The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-17 00:00:00

STATESMAN . . Tilat the embarkation, if any longer delayed, might expectation of rudest reinforcements from Sicily, be prevented by a change he the weather, or by the this did not appear to him to be a stifficient excuse for activity of the enemy. That he had, after deducting his not hevingenade early prepatations tb save his 2000 men to cover the store', on ly 16,000 men in guns, if a retreat became necessary. As to the third the whole, to meet an army of the best French sop- charge, he should leave that to the gallant Admiral sliers in the service. That, as it was impossible to 'who was the presecutor in it. The facts were, how storm Tarragona, and so much depended on the ever proved, of a very precipitate embarkation of safety of his army, he had deemed it prudent to ,the army, with the loss of the artillery and stores. raise the siege, and only regretted that he had not It remained for Sir John Murray to show that this done so at an earlier period.. That no blame - what- precipitation was necessary, and the loss unatoidable. _ ever was imputable to:Admire! Ifellowell, but that He believed that the fact was, also, that Gen. Co he had thought the risk ten great to adopt his pops had no notice of his intention, until the guns h:s seggestioo, of waiting a no ti mr day to bring off . were already spiked, anti n great part of the army on bis ordnence, the importance of wt'ich he did not board. It appeared that he had sent off the field ar (leek ought to be pat in the scale with the safety ef t tillery at lialageer, anti left the heavy artillery and the force under his command. But why had Sir ; stores behind him, notwithstanding that Adm. Hal+ Jahn Murray, after receiving the information oft towell hart promised and engaged to bring them safely which he had been in possession for some days on , off, if sufficient time were allowed him. Whether good authority, delayed sti long to raise the siege, I the delay proposed by the gallant Admiral was coll ate, even continued to the last hour to land artillery sistent with the circumstances in which Sir J. M. was and stores? Another letter of the same date served I placed, or supposed himself to he placed, was asubject to show the fluctuating opinion of the Commander- for the most serious consideration of the Court. It in -Chief, and admitted that the enemy had not acted had been already observed, that the Dukeeof Welling with the expected rapidity. Then followed the dis- ton, not satisfied with the details furnished by Sir patch to Berl bathurst, and a long eaplanetion, J• Murray, had also ordered the Spanish General addressed to Lord Wellington, in obedience to Copons to give his account of the operations at the . Lis request to have minute information of the pro- siege of Tarragona. General Copons had sent a brays of the siege, and the whole operations of the diary of the operations, which was then in his pos difleretst cups since the time of disemberkation. All session; but as he feared that he could not make this , these documents he (Mr. Larpent) submitted to the legal evidence, he should, at present, abstain from , Corot furnished no joetificatiou for the delay of the any observations on its contents. It was impossible • General io minting to aelecision of such vital moment for him to foresee in what manner Sir J. Murray . both to the safety of. the army and the ultimate sac- 'would shape his defence: but from the letters which , cess of the other object of the expedition. Neither had already been read, he thought it evident that be . did they eectelpale his cundect in not returning im- retied a good' deal on the thirteenth paragraph of , nowliately to Valencia, where the French were then Lord Wellington's general instructions, in which his reduced to 111000 men.. S:r John Murray had iu Lordship said, that he would forgive any thing, ex . fact, in his letter to Lord Bathurst, sae kteu his own veil having the fate of the next campaign risked by . condemnation, for he there ascribed to a misplaced any of the corps of the army being defeateu or dis anxiety the defect.of all the plans which he bad been persed. It did not appear to hint that Sir J. Murray entrusted to execute. Another later to Lord Wel- 'should have considered this part of the instructions as • lingtou contained • still more detailed statement of directed particularly to himself. It would rather ap. all the circumstances which had influenced Sir J. pear that this was meant for the Spanish Generals, Murray hs the course Which be had pursued, tie. who, from a too great reliance on the quality of the that there was no pant trapped to which, in case of troops they commanded, had frequently exposed their a reverse, he could retreat; whilst the enemy had divisions to the ?anger of being defeated and de. strong fortresses behind him, and was mach superior stroyed. Lord Wellington conceived that the prin . to him in every respect, except in ordnance; that cipal advantage of the Spanish troops over the French General Copons bed been unable to afford him any could