The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-03-25 00:00:00

NEIV ORLEANS. Tire following letter, written from the banks of tly , Mississippi, by an Otlicer on the staff of the expedition, contains some interesting particulars of the late disastrous attack and repulse : " January 16. " Here we are lying wet enough in sugar-cane huts, after having met with a severe repulse, on Sunday, the Bth of January, in a general assault on the strongly fortified position of the Yankees, covering the capital of this country. The 85th regiment, sailors, and marines, wore, after incre dible labour and exertion, passed over to the right bank of the Mississippi during the night of the 7th morning of the Bth ; hut owing to the unfore seen and unavoidable difficulties, they were not all over so soon as hail been calculated on, conse quently not sufficiently advanced when the signal for the general attack was mule just before dawn of day ; owing to which untoward circumstance, those on the left bank, where the principal strong opposi tion was, did not profit, as was meant they should, from their combined attack, and the fate of the day was decided on our part before they began to act ; but for all this, I do not know that there could be any remedy, wider all the circumstances of the case; nor do I know that blame .can attach any where, however unfortunate the result has been. " General Gibbs commanded the 2d brigade, con sisting of the 4th, 210, and 44th regiments ; Gene ral Keane the 3d, consisting of the 830, 931, and Path; General Lambert had the Ist, consisting of the fusileers and 43d. This latter brigade was to be in reserve; the two first to begin the attack, which they accordingly did. The enemy's position was un commonly strong, in the form of a crescent, flanked on the right by the Mississippi, on the left by a thick Avood, and au impassable morass; the whole crown ed with innumerable artillery, and loop-holed for the musketry, with a nurroW plain iii front, not ramie than half a mile broad, by which only we could ppproacit them. " whole of our columns were at their appoint ed stations before day-light, awaiting the signal rocket to be thrown for the general attack. It was tired off as the day began to dawn; a Omit time be fore which Sir E. Pakenham had passed the first bri gade. withost speaking to any body. We all moved on to the front, under a most galling fire of cannon and small arms; but, as the day opened, we soon observed the broken columns making for the rear, and a vast of number of wounded pass. ing and lying groaning around us. General Lam bert was, at this present poment, informed of the lamented fall of the Commander in Chief, and that. in consequence of this, and the severe wound of General Gibbs, be was left in command. We were ordered to deploy into line, and lie down in the swamp, to avoid the destructive showers of grape, which were within three hundred yards, play ing away most furiously on us. Ilere we lay till ten at night, as wet as ever poor devils were, seeing all the movements of our foes, and hearing all their or ders. 4 4k A flag of truce was sent in towardsthe even ing, and the Americans spoke much of peace, but every thing around them looked quite the contrary, as nothing could be seen before them but the dead and dying. Major King, of the fusileers, was killed early, as was Captain Henry, with the Lieu. tenant-Colonel detached with the third brigade.— Lieutenant Hutchinson had no less than four balls through his cap; Lieutenant Lorentz, the other L. C. Sub. received a wound between the shoulders, not very severe. The column lost a great many men. Capt. Robinson, Brigade-Major, to Major-General Lambert, had a ball through his saddle-cloth, with. out injury. The Americans lost very few men ; not one hundred to our thousand, being completely un dor cover of their position, and protected by a wet ditchotltogether too formidable for so trilling a force to earry ; for we had not altogether above 500 men in the attack. _ _ " The Ist brigade preserved a noble front, and wore too formidable an appearance for Jonathan to oppose them. The 7th lost above ninety, the 43d sixty-three. The 40th are just arrived from Cork, but are not to land, as we hype to be all on board our shins in less than a week. indeed, wa thought to have been so ere this. We ought to hare had the free navigation of the Mississippi before %se landed. We have several sickly from the wet weather, and if we are not off immediately, I fear we shall hare numbers more. " We espect to go to Bermuila—they are at this moment shelling