The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-11-02 00:00:00

i'll! , : COlllll'. Yesterday hit MAJEJTV arrived at twelvt o'clock at the. Q.leett's Palace, Bucking!iant. house. At hall:past tvel!.o'el.ork the Lon n M ttua, al the head of 'ltal.:Heim:a:Thu of Cie lily of Lon. don, arrived it O. Palace is the follow.' ing order of procession : Taelte I soutibles. Two Marsh:tlaieto. Six Footiorn. Tao Olken oft 'toroth:irk The Lord Mit)tir to the Slate Callao, uith the thual ariendtwo 4,, Lk ten Aidel awn, and tee Ifter;;l;r. Chnidaiu, see. iu their re•pecti% e can jarrs. The t n tilner.ll.. The City Coosa I, and intim. °hirers. . Fatty-one carriages, with hielniWr. of the Conitalla Coattail to their riots/ Robes. • The Lono AI a 1 oit .tti.l other Company Wing - introduced into the Presence by the Lord IttiVait. log, the Recoanxit read the Addrese, of which the following is a copy : TO TII F: KING! NI i/Sl' EXCELLENY MAJESTY: Tne humble and dwiful Address of the Loss VA YDR, AL nt: it ts nv, and Co si %lON% of tee City ocLosioa, in Cum .,* mini I •ottoeil rt.,eutbleft. " %lon nil tetnn3 SuYIN CI GT,- " We, the IsorJ,Ala vim, .Alilernien, gar Commons of the .Citv of Londol, as conlitym Conincirlitionbled, approach rtrar Majesty's @sued Person, pith o.ir 110.1 liv e l y an d ss . f dgned ciorzratulations on the recent A it:list-nary of year '1 M k iests's ArenSi.lll 111 tho Throne of these Real op. With joy anilglail.oe•s we hailed the day no which v our !Majesty frowns' into the .3.lth 'ear of year Ilale-I . * mi t ts, not only I cater the ! Irmo 1., bat in Co:. hearts of 'our Majesty's sublet-to. " Wore it pleased lie Alini t eity Ruler of Princes to place the sceptre in your 31.a . le.ty's haul., the brave, free, and loyal people sok:, n pow Nlajesity was ford line.! Id govern, received with ple.pore your M ijesty's brat declaration to the great folioed of the nation, that born and I.:Su-Med a Briton, the pvaliar happiness at your Majesty's life would veer cotufia la prod itia g the writ ire of "our people ; and your Ma jesty's rexistorklit to iiiiintala our moat excellent Constitution, both in Chu ca an I State; with an asoirance that the civil aril religions vi g ats a` the subject were equally dear to your SI tjeor with t se in et vale tble prtroptives of the Crown " We experience and acknowledge taw blessings of this se curity to our religion :tool laws, aid that great charter of our liberties which, in wiriest of the glorious Revoluti ;;;; , sour NinjeACs illastrinus House was chosen to defen.l. Through a !awe of near!, 'tall a century, your Majesty has proved yourself On ever. occasion unite:tried in the maintenance und practice of all Cie principles so grocionsly pled g ed. " It i• a primal subject fur your Majesty's faithfuLcitizens of Laitd o u to recor.l, that iii the waist of all our one% tmpled struggles, your Slajesty is enabled to say stow, as at the corn meneement of your Majesty's reign, that your !Majesty can , re with joy of heart Ilse commerce of these kingdom-, that ;7 rest ,ourre of our'elehes and Steil object of your Majesty's n ev..e..,,ith g care and prdectiuu, flaurishing to an extent un know.' to any farmer war. " 'Jeep's I lyre...ea n it h gratitude toAlmight. God, for the 1 iwao aarrub!,! bfrivingt he has brim pleased to pour donut upon 14eo s gilt, fa vaarad ualiaa. rani more particulai I t for Us won d..rliii 33.1 great goodness, in !Livis hg. ett.it!:tue.l hi, divine pro-1 ' ,es .o to tone Maj e sty n.:til this t o. fill period : we, your i Maio-OW. faithful Citiaear Of London, hare implored Heaven to acce n t our fervent prayers, of praise mod thavikstriviog, anal t I root hate that same providelai .1 Care and pr.netitun to your It lit'ON fir Annoy years %et to e " helirve. Sire, thai it is tile . tisk nod most Ow vent pr:: .er of 3 our Ifojesty . s C sof Loodiso. that Provis deuce Ma% 1 itog coot ton eto this Slo su diain 4 oisloin.; a mark yert of divioe favour, and that, in ti %Awls of lime, when 'nor Maje ty shallow called from you: orthl v to a celestial crown, toe memory and example of so beloved a Soter.n g n limy se (owe t 1 a, t roteful people tjie imitation of sour slajesty's vir tues; to Lie aoccessors of your Royal House, till time shall be • no more." • The Earl of Ltrauroot. then read the follow., ing most gtaciolis answer : • " I thank you fur