The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-08-25 00:00:00

weassmstaffiili I BRITISH ARMY IN SPAIN. UENERA fERS. the C•nmander in Chief has fteelved the Rises assa. muftis to notify to the ; trm vt he eplead:i4l victory obialoed by its troops to Spain, tinder the command or lAeateasail•Geste• 1 ol the Right lintsoorable Sir Arthur Wellesley. lea ties TM a 1 !sth of last mouth. at the butts of Talavera de la Reyna. His Vaiestr is confident that his swine will leant with be on Wing exaltation, that the enemy. aker eseapilat by a ',m illet:lie retreat trim the well-enacerted attack with which sir Artlwr Weliellev, in emajonetion with the %polish arty, sad thntaletsed him an the 11th of Jule, etwentraaed his fake, by ealitn: to his aid the rolls asks the Trench Gene tlitebasti.sni, and the wrists@ of Madrid ; and thus wits. &run nitp - haehed the allied army as the 17* of Jay 1 sad. oa this oreasioa, orwiar to the local cireashsiaaces et its psisitimi. and to the deliberate porptsse of the enemy to direst bas whole efforts 'upshot the tromps et his 11aildifs the Driiisis army sagnined neatly the whole weight ft this great rontest. anti has acquired the glary of having oenaeisli. edit !Preach aria v ;Mehle their aralsess, aat ha a than and partial wager, but 111 a battle obehactelv enalleshell an two bon-nice days (not disenatineed even throdgbeat the intervesing and fought under cirrus:tames which beonzlit both armies int I close and rrrated entabist. The King, in contemplating in glaring% a display of the vr ilo.tr sal prowess of his troop.. his been rearirowsly pleased to contralti', that his ro)al approbation of the condor, of the artily serving under the eit not and of Lkotenant-fleneral ftir Arthur li'cUesley shell be that publicly declared in Gettaral Ot ders. The Commander in Chief hat received tie Kf e e. eon . 1:241116 to tigalfv, is the most marked mod special carer. tie Anse hi• Majesty entertain; of Lientememt-General Sir Antra lk-ley's penmnol services on thiamin/mak 411(1114044 aft less dipla‘ed in the remit of the ►attle Itself, Ohm lb tie contaminate :thillitv, valour, and military• /64110ffr, with votirtt the meaty dillasities of this winos and protruded row test were met, nod provided for, by his experiettlf Oar The cnoelect of Lieutenant-Genteel Altevbrooke, woad la ji&nt 1, ha. entitled him to the [lees marked Wien. II i 4 Maiestv Int. oh:erred swells sati.faction *eons —. i 0 which he lawn tile troops- to the charge with the hap seest, a ',pekoe( combat. which oe ail orrasinoff on well at cords with Cavitations*. character of has waited eel* the ease gattioes appitiba. dos, the fewient of the *vend nearest sal other O&m.— All hove dale their duty I sae of thee have had orealifnen of erniaroily Malegebeingllsesioterea. the tettabies Owlish§ nave ant esentitst his %tajettylittlialtion. 14 is hit Majesty's comentaro that his 'nye' etspeniontket and thanks shall be given in l'ae oast dlitioet apdAtnet part**. let sesnort, to the ere-eoraral•leased Olken and private nye. Title instance have they display ei with greater lean their native valour and characteristic eaergv. they sang farmer iscrairee mire deridedly proved their sugetiesity over tht inveterate coney of their reentry. . Dril tient. however, se ittlievirtory ehtaiselat Tallevent, hire aM i•riAr as that occasion that Lieoteentst•General Sir Arthur Wellftley, and the temps ender his tetanal. just vilified to hi; Itfajesti" f‘pplaata. ispationt earvire effected in ale early pin of the &seepage by abs snataaany, eider the comma* of Ow saute tlistiaiteisbed Gement; ity the sapid match an the Vitro, the peragieof that rieda u tha t ital dhe insti.,l7( of tie enemy, and bit eapaloni ore Ile taiiiktty;h? .411 lauxajeityN 'ambit aad most WAN asa ei.centsannea wheel have um* a ?Wier ltrptas veto ea h',3 )1: js coly 4 kaslad4 and have educed hie %jetty-ft dikeeto t Qtaopetilient feting ardente nod eseatfet fear shcJl bi ibis inennisak, ant fiesiditneisiesild estaiesttee wp esnltaire thilh fartsteskr isersaveraiseft owl of a "irk ef" e/terprior• rated to wiaiihre revelation is esery gentof his annv, ! I t nid 10 reaown, and to the oak- Lev ch.o.:rter et t..c 110 t; vr,ler of t!te Rizlit If I ibourable the Cesseimellegi bid; mail Airier, Rtwe-Coards, Nth Alixwes 1/16L MURDER. MIT CIIKATSEY. A me Gut; of the Magistrates a the comity of Sirrey, atningst who:n were Lgrd Alrmtfort, Sitr Richard Onclmv, Bart. Sir Joseph 31alvhey, Hart. ii Rev. E. Iv. ‘Vhitalitir, RoiNn-t Porter, and Ito. bert Sparks, Errs. was held on' %rettneaday, at the Swan lon, Cisertney, la pursuance of a special summons, for the purprste of investigating the no. fortunate affair of the murder of Winkel lky, some particulars of which we have already given. tight re ten medical gentlemen, with many other W)tnesses, were examined at considerable length,, as to the cause of the death of the deceased; and after the most minute investigation, the Magi strates were fully satisfied that he had died in con. equervze of the blows ha had received from Wm. Vincent, who way.lsid him on his return to his work. A warrant was accordingly issued to ap. prebend him, in order that his alight take his trial; and the several parties. were bound over to prose. cute. Ndtice of the measurv, with a full deserip. ‘ tion, wt's dispatched to . [Low-street, olFering a M itaril 04401. fur his appreltensiOu. The ecsult.of this investigation, so highly lendable to the Ma. gtstitcy of the Surrey District, afforded universal malisfaction to a very crowds,' Court, and the ensat) in general. TILE MARKETS. CORN-EXCHANGE—Avower tit. ' To.day the supply of IVheist is but inconsider. able, which causes sales to be affected at a small increase in price. Rye is dower. The supply of Barley is very short,and fatly at the late advance. Nall likewise. Peas and Beans, of the tens kinds, maintain last prices. Oate are also in short sup. ply, and this trade is quoted higher. Flour on terms of oar last quobtion ; new American, Ste. to 551. per barrel. t . R II:it PRI Wheat, - • - . il;,. /186. NG% ritle ditto - - • . IQit. 10101 , . It yr, It ulev. 111411; W. Peas ( Rollers) - 11411. 944 terry Pew, 465. 51s. liras* 3ds. fib. CE OF GIULIO. Tick Beam. • - • - SI% An la , Pond ditto - Xt. 410. Potato, ditto - - - - to 448. Pape Seed - • - toll A 54. Floe Flow • - - - Ex. Second, SMITHFIELD—Acr.. To tin► the Offal, per own a Plh. Beef.. .Ss. od. to Fs. 6d. Heed of Cattle this *By : hiottnit ..h.. M. to bs. Pd. Ream . iS) Veal ....tic Od. to 7.. od. ' Sheep moil Lootila• •• • 7 ,h 00 St) Pork W. ao 7s. ild. I Calves Lasab....iis. N. to 6a. 4d. Pigs .... 11 Al-!11 Hay 5l. 08. Straw H. 1.4 13•Ver tRKET. Od. to 61. 64. 04. Od. to 2!. 00. Od. Isi. to I. 10.• W. INK ST. • 1 1 4731077 C FUND. Tmearday there was a General Meeting of the Subscribers to this Fund, convened by public advettieenierst. Sir nevem &MIND (the Chairman) shortly opened thu business fur which the Meeting had been convened. It was in consequence of the sense lately expressed by a numerous and most respectable Meeting of Merchants and Bankers, that the Committee perfectly coincided in the opinion of that Meeting, and at their recommends. lion thought it proper to convene a General Meet ing of the Subscribers. It was now six years since the Public were first appealed to by the Commit tee ; and the subscriptions which had been re ceived at that time very greatly surpassed the warmest hopes of those who were the first pro. meters of the Institution. More than 400,0001. bad now been received ; but on the other bend, relief had been afforded to many thousands of wangled and disabled mew, and to the families or these who had fallen in the service of their coon. ter. As the war was now on land, where