The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-06-21 00:00:00

. . . . . . bravery ; and our gillant liigm eti d ers erhO are ewer fore Most in danger, suffered greatly. The Bruns- Stickers dick honour to their country. Thin morning, 17th, at three o'clock, I started aga i n towards the field of battle, and Lam this in. scant returned. I learn that some distiuguished per • sons have bile!' gloriously on • the side of the Allies, and that Bertrand, and some other Generals, ha►e been taken prisoners. I shall, however, in this un certain state of things, avoid particulars, lest I rhombi mislead you. I ascertained near the plain that the French had retreated about one league from the field of battle, and were supported by a wood: our army is in pos session of the plain of Fleurus, in the expectation of renewing the conflict tomorrow, unless the enemy deem it more expedient to retreat. The stragglers that come in inform us, that the French army con sifted of abort 90 or 100,000 men, with Bonaparte at their head. There have not, been more than 4or 5000 killed and wounded on either side. Even now oar fresh artillery is proceeding to the army, and the finest I ever saw. The wounded are continually coming in ; but as to prisoners I believe few have been made, as I met none on the roads, nor are there any arrived here. Congreve's rockets in great abun dance are sent off to the army, and I conceive they will soon he in use. I am once more of to the neighbourhood of the army, and hope soon to see the oteak of the Russians tried. An. . Mane. 1) , Ie . , 1 *** ..• • • Lisbon • 0 1 • • " • . Hainailtali . 4.. ' 1 . , • PRICE 01 , IMO(' MIS Haat pa Wit. Red. 540 s peg (Ant. Oirts. .hut 4 per Cents. 69* 701 • per Gem. Nary 'nut oat AT itioNly fi.r i orb ,. Law. Ann. IA I 16 lat las& 9 4d 5-161 Sattrarpar 6111. 5 d OWN' Ow*** Am. 56H 79 THE STATESMAN. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, J UNE 21 ) 1815. We regret we Cannot yet tranquillize the public mind as to the result of the dreadful struggles which now interest all feelings, and engage general anxiety. No dispatches had arrived from the Duke of Wes.- lotwevoe, and no communication from office on which we tea rely had been made when we sat down to give tb• Wit account we could of the sanguinary engage swats In which• our countrymen have had such a large share in Belgium. it is true, that a kind of -Bulletin was issued last night, purporting to come from the War Department, and we copied the'arti- , cle in a Third Edition of onr Paper to show what sort of stews were in circulation. This Bulletin was, we believe, originally published by the Star Newspaper. We could' not believe that the British Government, .which bad all day long refrained from . pelstishingelsei advices of which it was known to be in possession t , would, at the close of a day of the greatest and p. neral anxiety, send forth such statemeets as this Bulletin, contained on the authority of the Captain of an Ostend packet! The British Government publish. Bulletins on the authority of the Captain of an tOstend packet I Commendable attention to our anx ieties, tile) 1 The heads of the War Department —those who are now entrusted with the conduct of this ear which is to give Europe peace, or clothe it with the hue of mourning, be so ignorant of geo graphical position as to talk of the French Wee pursued 66 across the Sambre, even to Charleroi," when, if the Bull..tin writer' bad turned foi .a mo ment to hislinp or his Gazetteer, he would have found that Charleroi is situated upon this very same river, and on the north aide of it, and that for that reason has the additional description of Sur Sambre. But the Ostend Captain and the Bulletin writer, it seems, did not know any better. This notable publication too was also math, at the very mo ment Lord CAO67LTRZAGH was declaring that ac- cording to the bthices he had received nn, decisive affair had taken place—that there had, indeed, been fighting, that the armies were, at