The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-08-27 00:00:00

ir - ~- - Veen ind boys area of ell employment.... the'promisennes a pergolas of all desalts. lions, ages, and cbevectomt Of crime, have deeply impressed your Committee with the opinion, that no one nu voter the wails of bletegato without gniag out from thence more depraved sad torrepted Moo wkeri 'first cominitted thereto. And theses the M.. &Orates of the city of London have shown a pra w o rthy disposition to rearedy the gvievaates com. plained of in former times, )0, from the over. ''CrOvrOd Mate of the priNIN sod the toefoved trues onnedittion for its numerous inhabitanth the nolo and prominent evils cannot be vorroved; he still less would it be possibht to melon, its Interior arrange ment as to fit it for those purposes of reformatory punishment which, the good of society retracts. DARTMOOR PRIPOk. • oor Committee have received In eildeoce, that the . forest of D4rtmoor contains shoot 130,000 acres of one.fifth of which is enclosed ; and A 'bewilde. *hie part i; the property of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, as Duke of Cornwall : That the 'prison thereon hai formerly contained from 8000 to VOOO priSatters of war ; and it is stated that WOO convicts may he well sectored there, with proper di. 'Worn for classification sod workrooms. It appears, by proifrosiottel ovidence'laid before your Committee, that tip sitaation Of the prison .on Dartmoor Is in disputably healthy; t hat p rovisions are cheap; that fuel is tittle acquired fat the labour only • sad' that the utmost *sperm's' for the proposed alteration of the prison would not esceed WOOL It is *widest. to year Ca swifts*, that the proposed conversion of Dartmoor pesos into a prises for convkts, would place it in a more perfect state tot a prises of war at eat (stare yealod ; as year Committee have received Jo *video's., that if it remiss ossoccapied it west there in. evltably fall ioto decay. Irool Communities, . Ion: beg Woo redirect the atteatisie of his Ma , • s. ty'srosommeat to this salient ; for the prisoners mlghtfmt_mredlly removed frog, Ate cot vices .of 111A4polks. theiousoption ••• Orinoif :IS dirpitilditot *Of another more i n iqviefie; and the yoithtel dellogseet, by OM. , pilaster( labeer,,i tke- fist instance, would be 1, withdrawn from aside babiti ( of idleness which sever fail to tivieraw depsevity, aid to 'ford an opper• ' Unity for she imitetklit of bad 'sample. tech regetatiems,:keppears to your Committee • • that the mesas off utast subsistence world be am, wolfed by the *=above of the convicts themselves, r . therein affording an iecitemeet to labour, and con. • ssquently an orgies iodination for a return to terms hshits. Dartmoor *Meads with granite of L en excellent-guilty, well adapted for the perpeses of building or paving; and as his Majesty's Go. 1 - !torment, are at this time parchasiog large quanti. ".• ties for various public works, .your Committee con• ceive that canticle Weald be capable of cutting gra. . nit. to any (latent for each purposes, and that such a process would cleanse the land, •and render it fit 4 • for cultivation. Turf also may be cot to any goon : lily, and a canal or iron railway might convey it to • Plymouth. There are also great tails of water in every part of the moor; and your Committee are of opinion that cloth might be manufactured by the pri soners for their own clothing, as large quantities of coarse wool can be obtained upon the spot. Ott this subject your Committee beg to refer also to the Re. port of the Transport Board. The House will oh. strut, that in the judgment of several respectable witnesses, great advantages may be derived from the application of the labour of convicts at Dart. tenor. Oa this your Committee refrain from et pressing any opinion ; but they think it proper to direct the attention of the [louse to the evidence in the Minotes on that subject. May 8, 1818. SOUTH 4MERIC4. BULLETIN. The di Woo of General Pass directed its march en Villa del Pao, by order of his Eaunewsy the General in Chief, in order to dislodge a large body of the enemy, under