the losses are tench greater than in ses.Sghts, the claims upon the Fund would consequently be in Cetera more immense, ; and as the entire %um ori. ginally subscribed would go no farther than the present claims upon it, it appeafed necessary to replenish the Fund, and again appeal to the ratify of the public. A Gent/tenon of the Coin. mitten (Mr. Marryatt) was prepared to state fully to them the manner in sr hick the Fund had hitherto been applied. Mr. MAstayArr then rose, and made a detailed [ statement of the receipts and disbursements of the Food. The sum originally received by subscrip ' ties was somewhat mere than 350,0001. to which gam was to be edited the interest of the money that had been invested lo !beheads, and the pro fits on stock sold, which, added to the tam origi. noel received, aineutited to the total sum of 41111,8311.165. 7d. of which, after deducting the twos voted in rewards, annuities, and pamients, lyft a balance of 93,2211. bs. Bd. Many of the grateities,.‘wever, which they had voted,. haul tweet been claimed, and there would ho a ceshiderable profit, if the stock were sold at the present price; so that; he calculated the ac. bral balance to be about 130,0001. which would probably be entirely absorbed by the claims that were now expected to be made by thu families of above MO killed, and 8011'0 wonaded, including these who been killed and wounded at gibe betties of COMM& and Talavera. He trusted that the bleating would be perfectly sails. , led with theconsinet of the Committee, in the ad esitaisttotion of the fund hithettu ; but as the mow of the war had changed in a great measure, 41k MD NOW tarried on more by land than by. 'Oka, Committee tibleglat that new reikulatiomH 1. be adopted, In future, as the claimants bly be much more numerous. After fie tlwusters of °tagalongs t disbursements, l ikoolookiesburit to thiamine stiododoos fur the fe, tore aesseageseatef tall.llllllv A 3 to Ihese m elves directly to Wet oisirediki. and the families of those, whichhad haw, IMllMltlntial to about 230,00014 sod woe s poPt 'boot which t hero timid bane objeetion. It would appear by the sc. combs that-40,0001. had been given to the Naval sag Military A.. lens fur which that Soeiety un dertow& to receive sa d edecate all the children , of oldboriex, recomasewded by the Coesesltter v wbose _ eases geoid give them any Claim upon the Patriotic /and. The price of advertising in the public men, ansueMed to no lege than 11,0001. Great se this aunt was, he was convinced that it would slit have been for the interest of the Fund to havi% WO son sparing of expence on this subject. On, emeatowtanry, the Committee received many letters complaint, if they delayed the advertising the re ceipt of the gaselier enbicriptions. The amount of the gems voted as rewards to merit, atneented in the whole to 16,0001. and it would be recollected, that it was nee of the resolutions of the urigingl sub scrihees, that rewards. or honourable badges should be giree to distinnished malt. There had been some little indigence of opiAion epos thapru. priety of donations of this sort ; but he thought, that front necessity, they must be dispensed with twill. tore. The clginis of merit sloes most yield to merit r;compsiiied by distress. He would here take sh;easieti to ausiser souse observations which had beep mane against the inetitut:ou itself, as tit. torturing with the Legislature. If this hard-hearted doctrine were to prevail, it Wllllll4l gi, as well to I cry down all peblie chuities, or private ounce*. leuce. It might as well be argued, that because the Legislature had established Poor. Rates and Workhouses, it was interfering with the Letitia- ture to give sly !resistance to the poor. Besides ! the alloviatien of private distress and stafering, the Fund bad ken iroductive of very treat public advantage. . It7witt well kiiown, that a Pinot