only be from having a superiority of numbers, assistance; acid that he had delayed to Feist the siege and he wished them always to preseve this superiori .so long, in the Confident expectation of reinforce- V. How could that paragraph be a defence to him ments, &e. That he bad also been disappointed in for persevering in the siege of Tarragona, when he the hope of receiving some additional strength from could have no hopes of taking it, or for re-landing Lord William Bentinck, and had, under such a cam- his army on the 13th at Balaguer ? This paragraph leisation of disadvantages, taken that step that pru- was so far from being a defence to him, that it being th•tore appeared to him to prescribe. evident that Lord Wellington attnched so much to lie then read the statement of General Sachet's the not suffering any of the corps to be defeated or force, •as it appeared from the papers of King Jo- dispersed, it was clear that next to the loss of the men reply, which fell lute the hands of Lord Wellington. i themselves, there was nothing whi c h c ou ld b e m ore dis . his this statement, which was drawn up by the I t ressing than the loss o f all that h eav y ar till er y, w ith ou t which the corps could not be effective in a n y sieg es that French General St. Cyr, it appeared, that the grandl tot e of Suchet's army in Valencia, including a corps he might direct. The loss of this artillery was peculiar of XXV, which bad been sent to Tarragon% and ly important, from the great difficulty of replacing it many small garrisons, amounted to 260300 men, of itt Spain. Admittiug that from this paragraph, he was which 2,817 weir cavalry. Upon the documents { Justified its refusing a battle, and making a preci which had been read, it was his duty to submit to pitate retreat, how could he be justified in re-land • the Court, that, although it did not appear that any rug the army, and exposing it again to the same dif thing more could have been done on the Bth or 9th, ficulties and risks, when there was no apparent ob e et, that • ]act for such conduct, either for any advantage to been seta upon the 10th, every effort should have e by hint, arid every preparation made for . be expected against the enemy, or for supporting the removing the artillery sod stores. That wu the honour of the British arms ?—After a few more °b olero incumbent upott.hims front the knowledge he , serrations, the Deputy Advocate-General concluded . had of the difficelties. of the embarkation, and the by apologizing for the lrugth of his statement, and consequent danger of delay. Sir John Murray had for any errors in it which might proceed from Ms been fully convinced in his own mind of the impos- own inexperience. Ile had stated nothing against Sir sibility 'of taking Tarragona, Defoe) he had been ,J. Murray more strongly than be conceived himself . landed tweuty.fear hours. The principal engineer ; bound by his duty to do. had giveu his opiuion .that the place could not bel [rhe only witness which he called was Captain , taken in less than fourtems or fifteen days, and , Zenthenin. The object of calling him, was to prove this was a length of time that it would be evident- the communications with Gen. Copons.] ly imprudent to venture to remain there. After he Charles Joseph Zenthenin, being examined, said, b a d made his eem e at t oe to raise th e s i eg e, th e that he was a German by birth, and a Lieutenant in -days of the 10th and 11th ought to have been em- the regiment of Meuron. He acted in Catalonia in , played in providing for the safe embarkation of the , the capacity of Military Agent. Ile was di s p a t c h e d . artillery and stores, as well as of the army. Ott ' on the night of the Ilth, to inform the Spanish Ge. the contrary, it appeared that Sir J. Murray per. Beret Ovens, that in the morning Sir John Murray - witted the lauding of artillery, ammunition, and would send him six battalions, and to point out what position he was to take. He vs., sto place his troops . stores up to the very moment when he ordered the 1 vo.smbarkation of the troops. From the details of • itt the left. General Copo ns simply answere d hi m ON operations of the 3d of June, it appeared that !" Very well."—lle had afterwards forwarded a let. the disembarkation could be completely erected in ter to him on the 15th, but had no copy of it, and did . one day ; and he was, therefore, at a loss to see not know its contents. . what it was that made the re-embarkation impossible, f Sir John Murray desired the witness to be asked, without leaving the artillery and valuable stores be- whether hiked not desh-ed him to inform General hind. Ile should not make many observations upon Copons of his intention of raising the siege? the detailed accounts given of the siege, but should Capt. Zenthetein answered "He did not, according simply observe, that no artillery had been brought to to the best of my recollection." bear against the body of the place till the night of The Deputy Anvoctere-Gsesetter. then closed the case on the first and second charges; and sqM that he relied on the evidence of the