the command of the Spanish Brigadier-Generel Red. On the approach of our troops, Real abandoned Pao, and withdrew towards Values. General Pees's division thee marched ipso sad took the town of St. Carlps, after defeat ing the enemy, who attempted to oppose him. The enemy dlitifili•Od to march against the forms of Gaunt Pars. For this purpose they gaited the geniuses of different places, and also the Civic Corps of CieOM& Withshis new army, comemeded by Brkedier Worn, they presented themselves, on the 1141 inst. io the plains of Cogede, where our troops tepected them. It is is this action that the Spaniards were @painted io the superiority of our cavalry. The enemy's isfeatty promoted itself in columns, In the centre of ewe ether SOIONDOO of dusky, which folioed the wings - . Oer army awaited them in battle sway. General Aoseategei cesmanded the In fantry, [Jest...Colonel C. Menne lb, cavalry of the right wing, and Colonel Vollmer, that of the left ; Col. Rangel commended the nerve. Oar line charged the enemy with the greatest intrepidity, and notwithstanding their firmness their colleens of ca. valry were broken, as well u greet part of their in fantry. One theesead of the enemy were killed, besides their loss in arms, ammenitioo, eqeipages, commissariat, and a greet number of prisoners.— Among the killed were the Spanish Brig.-General Correa, Chief of the General Stiff; Col. Gomel's Villa, Commandant of the Regiment of Castilla; end various other Officers of rank. It is also reported • that General [Morro is killed, bet of this we have go no positive information. All the Chiefs of the Drs. goons of the Union, of the Unsure, and of the King's Lancers, have been killed. Our loss was not Coilsidenkblt, bat sensibly fet, as it prevents es from coatineing for the present e l er • march on Valencia. The Sob-Chief of the General Staff, FRANCISCO DP. P. SANTANDER. Brad-goarters,St. Fecomodo, May 19, led. Eatract of a letter dated New Guayana, 16th Jest, 1618:—" The Sopretne Chief bas jest re ceived as official account that the division of 300 cavelry t teat by tho Spanish General. Mora l sle to the post of Gaayabal, to observe oar troops t Fir. neat) de Apart, were all either killed or taken primers, (Rapt tbe Comiseadast and foss oilier', . ~~ ~: . ) • .: i ~,. ~.. li. re•••••,...r.pgrlip artstkescaptel. is Mestfetressce riles lemeedittely evacwated CelaL with his labiate, to tlyebilly sountry setich to is or 20 teepee distal By this means the Spaniards poised they bad obtained le the it will not be long before the occupy the ironies of Arara t f Nesters of the Gty of Caraccas, • PolitT SPAM, Jut.Y 20.—1 enclose you . ,nelletia of the 13th May, and a Letter of the 16th Jane. As the Graud Coca of the Orinoco has never been blockaded, owing to the insufficiency of the ' Spenilh marine, the itstereolue with the Islands in large vessels is open and secure, and the Inde• peudents have lately derived Tory useful sumer' through this channel. You perceive by the enclosed Bulletin the total emisrepreuntation of the issue of the battle of Cogede, which tamed oat an important victory to the tele. pendent', by the destitution of the enemy's cavalry, , and the loss of a great many of their best Officers. The Spanish General Morales lately evacuated is taboos), and retreated to Sombrero, after havinglost in the action et Gsayabsl 300 men. Thus it is how well known how inferior the Spaniards are.to tbt In. dependents in cavalry, and how incapable of main. Mining any position in the (Llano.) Plains. Gen.l Bolivar, who, itt spite of the Spaniards, Is safe Anil and limb, is in possession of the chief command, mill and military, and of the confidence of the count ry. The chief positions of the Independents' armi4s are Sul Fernando de Apure, Calaboco, and San Carlo , ; these of the Royalists are Sombrero, Valencia, and 'Caraccas. The Independents have doubled their cavalry since Ike tampaign commenced, but their infantry has suf. fired severely. However, the Spaniards have no• this& to boast of in this respect. A private letter frameso of the Royalists, after gasconading a little on their success in defending the hilly country of Ca. Mess, confesses that they had lost 200 officers, and that MOM° weeld probably never be fit for actise service, in consequence of the nature of the lance amend be received. Goosed Beratudes is, withr a thousand men, et the port called Puerto do la Madera, about three miles , from the city of Comma. General Marine is at Cerise*, with rather a strong division. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS IIAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Sisk Stock 5 per Cent. Navy 10i; 3 pet Cent. Ked.76e4 76 India Bonds Si 84 p 3 per Cent.Cououlb 75101 f Long Ana. goil 4 per Cent. 86} K sc h equ er Milo di 19 21 p Leonia for Acc. 77511* °opium 3M e. 4 per Cent. 956 i THE STATESMAN. LONDON: TIIVILSDAY, AUGUST V, 1618, The details which we insert in another part elf this day's Paper will show, that the cease of the South American Independents continues to be 800015101, and that it will be no easy matter for Spain and all her Allies to bring the self-liberated empire of the South again under the dominion of an inbmpitable bondage. Yet it seems from the Spanish Note to the Allied Courts, which is admitted by the Ministerial Journals to be authentic, and from the allusions made to the nature of the answers to the application, that the Foreign Powers are disposed to interfere in the South American contest. This is to be date in the first place under the plea of mediating between Spain and the revolted Colonies ; but if this media don shall not base the effect desired by the very pa cific arbiters, we are given to understand that the Allies, " as the conservators of universal peace, will take measures to enforce such arrangements as they may deem It espedient to propose." This is mediating and interfering with a vengeance. But we hope the Allies will pause and weigh well the con. seckesuces of such a conduct on their part, before they embroil themselves in another and a distant war, to establish their absurd projects on the ruins of the liberties of the South American States. Can it be that oar Ministers, at a moment when we can scarcely be said to have tasted the blessings of peace, ore about to plunge us into a wanton, unnecessary, and unjust contest, the extent and duration of which ors man can foresee—and all to re-establish the reign of bigotry, enmity, and terror on the emancipator , shores of South America! If this is the serious design of the European Courts, if the British ` Cabinet is disposed, to Ptinge irate such an enterprise, we have arrived at the reign of infatuation indeed. Do the " interest" of huma nity" regain an alliance of the European Powers to re-establish the direful reign of the Inquisition and the arbitrary rule of the Spaoish Goverogoent on the free provinces of South America, whose rising pro sperity affords the fairest prospect of profitable and peacesi connection to industrious cations that ever dawned upon Europe ? The interests, the honour of Great Britain, forbid her minting in a contest for any such objects. Yet the Courier tells es that if the mediation of the Powers to whom the affairs of South America will unquestionably be sob• knitted, and of whom Great Britain is the principal, shall fail " from the insolent or unreasonabk pre. tensions of the Insurgents (still), the mediators will employ means to enforce the adoption of that which -the interests of humanity require." It will of course . bo deemed insolent and unreasonable in the South Americans to maintain that they are en titled to laws and Governments of their own chasing, and to deny the right of Foreign Powers to take cognizance of their affairs, or to impose upon ;them a thraldom which they have shaken off. It will he the height of presumption for them to consider tensions . unre asonable at the Ali-la-Chapelle CoPgress ; " d as the South American Provisate are not likely to disks pretensions 'mach humbler than these, if they condescend to acknowledg e the Mediators in their assented capacity at all, which we do n ot believe they i will, the Conservatori of Universal Peace *lll bete to e i adopt their threatened alternative, and levy " sal versa' war," immediately, if they Can find the means of doing so, to pet down on the shores of the Pacific, in the heart of Mexico, Chili, and the scenes already so fatal to oar arms, where the streets of a free city wer e stained with British blood, —the principles which teach men to resist injustice and consider. them selves as born free—the property of no essumingty rant —the system which gave birth to the Revolutioo., the glory and prosperity of America.