The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-11-29 00:00:00

IMP. I'sur TIIh LONDOY Nt.r. 28. Foreign-Ojite,. Nov. V. A dispatch, of which the following is a cop.. was this (lay received by Carl Bathurst, his . ,4 o . jesty's Principal Secretary of State fur Foreigt Affairs, from. Col. Carrol, dated Army of I hetefi, libed.qiiarters i Salaniancai, 0ct.16, 1809. Styrd—J have rho honour to aciptaiiit yon, that on the %Ist inst. the Duke dul Parque moved for ward with his army from Tamaines to Carta-ea del Obispo, and having pushed on a column to wards Nlatills and Jejo, as if with an intention ut approaching Salamanca by Nliiniguela, proceeded to his left by a rapid lateral movement towards Leans*, where A e crossed the Turmes on the '23d. On the ¶24111 wu arrived at Amanara, and on the morning of 'yesterday (the 25th) reacned the liele,hts ishich command Salamanca to the north. ward, where the Patriots had the mertitieatipu to learn, that the enemy having had intimation of our approach, evacuated the town the preceding night, retreating precipitately to Torn, taking with hiin aliiantity of church plate, and other articles of pi u niter. The entrance of our army into the town yester ay, Eresentml a most gratifying spectacle. The different brig ides successively forming in the spa. cious and be intiful square, proclaimed with loud and reiterated viral, their beloved Fernando, whilst the bands ur the different corps played se veral popular and patriotic airs ; nor did the zeal if the patriots suffer t!tcan to omit the tribute of their gratitiide ns their sincere and firm ally ; and God save King George and Fernando, were alter. 'lately repeated during the entire of the day. Amidst the universal joy which pervaded our conks, e small portion of regret was discernable, occasioned by the escape of the entuny, which the soldiers had already considered as their cap. tires. 'Fite advance of our column by Matilla, in duced the enemy to suppose that we should have approae.hed Salamanca by Muniguela, and con syquottly drew their attention to that quarter, which presented them many . favourable positions, and from whence the passage of the Tormes is So judicious, rapid, and masked was our march by Ledcsma, that the enemy was totally ignorant of our real point of attack, until our arrival at Almanara, a village about three leagues from hence. It is a well ascertained fact, that the first iuti matiosi General Marchand bad of our approach from Ledes:na, reached him at six o'clock on the evening of the 14th ; at eight o'clock lies orders for retreat were issued with the utmost secrecy to the Commanders of brigades ; at ten o'clock the tfantry, and at twelve the c.tvalry, commenced their march ; sad su great was tt.eir apprehen sion of pursuit, that they did nut halt uutil they reached Toro. The enemy's loss in killed and prisowors, at the battle of Taniautes, exceeds twelve liniodred ; and from every information wo can. collect, from *sr best authoritea here, their wounded amounts to two thousand, of which number a great propos. (ion are officers: one General, one Colonel, se. veral subaltern officers, and seventy-five private., died of their wounds on the night of their retreat from Tamames. Illuminations will take place here this night, and tu.morrau a solemn Tu Deem will be cede. brated in thaiiks4iving for the signal victory gain ed' at T4LIII.IICS over the enemies of liberty and religion. Tile victory of Temanies, and our entrance to Salamanca, will no doubt prove highly beneficial to our cause. This army (which will daily in. crease in hie 'ahem), now feels a degree of confi deace in its po scrs hitherto unknown to it. 1 have the honour to he, dpe. WILLIANI PARKLIt C‘ItROL, Major 11. S., Col. Sp. S. Aboard!" Office ) Nov. 28. Vice-Admiral Holloway, Commander in Chief at Newfoundland, has ttansmittcd to John Wil. son Crdker, Esq. a letter from Captain Graham, of the Vsistal, giving an account of the capture by that ship, un the 19th instant, of the French phi. vafeer brig L'lntrepide, pierced for twenty guns, and having a complement of ode hundred and twenty-five men, slim on her first cruise. Tin Vestal had also recaptured the English brig [idioms, from N. wfounolland to Jersey, and the English ship Fortitude, from the Brazils to Liver . pool. Captain Brace, of his Majesty's ship Virginic, has tr .nsiiiitted to Jahn Wilson•Cruker, Esq. a letier from Captain Sir NVm. Bolton, of the Druid, sivissif an account of his having captured, on the 13th instant, the French National brig Le Basque, of 16 gene and 112 mill, commanded by Mon. &leer Liscourt, Lieutenant de Vaisseaux, bound from Bayonne to Guadeloupe, with flour and other stores. And also .t letter from Captain Worth, of the Helena sloop, stating the capture, on the same day, of the It•svenge French privateer, of St. Makes, pierced fur lb goons, and with 61 men on beard. BANKRUPTS. A. Liverpool. teeter, to surrender Dee.l9, 411,Jan. 0, at the (II .h • raven , . Liverp Attornies,Memrs. Macke ocit and blakiitaitn, Temple. Loathes. J. barindall, Pendleton. Lancashire, shopkeeper, Dee. 11, 19, Jaa. 9, at the Palace lon, Manchester. Attorney, Mr. It. Chancery-lade. Lamina. W. Randall, Stockbrid4e. Southampton. wine-userebant, Dec. Y, 16, Jan. 9, at Attorney, Mr. T. Wallow ri ht. Peck's-buildings, 'Temple. , Wentnetioter Britlaezroad, stable-keeper, Dee. 4,16, Jail. 9, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. J. Benton, 11)ton-street, Soot h war 4. J. !