The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-08-31 00:00:00

- 1 GERMAN PAPEBS. LETRIN, AUG. 9.—The French fleet, which bad taken a position under Fort Lillo, has partly ascended the Scheldt as high u Antwerp, and ta. ken an advantageous station, free from any at tack of the enemy. French troops arrive daily at Ghent and at Antwerp. Tlit right bank of the Scheldt, from Antwerp to Bergea.op-Zoom, is covered with Dutch troops. Gi-decant Dutch Flanders is like wise covered with troops. The whole of this force Was expected shortly to be able to act on thu of. fentive. Ltoss, Jeer 26.—We learn from the shores of the Mediterrauean, that a considerable number of British transports with troops, which were for =ray In Sicily, have sailed for Gibraltar, from whence they arc to proceed to Lisbon, to rein. force the army under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley. Some detachments of the army of Gen. Stuart have been embarked, probably to return to Sicily, as the ex edition failed of success in its projects against Naples. JVLY 31.—A1l the redoubts which the Austrians had thrown up on the right bank of the Danube, between Engencau and Presburgh, have been razed. A considerable quantity of baggage has been sent to Raab. It is said the Emperor Napoleon will transfer his headquarters thither, and from thence it is inferred that the Em. peror of Austria, who is at Cornett), will have an interview with him at Raab, to treat of the condi tions of peace. Auo. 2.—Nothing certain respecting war or peace is yet known ; the price of colonial me. chandize which is brought from Trieste increases daily, as all the warehouses iu that city have been sequestrated. The Emperor continues to construct strong Wee-ale-pont on the left bank of the Danube; and every thing is prepared in such a manner that the troops may be put is motion at the first The Saxon Major-General Hartisch died ) on the 24th ult. in consequence of his wound. Auci. s.—Raab was, it is said, in the first in. ;glance fixed upon as the place for the negotiations for peace; but now they say it is to be at Aiwa. burg, in Hungary. Between the bridges facing the Spitz, a French camp is forming fur '20,000 men. The Empress of Austria ii arrivel at Comoro, on a visit to the Emperor Francis. Napoleon has visited the mountainous districts la the environs of thin capital, and did not return to Schoenbrunn before 10 at night, when he at. tended at the play of Phtedre. The bridge near Nussdorf is quite restored. Near Lieaig and Shiesig, behind Schoenbrunn, a division of French troops has occupied a camp.— (Correspondent.) • loseaucx, Auras 2.—The submission and ecru. 'Mien of the Trig goes on rapidly. General of Division Rouger, with his corps, entered Side line!) this day, without having met with any of the insurgents. He marches to-morrow fur Stet genzen, and on the 4th will enter Brizen. The Austrian Gen. De 8ie..1 has agreed to evacuate it en the morning of the 3d, and to continue his re. treat, so that on the 6th be may be at Greiffeu. boorg, in Carinthia. The Marshal :Dake of Dantzic remains with an imposing furcaot Inspetick, in order to direct from thence the whole operations, and to send troops to the points where they may be wanted. The Bavarian battalions of reserve will next week furnish considerable reinforcements. The disarm ing of the districts which are occupied continues with activity. The Duke of Dantzic yesterday issued a severe decree, by which he orders that all the arms, powder, itc. without exception shall he sent from hence by the 10th instant, to the chief towns of the bailiwicks ; the districts who do not give up their arms, or who shall retain any, shall be subject to military execution, and shall besides be punished must severely. Exact lists Shull be made out of the inhabitants under arms. All the commanders of companies are summoned to the head-quarters ; these who du nut appear by the 10th, will be treated as obsti sate rebels ; their houses pulled down, their fati ties banished for ever, their property confiscated, sect themselves tried by a military coinmiuion within twenty-four hours. The districts are made responsible for all the outrages that may be cum. witted upon the troops. This decree has been pub!ished in the Vuralberg, as also in the wallies of Pleven and Zeller. The commission appointed by his