the date of his accounts, in sight of one another, andthat the Allies were acting purely on the defensive, and had not en tered France. The poet town of Charleroi also was, by this Bulletin, given to the flames. This statement proves to bets accurate is the rest of the assertions in this inconsiderate fsbricatLon.. The latest accounts in form es that Charleroi was in possessinti of the French; and that the Duke of WELLINGTON and DLUCIIFIL, instead of penetrating into the French territory in pursoit of the flying enemy, had retreated and taken trp • position at Watertvo, where they are concen trating their force with the view of again giving bat. tte. .Though this evidently shows, if the statement be *toe, shit the Allies have lost ground, and that the advantage has not been iu their favour, it affords sa tisfactory ground of congratulation, for by this we said that the. object which the enemy in unquestionably hartinilesv, namely. that of separating the English mod evessiarts, and cuffing them up iu detail, has not ~ been efected. We sincerely grieve, however, to hear from ail qoatters l on too good authority, that our brave coootrytnen have been dreadfully cut up. We refer to due copious and various extracts we have made frogs the Bross& G melte: and private communi tisk ,cations for the easy( the slaughter that has taken place. Some of t POI time shocking to contemplation. In one of the @Haat Lord FITIMOT SOUERSIer Sep ev quarter vas given on either side. The French have beers found to be much stronger than the-va pouring hireliogsof those who have plunged es into • this hur►id state of warfare, would allow them to be, stud they are inflamed against their . Invaders With eh the eaterminating passions. and fort With which they •hive beeu gAreateued. T►e lkitieb sad Prussians • • .It„„Va,S.V".: 7 - -.;.• • " z §TATKSMA4: 7:- _ -~ ~~ • • r..... • I 7 . . ere .. • . peculiarly . s the objettle of ;theixe-seegeinee. Tb former they regard as the au' thoni of all their . mist- . ~ ...._ .. • . . vies, from the constant attempts made by this country tirtilit romitt oir.iiti tt ATE . Sit AN. to stir up other nations white France; and time per- tally-if f could (18 . 64. were that's, J have endea ceive the Officers are marked out as peculiar objects ioered•tea do, In thig Most Unf it ! crfste of hintion so of vengeance, as the instigators, under their Go- Citify,. I would not be new ellossinviyeelf philoso vernment, of the war. The condect .of the Prus- phis pursuits ; but ihtiald thitak, no ealdy t o the sians iu their entry into France, a n d the subsequent observatien end conduct o? C;citto, that at. such a encroachments which they have made, ha v e b e e n the .. E 1 'lime . prectical duties tow Are f , ee- country tyul man occasion of the more than usual degree of national ha- kind are to be exercised; to the omission of the most tred shown to them. It would appear that the illterisiiitg 'vett:tritium. Duke of WET.LINGTOO W4S deprived of the use of a , .. Bet as it is; whet.' -than tarn' rey.thotigiits to a chief arm of his strength, his cavalry, from his being I' Weirliell'i'dit to • this, that we have just receivedl erae , o , ; r h . i cannot p .. 1 4. , ent , 11 et•adertiit-eq exp ress unable to bring his opponents to art on the plain, in the Ghent, called the Journal Universel, of .. - • -, . . ... itself :, _ft • .. ._ my &mist -twat evit-in it to its tennenclea, I the neighbourhood of which the chief engagement . th e 17th, (the devoted Courier o f L outs XVIII.)• • e lve r te_; . 1 • t he v IOU .e. Rowe cibeeriiiiens -;on piesetit Soier took place—the plain of Fleurus, so famous in hie. bet it does .trot bring a syllable of news , not e ven a s n d i. - , , . " . .