/ Hanged ,rd-street, Strand, baker, Dec. 1, 19, Jan. 9, at Gat.d tall. Anions:), Mr. vrad, jun. Castle -street, Falcon-sr.. HiCsop,.Cheltentiam, haberdasher, Dee. 2, 9. Jan. 9, at Guildhall, Loodun. Attoiney, Mr. Berry, Bucklers bury.- • • • R.,. Whitman. Briglithelmstone, victualler, Dee. 26, 27. Jan. 9. at toe 0111 Snip Timm, brrghtbelmstoae. Allot or, 4 Mr. W. LAM, Haden-garaeit, j• Dinsdaie t S, aletrates, Yorkshire, grocer, Doe. 11, 9, Jau.9, at the Neptune lan, Irtitoa-spon. fon. AUornies, Messrs. Eintiatarls sod Sun,Lineuhis Inn, London. .1. and J. 1301 and W. Harrop. Loagtown, Cumberland, manutacturers.Dee. IS, 19, Jan. 9, at the Crean and Mitre, Carlo Animates, Messrs. Wordsworth and Addison, Slit -pie lei, Biotin.. J. A• Southey. Bath, paper-banger, Nov. SO, Dee. 16, Jan. 9. at (Weida .11, London. Attortnes, Messrs. Visard and Motcoiasoo, Lincoln s lon. (Dirriateedr, Taisereets.3 vire . , , TAW STATESMAN. MR. CINNING'h - • , 'ATEMENF. TO THE E.tRL (AMORY( ' &c. &c. Gloucester Lodge, Nov. 11, 1809. MY Loan-1 had written to yiiur Lordship intioetLitely after the publiettion of yuur Lord ship's statement : but I delayed sending my letter, in the hope of being able previously to submit It the perusal of the Duke of l'ortiatitl. Li this hoe I hare been disappointed by that fatal event, which has deprived this country of one of its most upright and disinterested patriots ; the King, of one of his most faithful, devoted, and ilfectionate subjects ; esNi the %orbd one of the most blameless and most noble-minded of men. Thus situatal, I have thought it right to revise what I lied written, and scrupulously to expunge every reference to the authority of the Duke of Portland, which would now stand upon my sole testimony ; retaining such wily as arc supported, either by written documents which I shall be happy to dilenlillinieate to your Lordship ; or by facts which a►c well known to your Lordship, or to your Colleagues, and in which, for the must part, your Lordship is yourself concerned. Neither, however, can l content myself with this precaution ; but mast protest, at the same time, in the most earnest manner, against any possible misconstruction, by which any thing in the following Letter can be strained to a meaning unfavourable to the motives which actuated the Duke of Portland's conduct. It is impossible, indeed, not to regret the po licy, however well i►►tentioned, which dictated the reserve practised towards Lord Castlereagh in the beginning of this transaction ; or that prac tised towards myself in its conclusion. It is to be regretted, that the Doke of Portland should have imposed, and that your Lordship should have accepted, the condition of silence, in the first communications between you. It is also to be regretted, that I should not have lehrnt in July, that your Lordship was not party to the assu rances then given to no on behalf of Lord Ca%tle. reagh's friends in general ; and that another Mem. her of the Cabinet, comprehended in that des. scription, had (as I have since heard) refused - to concur in them. Had I been made acquainted with these circum stances, I should then have resigned ; and my re signati.in would, at that time, have taken place without inconvenience or embarrassment ; and without stirring those questions (no way connect. al with the causes of my retirement), or subjecting me ti , those lei/interpretations a my conduct and motives, which cave been produced by the coinci. denee of my resignation with that of the Duke of Portland. But, however this reserve may be to be regretted, it is impossible to attribute the adop tion of it, on the part of the Duke of Portland, to any other motives, than to that gentleness of na ture winch emniendy distinguished him; and which led him to endeavour, above all things, to prevent p .lineal differences from growing into lbersenal theisentions ; and to aim at executing whatever ar rangement 'night be expedient for improving or strengthening the Administration, with the concur rence, if possible, of all its existing bfembers. And nu man who knows the affectionrte respect and attachment, which the manly 'and generous qualities of the Duke of Portland's mind were cal culated to command, and which I invariably bore to him, will *aspect me of being willing to esta blish my own vindication, at the expence of the slightest