us as fast as they catt—the Ame- ricans have no enterprise or we should not escape so well— we get nothing to buy but bullocks and a few vild fon l—we are on a sugar plantation, and, of - course, have plenty of sweets without cost. The river is a fine one ; bat, believe me, there is nothing else in this quarter worth coming 6000 miles to see. .The people appear to be Dons and blacks ) DODO of whom seem anions to be our Allies." CiiNAD4. We insert the following extract respecting the trade of this invaluable colony, from the Montreal !Jerald, of Saturday, January 7, 1815, with much I pleasure. It fully proves the assertions we hare often made of the great importance of British North America to the manufacturing and shipping interests I of the mother country ; and we trust, in any further, arrangements with the United States, that every se- I ctnity and encouragement will be afforded to our own colonies, and that the fisheries on their coasts I vest, be wholly confined to British industry and Dilish capital. 64 IVe have been favoured by a friend with the amounts of the Imports and Exports at the Port of Quebec in 1814; and with the assistance of that' , friend, have ascertained their actual value on Cust om llou,,e entry. This is a subject we dwell upon uith no ordinary pleasure; because it illustrates the growing prosperity of the country amidst the din of car and devastation, which to many appear para 41micil. The import of 11 ines at prime cost (this is the rule we go by) is 225,0001. currency; co toeial• produce, including Brandies, Gin, Irish Spirits, and Tees, nearly 915,0001; Dry 1;oocts, 1 all manufactured in the British Isles, come to nothing short of 1,600 ) 0001. The Custom-i TIM STATESMAN. House duly is charged, at the manufacturers' price, to 'which we add 13 per cent. for all charges to Canada; and we believe we scarcely set down enough •, so that the total, value of the imports will be found to exceed 2,750,0001. currency. In MOO they were not a quarter of this amount ! The • ex- Finds cannot be counted beyond 430,0001. currency. Although the value in 1809.10 was of three times the extent ; yet this is no indication of a declining pro sperity. For two years the crops have been good in both provinces, and the prices of all necessaries fetch double any former average, one article with another. To this may be accounted the great augmentation of internal consumption, owing to the increase of the army and navy ) and the various departments attached to them." Arr. Main; Poe I) Gonenlkqrgh 0 0 LADY-DAY.—Holiaag at the Public Offices. THE STATESMAN. LONDON: SATURI)AY, *ARM 25, 1815. No Mails from France have arrived since BONA.. PAItTE entered Paris. The interruption, however, between the capital and the coast seems to be con fined only to the Public Papers, which are doubtless undergoing a remodelling, a la Courier, previous to entering on the detail of the late wonderful exploits of the " Great NAPOLEON." Travelling has been but little interrupted, and not at all by Edict ; the great mass of our countrymen who had crosed the Cl.annel are returned in safety, " more afraid than hurt ;" and though an embargo is said to have been laid on Thursday last in all the French ports in the Channel, there are still numerous arrivals from the opposite coast. The most important advices received since the news of BONAPARTE% entry to Paris, relate to the move ments of the expatriated King. His conduct at pre sent is the best guide to the discovery of his hopes, his disposition, and the policy of the Allied Powers. Hopes the deposed Monarch still seems to entertain ; but to us never did a cause appear more hopeless than his. his Majesty, instead of pursuing his way direct to England, has retired to Lisle; in the Low Countries, with the view of taking his stand in the North of France, and he is to be supported by the Allies. We intimated our suspicions of such an intention yester day, and we announced,in a Second Edition, the fact of the arrival of MILLS, the Messenger, from Vienna, with the important intelligence that when informed of the progress that BoNAPARTE Inti model° Frau*, the Allied Powers pledged themselves unanimously 4t not to sheath their swords until BONAPARTE shall be driven out of France, and the House of Hammon restored." There's a Vienna vow for you, Reader ! Europe, we are told, will not view with indifference the bloodless revolution whieh has replaced the NA POLEON Dynasty on the throne of France. It must be bloody, sufficiently bloody, before they will con. sent to it, or " the peace of Europe will be