— TES Cettpepx must buckle on its armour fora fearful fight if this be the resolution of the Powers that compose it. But the Coniervators cannot he so mad or vain as to suppose that they can thus annihilate the fabric of American Independence. If the insane imbecility of a Go. vernment as unjust and insolent as it is" feeble and despicable has forced its subjects into an attitude of hostility to maintain the rights of nature and the in terests of the country they inhabit ; if that Govern ment will persevere in its unjust and ruinous policy, for unobtainable objects, such a Government de serves not the support of European States; wisdom and humanity would equally dictate the abandonment of its atilance,and it would be weakneas in those whom it has forced to take up the sword in their own defence, to shrink from that attitude, and fail to maintain the advantages which injustice has compelled them to achieve. We have a better opinion of the pru dence of the Allied Powers, did even their finances admit of attempting such extra- Earopean.Crusades, than to believe that they will venture on such distant expeditions to restore to his Catholic Majesty his. Trans-Atlantic dominions. Whatever the Cabinet' of Madrid may conceive of its rights or their duty, they know that their jurisdiction does not extend so far, and they know they would be laughed at every where if they said it did. The juris• diction of which his Catholic Majesty talks, it quite a new doctrine, and is a point beyond' he ut most limit to which the system of public law has ever been pushed by the most extravagant theorists. It is a doctrine which has been carried quite far enough already in Europe. We desiretti hear of ne more favourable tanners being returned by European Powers to such apptications. Accounts have been received front Buenos Ayres, to the 29th of May, by the Ann, arrived at Liver• pool, which informs us that Geoetui SAN MARTIN. was in that citf, - but would thirrtly•depart for his command in Chili, where his army was, fecrisiting and repairing its losses in the last sacressfeicameeige .that the Portuguese were In possession of Colonic. del Seitternento, and were opening the trerrhey ant. raising the fortifications of that . place, which been levelled for many years; and that they had die• advanced a party from Arroye de la China, a :post' on the River Uruguay, and the mod. summon pest from the northern to the southern side of he 14yeet Plate, by way'of the Province of Eat,* Rioa. force of the Porteguese in the' territore,of Monte . Video is estimated at from 10 to. 12,000 men, •a 4; their operations do not by any mesas *roil probG:" Why, that their possession that conntry is Wind ed to be temporary. • The French 'Papers, of ' l / 2 a erst iniekteelit . day's arrival, inform eh that t h e p Doke of 114 , Kr TON has finally settled all the arrangeireetwaslected. with the evacuation . of the French terriiery'by the British troops. This may be true, fart it has been repeatedly rumoured that his Grace ties . engaged:in negociations to this effect ; bet we have been gitea to understand that the armaments, in regard to the evacuation, were to bathe special business of the approaching Congress. The Duke of . Wat.t.twaton, it is said, arranged the matter of retteement during his late visit to England. If this question ,be settled, Lord CASTLERRAGH must Aare some other weighty concerns to attend to at the Ma. I...Chapelle Assembly, or we should presume his Lordship's presence there, with his suite of cashiers, might now be unnecessary. On Saturday.. the Duke of WILLINGTON had a private audience of the King of Fiance, who afterwards went to Vin cennes. The Ambassadors