Majesty not having yet arrived at Itispruck, the Marshal Duke of aintzic has appointed two; the uue military, the other of Government. Major-Gener#l Baton Richberg presides over both. (Abeille r:s Nord, August 16.) According to advice" received yesterday, the King was on the 7th at Ossendegl, where, at this time, a considerable force of French and Dutch troops are assembling ; the environs are so full of troops, that from 100 to 15!) are quartered with each peasant; great preparations are making for the purpose of undertaking some important affair against South geveland. Tne head-quar. tcrs of his Majesty were expected at gossendehl, those of the General in Chief of the French troops are at Capi Ile. Already there is a consi. doable force between Antwerp and Williamstadt. -(ldeas, dug,. W.) The third division under General Deroy has ar. rived at lnspruck, and encamped before the city. Their march from Salzburgh, through Pinzgau and Zillertbal, over lofty muuntains, was bold and spleudid. Soldiers carried three-pounders over steep eminences, sad so secured the march of the tlivisiou. At one time they were stopped by a bridge over theSalza being broken, while on the opposite side the rebels were entrenched. The Cummanaler immediately called upon his troops to volaairtor forcing the passage ; ou which the bat fading Iluttler (light infantry rushed into the wa ter, clambered over the piles of the bridge, and notwithstanding the fire of the rebels, stormed the letreucheren.ts. The cowardly rebels fled howling, concealed theauelvcs behind bushes and rocks, from the trite covers. of these valiant assa. A painting ought to eternise the exploit. BANES or TIM Emu, Avo. 18.-98 the 12th instant, 57 prisoners of the corps of Brunswick Dell were brought bound and led by French gen d'armes ; they werein two vessels, which a French Captain of Marines, Assisted by the Danes, took possession of near Ellslette, where some Danish skippers had purposely run them aground.— Among them is the t•eorctary to the Duke, and one half of thew are menials, or drivers of the ar tillery horses. Those who were soldiers have been pardoned on condition of entering the D►vtch service ; the rest are sent to Magdeburg. The French and Danes 'stripped the Duke's soldiers of almost all their clothes, and left them nearly naked. From Holland we have no news but what is tarnished by the Gallic Batavien Journals, which arc now conducted with as much falsehood as the French Monitsur. Flushing and the Island of Walchcren will, it is hoped, remain in possession of Great Britain till a general peace. It is the Prince of Neufchatel, Alexander Bur thier, whom Bonaparte intends to make King of Switzerland. All the paragraphs in the Ilamburgh Papers about celebrating Napoleon's birthday arc in serted by the French. Not a single private house was illuminated at Ilamburgh, except the Danish Post master's. Sorrow and regret appeared on every countenance when the French Minister ordered the guns to be fired. HANOVER, Atm 15.—This being Napulcnn's birth-day, the Dutch had a grand ; the Governor, La Salcette, fiat' a grand dinner, and Te Dcum was sung... -(Currespondent.) Sr. Prrenssustou, Auc. I.—We have already received the intelligence that an armistice has been concluded between France and Austria. WARSAW, JULY 30.—8 y command of the Ern peror Napoleon, General Bronikowski is forming a Legion of the Danube, which is to consist of Austrian prisoners born in Poland. Sr. PCTLIMURGIN I JULY 29.—The day before yesterday a Ts Drum was celebrated by the French Ambassador, on account of the recent glorious victories obtained by the French armies. An English squadron continues in the Gulph of Finland ; five ships of the line and three frigates lie at anchor before Revel : as yet they have not dared to make any attack, as all fit preparations for defence have heen•made on every point. The crews of some English sloops have ventured on shore, and seized cattle and fresh provisions ; but they always retreated on the approach of troops. Several merchantmen have been taken by the English cruizers; and yet, a few clays back. two Russian vessels, which have been lying at Cron. stadt Several months, and were prohibited sailing, have received permission to leave the port. At Cronstatit several moils have arrived with goods from Tenerife. In Archangel also a great quantity of colonial wares have arrived in Arneri. WI vessel,. A Commissioner has been appointed for the ..zamination of the ship's papers of neutral vessels arriving at Archangel. Two days bs•fore the Emperor returned hither, on the '234, from Finland, the Minister fur Fo. reign Affairs, Count Romanzuw, had arrived from the same province. Kt:mewl, Ava. o.