cause of tharepognairee of the pour to let their children go into the army or navy, was, that they thought that they should thereby, if any cc. soaitthappeocd, lota that assistance front thug In the decline of life, which otherwise thy *OW 'hue ettpected. This repugnance was, in a great ` . nteasere, done away by the sums which it wit, koovrartlie Patriotic Fund paid to the aged palling of these who fell in the service of their coati.. try. Pi:chips, at some future period, the Letitia tete Might thick it proper to adopt such a regula• Beni There was a sum of about 15,0001. which 'had Wen voted tb the relief of British prisoners 111" Treece. This did oat come under the latter it Zia origins,' reeeludette, but it case: within' IM spirit et theta. When Bonaparte refused lid permit an accredited agent for English prisoners to remain in Frame*, or any supplies to he fee:' sighed thew by the British Government, messy" 'of these prig ids *ere tedeeed to the greatest distress; sad the Cernotittee had only given such r elief at 1111101111ted to an edditi4n of three halfpence s-day So the allowance - of the aged, the 'arm, and the sick, who were net able to ender* such privatioas as these who were in health. They had also established an hospital and a school at every &spat of 'wiseacre is France. This motiey had been managed with such economy and attention by those whn se. perintended the dietribetien of it, that he . be. ~*- Tzim AN. Herod more gond wm now done at less ex. pence, and that the/ 11Pas an expenditure whirl ought to be antirried. • With respect to the wounded, he apprdiended that there Must be as attention ; and that for the faun the relief could wily be given to those who were disabled by their wounds. Those who were 'minded slightly, or even severely, would not wish to be ;iaid fur the mere pain of their wounds, at the cspenca of the widows and orphans of their companions who had fallen. This alteration he should also propose in the shape of a resolution. After several general observations, on the advantages already derived from an appeal to the generosity of the public, he concluded by moving a resolution. fora similar ap. peal on the present occasion. This resolution wag seconded by Mr. 1301/AR, and carried unanimously. Befirre the other resolutions were read, A Member of t h e Committee took the usearlem to observe that although the chi ruler or th e war on changed, the 4:11.1,44:841f of the people had been foumd the tame on land as on the setts: The French 117w1 bees accestomed to boast, that we were unequal to them . . on laud; bat now in a ye riety of actions, and panticilarly at the glorious battle of Talavera, 20,000 British troep4 had been round sufficient to repel the attack of near 50,000 Frenchmen. If' fiver Bonaparte should noir venture to iniadc this country, he would hind that we know how to resist him when fighting on our ()tin ground as well as when fighting to defend our allies. 'rais Raleloitions were all carried unanimously, as were also Votes of Thaaks I. tbeCkairosen mid 10 the Committee. Sir Faavets BART/10 and Mr. MANKTATT, in the name of the Couimittee, 'darned thanks. An additional subscription then commenced, which, we ntAlerstand, was very considerable. ROT-it VISIT TO WRIWOUTIL The Royal Family will take their departure for Weymouth in a few days. Sir H. Ness.x will, as usual, attend the Royal Party. Orders were gives yobterilaY at the Admiralty, requiring him to hoist his flag on board the liagui Sovereign yacht, for this purpose. He is also to have two frigates sod some cutters under his command, for the greater accommodation and protection of the Royal Visi tors in their excursion to sea. The latter are now ready at Portsmouth, under the orders of Sir R. CURTIS. In cossequepre of the advanced stale of the season, the Royal Visit to Weymouth will not be of lung duration. The inhabitants of that place have Wert for some time in anions expects. tion of it, and calculate, from its great attraction, to reap a golden harvest. GENERAL MILL. . .