBIER." The Pausiotwr then desired that Lord Coch. rane might be called, and oa his Lordship's ap pearance, addressed him as follows: " Lord COCHHA XL...The Court having taken into a due consideration your note addressed to me, have resolved (the contents of that note he. ing foreign to the matters immediately under their consideration, the Inquiry into the conduct of Lord Gambier), that the request contained in that note should nut be complied with." Lord CoaskAns.---" I bow with due defer. ence to the decision of the Court, but have to request, that the note adverted to may appear the minutes of evidence before the Court." .„„ The PRIM DIM. "My Lord, the Court w ° 4 l take the propriety of such a step into consider. : , ation." • The Court was then cleared of strangers, and after three hours deliberation, the Court was again opened. The -witnesses were first admitted ; and on our aduksiou, The President informed L ord -OCIIRANE, that the Court, that having considered the propriety of including his letter on the mi.,.ites, had come to a determination to comply with his Lordship's re. (nest.—The letter was then read, and was as fol. lows : .. sit, " 4th Anitict, 1809. Itatiog beard firm my brother Officers that a repast, has imueahriesd. that I eetrared, in general terms, the con duct ofthe °dicers employed in the Road of Aix, oo the 14th of April—l wish to have an opportunity to declare the truth on oath. considering reports of that irtture highly lajo sinus In the service of our couutry. " I am also desirous to lay before the Court the ordert given to tile ere-ships for their guidance—as they will tend to elucidate. and clear some of those who consider that blame has been imputed to them. I have the hooour to be, &c. (Signed) " COCHRAN E." " To Sir Roger Cumis, Bart. President," ice. The PRES! DENT then desired Mr. Greethatn, the Judge-Advocate, to read the sentence, which was as follows e " Pursuant to an order from the Right Honourable thz Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the sth day .41 June last, and directed to the President, setting forth thaA admiral the Right lloaouruble Lord Gambier had by, Ilk letter to their Lordship's Secretary of the 30th of Mass, requested, that his conduct as Commander in Chief of the, Channel Fleet employed in Basque Roads, between the venteenth day of March and twenty-ninth day of April, 18t$, might be inquired into by a Court-Martial, and that by the Log Books and Minutes of Signals of the Caledonia, Imperieuse, and either Ships employed oo that service, it appeared to them that the said Admiral Lord Gambier on tie twelfth day of the said month of April, the enemy's ships being thee on shore, and the signal having been made that they could be destroyel, did for a considerable time neglect or delay taking edlletual measures for destroying them . And they, therefore, in compliance with his Lordship's re quest. and in consequence of whst appeared in the said log- . hooks and minutes of signals. thought fit that a Court-Mar tial should be assembled fur Else purpose or examining into his Lordship. conduct, and trying him fur the same. The Coiumissioners proceeded to try the said Admiral, the Right lion. Lord Gambier, fur his conduct in the instance herein before-mentioned; and also to iaquire into his whole conduct and proceedings as Commanderiu Chief of the Channel Fleet employed in Basque Roads. beta een the said 17th day of March and 19th day of April, IEO9, and to try him for the same accord ingly 1 and baying heard the evidence produced in support of the Charges, and by the said Right Honourable Lord Gam bier in his defeace, and what his Lordship had to allege le support thereof, and having maturely and deliberately weighed, and cooddered the whole—the Court is of opinion, that the Charge " that the said Admiral Lord Gambier, on the 12.111 of the Raid mouth of April, the enemy's amps being, then on shore, and the signal having been made. the; they could be destro)rd. did fur a considerable time neglect or delay taking reectual mc.i .tires for destroying them," ha s sot been proved against the said Admiral the Right Honour able Lord Gambiek, but that his Lordship's conduct ou that occasioo, as Well as his general conduct and proceedings as Commander its Chief of the Channel Fleet employed iu Basque Roads, between the said lith day of March and the Vith day of April, 1509, was marked by zeal, .indgmeut, ability, and an anginas attention to the welfare of his NIB ' jetty's service, and doth adjudge him to be MOST HO NOURABLY ACQUITTED; the said Admiral the Right ' Honotarabie Lord Gambier is hereby MOST 11ONOURA 2 SLY ACQUITTED accordingly— (SigneJ) " ROGER cuans M. YOUNG J. T. DUCK WORTH X.STAy!iOPII Pirtitsl/111 4 =" Bend - ate 'opt my Lord Gam. *tee swerd." - • "I r etraChansied tO the President. •, giussanny . —‘.' Admiral Lord Gambier, I have psonliat plea sere io receiving the command of the Com+ to Mum foe your sword, in the fullest • , .4mvietion that, a.: ipu hive hitherto done, you (stare eveasioss, use it for the honour and advantage of i country, and to your own .personal honour: Waving so far obeyed the com. 