—The Voralberg insurgents, who were hitherto in possession of the mountains and woods to the south of this place, have sud denly returned to their homes, amid loini curses of their leaders and the Austrians. Only a few hands of vagabonds ramble about, intoxicated with brandy, and plunder the hamlets and detached houses. At Rentz all the persons from th, Iller district, who bad bees arrested by the insurgents as suspected persons, and dragged thither, have teen set at liberty, with the declaration, flat as ail resistance was over, they might go where then pleased. To-morrow Gen. Picard proccods with a considerable force to the Voralberg. LISDAU t Auo. s.—lnjelligence being received, that an army of 30,000 Bavarians and French. men had entered the Tyrol, and had already ad. •aoced to Inspruck, yesterday the Voralberg in surgents stirrendered at discretion. The notori ous Dr. Schneider himself went to the Bavarian advanced guard, within a league of Uregens, and delivered in a written act of submission, from the collected deputies from the province ; he demeaned himself very humbly, and appeared to be full of a ppreheusiun. PAllli, AUG. B.—M. Dc Champagny has just set out fur Raab, to fix the last basis of the peace. Ann. 10.—Letiers from Bayonne state, that the English have dibetabarked at Alicant some detachments, with much ammunition, artillery, VIENNA, Auo. s.—lt is said that an English Agent has appeared at the headquarters of the Archduke Charles, but he could nut obtain an audience. Com, AUG. 11.—Letter from his Excellency the Minis►er of the Interior to the Pretext of the Ocker Department:— " filoNsteua Paiarscr„ "Cassel, Aug. 5, 1809. I' His Majesty the King, our most gracious Sovereign, has heard with the greatest satisf4cttou of the casket of the is habitats's of his good town of Brunswick, during the short abode of the Duke of Oels there, and be has desired me to express this to you. You conducted yourself iu that affair like nn upright and loyal subject of the King. " 1 'end you a copy of a Decree, which will spew the good irlytbitains of Brunswick with what di►pleasure his Ma jesty heard of the vile promise which was made to his troops. Certainly every Officer would have paid with his head for the slightest injury dose to the inhabitants. Soldiers protect and defend pawed citizeos. Only robbers allow themselves to plunder. " Cive the greatest publicity to his Majesty's sentimenta towards har kood town of Bruasoiek. I caugratulate mv•elf. on having received the command to communicate this to sou, and to assure you persoaally of the satisfaetion of his Majesty. " I remw the assaraaces of my perfect esteem, ( 1 0/4) " V. WOLFRADT, Mislay of the Interior." Arrived. Malls. bee. 1.. 1 Dobbs .... 0 O ✓ Gottenhurgh .... .l 0 , Malta I PRICK OF STOCKS rills 3 perCol.Cona. 681 $ per C COIL Red 614 I I r ad Sai Navy 99i Confab for Acc....41 THE STATESMAN. THE STATESMAN. DAY AP ONE O'CLOCK. Oniniom prem. Long. Ann.... IM* Rich. b. 164. pron. Indio 11t0d5,202. Its. pron. Lottery Tickets. ill. 17s. FROPOSITI TENAX. LONDON: THURSDAY, AUGUST 31. --..m...- W E have at length arrived precisely at that point of failure and disaster which has long been fare seen by such as chose to erase their under standings. Our Expeditij t the Scheldt returns to England—unsucceslul. Our gallant army in the Peninsula indiguantly retires before superior uumbers—and Ischia and Procida, in the Bay of Naples, are evacuated by Sir Jour SWART. Thus have failed all our Expeditions—and the efforts, we blush to use the term, of England have had no more influence on the contest in Ger. many, than the Protest and excommunication of the el-dermal Pope, now reduced to his pastoral and pristine simplicity of character, a mere Bishop!!! Of those who weakly avert their eyes from that on which they dread to look—.who prefer the fa. brications—the fallacies—the delusions...the con. tradictions—and the absurdities of the Nabob's Morning Post—The Timm.—.The Courier...