this testimony of your redl and affection for me and my Government. " It has helm Inv sinuous care to maintain tho rights and privileges of every class of my subjects ; and it is a great satisfaction to me to roe-ct, th it, iii the midst of all our uo extunpled struggles, and nett with.r4twting the duration of the wars, in whiffs, for Mlle safety of my people, I have been eisgazed, the coro:neree mod manufactures of my City of Loudon have beeu carried to an extent unkuown at any for mer period." The 140R0 MAYOR received on this occasion the title of Baronet ; and Mr. 1 Ideritian, now Sir IV IVLIAIR PLostma, titat of Knk:ht ; anti several of the Niembers of the Corporation bad the ho nour of ki-sing his hlaJtsvY's hand. His hi.ar Esti then held a private Levee, at which the following Noblemen and Gentlemen bad the honour of being presented to his MA .I LSTY : Alderman Plomer, Captain James Athol Wood, of the Royal Nays, Mr..liihnsoti, and Mr. Justice Alacoaughtoo, no taking leave of his Majesty previous to his leaving Lug land for Madras, oho had all the honour of Knighthood con lei real upon than. Major-General Sir Brent Spencer, on his 1.. lo g appointed Colonel of the Id Bactalion of the 95th lie ,iineiii ; Rear-Admiral Murray, on hi. promotimi ; Lieut.- tienvial sir Charles Green ' Oa his promotioti ; Mr. Robert Uri: rlas Saun.lcrs, on his being appointed President of the Board of Controul, io the some of the Earl of Harrow by ; Brig.-Gen. Campb-11, on his bein g appointed a Groom of ho Ma i esty's Be Ichoniticr; Lord Nlulgrave, out h s promo tion; tee H miurable Lieutenant-Colonel Townshend, of the First Regiment of Coot Guards, on his promotion; Sir Thomas B. Thompson, Comptroller of the Navy, on his bring promoted to be a Rear-Admiral; Lieutenant •('olonel Win yard, it the Celd,iream Itegiinent of Foot Guards, on his promotion; Colonel Wheatley, of the Ist Regiment of Coast-,on his promoting; Mr. Ryder, on his being ap- pointed Secretory of Stare for tat. 11Ibelle Department; Col. Sir fhamas Uver, no his promotien ; Mr. Iltioniltoo, on his being appoiut 'd Under Secretary of State; Lieut-Col. Brom head, of Ste 7711 i regiment, on an promotion and return fr.osii Portugal; Colonel Rebow. in hes pro notion; Brigad.er- Geaeral Faye, on his retool front Spain; I' isconsit Palmer.. .. n, oa his bei g appointed secretary at ll'ar, in the 11,0111 of Lora Lev ison Gower; Mr. Manners Sutton, oft his bein g appointed Judge Advocato, iu the room of Mr. Ryder, b. his tiolo..r, the Arebbisixop of Can ; Mr. Mellish, late his Maks t .'s Cloorged'Aolisires at the Court of Palermo, on his return trim Sicily ; Admiral Wilson, on his promotion. It was understood that the Earl of Livettroor. kissed his MAJESTY'S hand upon his being ap. pointed Secretary of State for the War and Colo nial Departments. About four o'clock the Delegates from the Uni. versify of Cambrigc arrived, in grand procession,' he.tdeti by tl,-! Esquires and Beadles. The Ad.' dress was most graciously received, and the l)c. pities had the honour to kiss his AIAJEITY'S band. The Delegates front the University of Oxford were also introduced tel his ?darns r, and pre- scnted their Address. Ills MAJ I.ST V arterial's held a Privy Council, at which Viscount PAlosaFron was sworn in a Member and took his Ot at the Right Honour.. Member s able Board accordingly. Mr. R VOIR was sworn in Secretary of State for the Hose Department. His MAJESTY gave private andiences to Mr. PERCLVAL, the rest of the Cabiuct Ministers pre. 1 . •:al, and $k Dav 1 e DUNDIS. • : AtOYMEURs a OF rirg l 4i;) OCTOBER. CONSMVATIVE sr,NATE. 4 lITTINO OF ins INIIID OW 0t.101411.. ADM( FAS 01/ HIS MUST SCRENIti lIIIGHNESS Till ?RING& AKCII.CII►MCELLUR OF TIDE EMPIRE. `•` IC.; 11/111.1:11111N - lIIS Ilnl n •lial anti ►`Loyal Ma. jesty, taking in with a single glance the present situation of alf.sirs, finds it necessary to order a levy of 38,000 oleo. • • " This is the purport of the Decree which is to be submitted to your deliberation, and by which the new levy is imposed upon the new classes of the conscript' of theyears of 1806, 1807, 1808, 1809, mid 1810. •` Your wisdom will already hive discovered the benefit of this arrangement. You will doun be assured that it it the result of a prudent fore. sight, and of the unceasing anxiety of his Majesty tor the public interest. " Whatever, Gentlemen, may be the issue of the negotiations at Altenburgh, there are strong indications that the English, after having been driven back (ruin unr territories, will endeavour to prolung the %vas. in Spain. 