'Maud of the'Ceurr, I beg you will permit me, in my individual capacity, to express to you the high gratification I have upon this occasion." Lord Gsso et att—'s I cannot sufficiently express the sense I feel of the patient attention of the Court, and beg to return thanks to you, Sir, for the obliging manner in which you have conveyed to me their sentimenta." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Ysissocrot. Ave.. I.—This morning the Phteni it packet, of Harwich', arrived in these Roads, with Mails and Panes less from Heligoland, in eight days. She landed an Austrian Messenger, who is charged with dispatches for Government. He reports that he left the Austrian head-quarte►s en the 91h Julys that the Eniperor had refused lu ratify the Annie tke negociated by the Prince John of Lichirn4ein; and that in the late battles the Athtrians had take* I2,Woprisemers. Fat.wo>trn, Arc•.. 2.—.‘rrived his klajelty's whip Are thaw, IS guns, Captain Mends, three days from Ferrol and Coruinta; a Spanish Officer of the Irish Brigade (Regiment of Hibernia) came over in her, with dispatches; he reports that Sir' A. Wellesley had formed a junction with Canter, and that the combined armlet were within a Libre distance of Victor's army, which was retreating before them. Romano left Corainow on the day the A rethum sailed from thcare with a sanng force to yoga the army. At Ferrol, the Spaninrds were fitting owl "all the men of war a ith an intention of reaeow. fag them to fedi:. The above Sinnish ("Hiker states, that litsite's army had been attacked (•uhseguent to the hank of Belchke) at Aka- oiz, atr dirt, ashamed of their former conduct,they had in thi last battle behaved nobly, and remised the French, though much superior. Arrived the Princess Elizabeth, Kidd, with Mails free Lisbon, in fourteen da i s, on news; Happy Return cutter, Smith, from Li►bon, with fruit and oak, nineteen days passage. The packets which sailed from heoce last evening, pa back again tam d.ty by foul winds. Dor cc, Ar er ST 4.—Yesterday evening, about desk, three suspicious vcs:,els were observed hovering of the roast I. the Roads, and at ten P. N. a heavy firing was beard ist that direction. Soon after, a brig run clout in shore, pursued by two rreuch pricateen, which kept up a brisk fire on the brig strata witssinut shot of the batteries. One If the peioa. teers actually came withia a stone's throw of the Pier !load, and in that situation continued to fire into the brig.—Dariog all this time, nut a shot was fired front the batteries.—At length, the orders of the General, who lives at the distance of a was and a hay', arriving, the batteries opened spat the pri vateers, ss,o were then far beyond the range of /lair 500 t..• This is rudhing new j for, a hatever happens, net a shot can he fired without the General's perndsii,in.—The brig, which is the Eliza, of flail, with bale goods, n• •s luckily enabled to escape by the assistance of a boat's crew from Dover, who boarded ber a few minutes after. Captain Graft in, who /was at the scene, received a musket ball in his elbow, 11i, arm is completely sluutered ; but be is in a fair way of recovery.-- Not a single King's ship came np from the time the privateers were first seen, to the end of the action, and they went of in triumph without molestation. DE4L, Acc. 4.—This morning the Harlequin, with the convoy from Falmouth, arrived in the Dowo4. His !Majesty's ship. Matson, rnierwri, lieriterosa, aad Harlequin, remain in the Downs, %ill% the outward-bound ships.—Strung pies, wind W. and Noddy, with rain. On Thursday afternoon a bricklayer's labourer, of the name of Cochrane, employed in the re. pairs of a house in Bethnal-green, missing his step, fell from a ladder two stories high, with a load of bricks, into the street, by which he was so much hurt as to be taken to the London Hos. pital, without hopes of recovery. On Thursday night a young man of the name of Warren, was hustled by a gang of women, who robbed him of 221. in Holborn, with which they made their escape. lie applied yesterday at Hatton Garden Office, stating the circumstance," but at the same time observed that he was not able to identify any of the party. POLICE OFFICE, WORSIIIIP-STREET..--.- I'ALSE MEASURE IN C 0.% LS.—This was an information against a person of the name of 'Milan* East, a hawking vender of coals, for selling the same by a bushel deficient in measure and capacity. It ap peared from the statement of Mr. Barry, who at.' tended in support of the information, that the Dc. fendant had long been in the habit of selling coals to the labouring and humble part of the community, measured out to them by thus defective bushel, by which they must have been greatly defrauded and imposed upon. The measure was produced, and fully verified the statement of Counsel. The De fendant made a very lame apology, and the silting Magistrate, Mr. Mirroao, after expatiating on the enormity and wickedness of the offence, con. titled him in the full penalty of 201.... East, was very grind wl solemn dirge was wounded, and deserters, is very constneraute.— victeu non LIM .“Ba 0:1 'l".misday, at e he Roya l : ni t , ; e h is ar t l ht o f re P t r i f fi r r i a e u d l: also convictel before the same Magistrate in the IR w it EA R D W aT RT ANt INCI DICKSON gil. JOHNi 4. 