- and the whole tribe of hirelings, we implore their attention to the real state to which England is at last reduced. Observations, applicable to the af. fairs of common life, are nut less so to those of nations, and we all know, that when an iadivi. dual refuses to examine his real situation, des. truction invariably follows. England, in extent of surface, and in population inferior, but in point of actual power, possessing, as she dua l the Ocean—certainly euperfor to even the colos sal power of France—after having goaded that kingdom to war, has absolutely failed la every effort to restrain her power—and it is ne longer possible to doubt that Naeottos now reigns paramount over the entire Continent of Europe. Peace with Austria can no longer be doubtful. In the prospect of this event we cer. tainly feel satisfaction, from our 6r :n conviction that the reuewal of hostilities would have led, and that most speedily, to the absolute extinction of the Austrian Monarchy. Whatever may be the delusive expectations of the impossibility of re straining commerce, the crisis is approaching with accelerated velocity in which the Continent of Eu rope, as to our commerce, will be hermetically sealed. Then, and not till then, will the people of England be taught, that a too widely extended commerce cannot eoufer permanent power on any nation. The contest in which England is now struggling, is specifically a war for commerce. Do we approach the object for which we drew the sword ? Is that object, in the belief of any man of ordinary understanding, now attainsble by the further efforts of England ? We have persevered until NAPOLEON has surrounded himself, as Mr. ' Sinai na s most truly observed, with thrones...- Ho has Monarchs for his centinels.—They are fixed, immoveably fixed; and Louts on the Scheldt, JOACHIM in Naples, and Jon'', in Spain, will, in spite of all our efforts, reign %here N !OLSON has placed them. England must at last return to that peace which she wantonly broke —and there can be no passible consequences resulting from peace, which may not he antici. pated by a continuance of war. NAPOLEON will acquire ships, commerce, and colonies ; land suppose he does, is not the world wide enough for us all ? Is it possible that an Island in the Western part of Europe shall be able per manently to maintain that monopoly, against which not only France, but also all Europe is contending? Vain hope! Because we have spent some hundred millions in war, nothing will do but that those whom we cannot subdue, shall contribute to pay their shares of our expen diture. That In fact is the true state of the case. 4, We owe 700 millions ; how can we pay the into. " rut without trade, and how can wo have trade " if we make Peace." To this we would simply ask, what trade will you have in twelve months if the war is not terminated ? Where are , we to fight next ? Suppose the Isles of France and Bourbon in the East—and Guadalnupc in thel West Indies, to be in our possession...that even all intercourse bet wan Asia, America, and A frica shall I be interdicted to the Coutinent of Europe. Will that interdiction diminish the power of NAPOLEON and his tributary Emperors and Kings ? The hope is vain. England bas always been formidable—and is now more capable of defending herself against any effort that may be made by NA roue° e, than the was in the reign of ELISANETII.—Tho power and military reputation of Spain at that period, bore a strong resemblance to that of France at this moment. Nothing so certainly tends to con. esilidate, invigorate, and extend the power of Krause as war, and nothing would so certainly dispose her people to a peesseeot peace, as ship!, colonies, and commerce. The intelligence received from Lord Wittrirc. von contains no information of which we were not before possessed. Ire was at Deleitera on the Bth. It is the opinion of well-informed persons, that If he has the geod fortune to conduct the British army to a point of embarkation, Went: will be more conspicuously displayed than in any former action of his life. Ten SPANIARDS ARE ROOTEDLY AVERSE TO rllr PRESIIKCE OF A BRIT/SU AP.MY IN SPAIN. ThIS is an important fact, of which wo hare not the smallest doubt. The Spaniards arc jealous of our presence in Spain...and the appointment of Lord WELLING - run, as Generalissimo—ha s finally ruined the cause.....the Spaniards arc no longer unanimous—they are a divided people. Ix is at length discovered that the Expedition was undertaken on erroneous information.