••••1111m..-- As many of the friends of this gallant soldier have expressed such anxiety respecting his wel. fare, after the wowed he received in the battle of Talavera, we have authority to state the follow. ins particulars relative to his very providential ,escape ea that tremendous day : Being engaged in close conflict with the meaty on the evening of the 27th July, s French soldier seised vim by the right arm, and eadeareured to pelf him elf his horse, bet the essitintl immediatety sprang forwards, and catricated him from his pa Mous situation ; the soldier then Brea, but bapp. pity miesed his aim. FArly In the actioft nit the With the General's horse was stabbed in the belly ; •an officer strop Tied hint* with another, alt* *IS also presently wonndini iii tWO please. l e *eV' sh trrt ihnntsefore• the *Newly pea sip the contest, that the General himself wile struck with a musket ball, *high, graraing ids leg ear, gave him so violent I blow oo the head, that he v. obliged to leave the field. The consequences lax slaresiog than might have been expecte his frieedt have had the gratification of ir sured- by a totter, written with his own days after the iietion, that bo was rye Pastas possible. General Hill has to regret the Fordyre, his Brigade... Major, the atfair of the 27th, a mo,t ccr, beloved and respected friends. and highly esteeme ral. The two Aides.de.o Captain Clement Ifill and thuir horses killed under 0 neither of thel.• received Capt. Clement 14111's her in hiss.—(Salopian Jars 3= I I 1 I Three messengers am Earl of usruase. The brought are dated tile 20i whole of the British' force Bevcland, ezeept those left in under the command of Limit The meat active prepara!ions attack on Fort Lille. Several private letters were a, day from Middleburg!), dated state that Lord CHATiAIt had 0 to Bcveland himself. The amount left in the Island of Waicheren is The whole of the British feet had assemble.. Batbz, and the enemy's ships, as we have streak, stated, had gone up the rivet abnve Asstwrirp.. Wo have not heard that Government Irecekve4ll any dispatches yesterday from the army bi SOL ludeed the facts stated, thew the inspeasitinly thst l Sir A.WILLEst.ze could transmitany intelligeecc si by way ef Lisbon. His cotnmuoicatise with land mast, for the present, pass by- the aoft far. cultism, route of Cadiz. In the Mina while tk 1 transactions is Portugal will again become resting, insulated from, independent of thyme in the Southern provinces of Spain. It is stated, that the man who was supposed to have been killed on beard an American sleep, by , a 'but fired from the Leander man of wet, Neel time since off the Chosapeak, received his death by a- blow of a handspike from the Master of the swop, who persuaded the crew to l oot was kiiki•by the Leander, .. r. . • • to4wels .A.Y4 . , FRONT OF oovner.GAapts THEATRE. .. ,b4i . The Proprietors aff this Theatre having deco. /aced the exterior of the building with certain " elastic.' embleart"—the folloiting " short de em:ft" has been published in most of the Papers, doubttrss with a view to give honest, w ond e ring Your 'luta. some notion of what is intend e d t o ' - Agin-seated by these devices. Some eapla nation is indeed necessary, fur although at Athens this classical jumble might have been intelligible, the good citivi.l , .s of Ibis commercial, mnney.lov. ing, money-getting city, can have no more con. ception of the r , --- , 1L1.l of the figures, than the littlioo who asisteok the dome of R. Pant's for a Lute beatt. This affectation of refinemeet seems in troth to he ill-timed, and misplaced, for' we do not live in times when dartic lore is greatly in re. giant. Many subjects might have been chusea wore congenial with