6 t e , re atrociously earth red The luny which consisted of 200 , 000 men, was pena:ty of 101. for selling coals to a M Fennell, 61tOittm CAMPBELL ; I . ' tie rs : l a ' ; 0 " i ! i i n o rt " o probably nit 45,000, under its colours. The f Wink worth-buildings, near Shoreditch, sod JOHN surroN o L sv the [.each The. a tar was hung with black velvet, Anil number of killed is rated at 30,000 men; the mot delivering a coiluseter'a ticket, which by wounded arc found by whole companies in (wry the 47th of Gourr 111. Gap. GS. he was bound M.GlERTlLAK,jaa. R loepn lCHA tTPAge D id n s U orattackneet.'• the rha t iel with sable throughout. Tillage, and pieces of artillery is all the woods. t o do. FRENCH AND DUTCII PAPERS. BAxas or TUE ELIE, JULY l.—[Private Correspondence.] . —Letters from Vienna, coming from very respectable sources, represent the loss Of the French in the battle of Wagrani it, very considerable. Near 30 Marshals and Generals , were wounded. On. the Bth the inhabitants of Vienna received orders to prepare quarters fir 32,000 wounded Frenchmen. On the same day the Duke of Istria, Marshal Bcssieres, arrived there, badly wounded, besides Generals Rappe, Frere, and sclera! others ; some say Bessieres is dead of bis wounds, as well as General Dussus. The Austrians have also taken 8(X) French pri. soners, and a great number of cannou and other booty. The Berths Gazelle, which is prohibited here, is said to directly contradict the French Bulletins, and the gasconades contained in the Journals of Munich, Stutgard, and other Jour. nal: of the Confederation of the Rhine. In an official Bulletin, which the Archduke Charles published at Prague on the 12th inst. he maintains he never was forced in his centre nor right wing, and to have, exclusive of 6000 pri. 'oilers, taken an Invinelbfe position in defiance of the enemy. The Archduke John, with the Hun garian Insurrection, has not at all been in the ac tion. The same authentic private advices from Vienna also state, that the road from Wagram to the Austrian capital was quite covered with waggons, conveying the wounded French officers and sol diers to that City. It is asserted, that if the Italian troops bad not failed in the action against the Bava rians, under General Wrede, the Archduke Charles would have gained a complete victory. There are also private advices, confirmed by the Berlin Ga zettes, containing the agreeable intelligence that the Austrians have re-entered Dresden, Leipzig, and other parts of Sweeny, since the Ilth instant; and that the Duke of A hrantes has been defeated in Barenth,by Field-Marshal-Lietiteuant Kienmeyer, and obliged to evacuate that country with consi derable loss. The molar commotions at Bremen, and par ticu!arly in Hanover, owing to the rumour of the speedy arrival of a British army, have been very serious at Hanover; the veterau soldier" of hi! Blajesty stopped by force the money, ss hich by order of the French was to be transported out of the country. The gnat Expedition preparing in England seems to have struck the French and their fri.nds with great panic. 'The King of West phalia, and his army will Immediately cuter Hairover. Fifteen hundred Pole" from the Russian for tres.es, are said to be on their march to garrison Haniburgh, from whence the •French Minister is gone to Traveinniide. They are trying all they can to induce Great Britain not to do any thiug, either by diversion on the Continent, or to relieve the poor loyal Hanoverian', thousands of whom would eater the British service. The Ber lin Gazette, in consequence of its par tiality, has been forbidden in the King of West phalia's territory. Its circulation has also been stopped in Hamburgh. On receiving the news of the Armistice be tween the two Emperors, the price of culoni.►l produce rose full 10 per cent. in the northern markets. BANKS or TIM ELSE, JULY 21.---(Prirote Correspomknce.).--T his morning, at 3 o'clock, the French Minister received a Courier with dis. patches from the army, as well u with a copy of the Armistice concluded between the Austrian and French armies on the 12th Lost. The conditions of the Armistice have not yet been published, but it is certain that they are very humiliating and hard for Austria. The latter must give up to the French, during the Armistice, the districts of Znaym and Brunn. It must also withdraw all its troops from the Tyrol, Voralberg, and Gratz, and abandon the loyal inhabitants of these countries to thcir sanguinary tyrants. Negotiations fur peace, will, it is said, be im mediately entered upon, report says, ■nder the mediation of Russia. MUNICH, JULY 10.—The French Minister re ceived last night, by estafctte, a note containing some farther details respecting the late events, which we hasten to communicate to the pub lic :-- WOLLIIRSDORP ) JULY 7.---After the battle of Wagram, the enemy's army was iu a terrible flight. It is purse d . in all directions. Our advanced posts arc two leagues from Nikolsburg ; Ma jesty's head.quarters are at Wolkersdorf, on the UM spot where the Emperor of Austria was last night. This Prince saw the conflict from the height commanding the vill.iges of Ilabersbrunn, and perceiving the battle was lint, he disippeared, and returned to Brunn. The inhabitants of the country state, that the enemy's _ lot‘s in killed, is - considerable.-- DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Yesterday a meeting was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, of the new Renters of the late Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, Mr. Hostas in the Chair. Mr. SiItIIIDAN attended, and proposed that each Renter should accept of 121. 10s. per an. num, with a free admission, instead of 251. the usual annuity, or 151. without a free admission. This he offered to have guaranteed on undoubted security, and that he would, before the lit of March nett, have a fund to rebuild the Theatre; consenting at the same time, to enter into an en. gagement, that if he failed in providing the fund at the time stipulated, he would forfeit all his in terest in the Theatre and Patent. This proposal was listened to with the greatest complacency by the Renters, and a committee was appointed to commune with Mr. SHUMAN' (Am time to time. It was also intimated, that the Drury lane Company were to • perform at the Lyceum Theatre, the ensuing winter season, un der the patent ; and that it uras expected that the Renters would forego all claims, until the new Theatre was built ; in which proposal they also appeared to acquiesce ; there were about sixty Renters present; and all the Trustees, except Mr. GaAntais, who, we are concerned to state, is ill at Worthing. The preparations Our the grand expedition have h' raised hopes which crT should be sorry to depress. The- public, indeed v ,:never looked forward with mamma, .happier prospects ; and if there was ely a little gloom in the City, it did not proceed p l o much from want of confidence, as of turbot. Had the embargo continued a little longer, we know not what might have been the consequence! The American ship Pacsfic is arrived at Li►er pool with a cargo of merchandise, after a very short passage. Letters have been received by hoc from New-York, dated as late as the 4th t f July s tuft their contents are uninterest►ng. The Dutch letters which announce the Prelims. rues of Peace to have been signed, represent the following as the substance of the Treaty :---80. WAPARTE is said to have wrested from Austria all her territories on the right bank of the Danube, and to have extendec the Bavarian territories to Vienna on the East, and following a line along the frontiers of Hungary to the Drau, to have ascended to the source of that river. A line is then described to List ruck and Bregena, and this new accession of territory is given to Bava ria. All the territory to the South of the Drau, including part of Carinthia, Carniola, Istria, Trieste, and Fiume, is added to the kingdom of Italy—The Tyrol is ceded by Bavaria to France Wirtemberg and Baden are to get some accession of territory in Franconia—Bohemia and Moravia gre to be tetalacd by the House of Austria, as weltailfentify—ftlissia is to obtain an increase '6l iereitott in Anifitlin Poland—Saxony is also to aluiliitu In bilease. c. "^,' Such his been the . cmand for small arms for the it rand Expedition, t at an order has been made 7 the Board of Ordnance, fur 22,000 muskets to be scut from the depot at Weedon ; this requi sition wen received on Saturday se'unight, and the whole was packed in cases and sent off for London on Monday morning, by canal boats. On this occasion nearly two companies of the Bedford Mi. hint, stationed at Weed on, were employed on the duty. The arms will be replaced from Bir. mingbam. On Monday, early in the morning, before the prisoners were let out, a duel was fought by a i naval and a military officer, in Stapleton prison, near this city, when the former was run through the body, and expired. The duellists were attend. ed by their seconds, and fought iti a room of the pillion, with pieces of sharp iron fastened on the points of sticks. A Coroner's inquest has since sat ou the body, and returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against the parties concerned. The mgr. vivor has been In consequence committed to Glen alter gaol. The difference, we understand, ori ginated in ale= at marbles the preceding even. ing, and the parties agreed to fight it out. So common is the practice of duelling amongst the Frenchmen in this prison, that not less than 150 duels have been fought in the course of the last three years. The average number of prisoners does nut exceed 5500.—Bristol Gazete, Aug. 3. A vacancy of great importance has just taken place in the University of Oxford. Br. CYRIL JACKSON has resigned the high Office of Dean of Christ Church, after Clime; it for above twenty-six years, with a reputation and ability universally acknowledged. 1 Adispensation has passed the Great Seal, for analiling the Rev. Jost,' KIRK, M. A. Chaplain Ito the Earl of Lowsast.e, and Vicar of Scerho. tough. in.the county:mid diocese of York, to hold with that living the 'Rectory of Thwing, in the same county and diocese, to which he has been Hordknted by the Lams HIGH CHANCELLOR of Grote Britain. 1 I