die. turbed." They will not wait to see what may be the 'conduct of Bo NA P %ItTE before they again raise the Icry of war—A legitimate has bees thrust from the throne upon which they set him, and France must be invaded at all points—the work of human slaughter which Frenchmen refused to begin within their own tertitory must be commenced directly by foreign hands, and we are told the 66 good," the " mild,' and " most amiable" Lours XVIII. is to lead the band who are to desolate that " fine Fiance" which he aspires to govern, and whose children he was desirous of gathering under his pater. nal and protecting wing! If the Allies have really made such a declaration as is attributed to them, for we have it not officially; and if the Princ4 of the House of BOURBON are to march in the van of the armies collecting to oppose BONAPAUTZ, (he cause which the Allies have espoused is more desperate than ever—the object and the cry of the war are changed—tlle all-powerful cry of liberty and he. man tight which enabled them to overthrow 11 the disturber of the Continent," passes over I to the enemy, or will, at least, be used by !iris,` opponent, with as loud an appeal to the under-1 standings of men, as when all Germany, and the nations of the North, gathered at the sound.. This is the most dangerous weapon that could be put into the hands of such a man as BONMPAIM ; and it will re main to be seen whether the population of Germany and the countless hordes of the North, who mus- I tered at the sound of invasion and foreign fetters, will again rally with eagerness, and devote themselves with such death-defying energy, to replacea BOURION 1 Prince on the Throne of France. Be this as it may, an attempt to reseat Louis XVIII. on the Thrboe of . his ancestors is to be made, and already the rash re- solve is loudly applauded iu this countryr—The Go vernment Prints are rejoiced to find that their san guine hopes of a bloody war are likely to be speedily realized, and we see but too much ground for believing that their most sanguine and humane expectations are, indeed, likely to be speedily gratified. But miserable and fatal is the igno rance which would lead men to believe' that France is net prepaired to resist invasion ;f -the War Ministry of Fiance has been preparing this yr explosion for these nine months _past. Ft et the moment tIiaITALLETISAND recorded on the phroale of the blind Canyon at Vienna the protest or France against the pernicious principles laid down at that assembly, when France again took her 1 high stand on the rights of men and na tioni, and told the assembled • Potentates of the earth, that in the mutual relations of States the first virtue is justice—that men who had bled for liberty deserved not to be transferred over from Master to Master like cattle, and that France could not ac quiesce in the arrangements of the Allied Sovereigns, —she was committed to war, though the wily States man who thus paved the way for the return and the ‘ triumph of BONAPARTE, said his country would not disturb the peace of Europe at that time. Louis it is known had not the confidence of the nation—he was incapable of wielding its energies against the Powers who placed him on his throne—it is now clear 1 that he was ignorant of the conduct of his own Ministers, who were preparing and laying the means of nor and success in the way of a more efficient aspirant to the kingly office.--' Delusion has been practised upon delusion.— The poor I armless Prince Louts, has been deluded most cruely even by his own subjects ; but the delusion which would have made us believe that : the placing of that Prince on the throne would content the people of France, was the most egregious, and may be considered as the spring of all the events, evil if they are, which have lately happened—evil, and full of the cup of bitterness to the human race s will, we know, be the conse quences of again endeavouring to place a King of the BOURBON line on the throne of France by force of arms. Some of the Marshals, we are told, remain with Louts--the faithful MARMONT, for in stance—where else would proscribed men fly to, but the Court of their flying Sovereign ? But let us hear no more of the loyalty of the French King's Marshals, or of the military corps who sent in their deluding addresses to The treachery of Sotrur is as clear as day ; that of MASSENA little less so. NUY showed himself the friend of BONAPARTE in his keen reproach to the Senate, for their hasty declaration against the NA.. eot.Eow dynasty. Has he shown himself the enemy of BONAPARTE now ? Even IVIAcnoNALD