disrespect to his memory, or prejudice to his fame. I have the honour to be, my Lord, Your Lordship's tnost obedient humble servant, GEORGE CANNING. TO THE EARL CAMDEN. MY LORD—The statement, which has been published in the newspapers, in your Lordship's name, has decided a question on which I had he. fore been hesitating, as to the necessity of an au. then tic detail of the transactions, so far as I am concerned in them, or am acquainted with them, to which that statement refers. For that pnrpose, I think a direct address to ) our Lordship more de corous, both towards your Lordship and for my. self, than an anonymous paragraph in a newspaper. It is with the most painful reluctance, that I recur to a subject, which, so far as it concerns Lord Castlereagh and myself, had been settled in a manner, which is usually, I believe, considered as final. Discussions of the causes of dispute more com monly plecede, than follow the extreme appeal to which Lord Castlereagh resorted : and when, after rwataru consideration, his Lordship had de. termiaed to resort to that appeal in the first in. stance, I should have thought, that such a choke, deliberately made, would have been felt by his friends to be equally conclucive upon them, as upon Minself. But your Lordship needs not to be informed, how assiduoubly my character has been assailed by writers in the newspapers, espous ing Lord Castlereagh's quarrel, and supposed (I trust, must injuriously) to be his Lordship's par. titular friends. The perversions and misrepresentations of ano. nymous writers, however, would not have extorted (ruin me any reply. But to them succeeded the , publication of Lord Castlereagh's letter to me of the igth of September. I entirely disbelieve that Lord Castlereagh, and I distinctly deny that I myself; had any knowledge of this publication. But, by what means it matters not, the letter is before the world : and though the course original ly chosen by Lord Castlereagh precluded me from offering auy explanation to him ;—the course which has since been adopted on his behalf (though undoubtedly without his privity), might perhaps have beau considered as rendering such an 'split nation due to myself. It is, however, only since your Lord4bip's publication that I have felt it to be indispensably necessary. The statement on my behalf, which has also found its way (without my consent and against my wish) into the public papers, was written under a sense of delicacy and restraint as to the particu lars of the transaction, which, from the character of the transaction itself, must ale sys continue to I prevail io a great degree; but from which, until 7 11 i 7 .w... Wednesday, the 111 k et Petuber, the day on which I gave ap the Seals, I had not an oppor tunity of soliciting any dispensation. Of the in dulgence which I then must humbly solicited, 1 trnst I shall be ;lee to avail myself sufficiently fur any own vindication, without losing slept of those considerations of duty and propriety; by which the use of such an indulgeocc musernereelhaelly be regulaseil and confined. ' It is stated in Lord ,Castlerelligh'i Letter, " That I had demanded arid pr' euhd from the Duke of Portland, before the rising of Parlia ment, a prosni-e fur Lord Castlereegh's remove. from the War Department ; that, by this pro. wise, Lord Castleregh's iituation, as a Minister of the Crown, was made dependant upon thy plea sure ; and that this promise I afterwards thought myself entitled to enforce ; that, after and not. withstanding this virtual supersession of Lord Castlereagh in his office, I allowed him to originate and. conduct the Expedition to the Scheldt; and that, during this whole period, I knew that the agitation, and the decision, of the question for his removal were coticeals:d from him: and was party to this concealment." Lord Castlereagh indeed admits, that " he has no right, as a pubfic man, to resent my demanding, upon public grounds, his removal from his office, or even from the Administration, as a condition of my tontinuing a Member of the Government." But he contends, that a proposition " justifl chic in itself," ought not to have been " executed in an unjustifiabte manner ;" and he makes me re.- sponsible for the manner iu which the " Head of ' the Administration," and some Members of the Government, " supposed to be his (Lord Castle. reagh's) friends," executed the proposition, which he attributes to me. He is ready to acknowledge, indeed, 66 that I pressed for a disclosure, at the same time that I pressed for a decision ; and that the disclosure was resisted by the Duke of Portland, and his (Lord Castlereagh's) supposed friend,." But in this circumstance, Lori Castlereagh professes not to see any justification of what he conceives to hare been my conduct towards him:—hecause, by ac. quiescing in the advice or entreaties of his " sup posed friends," I admitted " an authority" on their part, " which I must have-known them .not to possess ;"—beeause, by 46 • pmssing for disclosure," I sheaved my own sense of the " unfairness" of concealment ; —and beeeusc, with that sense, I " ought" (as he conceives me not to have done), "to have availed myself of the sa..le alternative,—namely, my own ,resignation, —to enforce disclosure, which I did to enforce de. cissua."