•• ' ' tory, and the scene of one o f F ran c e ' s m o st M ;I. report, from the armies. • • . • ,e liant triumphs. The French a ppe ar t o have obtain- , ene • • •• • . I waietodeced to limit frifthhereflailemint that eil 08400 Possession of this, and kept the field of . . s : .66 een, ferMesi by By recent accounts from S u th er l an dshire, it NO. 1 the- O li g ui. tie 2151 was to pos i tiens s it pears that the emi g r a tio n . : to North Ameri c a are ver y .I Pot no* be theSerls' ' vihr:Eltqler.il(A iPPeired in battle near woods and hi ll s, 'from which considerable indeed. Three h un d re d f am ili es an d one jet.' 0 41)0 1 4 4 1 PePerK * '',. • .- . was next to impossible to'drive them. The Massa', ; upwards go this season from the districts of. Fir and • tic e ' t i ki w i of th os e w hi c h I abeee vev i riiiir.. Dutch, and Belgians, are said to have behaved well,' Bdrachilles to Picton, under the agency of a man* d , • '.. • . ay afternoon, et a quarter before three feCloi.k ON though the latter were strongly solicited by the , named Logan. We have the pleasure to state that DON Ar.viso '1 1 ' 1.4 th tliun' 48 degree, !wetly) is eery di ff erent. • Fretich, in the middle of the engagement, to rejoin ' ; ,..- 1 0 ~.„__• Ftokis DE Erasers, known in the political world • er'...ele - ---e• .-• ' . the standard of their former Ruler. The conduct of by his writings, condemned to death by the decree di Three hwitjl ifislreiali:' flit , 5. AP', liMti of 'the .Stuit the Prussians seems to be involved in some degree of ~ , Feeeteemo, is safe, and now in London. ~ t torso very nisett in ,equiliiteral triangle., One much doubt. A Correspondent, who went out from Bruit- : Deputy M %IMO, representative of Vera Crest Jn • • • • • ... • , L . the Spanish Papers mention was pardoned ...14_ , tter . ,•-anci, probably,, compoortd, it olantet one and a ells-to be an•eye.witness of the coolest, says, in my Cortes, notice of the instances of valour which he saw dis- by FERMIUM:I on the day of his Saint, but the IfeCt‘-•!""•7'" I theledistenteironseieh Other, nearly perpendi plaYed,"'" as to the Prussians, all J can say is, that is he ; aid 10,000 dollars for his release.-4----the etas , ' ft , theiitist ih r e%terii.." this early 'he Minot two. they were gallantly supported." This we can believe Marshal of Castile has also received his enlarg. ihrtalserc"ateithaotheenrih. r. • •• • 1 lie other one:third nearly of mete oil paying 4000 dollars, so that Gonpir's syse• 'quit to each othe4 and ab r ont half the eliametel• --by the British, particularly by those regiments of . tem is completely revived. Every thing is turnetrinto the fourth. I knoll 'hat Solar Sieos.haie been oh- Scotch •Hightandere who' have been the first at the money. point of honour, and have covered themselves Kith ' 'Ms is the are of O'rd'ers t King Feet " 4NO •evet yeti to change then •cbrifigotsttri - rts very rapidly.; ' I glory in every age and in, every clime, and have VII. has estiblleted a new one, called 0 hot ih 214 years, since they ssei first discovered, . l American' too often perished on the field where (twit t a • Li , . Order of !rubella the Queen under whom doLusteus • believe there is no institice of Nit •fermittg A cum. vela were reaped.--The French soldiers are 'mitt. his discoveries of the New ‘Vnrld.• This O r der plea •oottine, with a d ou bl e masker-al notation. I th e Independence ' ate o f is to h. cnnferred on Spaniards . and 'Americans who should require strong ev id ence , indeed - to convince known to be extremely , expert at ti.olliliett the may deniag„;,,i, them s elves „ ta i tist r s • ' •bayunet—they use it with the desterist of -a ~,;e .: : L ... .-1)4111101.• America. Goeuxecue, au old emissary 1 ---.