trembled at a reward from the BOURBONS. MARMONT, Au- GERBAU, VICTOR, and JOURDAN, are severally branded with treason or incapacity. What then is to be derived from the attachment of the Marshals ? After the defection of the troops ander NET—after the boasted promises of OUDlNOT—after the issue of the preparations at Melun, has the KING any hope within the French 'frontier ? We need not say it is ridiculous to believe he has. Bat what is become of TALtrYnANn, who brought the King in ? Did he know noll.ing of what was going on ? The world wilt not believe that he was ignorant of the plans in agitation. The official note of Louis XVIII. addressed to the Foreign Ambassa dora, appointing a Meeting with the King at Lisle, is signed by the Count de JACOURT, one of the five Senators who, with TALLEYRAND, composed the Provisional 'Government which succeeded the deposal - of NAPOLEON—TALLEVRAND may be at this moment performing a like office for BONAPARTE.. We hear nothing of the proceedings of NAPOLEON 'since his arrival in the capital. Ilis movements may he expected to be very prompt. The discharges from the armies of the Allies have given him the means of speedily collecting a great army. Our let ten from Brussels state that the whole British and Hanoverian army, on Tuesday,the 21st inst. marched in four columns from thence for the frontiers of France, composing a body of 41,000 of well dis ciplined and effective troops. But the Allies have been taken greatly by surprise, and they are not believed to be in a condition to commence active warfare on the grand scale they meditate immediately. Warned by the declaration of the Allies, if he wanted any such warning, BONAPARTE may rush at once upon Belgium, while Mu RAT probably only waits till he should hear of his having completely succeeded in his enterprise to pour. forth his army into the North of Italy, and by supporting render the rising in that country universal. The troops of Austria have but small footing in Italy.-- The Swiss are known to be in arms, and fa►ourable to BONAPARTE. The Crown Prince of SWEDEN has been looked upon at the proud Congress of Vienna ne an illegitimate. The starving of the Norwe glaneriato subjection to his power, may now appear' as impolitic as it was cruel. But we may be blamed for unpleasant anticipation. Show us then, who can, n brighter prospect whereon to dwell, and hid the eyes of our weary and fainting country repose with gratulation. Our Ministers, and those who have in their hands the destinies of mankind, will not allow us any more agreeable subjects to con template. The Allies, we are told, have made their terri ble vow against BONAPARTE on the presumption— presumption with a vengeance I that we are disposed to beggar ourselves to supply them svith the means of equipment and maintenance during their march—if we do not this, they vow, as they have done before, in vain. The King of FRANCE was accompanied to Lisle by Momststat, the Dukes de Beim and ORLEANS, and some of his principal Ministers of State, with Marshal MARSIONT, at the head of a few of the Na tional Guards. The KING met seroral corps march ing to join BONAPARTE, who manifested no hostile disposition toward his Majesty, so that although the soldiers are not inclined to fight against ---RnNAPARTE, it seems that they offy no outrage against the person of their late Sovereign. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEAL, MARCH U.—Came down from the Hope, Wollner Castle, Princess Antell ley, for India, and remain in the Down! out ward bound as per last.—Arrired last eves post, three Dover Bye-Boats, with passengs Calais. WEYMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Arrived the I of Liverpool packet, with Mails from Goer Jersey.—Put Lack by contrary winds, the brook packet. FALMOUTH. MARCH Q2. —The fleet appla (b e / v i l e o ut well, there is no accident that w POUTSNIOUTH, MARCH 21.—Ssiled Isis ships Leveret. Pict*, and Sprightly, for of Franey; also three transports fcr the basing part of the 23d and 51st Regiments on board. li.ti.wrcu, 111Ancir th e and Lag Nepean vackets, with Staits from barge . Tl.e .ra ,r, Peck, with a general cal Antwerp bound to London, was run fold brig unknoon, on the Guntle?t, has her bo bowsprit broke, and is in a leaky state. On Thursday all the British Officers be the Commissariat of the army in BM4ium to proceed, without a moment's delay, t o corps to which they were respectively att.ich, The Monarchs and Ministers at the I were expected to separate and leave Vienua t before last, but the news of the landing co PARTE in France caused them to re.asFerni Sunday se'nnight, when the Duke of Weld.] was v e' ,: t u . 