—Without offering a single word in the way cif argument, I shall, by a distinct detail of facts in the order of their date, substantiate my contradiction of these charges. I Shall only pre mise.— Ist.—That I bait (as is admitted by Lord Ces. tlereagh) an unquestionable right to require, on public grounds, a change in the War Department, tendering, at the same dew, the alternative of my own resignation. 2i11y.--(What no Mall at all acqtrtiottsd with the course of public businPss will dispute), that the regular, effoctual, and straight-forward course for bringing that alternative to issue, was to state it directly to the 66 Head of the Administration," the King's Chief Mitrister, to be laid by that Mi nister before the kitig. I proceed to a detail of facts. Aram 2.—ln thl beginning of April, I ad. dressed a letter to the Duke of Portland, con. wining a representation on the state of his Admi nistration ; and expressing any wish and ibtention, unless some change were effected iii i to re sign. v APRIi.4 so B.—Upon the Duke of. Portland's requiring a more detailed explanation, •as to the motives of my proffered resignation, 1 stated, among other things, that a cheislic either in my own Departineut ur in Lord Castlereagh's, ap peared to me to be expedient for the public ser. vice. I stated my perfect willingness that the alternative shunt(' be derided for my retirement ; and only requested that the d••r•isron might (if possible) take place before the re.coinmencernetit of business in Parliament after the Easter holi days. The Duke of Portland requested me to suspend the execution of my intention to resign ; wishing to hay, an opportunity of consulting with some of our Colleagues, before he determined what advice to lay before the King. APRIL 16.--The Easter holidays thus passed away. Qts the 16th of April, shortly after his Grace's return to town from Bulstrode, the Duke of Portland opened the subject to one of the Mern. bets of the Cabinet, whose name (nut having Leen hitherto brought forward), L do not think it new cessary to mention.. Your Lordship is perfectly acquainted with it. By the Duke of Portland's desire, I had a communication with that Member of the Cabinet, within a very few days after his interview with the Duke of Portland. 11. strung. ly represented the difficulty of making any new arrangement, during the sitting of Partial:scut,. and urged me to defer the pressing my own nation till the end of the Session.... To this wont. mendation I did not promise to accede; but we agreed (whether upon his suggestion or upon mine I am not coefident), that, at all events, no step whatever could pruperly be taken, until after the decision of the question upon the Writership ;... which was about this time brooked forward in the House of Commons. APRIL 25.---That question was decided on Tuesday the '2sth of April. APRIL 28...-On Friday' the With, the Doke of Portland communicated fully wittlyour Lordship; and informed me, as the result of that communi cation, that your Lordship thourit a change in Lord Castlereagh's situation iu ;the Governeseet, desirable, provided it could be directed honours,. bly for Lord Castlereagh, and that it " could be reconciled to Lord Castlereagh's feelings." From this period, I inderctoud that your Lordship was constantly consulted by the Duke of Portland in every step of the transaction. Other Members of the Cabinet were also consulted by the Duke of Portland ; but how many of them, or at what preciasr periods, I neither knew at the time, tun can now undertake to sty; Shortly Attu your Lonlahip's first interview with thy Duk e o r Portland (I am sure before the 6th of Ma)), that alember of the Cabinet with whom his Grace had first communicated, reporicil to me a augeration of your Lordsliip's, of a chan ce of office fur Lord 'Math:reser, evidently cliculatiel on the prineiples'which your Lortkhip had stated asindis. pensitile;to such a change. --Whether this commu. oiration to ale was in the name of a dirrct nt.. sage from your Lordship, I du not exactly know. Bo I understood distinctly that yon knew of its 'ming made to me ;—aud that whatever observe lion I might make upon it, was to be rep ot t e d t o your Lordship. What I observed upon it was io substance, that it way not for me to presume to say what change would he proper ; that I had done a!! that I had thought myself either called epos or at liberty to do, in stating to the Duke of Portland my ,opinions, and toy intentions to resign ; that the Duke of Portland alone could either propose any ch;tngc or obtain the necea'ary authority for carrying it into effect; and that I therefore reelm_ mended that your Lordship should state your lug. gestion to the Doke of Portland. Al s.