of Russia and of Naples bad also on Saturday e conference with the Duke of Wst.tirroTon. The Emperor of RUSSIA in going to Aie.la-Chapelle, will take the route of Mecklenburg, arid then be will pass through Hstriburgh: The first regiment of Hoidens have been sent . from Hanover to Beakede to wait for his Imperial Majesty, and escort him through the Hanoverian territory. The etenoet precautions continue to be taken by the Court of Spain to seclude the plague from the shores of that country. rho Governor of Gibraltar, it is said, has established a correspondence, but under the most strict regulation% with Tangiers, in order to obtain, every fire days, accurate laformatioa as to Government of Buenos Ayres. 'rhe writer - nf mg Madrid article adds, 4 6 they woolil greatly dec e i t . themselves by imagining, that our Goverument gill Yield in any essential point. The losurgents, i t. i s stated, require the acknowledgment of their W e . .pendence as en indispensable condition." Th's is a y no means wonderful in our eyes. It is what rgio t have been espected from the Government of Bara n Apes, which is able to maintain ifs awn ind epen .' dence; and hour the South AmeriranPrnvinceri l general, who thank [leaven, are now br 7o ,, t i the reach of the Spanish Government's vengeance. ThP Duke of Marlborough packet has mired Falmooth, *lilt a Mail from Li,bort, from wh i ttle ,. sailed on the Bti► inst. but we base not heard ta i l i t fiiielitoght any nesss, Till QUEEN...--11er M - 1114% not SO eel yea , tetchy as she was on Tues.lay, and was sat stk to teke her _usual airing in her garden chaise.' Sr K. MILLMAN remained in attendance, and Sir 11. us:. FORD left his attendance upon the KING at Winil,o., and arrived at Kew. The R.port, yesterday, t,f the state of her Majesty was—" The Qum Ins not had a good night." Yesterday at two o'clock a Cabinet Coui had been summoned'On Monday afternoon at the Foreign Office, and was attended Cabinet Ministers, with the exception of MOUTU:: so full an attendance is reckoned ordinary circumstance at this season of tt Earl BATHURST was sent for express from G shire; as were several of the other Mini other parts of the country ; they continued till after six o'clockos length of time that curs even in the time of war. We are glad to understand that the fftermined to contivree-ths to obtain a just decision in regard to ti electing the Magistracy, and telt reform state of the city's laths. It is intiviaL the intention of the •Comositteis of Burgesses General Meeting of the Burgesses at 111: purpose of expressing - their sentiments regm late arbitrary decision of the Privy Cosine to uphold the rotten system, and for int lotions, for the future procedinga of the Claremont, since it has been opened lic, has been visited by a vast influx of Upwards of a hundred carriages enterer gates yesterday, and there have been needy oo each of the preceding days. Yesterday a Court of Directors was East India-house, when the ships Willis Castlereagh, and Streatham, were take' voyage in the Company's service. A series of Barbadoes Papers to the has been received. The lion. G EORGI Chief Judge of the Court of Comm° , one of his Majesty's Council in that li an apoplectic lit on the 30th of May. ceeding home, Oren he fell oil his hot sappesed, immediately expired. Some differences having lately arise' viral individuals inhabiting the frontiers LFraqcd, the Viceroy of the kin g dom of ' ibe Prefect of the Lower• Pyrenees h% 'COmmissioners to enquire into their ca 'Selz the boundaries of - the two count prevent-the recurrence of intrusions I ander Pie pretest of uncertainty. The following instance of courage a, oniMantciated in a private letter fn i ` As Mr. WILLIAM M AGM AY, of the I MAYS PIGUIU4IO, and Co. of London, to Ode city on .Saturday, he, obsetvini ,ii Royal Canal, just below the bridge , :cause, and learned that a boy, about bad been fishing, and. slipped into t 1 .i'Molodietetx petted , pirshis coat and pleirged in for Ties;A ansaccessful thi ittierepted 'a secerld,"andiaitched with the boy, which lassoed:him round, at 'to lay , hold of. his leg, and bring him was imenedlateittoureyed to a publi with tie assistance of a Surgeon, ii minofes animation was r e s tored l and , • Witted of his ultimate recovery. The ' Ow water about ten minutes." ~... Pates or BREAD.