- the f act. feticingtnaster,' and' When thiS' comes •- tii.'le oiled, ,'''Or Bum se t RTE, and !emote %sm., t h e ' de. f : I know that one form is as - easy to Omnipotence they can only be matched by the intrepid; aed i ne . stroyeesof the Spanish Constitution; have already re- : as a n other; but Omniscience has oat hitherto seen the Greed Cross, awl they are both !wives of 'fit to exhibit literal or nu me ra l .signatares to us in less skilful Briton. But the number of 'the letter: wired hem ', se ig .. l . America I .. The first, after being defeated enos Ayres in Peru, lately came over by the , description of • troops appear not to have his.realm .' In the vast variety of arrangement of • • - -Bu to dent to cope with the overwhelming massea of their .army '.. of the , stare, telescopic included, I know not of any -opens, and the second was Member of the first'lle. • i • ' opponents ; and they , ' with the rest of mir;,bVdevel - le „ c y . - I very close and exact resemblanCes of this kind ; and countrymen, with whom, whatever we thitile Lf the Cone-Excitexne, JUNE 21.—Having. no fresh ,it is nearly the same% plents, animals, and minerals. causes and objects of the war, we cannot hut sym. arrivals of any description this morning, and but. Some of the simpler characters, though very rarely, I patlii,e and rejoice as there is occasion, seem te have 'few buyers of any grain at market, sales of all were . occur: b ut a l t h oug h t h ere ere A gaves won d er f u ll y exceedingly head suffered dreadfully in the encounter. ;It is pr i cesvy,•en nom i na ll ythe same . regular„beautiful, and complex In the various argue on Monday. SUDDEN DrtlV. :—On the 14th inst., at Bath, stated that every third man of the -British we ' niiations.presented to our view, they have tittle re. struck, that is to say, either killed or in some way or SOPHIA Patteeer„ aged 36 years, a fashionable straw- semblance to our written signs. • Perhaps there We other wounded. We trust that this is an exaggeratedl 'worker and fancy milliner, three hours after eating moral and metaphysical reason why this should be statement, for we believe (here are !puny exaggerated . cucumbers, raised by copper-sheet reflectors, and se- so, pot very • obscure. If Providence placed letters accounts in circulation i!Nand wife of Jonw ALPittn PAR NELL' the Gothic laut etrliets.ote. cpessider that and figures,before our eyes, it would suggest Iheideit • et. 6 . 4 , 1 I Traveller, and noted walking visitor to all the Gothic i.O 1- the enemy had more then 1 - 30,0C0 . ..1tten - . 11" " e " v "' Cathedrals in Erich nd. w Dietne' writing to boandeeetemd and interpteted . like our human writing; and it : will not he supposed when we know that it is moth ...osier for him -to It le said, that the, grant by P ur li am e n t o f 20.0001. make an laspressteti on theilnee r e*Opird by the Abe **. ... repair' end itfilirove the read from the capitals by that the ordinary coarse denture is thus administered. lies, Utah the latter to deathly that of ,the French, l Shrewsbury to 'Holyhead, is to be speedily followed Should it ever occur, it ssoolttbe difficult to regard. which both by nature and art is much stronger, well)). the establishment of another mail-coach, whose it as o th er th an m i racu l ous; of which but two in. cannot *ender at, or ettogether disbelieve - at e repine* bags of letters tying confined to the correspondence stances are authoritatively given. It generally cone esf the disasters which we beer . It is believed , • . ev between London and Dwb lin, would not involve it in corns science, and none more limn astronomy, to • • - delays, to which the present Coach is liable, at some some, that the loss on both sides in the verities eb- of the post-offices, perticularly Shrewsbury. It will, have the fact, as accurately as may be, as they pre. gagements of which we have accounts, cannot , therefore, be enabled to perform its journey in 36 sent themselves in nature.. 4R. i . amount to less then twenty thousand. Friday m hoore, Instead of ad Saturday are both said to have been passed ght-- • " Jel'uf AND M 'ii am, yours, sincerely, in fi AG:li Cli.tarA.