'The numerous bat.' taliuns which his Majesty opposes to them in that kiugdutn t '►teed only be kept up to their full com plement, to order to baffle all the attempts of the enemy._ " If the peace be renewed between France and Austria, it Mill he impossible, witliont great incon venience, to suddenly transport the brave troops who will have conque.--4 it, froot the Banks of the Dtunbe to those of the Guadalquivir. This remark has not escaped the paternal attention of his Majes. ty ; and let us be persuadcd,that after such glorious exertion 4, he is desirous, and with justice, that the conquerors should receive the testimonies of public gratitude and general admiration. " These points, Gentlemen, will be explained to you by the Orators of the Council of State, and more particularly in the Report of the Minister of IV.Ir ; which the Emperor has ordered him to com municate to you. " The levy required is, moreover, much less than his lajesty could draw from the classes by which it is to be supplied ; besides, it will be ren dered as little burthensonse as possible. " In this crisis the Senate will be anxious, as on former occasions, to forward s the intentions of our ungtist Sovereign, for the honour and glory of the French name. R' ?JR? M tOE TO HIS MAJESTY Tilt ESIpEROR ARO Is I NUJ, PitOTECTOR OF THE COPIFEDERITIO,I OF Tilt MUNE, BY HIS £XCVLLENCY COUNT DE utntrauncu, MIRISTLII OF WA 11, SEPT. lb, 1809. " SIRE,— If the numeross victories of your Maje,ty, and the eztraordittary successes of yore armies, be at the same time the work of your ge nius, the result of the must stientitic military combinations, or your inherent intrepidity, and of the eeersiF of .110.meny brave men, those vie. tortes and successes are no less owing to your ad. mirable foresight. It is this which has inspired your Majetity with the idea of assembling at first I:8 the interior of the Empire, whatever might be the complexion of affairs, the youth of France uho are snecessively called to serve their country, and of making them constantly pay their contri bution to the safety of the State, at the same time that they accustom themselves to arms. The temporary dereliction of this system. would be productive of some danger to the Em pire, and it would ho placing rather too great a reliance upon the future, however flattering ap. pearances may he at present, to sutier the depots in the interior of France to want the regular sup. ply of recruits, whenever a part of the young suldiers who fill them should be called into actual service. " A short glance at the state of your Majesty's armies will be sufficient to shcw that the levy which I feel it my duty to propose, is sufficient at present. " Master of Vienna, and of more than half the Austrian Monarchy, your Majesty is at the head of the most formidable army that France ever had beyond the Rhine; and to judge of what it is ca pable of effecting, it is only necessary to mention, that it was hardly formed when it conquered Aus tria in the fields of Thaun, of Abersberg, and of Eckmuhl. Whether the negociations at Alten. burgh terminate in peace, or whether the. war con tinue, your ►Majesty has in your depots troops enough, fit to take the field, to recruit your army in Germany. " In the month of January, your Majesty pursued the English army in Galicia. 11thile you were engaged in it, your Majesty was informed that the Court of Vienna intended to break its engagements. Though such an event seemed to call the principal part of your forces into Germa ny, your Majesty. nevertheless thought proper to leave your veteran army in Spain ; not that the whole of that army was actually necessary to complete Ihkt subjugation of the Spanish rebels, bat to deprive England of the possibility of pro. longing th.