letters which had been read, and which had been admitted by Sir J. Murray. The Overt thew asked Admiral Hallowell whether lie was prepared to make any statement retpecting the third charge? t Admiral llallowell said, that as hwhadlnever be fore heard of - the second letter of Lord Wellington which had been read tide day, nor of the d e t a il e d answer to it by Sir J. Murray, which answer sp_ el pea red to him to throw so m e re flecti ons . Abe naval ca isi part of the servic e , h e w i s h e d t o h ave of these letters, or to be allowed to peruse llutit,' and take extracts, before he made his *tawniest- f. • Sir J. Murray said, that he did not baby how far it would be iu legal form to communicate this evi. deuce to the Admiral. lie should supped* that, es a Prosecutor,, it was his business to hate some pre pared. lie, however, never had inten4ed to throw the slightest reflection on the conduct of the naval part of the service. All he had meant ti state was, that 'from the limited number of guts:vessels, and some of them having been left at Lialaguer, these had been no actual co-operation of the naval part of the foree in the attack of Tarragoee,., until the 10th. He had sio objection, howeveriilthe Coirt thought proper, that those letteswihquill S Corp. municated. . . The Court then permitted. Admiral. , Ifejlotesill ie. peruse the letters which had been give", in evallstill t . and adjourned. Admiral Hallowell wall seat ilardts his statement, and enter upon the third charp t* '• the 10th. As Sir J. Murray must have known at that time, that eit bout the assistance of General Copoit,' corps of Spaniards, he could not bring more than 0,000 men against Sachet, Ise tweet have then known that it was impossible fur him to take Tarragona, and should have initeediately taken measures for the safe re-embarkation of the artillery and stores, ar well as of the army. ile had also to s;tte, that, in poi n t of fact, the French had not ad . vaneed as f;r as Verdril, but had fallen back upon hear leg of s;r arri..al in the Bay of Item. He s'n,ul.l u w proceed to the consideration of the se cond charge. As to the conduct of Sir J. Murray after the siege wits raked, he bad beets positively directed by hi, instrUiliJil, to return immediately to Va!eneia, for the attai meet of an object specifisally pointed oat to him. It seems that So J. Murray was not sutficieittly impressed with the importance of ad hering to his instructions. lie violated both the • letter and the spirit of those instructions ; for, in stead of immediately returning to Valencia, he re. landed the army at tillaguer on the 13th and I4th of June, awl was still in that neighbourhood when Lord W. Ilentiiick arrived eu the 17th. The dues _ lion then would be, had he any sufficient motive for thus deviating from his instructions? Sir J. Murray had stated, that ;tichet Lad the advantage of being :Ode to retreat in safety whenever lie pleased.— %Vliat; then, could be the obiect of re-landing Me i whole army at Baleg . uer ? He was himself, from , experience, fully satisfied of the tfiErulties and . dangers of re-embarking them. Why, thee, did be , .aeriin expose them to this danger, when, according to his opinion, nothing could be done against Sachet, w:io had a secure retreat ?If he had obeyed his in- I Mr. PdAcuEA Dv, from Rada, is engaged at Coyest strirtipu., he.would have been in Valencia on the garden, and will shortly maks his appearance In 17th, whereas he was then at Bataguer. As to the Romeo. .646Acs. TO MORROW THE LOTTERY BEGINS—THE FIRST TICKET DRAWN A PRIZE ABOVE ,k2b,_ WILL nixtival .00,0110 IN ADDITION, AND MAY PROVE A PRIZE OF £30,000." Ar of . Mails, Due Lisbon t 0 llamburgh • 3 1 0 PKICH OV STOCKS THIS Sank per Cent. Rat 633 U per Cent. Cam 651 4 pr Cents. 13211 6 per Cent. Navy 94a DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK Long. Ann. 16 7-16 a India Bonds 18 19 p Exchequer Hill, 5 Y p thallium lit d Consols fur Ace. 663 i THE STATESMAN. • !..,„ • .s.fr• 4° - *stew has been under the necessity of hazarding a rewire to get away. We are not aware of the nature of the arguments his Lordship has been using in protest; • es 'Or opposing, as he is represented to have done, ti,;. unprincipled pretensions of the Royal abusers o f the pbrase " natural rights" and " natural limits ;" but we do think there is something palpably base in one Power's requesting to be restored to the stater 71. 0 ante helium at the expence of the rest, and refusing to admit the just title of the others to the same at gual..et. If all the other Powers would agree,or could be brou , ,4.t to return to the same stains, if they would I,ace thernselyes, or could be placed in the sitticiou is which the Revolution found them at its commence. ment, then indeed there would be something like jt.s. tice in the claims of the Demanding Po n er. : but there is the reason or justice in the scntidaions and inflated desire of those Powers, who, profe-sing to be the restorers of right and liberty, use clew ofd; only, and invoke nature, and Heaven, to sduction wrong and robbery ; and who seek to rebuild their greatness, lost by their cern ' cupidity, on the misfortune of others. A conduct like this c an lead to no good. It Will change *iteration into contempt, and pleasure into grief and indigna. tion. It is observed in the accounts that siree the discussions between the principal Powers hare assumed a serious o character,. the Sovereigns are not disposed to dance and drink as they used to do.