—On the sth of May the D•ike of Putt land informed mu, that he had determined to the uh.,le subject on the fOlowing ‘Vedtiosdsy before his Maje Sty. 111.% lu,—on Wednesday EilUiOth of May, ho informed me that he had done'hi ; and mat his Mijesty hod been graciously pleasod to say, that he Is uidd take the subject into hi: serious cousi deratiiin. MA Y 31.—0 n Wednesday, the 31st of May, apprehending it to be possible, that my intention might nut have been fully esplained to his Majesty, and thinking it tny duty to here no doubt upon it, I huinhltrepeatill to his: Majesty the repiesenta tious whl bad before mule to the Duke of Pottlkidl, tad humbly tendered my resignation. reeeiied thereupon his Majeoy's 'ratios. cool_ weds to retain my situation until his Majesty Ilsoold have considered the whole saliject. Just B.—Some time in the course of the next week, I think on the Bth of Juste, the Duke of Portland stated to me, that he had received his Majegitys commands to propose, and to carry into effect, at the end of tie Session of Parliament, an art:tugs:meat for a partial change in the War Department. particefars of this arrangement I do not think it • proper to detail; feeling it my duty to limit myself strictly to what Is absolutely notes awry for the explanation ef my own conduct. It is sufficient its state, that the object of this Sr. rangemeat was not the removal of Lord Castle. reagh, but a new distribution of the twines of the War Departmetit, whereby that part of it which was connected with political corresponaletree would have twee transferred to the Foreign Of fice ; and the business of another office, thon va cant, would have been trinsferved to Lord Cu.. thsreagh. It is only neeessary to add, that the effect of this new distribution would not have been to take out of Lord Cesilereagh's hands the su. perititendene.. , st . the Expedition to the Scheldt. JUNE 13.• • -')t , the 13th of June, I wrote to the Duke .4 P..% ilaud, signifying to him that, al though such an arrange emit had Arvier entered into my contemplation, and although I did not think it cAlcislated to remedy all the difficulties which had induced nisi to hung the state of the . Administration under his Grace's consideration, I was ready, so far as I was concern. d, to under take and discharge, to the best of my ability. any detrwhich his Maj sty might begracieusly i.leased to devolve nisei. nie ; but I repres.ied al the is Ile time great.‘44uubts, whether this arrangement court beespeeted to be acceptable to Lord God... reagh, or, inell its parts, satisfactory to the pub lic feeling. • JUNE •18.—On Sunday, the 18th of June (Parliament beill 7 . Pi INC t..il to rise un the 20th or slat), 1 wrote to the Duke ofPortland, to inquire whether this arrangement, or any other, was to take place ; stating to him, that " if things re mained the) then were, I was determined nut to rt main in office." Jura avower, the Dike of Portland menti 41 to Inc a nen plan of arrangement, Akio gether. different from that which he hsd been au thorized to carry into effect ; and stated. that he had sent fur your Lordship, and the other Member of the Cabinet with whom your Lordship and thu Dyke of Pas tland had been in constant communi. colon, to co-opciate with him, in forwarding this new plan, and to urge Lord Castlereagh - to con. sent toil. The particulars of this new plan I do not think . it sieressiry to state, as I learut from the Doke of Port land,'eftlierthe neat day, ur the day follow ing it, that to this plan Lord Castlereagh Certainly could nut be brought to agree. Whether this was *steno to tti Grace oily from your Lordship, or ' through your Lordship, from Lord Castlereagh himself, L was not apprized. JUN a 21.---On Wednesday, the 21st, the day of the rising of Parliament, I was assured by the Peke of Portland, that the specific arratlement which he had in the first instance proposed, vir ijei new distribution of the business of the War Department, 'should be carried Into effect; and 'that his Wits'', had directed * him to desire your Lordship to communicate his decision to Lord Castlereagh. Joist Toestlay, the 27th, finding that no communication o• I been yet made to Lord Castlereagh, I wrote .o the Doke of Poetised, sit terms of the strongest reitutistrattre, both aping the concealment and the delay t amt intl. rnated'lny derertbination to recur to soy ~riginal intention,, lo press the acceptatxt olt ay re. signet um tire 28.—Accordintly, on the following tlay, Walnesday, the 28th ul June, 1 had in audience ..asf.' Ike King, in w hich I humbly and earnestly k ritpested to his Majesty, the tender of my resig- Ration. • [Ts k Continua.] LON DON ..til PAC: D. I Ob nt tne t . 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