3TE turned off when he app gar' io p N re A s Seine towards Fontainbleau, which he mi., Sunday, being determined . , as he is repo r t e d said that the Palace which had wiinessed hi should be the first of the Royal Palaces .that • receive him in his success. This being a holiday, there were no put gains at the Stock Excbarge; such private Lions as took place in Consols were done at I Many of the English who have returned fi Gallic visit, whether on the score of curiosi economy, have paid dearly for their precipiL. is calculated that not ress.than one million and sterling have Leen left behind them, to the I loss of our own country, and the impolitic merit of our inveterate enemy. I The jewels entrueted to the custody et t chess of WELLINGTON, which have been all in an public Prints, are said to be the each party of the Duchess of Onr.XASIS. It is confidently reported that the King of made a formal request, two months ago, former residence, at Hartwell, in Buckinghamshire, I might not be disposed of for a term to au , whatever. A deputation of ttli Wine Merchants wait the CII % NCEI.!,ON of the Excuxeumt, in Do , street, tb lay before him the diminished stet ports for the last year, by which It appeared, revenue, instead of au increase of 500,0001,1 calculated upon, fell short of the antecedent duty 190,0001. All the English who held any public situations Paris came off in the coarse of Monday aft Upwards of two hundred French subjects tinction, male and female, accompanied the Family of France. Dispatches have, it is said, been received Duke de CHARTRES, containing a letter King of FRANCE in his own haul-writing. PRINcE REGENT, dated on Tuesday from A' in which, according to report, he states tt necessity of his quitting Paris, from the tot of all resistance to the Usurper by the trool the same time it is said lie signified his deter to continue on the frontiers, to establish point at which all good Frenchmen faithful Sovereign might congregate for the re-estal of legitimate authority. The above comma( were brought by the Eliza, which landed I sengers on the coast of Sussex, among whom, told, are the Duke of TARENTUM, the CHARTRES, and Sir WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, The depots of the 69th, 54th, 30th, tine ordered to Harwich, to embark and join spective regiments in Holland ; the 55th, w stand, is also under orders for embarkation land. There is to be a large embarkation of troops day at Dover. Lord EXMOUTH, it is said, is to hoist in Portmouth when the Bayne arrives, of f9B Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean ; his services be acquired. The Baron Dc MONTALAMBERT,Secretary lion to the French Jmbassy, left town on W for France. The Officers of that celebrated Regiunent, Light Dragoons, are at present bast 'snow fashionable circles by the name of the Eger tracts. A circumstance of the molt atrocious nati we are informed, recently cccUrrid.' A set respectable family at the west end of the (owl a large quantity cf arsenic in a pie AMch wt up to table, and of which the whole fami sisting of seven persons, partooli. Th shortly after W7lrdS seized with the most symptoms, medical assistance was immediati in, and ther e are hopes that none of the fai fall sacrifices to this diabolical attempt, I they are at present confined to their beds in dangerous state. On examining the dish a able quantity of arsettic was found in it; a, has been ascertained to be stolen out of a ► the master of the family's bureau, which hi the purpose of destroying rats ; and to pret accident the word arsenic was written in larg on the back of the paper in which it was CO' Suspicion is attached to a servant in the far also eat i',art of the contents of th e ' dish, as posed the better to escape detecti on, and wi confi . ited to her bed, and e4'olice Officer 1 ordered to watch over her, until she is in a to be removed to prison. the IL", die, War. ns with th e Pal vettin g aft er bas .ngets from wpm poll le Countess ettd serrrey arid Rill peo gars to ride W e hea r cf, inn thei rr the coati inft he Downs, fish its of Foot the "Auctlard pro from H am . pos :nreo, Tun a of ill of bs 14 yen )0 S Stove, and the elonging to nut had o,tlen to join th e far cited. to Cone,reet of I in the week pol of BONA. to Femble nn I;nc ELLINUTON to •oat hod the NC' acupied last nec .ted to have ale , his disaster plc that should der public her. sett ate trati , c. to at 58 f. 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