►t rebellion, of which she is the cause. That power, seeing in the new system established in Spain the presage of her own ruin, did not, however, despair of overturning it ; and her ef forts upon this occasion heave greatly sit:imaged all that xe have seen her make upon similar occa. :ions. " General Moore had not been able to bring off from Gallicia the half of his troops. The im. incise losses which his army sustained, (lid not dissuade the English Government from sending a fresh army, consi►ting of 40,000 men, to Lisbon. It penetrated to the centre of Spain, and rallied around it the various corps of insurgents. The banks of the Alberchc and the Tagus witnessed their flight and their confusion. Compelled to retreat to the further side of thit river, and pm. sued at the point of the bayonet, they totally eva- ' cuated Spain, and the Portuguese saw them return iu disorder to thole teeriuscy. At the seem period, an army of equal force suddenly made its appearance at the entrance of the Scheldt, with the intention of burssia4 the dock-yards at Antwerp ; there etre enemies were' covered with confusion. At their appv,iaelt, t g. ST ATESM AN. ._-- Flushing was provided with a nom sroes garrison ; [4,000 .picked troops marched from St. Omer, 'under the orders of the Senator General R tarpon and eight demi-brigades of reserve, n'birh were ai Boulogne, Lonvaine, and Rail, proceeded, post, to the pariah that were menaced. " These troops were of themselves sufficient for the defence of Antwerp. That place, which is covered by a strong rampart, and the advance,. works which your Majesty caused to be construe t. ed four years ago, is still further protected b) extensive inundations; and on the left bank of the Scheldt, the fort of La Tete de Flandre, which is itself surrounded by an inundation of 200() Wises, secures the communication of Antwerp with our fortresses in the North. " The English Expedition was formed upon the supposition, that Antwerp Was only an open city, whereas that fortreas could not be taken but after a long siege. Independent of troops of the line, your Majesty saw, at the fiat signal, 150,000 tia. tional guar ready to march, and at their head the Majors of your infantry, officers of the fifth battalions, and veteran officers; you found in their ranks a number of old soldiers. 44 Numerous detachments of cavalry of the line were preceded by the Gens.d'ara►erie of France. The English were ant aware that this branch of force alone could, at a moment's notice, assemble at any given point 60 squadrons, composed of men that had seen sixteen years of service, all equally etperienced, equally well-disciplined and armed as these brave cuirassiers, who, tinder your Ma jesty's orders, have brought to so high a pitch the glory of the French cavalry. " As by enchantment, the dispositinns pre scribed by your Majesty caused to appear, at the same instant, on the batiks of the SelAtlt, anfl at the rehdetvons of the Reserve at Lisle and Macs.. tricht, four different armies, under the command of Marshal the Prince of Polite Corso, and Mar. 'dials the Dukes of Cornegliano, Vainly, and Istria. " The sudden deeelopement of such a force, and the national impulse which continued to mu I. tiely its numbers, struck the enemy with con sternatidte Their enterprise, calculated upon false data, completely failed. " Europe has witnessed the realization of that which your Majesty's penetration anticipated, when von pronounced that this Expedition urigi. nated in ignorance and inexperience; and when, searing of French blood, and directing that a teen merely defensive should be followed, you rote . to me :— 4 We are happy to find the Eng lish crowding into 'the marshes of Zealand ; let them be mer •ly kept in check, and their army will be speedily destroyed by the bad air, anti the esetemic fevers of that country.' 64 Whi!st our troops were distributed in com- I fortabte cantonments in the environs of Antwerp,' or stationed in that fortress, the English army, encamped In the midst of marshes, mod destitute of water it for drinking, lost upwards of one. third d r But the facility which the Etiglish have of 'rang by sea from one quarter to latiother, may lead us to expect that all that will have escaped the disasters of this Expedition will be sent to reinforce their army in Portugal. 66 Sire, the various fields of battle in which your armies have distinguished themselves are too remote .from each other to admit of your march. ing, without inconvenience to the soldier, one of . your armies from one scene of action to the other; and your Majesty, so highly satisfied with the zeal of the troops whom you command beyond the Danube, is anxious to spare them from the fatigues of the war in Spain. Besides, the French armies beyond the Pyrennees now consist of 300 battalions and 150 squadrons. It is theri.