—Although the Tro.ton-lrali, lo ne 18, 1815.. . • CA PIM LOFFT. table. may be fairly Raid to have c' groaned with the . • ing, and a still more serious dispute of the prize of of . , , eigi!t the feast prepared at Arundel Castle, for . P. S. - Large ee one of these' 6 l 3 ^te is. it seems w victory, was expected to take piece on Sunday. - the illustrious Visitants, who met to celebrate the about one-thiriy.second only o f the sun's diameter. Rumour goes so far as 10 say, a combetliad actually event which gave to treilith:nen the-grand Charter To be tolerably clear, with any.cosswoon power, such taken place on that day ; but this .we apprehend is' for securing their liberties ; yet, we doubt if the a configuration as 28 ought •to be one-twentieth, De not true; frm we see it announced that M. iFe ta- Noble Host presented a richer Bill of Fare, than, that one minute and a half in height ; and on that snppo. furnished by the Lottery Contractors, for-the Feast GERALD, Pm. Knight of Kerry, and the lion, s k o f the 8 would be 40,000 miles ims 'each loop of Fortune, at Cooper's.hall, on the loth July—it • • • . JAMES BUTLER, arrived last night from Brussels, contains Dishes of. 840,000, 230,000, P 20.0004 • nearly in length. which they -left 'on Snowlati• and we may presume, & c , g m w ith the inviting Mint .Sauce, of 12,0X1 ' I most sincerely rejoice in yotir* liberation ;land that if any great *fhb had taken place on that day. Guineas in Gold!! . . . • ••• ... I* hope that the time will come , when , instead of war .. . . these Gentlemen would have brought intelligence Of end its auiiliaries, error and delusion, science, Mer it ; but vie feel a disinclination to notice all the ru- ty, and peace ; will be the theme of periodical Papers moors that continue to supply the place of authentic in Seneca!, as they have been faithfully of ennie,- itittilligence—NlUßAT seems to be :with NAPOLEON There may have been do iiilfat deceptien . in this in. in the North. Ile was most active in the charge of stance, bee error, I.tifink, theft! is ,aliuedent regatta the emealry. It is the brother„ot Marshal BERTRAND IO SAIPpOte. ..e ' • • ' Who is sold to have been taken prisoner. We hear' •• that Lord Cesmcn exeu, in the lobby of the House of Commenstast night, stilted to some anxious enquirers, that Gen. PACK had not THN'll killed, and there we clations,Wheti coped with the,chiracter of! .prc• sent events, sod his altered - tone Of despondence; mutt rover•the aith ridicule, ind ebtiin Vsrr him as large a. portion of tontempt is the . rest of the ipstro- Sesks of deception are preparing for tbetiselvei„ . ,aurt apprer imbitioui to ilb6itt.' , • • • • 'But these are ottierts unworthy of. Mention among the fasteresting topics to . Which attention is oom , dire;ted e AO it is onlrbeeaisse events are :made to take :a Nam chaheter 'from the medium through which they arobeheld by many, that ire make this incidental 'ilbservatioii. • ON SOLAR sPors. TORBAY. Jutre!lo.—Yesterday after pat flame in his Majesty ship Rhin, and .landed a Gentleman. from his Majesty's ship Penguin, with dispatches.—d Sailed his Majesty's ship Hope, nn a cruim• • MARGATE, Jutsz 20.-The Princesi of fra je-i b. . 4 kenitt, and Nancy, packets, gave ail ail:ire& thii morning from °steal They state a variety of re pOrts to be current there, the chief. tenor of which appears to be that there has been a very severe ac tion in the neighbourhood of Wessels, in which tee made General Vanciamme, and - 1400 of the French . Army, prisbners4' Souse of our Regiments Are said.; to be .cut up most severely : amongst those named . are the 44th, 92d,, ind.the Scotch Greys: t. - ' • ';ii . . • . N.dritt. 'NTH LLI6 ENGE. DEAL, JuNEIO:--Arrived the Lyveret war,. and Nymph packet, wall jityptches ancei. from. Osteotl.-r ; .irrivetr.the heron war from Portsmouth.—Sailetti u fleet hoond to the westward. iO.• reason to believe the= stitemeets of other British Officers, said to have fallen, were-on leee erroileous. The death of the Duke of .I.lnvoswrci., however, 4 . eppeats to have been ascertained beyond ; doubt. But, if Lord CAITiERI46II iliCh s quillizing information in his possession, how is • ----- ANOTHER ROBBER SHOT. • it that we yet. have no Bolletin—no Issue foie On the night of Thursday hst, the fan-light over Offiee of any kind, 'except the publication said to the shop-door of Mr: C6 . 