— —Prince M ETTEUNICH, the Am. trian Minister, the best bottle companion of any of the diplomatic corps, prepared a .AOE/AM entertainment on the 26th, to which the Sovereigns were invited, but they did not accept the invitatioe. If these accounts are true, we may expect, in verity, speedily to hear the report of the breaking up of the Congress confirmed. LONDON: .11JVIDAY, JANUARY 17, 18.15. We stated yesterday that affairs at the Congress of Vienna are assuming a serious aspect. Those Sovereigns who proclaimed themselves the guardians of national rights, and the renovators of national liberty and law, wh'm ee supported in their march to conquest, :Ind stilt support with men anti money, ere now fw , Alitnirig to give us the proof d their dis interested pro fescions. We have mentioned that Our confiding i4l inister had at length becamealarmed, nest warm, and filially had drawn a furious quill of remonstrance ag rinse the system supported by Russia and Prussia. which the very consistent Courier so mach commends. There are various versions of the cootenrq of this Note presented by Lord CASTLE.. REAcn on the VOL It is now asserted that his Lordship peremilorily insisted on a decision of nil the great questions at isgue, within a fortnight, and that he had limited his departure to the expiration of that period, the 11th inst. The discnssion of this ' ' demand had produced a greater degree of dissension ! Yesterday afternoon a King's Messenger arrived than had existed previously; and some reports have at the• Foreign thlice, with dispatches from Viscount gone so far as to state that, in consequence of the CA STILEREAGH, at Vienna. avowed determination of Russiv and Prussia not to re- ! By the Dutch Mail we have advices from Peters. lax in their demands, and this resolution of the British - instant. The Exhange at the former was ~ burghto the 21st December, and from Hamburgh Minister, to the sth who is joined in Ids resistance by the ,at 11 15-10th's. At'llamburgb cotton hail fallen '2O French and Austrian Plenipotentiaries, the Cougress per cent. in consequence of the American Peace, and had broken up. Another account says, that the the Elbe was frozen op. Ministers of England, Austria, and France, have! Mee STUART,. lesq, of the Colonial D'partmeut, . . ''contented themselves by recording their protests.—. ,is an kis way to America with a duplicate of the rata- What ! are the representatives of the three greatest ; find T r eaty of Peace. . The Palled Rtaawr bee. beets . graci ously pleased European nations, of England who is maintaining the • toconfer the eacant 'Gram Ribband on Lord Ea . i , menacing host, so far cowed by the bullying of . two sKINE, assn mark of his special regard, that Noble. Northern Powers, the one of whom was, the other • man having-been above 30 years in his personal es day, sinking to his Electoral insignificance, perhaps i tablisliteint as Prince of WALES. to nothing ; and the other was, by th e vigour of a I It is 'nitrite that any application was made to Mr. WHlM:tar 4,0 from any persons iu the town of Liver single strm, in imminent danger of being sent to : ' pool to represent theta.. It is perfectly known that Siberia, or of taking rule from a Conqueror!—are that excellent person is so invariably attached to hit these late swoln Powers become so irresistible in their 7 en ! ) . and consistent friends, the Electors of Bad borrowed might, that the other Continental States, ~ford, that no offer, however flattering to himself, with Great Britain besides, must limit their objec- : would be accepted by him. is, : .,_,The High Sheriff of Carmsrthenshire has appointed i lions to whatever plans of aggrandisement theSe two i a county Meeting to be held at the Town-Ball, may form to protests? We cannot believe, re- carmarthen, on Monday next, to take int o conside ration as we have been by the most extravagant im- policy, that we are come to this. Our new king- t-tha renewal of the Props arTax. dom of H -- aeover e name it met. What will become A 'Meeting has bees calliel by the Mayor of 14- werponl, te considet of the propriety of petitioning of it if FREDERI (Ai, who lately did us the honour o f Parliament against continuing the P r operty Tea, en. a visit, to see with his own eyes, as a Judge says, what situation we were in—shall take it into hi s h ea d 1 der any modification whatever. 