- fore sufficient, without sending any additional corps thither, to keep up at their full establish. meat those already there. Thirty thousand men, collected at Bayonne, afford the means of accom plishing this object, and of repulsing any force which the English may cause to advance. " In this state of things, I conceived that it cor responded with your Majesty's views to limit the levy necessary at this moment, to the contingent indispensably requisite fur replacing in the butts. lions of the interior, the drafts which arc daily made from them. Thu retort's which will be laid before your Majesty will inform you, that of the conscription for the years 1806.7.8.9 and 10, there still remain more than 80,000 mete who, though balloted, have nut yet been called into sc. teal service. This immense reinforcement might march against your enemies, should that measure be rendered necessary by any imminent danger to the State. I propose to your Majesty to call out only 36,000, and to declare all those classes entirely free from any future call. " By this means, your armies, Sire, will be maintained at their present respectable establish ment, and a considerable number of your sus. jests will be definitively released from the con scription. Your Majesty will also have at your disposal, the 25,000 men afforded by the class of 1811, upon whom I shall not propose to your Majesty to make any call, unless events should disappoint your hopes and pacific intentions. " Your Majesty's armies are equally formide. ble from their numbers as from their courage. But who could advise France not to proportion her efforts to those of her enemies ? In giving such advice, the result of the most imprudent se. Parity, it would be necessary to forget that Aus tria, very lately, had on foot 700,000 men ; and that to create this gigantic force, that Power did not hesitate to expose her population to almost total destruction, and to attack the very basis of her prosperity. We must equally forget, that England has taken part in the Continental war, by landing, at the same moment, three dilfereat armies, on the coasts of Naples, Holland, and Portugal. " The agitation of those wile are jealous of France, has been redoubled, because they are con %cit'', that the present crisis has for ever fixed her greatness. Their efforts will be impotent, be. cause France has been enabled to reach the high. est pinnacle of success and of glitry, without making any of those ruinous sacrifices which de. stray her enmities. In rice notwithstanding the sus:cessive calls, up to the preseut tuoutent, made _ - ;' otin the Jilt rent classes of conscripts, scarcely , neap Ile-fourth of those w Ls) composed than t.iken le field. ". luscuosidering the situation of s our Majes. ies.."rmkr, and the result of the English Expo :Whisk', eau we, without a decee of a itisiarts•in t boholti England, in imitation of A .atria, to Ail; .'forts disproportionate to her means, and the wants of tier nav) ? Wnat can she expect from his contest upon land, and 1.4:1 to min, with France, that shall nut redound to h,•r own injury and disgrace? " Sire, the French people will have to thaok your Majesti for the inexp.essible advant tge and glory of a peace, compered without maritowe es. peditions, from an enemy who, by his situAtiou, thought himself free from all attack. Every serious attempt noon the Contine"t, on the :fart of the English, is a step toward. a general peace. " The English Ministers who preceded the Members of the present G:tversiment, a more able set of men than Me latter, were well con. vinced of this truth, and took o nud care not to commit thernselr s in an unequal contest. It did not escape their observation, that to carry on a long war, it was necessary that it should press lightly upon the people who had to support it. 66 Within the test tweive months, the war has cost England more blood than she had previously shed from the period when s he b ro k e the peace of Amiens. Committed in the battles of Spain and Portugal, whence her duty and her interest fur. bid her to recede, site will see those countries be. come the tomb of her bravest warriors. Sorrow fur their loss will at length produce in the minds of the English people a wel'-fou 'del abhorrence of thole cruel men, whose ambition and frautic hatred dared to pronounce the expression of eter nal war. It will excite in that people Me wish fur a general peace, which every man of good sense may predict to be near at hand, if the English persist in a continental contest. 