0.'104 , 1 linen.draper, of • have come from the War Dep.rtment, on, the very 41. Ciaik's-place, Islington, was broken r and a vain respectable.and undoubted testimony of an Ostend able.sitit shawl ,stolen. Mr. C. observed• the most profound silence of the robbe'ry, cot even commuish boot-master The Officer with the Dispatches, con. catiowit to any of his friends; but with a vigilante i taming the full details, has not yet arrived—this is that cannot be too highly commended, he commenced the answer to all -enquiries; and though the die.. nightly watching's; in company with his shopman • . covert' of an extraordinary facility of communics- and another. This morning, at half-past two o'clock, than subsisting between Ostend and Colchester, which he had the satisfaction' of dealing out justice to the has lately been made, promises great advantage to daring breeder. At the time mentioned they heard a trifling noise, as of a person making an attempt to the public Service, and the distance between the seat reach the fau.lig,ht by. means of the railing of the next of liar and this country Is, unita . lo9 , •^ o - verY• house, and almnst immediately afterwards perceived greet, it seems (here are some . insuperable awl yet.. the face of a roan, when-the shupman levelird his. to.be.discovered obstacles in the way of coot : , gun and discharged, its bootents, consisting of a municating with Generals, and we hate yet , charge and a.half of small shot, the whole- of which or nearly so, must have entered the robber's face, as some hours to reign in our anxiety and curiosity:: the shot *took a complete direction through the We could wish to have grounds for kuoaaing bite the pane of the faii.ligist that had been made on the Morning Poe and courier over•the 44 glories% t. leetthursday night : the blood, of which there are victory ;" but what we hare - Yet teen of the detail' s r profuse quantities' has been traced from the shop. . , „tbOugh they do not.con_firm the Statement that 130. door to chapman-itreet, in the back road, a die. time, of at least a quarter of t mile, from thence the ICAPARTE had idealised to Brussels, end may be far ded a cross liet more fatourable than these we have in the nrulseti . Tbilher must. have procee White Conduit.honse, yid thus hMl* the. 1(W . i ll fileo Gtizetet, rather induces us tip speatwn the -subject 'on pursuit. in his alarm he left behind him a lan with the newly-assumed sojderi t tion of the Times, • stick, white hook fastened at thevod, the iestrionsi whine vaunting predicdises sad outogeees tiffitts. bi which be effected his daredestens. RAMICAI* Ain* "1411,11 . i. Wt'arigee, sttli O-suspects witlt.treeps,. HAnwtot, Joits fo.—Arrired the Orange packet, ,witti a Mail from Holly Henry .Freeling paeket, *ith a Mail burgh. POBT63IOIITH, Junt 110.—Ariived ship Lightning, fermi Cork; his Ma . Harriet and Bib-rata, .freers a croise., Majesty's ships Sparrogihonsk ,ansl Tyne , having. in ch a rge the • Providence, for denCe.—Arriveil the AMionand Europe - with troops', from ColkAti.came into her' jetty . '4 ship banyan. I'Lynowru, J wan e, in. brig of war, from Ia Vender, IT it h olficers.—Passed up Cheritirl . the' aetty, deaua for ()tensest; heloodieg; to the tat Sailed his Majesty's shiriepeouns and 11, aruize.: . FAtstssott, Jura 11kee•8ail•41 the got Coronae, and Sandcich dfttO, fbr Janisi r`F* o'Cr.oca,. peckri . is arrived from Lisbon if eight elsrs.--The Fox packet isjost pat hack, dentamd the qaeriv*h racket also. • - . . • - •••• ••• A , science, liber- -00(14%1 Papers 4 lly of some.— tiers in this in- iuudant reason . '• verd sloop of :hes of import- eron sloop of t of outward.. 'Majesty's ship s, for Ostend. he Prince of 1 llind ; and the •./ it from Ram. ,1 his Majesty's lajesty's ships ie.- I -Sailed his or, the former • New Provi. see transports, trbour his Ms- the Cephalus 'two French y; from Boor. latter Harrier, on is Ps packet, for isica.' Mailliorors A fit bays t se iiist I Me .. , I : 711 I r