--tio Ur from the Dutch receiving us with open arms, as the City Ncgociant, who furnished Ministers with that futile intelligence led them to believe, the Dutch huts us with the spirit of an envious rival ; our commerce has risen on the ruins of that of Holland, once pre.etniiient. We have destroyed thtir navy, captured their colonies, ruined their trade... and expect to be received with open arms ! ! !... We boasted of what could be effected by corn. merce—Franco saw it—all Europe saw it—and the Continent of Europe determined to have m 3. nufactures and commerce. There is room enough for all. We Lave capital, experience, ingenuity, and industry, and may have happiness and com. fort by peace—inevitable, certain misery by war. The German Papers coutain no positive infor mation of peace—but that event is pat beyond all doubt. The French troops inundate, and will now ultimately suldtsgate•Spaia.—Turkey is doomed to fall, and a conjoint effort of France and Russia is certainly meditating against India.—That the destruction of our monopoly in Asia is the interest of all Europe, we think no one will be found sufficiently hardy to deny. To the list of European Monarchs is to bo added ALEXANDER BERTNIER, who, from Prince of Ncerca.txxt., it appears, is destined by NAPO. J.gaN to reign over the countrymen of WILLIAM TELL ! and the once free Republicans of Holland and of Switzerland, may now exclaim... Tetnpora mutilator et not costumer in England herself now stands upon a precipice, more imminently dangerous than any to the brink of which she has ever yet been driven by her M. nister, or by her passions—and nothing but the voice of tho people—log(lly, irresi3tibly ex. pressed, can save her! In thus avowing uur sentiments on thereat state of Engla.l , l, we have abstained from learning Mi nisters. The change of Ministers we deem ;utterly unimportant. The present are, perhaps, as good as those who might succeed them under Mc pre. seat system—for it is by a total change of system and public sentiment that Enitlas4 can alone bo saved. It wag reported in the City yesterday, That C. moment had acceded to a proposition front Prance and Austria, to lend an Ambassador to a, Congress, to be held fur the purpose of :legalist ing a general peace. Lord Sr. Her.rm's was said to be actually nominated for this purpose. The report excited a considerable sensation in the City, and perhaps had its origin in some Stock-jobbing speculation. A most improbable rumour is current on the Continent, that the Archduke CHARLES was to be engaged on a mission to ALEXANDER, to ap prise that Potentate of the danger of his situation, from his subservience to BONAPARTE ) and of the necessity of his joining in the common cause of Germany, to resist the encroachments of NAro. LEON, who was endeavouring to extend his empire from the White Sea to the Easteru Shores of the Mediterranean. Letters from Spain of a late date, Mention that Dun Tnostas MoULA, who delivered Madrid up to the French, ■as killed in the battle at Talavera de la Re•yna. The Monarch, Resolution, Ajax, Hero, and Revenge, of 74 guns each, arrived on Tuesday at Portsmogih, with about three thou'and pri soners on board, being part of the garrison of Flushing. They are to be confined on board ships now preparing fur their reception at Ports mouth. Yesterday morning Sir SIDNEY SMITH had a long conference with Lord MULGaATE, at his mi.. dence at the Admiralty. On Thursday the remains of Lord 11. STI:4 RT, who died lately at Waiderskare-house, were con. veyed through Canterbury with great funeral pomp, fur interment at Cardiff Castle, in Gia. morganshire. . . . Curd Fot.surosa is on a visit to his friends in the county of Norfolk. The following letter has been received by a House at Liverpool, from Sicily :- " 6 MESSINA, JULY 17.—With respect to poli. tical events in this quarter, von have, no douht, heard of the taking of the two islands of Ise hia and Proeida by our forces under Sir J. Ste RT. As yet there is no prospect of his making a des cent upon Naples or the coast. The lower part of Calabria, which has been open a short time, is again shut against the English. All must depend upon the success of Austria, from e heucc w e have no late *moats."