44 1 am, with respect, &c. " TAe Mihister nt War, Count HE HUNEBURGH." To ritE EDITOR or THE bT4TESM-IN. SIR—As it-appears to be the intention of Go vernineist to keep secret from the Public the sub. stance of the dispatches brought by the Eclipse from % T erri 'Cruz, I shall acquaint you with the particulate-which led to them, thereby shoeing how happily our affairs are conducted abroad as well as a d s hums. The I/midis:tied frigate, Captain Maling (Lord Nitilgrave's brother-in-law, who his already en. j.,yed this soot of profitable employment before), sailed fur Vela Cruz with Mr. Cochraue Johti,tune o n board, who had undertaken to go thither to collect and ship off money on board the Un. daunted, which was ultiwati•ly to reach this coun try to usist in reimbursing us for the supplies the Spaniards had receir,•.l fruin lib. This frigate called at Barltatioes (*here Admiral Coe.ratie commands) on her way, nod here it is slid, the Cochrane' fnroo-it their plan for gentile all the profits to themselves. On the passage,Mr.o J stone and Capt.Maling disagreed, *hith the A dini. ral anticipating, sent the Ethelion, cominatithd by his son, to Vera Crus, in readiness to take advsn. tage of th, quarrel. Mr. C. Johnstone arrived and collected the money, but refused to it off is the Undautsied, Caplan) Mating, but intended to zive the pronts of freight to his nephew, in the Ethalion. This Captain Maliug objected to, having urders from the Admiralty to be tile bearer of the money, and consi (pettily to pocket the' freight, and being the senior officer, he ordered the Elhalion'hack to Barbadoet. The obstinacy and animosity of Mr. Cochrane Johnstuue, how.. ever prevented him from cou,idering the honour and advantage of his country, and the money was shipped on board a Spanish 74 gun ship, which uc. casioned a considerable ferment ansongst the par_ tics, and the consequence of all this jobbing, jostling, and quarrelling is, the money has been Mantled, the port shut against our ships, and all supplies refused. Thus it would appear the Mut. gravel (for so I consider his brother-in-lass) and Cochranet were well matched, and we are to look on with indifference to the honor and credit of the country being compromised by it pack of jobbers, saying nothing of its having kept ern ployed two Motes mail a sloop of war, *no I should think might be better employed, than traf. ficking and disgracing the flags they carry. I send you these particulars, in the hope that you will not let the subject sleep, for a more dis graceful transaction never passed unnoticed. Fur myself, I am totally unknown and uncomiet r e d with any of the parties, and in no way concerned in the transaction, but the particulars having reached the through the most impartial, but cor rect channel, I send it you. I am, Sir, &c. Plymouth, Oct. 49, 1909: - X. Monday evening este of the Lietstenants and the Captain's Clerk, of the Acleun siu.,,, of war, were brought on shore in. cost .dy of the Civil Power, for potting two ship.wriglos of Plymouth-Duck) Mho were at work on liaa the skip, in irons, and otherwise ill-treating the, Their examination was to take place on the fol lowing illy. There are four Can , litlites, it is 130, for the Chancellorship of the 1' liversity of Oaforil, which ka% 'meow vaeant by the Death of the Duke of Poniard, viz. the Disko of Beaufort, the Earl of Liverpool, Lord Grenville, and the Bis..up of Durham. On the night of the 21d alt. Thumrs Bi.supg a soldier, at lgezhill barracks, nos awaked bi art unusual motion in bed ; to 111-e .rer ihe cause of which ha turnetiks his ri...ht ski., and caught with hip left hand aitery large rat 1 i e ri mg self npright, he felt another on left .id , and caught that with hi; right 114 t but nut tol khe latter anintel Alai bitten Airs t ugh the tlnorb to this situation, with silhrgr rot struggling in each hard, he called to kb comrades, and, with their it,a I tiurct, confined to destroy them. List seek, a sparrow-hawk killed two goIJ. 6nches, In their cavil, at the ArtilLry num. ks, at Bexhill, one of which ho tore through the wire, and carried cid. ,A.