the taste and comprithenginn if the people of England. We are perntaded that the statites or busts of our great dramatic writers and performers would have been infinitely more' gratifying thin these decorating groapes, ' which require such minute expbriation, and which, when explaiii , ..l, must be so little amder. stood. For Ari•tophanteP, Menand..r, Is.uhs, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Euterpe, Clio, mss. chylus and bielpumene, we would siv.slituto Sbaksiuire, %Num, Dr)dets, Otway, Conqr ye, Lillis Johnson, Beaumont, W) cherley, Foote., Sheridan, O'Keefe—coat multi. did ii,both, Bettcrtun, Garrick, Quin, Mussel), Barry, Woodward, Clive, Pritchard, Gibber, King, Palmer, Dodd, Parsons, Quick, Edwin, SWdoos s Kenible, Curike, Juries, Handel, Artie, with 6 lung list, ad injimilitm, who eell deserve to be recortial in this monument of - national taste. To isi the ellgierot those who have cootribeted so ptrwerfolly to the fame of the British Theatre, would bare been much more interesting than the classical jumble now exhibited, and in this sidings me are certain the Psiblic concur. As to the at tendon or ifischyl us being fitted on Wftdoit—those' mizht as well have been omitted—for, judging by tie pieces that have of tete years bee* produced on the boards of the British Stage—Whdeas finds not there her abode: The stage is sink - , in fact, almost beneath critleism. We trust', batmen', that the report of PON= and GATALI NI making a first appearance together, in the same pieta, at Cogent-Garden, is out correct. ' " . '4;;,4114 Lai THE ANCIENT DRAMA. ' ibl " I. ' l ' in time ware, three Greek Poets'are sitting; the two looking towards the portieo; are Aristopha nes, representing the Old Comedy, and (nearest the spectator) Meander, representing the Plesio Comedy. Before them, Thalia presents herself, with her crook and comic mask, as the object of-their imitation. She is Toildvretl by Ptilyhymnki play..* ink on the greater lyre, Euterpetis the leaser lyre;: 4 Clio with the lung pipes, 'and thaterlisiehore, th ' Muse or Action or Pantomime. ' These are see eeeded by three Nymphs crowned frith the leaves • of the ftr-pine, and clad in tunics, represent:. ing the hours or seasons, governing and attending the winged hors/Tegases. The third sitting knees in the osotre,_ looking potties+ from. the is . 0 14sckyles, the Father of Tragedy. ge socrog_upen ou his knee ; . his attentinst r is en ; Wisdom, Of Minerva, :swat oppose to pe Poet. She is distinguished ii ir tat helmet and .shield. Hetweets Aschyles 'Mmllilitioerrn, Beeches stiada leaning on his fawn s r beetuse.the Greeks represented Tragedies in ho.. soar of liacchil. Behind Misses* stands Mel pomenie, or Tragedy, holding a sword and mask ; then follow 4.... • - with snakes and torches, -s his hands to sop. "polio is wpm ,d chariot of elate to putt • •1-4, 1. he Pettieeis .tad Tragic at ; Movie* ire following its • CaNbae, streatitieg 1010 , •ospero r Ariel abilvei committals 'fanned God:. !eding. • She the daggers • turniug • nd hi.n. Portico : scedrdlni s :se Gott.' b fn.( is e two Oeir Loft /two Co- • MO. lAN. ....Aim . lifigu. aft. AMPS' t. r : .. , ._, 1_,... i . Thies, and Comedy t iwilleihe ~. 107_7 -, in the wings of . sb* flesstift , .A. L _ bcpet,as ''" t immvis bee n g*sonsed Irl i ka WO . ? cads of which is PIM , hlet : _ gg l kiti , , _ _ _ .- t: . - • ' Tsissign a Ahliteaqiiiiise , the niche in the asetber• - ei 01 - or that etetremity we ruildieg, aearaali• iltaaadivetreett is a fias lore beWieg the.Tragis wok sad ikomr. Se*lptoris Mt. Rona. Coantelr hei* the ebegfalif Or* Is pe•tele,, ea her ithieheahlir, aalithe *ask art ler her hitt TWa deter, 1114101* I s weskmaiwkip of Mr. FLMIN Ali t 11.4110Z il itiri dhl Mel* in tio4lololllll asst to j g gekaillA, . , 04.1 r tevl i , • ;40.,t10.- srAtiiixtficete.fraitifilies • ow TIIR • 3 •t, • t r ... I