1 A recent instance of the true Boroughmongeristet that such an arondissement is as highly requisite as i system is now Before us. A Gentlemen gives a vie any other-of the territories he claims for his indemni- I loable consideration for a close Borough, and the fication ? This kingdom;this feather that now waves ' Proprietor procures for the Member's son the office so proudly over the brow of English royalty, that , of Receiver-General for the C oun ty. The Redoqbtabk, a fine new 74, gun-drip, built i n has bowed to every blast, and hailed s ucce s s i ve l y as ... i Woolwich dock-yard, is n o w com pl e tely finished ; its sovereign Austria, possitt, and JEROME MINA. ire t re are stages and booths erect lig on each side for PA RTE, may be considered as necessarily and justly t the accommodation of the company expected to bo coming within the limits of the Prussian dominion as • present at her launching, which, we understand, is Saxony and the countries lying on the Lower Rhine, fixed for Monday next. the Meese, and the Moselle, where the Prussian I By the arrival of a merchant ship direct from Hayti, we have received a d v i ce , f rom C ape H enry army have taken their positi o ns. " We wish that , ' Prussia , to the 29th of November, near l y a mont h more re may succeed in all her de man d s ." says the i cent in date than any which had previously reached Courier, without knowing any thing of these de- ! this country. It would appear that the general im mantis, or how far the gratification of the ambition I pression of an attack by the French on the king •of that Power may aim at the annihilation of our 1 dom of Hayti was still co n fide n tly en t er t a i ne d I Continental influence, and at o bt a i n i ng w h a t F at . at : the above period. • The approach of a French i foratefor that purpose was e rr o ne o us ly su p pose d melee the Gitear thought hi s coun t ry , w i t h ou t a will but that of its Sovereign, should be, the dictator defence Ito be . near at hand, and adequate means for were preparing in consequence. Some dis . of the Continent. Does the Courier imagine that I , patches, which had recently fallen into the hands' of Prussia needs this sort of pushing on to put her feet ; King Helmer, 'had left un doubt io his mind as to the on the necks of the oth er C on ti nenta l Priem over i real intentions of the French Government to make What she has rime by brute violence at on e I the attempt of gaining 'possession of the country by , i f orte, provided it failed in the way of negociati on . time, and the most speci ous ar t s at anot h er r I rile Commissioner Wawa, one of those seat Is the Courier such an enemy to repreSentative Sas- Iby the Provisional French Government, to leans tems that it could see with pleasure, not only the ! the disposition of the Haytian Chiefs, was not independence of the German States, yet undignified I suffered.to depart from 'the island, •and remained by the title of Kingdoms, sunk in the absolute me- iin 0 4 iiikuas of Pni Truustr- ife appears t& have catchy of Prussia, but the Duke of CAMERI DC a and c ." 4 " 4 et i himself with as j". bell i m is a lijSs his col his, l eague L AVAYSSE. Th e' rung . received h im on his Parliament put to the route by a detachment of first teed* with all the respect • due to an ambassa- Prussians, merely because France, at a fulure.pe- or / be t (f a ding t ; that the. Depety paid bias no re , riod, may quarrel with his PRUSSIAN MAJESTY ? ! spect itt return, hedeelinect entering 'into any, nego , Much as we are of our ancestor's opinion, that thel dation, with him, or hearing what he bad to say; less we have to do in Continental di s p u t es th e b etter, ! "fid' on his wishing to lea v e th e 'l s l an d, p erm i ss i et , we should really be sorry to bear of th e di sso l ut i o n sit s refused him to depart. of that system, o f re p r e sentat i on w hi ch his R I al oyd Letters have been received di rec t from Lima, of the Ist of 'August at Which time-that place was in Highness the eikixot .REGENT of Engla n d h as bee n the hands o f th e old Goveimmesit -witheettbe least graciously pleasecrto 'vouchsafe to his German sub- [appearanee of 4(.44 widest re O n. , the ..contrasy, a jecti; and mniii- more to hear of another Royal :•Simish 7 4 a sloop, of war, -and sack ethic woofs, Duke of oats boasted line taking hastily to horse, I had beta sent front Lima on au wspedltlen to Chili, owl' leafing ids kingdom behind him at the sight oft t ?' lbbd " t he "Y r g e,6lsin " II f i bligt( i r ' • . 1 A new J u l iet, we understnnd, ie coming out at an invading...oNp 6 4 A horse I a horse ! tn kiseedons for a horse 11 , My Lord . CAsTLEREAGI y i 1 ttutri)h-elfihnaes.nSei:erhipyeriftiZmedilinionilialnuytirsutaLge,Vbenbt belie,. , end Mr. hard-hearted C o urier, how could : you h ear ! spoken of with great co nfid ence as pas eas i ng ii sweet and me l o di ous vo i ce, w i t h i utellikuce and another English Pri n ce calling out this and nnt'give par l i ' s he ,s lflotten . tot sensibility. '• as some th isig very molting upon the occasion ? Venlig, we are 'informed in the Bat his f.derdship is now, it 'teems, inclined to [ Papers, is indisposed, and her recovery is ex. bestir himself in the way of defence, or matters ..petted with so much the more impatience as she ttni ) have really become so very urgent et beset, that 'ha , bnorning every. thy more civilised. • } . . • i .q , !~