—About two m , emarianded in. she differeatiJournats, :11111VOI: aided by ethic City Magist = o vestigate,the _wises, then 'xis% 'donate prices of Bread and W: perky still masts, and in a rester degree lid ; therefore any elerti,sni on the ship towards the restoration of an eq , titles of such vital importance, wool the highest gratitude by the Public the opinion of many well.infoimed 'jest, that the non-existence of the the sole cause of the evil complained % mealmen having gained so great a pr , materially to influence the price of ' are now profiting most eitorcnotply the no •small detriment of chiefly tower classes of the community. Ti fare, is, to re.cstablish the Assize q , Pnb!ic will then be protected. C"T° N•CriN NEAL—The following V r emoved on Friday last from the New Be, Manchester, to Lancaster Castle :—Robert Robert Risteick, Peter Wakefield, Bent, Richard k'airbrother,•Williata Teniple, Geo. George Bancroft, and Charles Clarke, bills base been found again st them by the ~ Jury, for couspiling to r aise their wages as O tt spinnete.—The trial of these men wires eee able interest amongst the manufactu4ing Ossit Nos expected to commence o n Moods,' tuoraiug. IIIIIIIIIIII"."Illi".1"1"P"IIIII"MillIlla"1"rll""r"'"7"'"t' r ' 711/11rWw 7- ' ' . • ...? 1.,t 1 inn fris.k.TzstwAN - - ___._ thaltert at Sa te . ..___:._ ------- -------------..------ - ... , Ti WI/ ib ..., .0. o.l.lrigale 11 1 1 , par 1 1 0 1Strestla t h .. oal .tais.dstost, ..$ll 0611114**, i.•. ' . , ant, and airoabli! 0, moo • g o ' aiiii4pitek say seems roma e it et m ai L salabosai, aborl illif etyma bes Pit or Congress of Despel", who "" ......- ~, ' At beans, they casnot Owl" ' it . 111 be, ,.........Likev ic ii -; . .... s t t , s m . .. __ I .. daarT , I pmeme less starmeng it C euta it wag v il y nth. . lactil l ry. Fes VII. arriked at Mad o rki,„ n it Coe eery of 'Sombre* clikkObste rig,* sad dignities isoolt . ta lli ter ./. ewe? low lint fro. Calabozo.-- 2dtionl,lll:.y.whliC: bi t s e C n ark:l: I M ak a l j n e t sty's v a oatI:Ilea: Is bays lost the Uttte ARLOS.. 64,..z. - $ is Plains (Llamas). sad U." of their ,tell°.!recre!reg' ~ ...., _ be Independents again to legitimacy to say, that so, 60'01111,W "J oy ' - is said to have been mach benefited. M , and MA. theutbelvis bat l irla th hos the . interest of tbs governed in vie., -' -- -'k E -Cvl' stn. ~ Such ..„.. zA NO had arrived in the Spanish capital from L end & iith diipalchei 'Dom the Dike of 51w C is, dm." aid is grounded on public .approbstion..- $. r , . enclose you ths latest . ___ .._,,_ ...ervis t ail d posed to relate to the private negoeintions with I I tensions will doubtless be conceived monstross and . , ID___ 4 ....• Tho /NAME& --e .II 1111111%0f t eternity, 'of QUOIN hat whist ni was held ley all thi r Lord Si,. ed an earl. the year. : - Gloucester. nisters frail I their sidle' at rarely it. Burgeons! sir-etesins their right el elation in the ited that itis !saes to cell a karge, for its regarding the omit designel opting Raw e 1 to the Feb. r coorpsnr.— ered the tart 'arty as soy • behl sulk ism Pist,LoO • eu up foto 30th of Joe IC MAYNAIk on I'leis,'lll island, &let lie *RS pi; i. Ise, and it wis' I'. en hetweea se. rs of Spitted of Navarre 111 love named (ss cause, Wahl f. stiles, so as It oil * either , and hornenity it rom DJhifo: - house of • ti 11, wu fetettliel ring a mad e ge, enquired the t the age of 11, the sail''. I waistcoat 4 he first time,lo h his head a• . end enabled n ow shore. blic.hoese; in about to ul hopes lilt e lad bad bees loathe ego it s, that the La , grates, totem wing, of she d• Wheat. The egree than it It I men a h he E se lo t /1 et e de d o he 11 IC a t l a l a r ßr i f h pt i esc l i o : danit 'f r h e . baile d t i s i r.sl:l l di j‘ i by the fiddle the to fa" I it's remedy, t of Bread, and jog Prin°"" N e w Bop _Robert Nit:;, , Id, Henry H unk, Gee' , ,Yorke, a.., the G I ... *.! ~~ "i•