The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-09-12 00:00:00

.. I I JACKSON'S raAvta.s IN AMIGA& 7 1 .111 f; STATESMAN. • r.- • . _ titurodal TbNAX. ~. „ ...111111114%.„iso Just pabitsned, • • Dedicated, Iy Perusissi.a. to !its Rfrial 111;glisiess Virt• /MING I. or WALE'S, la one Volgine. Quirt • ilfu-tra.rd int nirseets Map as/ Kaiak, price. t,rnKai amt. la ,llutsrds. • ripRAVKLi to AIARW:CO, SOU rit BAR. AL BAR Y, cud arr.,* tn.. VELAS iIOUN rAINs. pr - forated, nt ditf-Tent Perioels, durinA a ktesklestee of ststeen • Years in That Cuts try, by JiI.OKSPN; Terther aka a Kull At cou.it of 4lie Anina.t6„ Plants. as yam' s , "Hier Natural Perdu:U.4s liP the kinttlum of Ma nacre aid an Accurate Slateuseut, from wprum Uuettttt.. t/ at the ' !especial Ca.turn-nouse, of the CON It or hiu- G.timit.— re mit ch added, an latereainr .wd Inure accu rice de.eriptiuttkla OR, ewer yet been pabinbed, of the Si 111111111M, EXtrglg, IniaahltAnt4, and Custncac6 of the (,real 4uponag# 4if Cestrel Africt.7'l AlßU(:l•t)t ). . Tide • %T•ork sa c..busab a fuel As:oval ..f the 1I , )11 t- Q A KtLIG/UMi it rtati..o un the Arabic Littftsayte, gnii.timi not taitliaefeitce at Panctuattuu bet Necfl the Eastern and Western Arab, i and at 6,•UArionical Ebutlatiou ul wan p.ir of aitteecto a..luatawn. S 14 b y G. and W. Nicol, Iduaksellensto has Majesty, Pall Mall. • SEVOND EDITION, Prlee 7i, 6d...ewed, ilborated %tilt a colaared Map of /Ha . slootaa, puiutiug out the late of Territory. iiAS INDIA H.EGIATER. and DI AL HECTOR Y for 1I 3 0 r rwrr ctert 4i the 15th August, can tied.% tile Cinupatv's Estatitiotnnents at none and .brad, witty Vie rast..lties that have occurred Mote the last pubtli went. Yarmot Rules 410 Regulations respectin,; the L:otupaity's Service, and mach tither useful loformation. it) JOHN MATHISON anJIII.I.X. WAY MASON, of toe Secr•lary's Office, La.t India House. Sold by Mark, 1 4 .,rry, and Laadeaball-street acrd J. Hatt-lard, Nu. ISO. thiera.lllls. A n .-+.. %14i11). Due. 1 ,..•.,•• Dublin • • • aterfuril.• ••• " • 1 ...... ... . Matta.." ••• 0 L'ltii. s. oie mt' .c.KS lllib dAy Ai OALOTLOCK. 3.perCeut.Cion9. 6S* 1:isell. 111b.ffw lb. plea. Auvy .. .....bt'e _ . l India bobs IS& cow& for Ace....t.g Lowey Tick/141k 179. 0,...,1u ...... ...i pre..s. LU 1): . 0 N : TUESDAY. st.rri.sisEß 12. Ir any ennsid 'ration can tend to aggravate the disastrous iss.ie of our E‘livilitions, it is, that while ti l e army lls hastily retreating -in Portugal, the Apatiiards ift the o v ii-•-iie extremity d the Peninsula are really giving iffi• ieut proofs of that s;:irit i.f mist ince, the total absents° of *lila, Lot d IVELLINGTOY 10 unequivocally announers.—Greally as is our general mis trust of Spanish accounts, those from .-trrogoa end Catalonia have been usually :parked by a diferenee as striking as that by which 00 &Fort/ of tbuse provinces have been distinguished from the Northern and Western divisions of the Peninsula. The &fence of Saragossa, of Rotas, and of Gerona, uave really dipinyod those sonar. sirs, of which the other part, of the Peninsula hare only boasted.—Drum these considerations, it is reasonable to give credit to the statement of a fact, annotiwced in a Spailiali paper, called the Correia tie .1 arde of the 28th of last month—ln a letter, elated Ganef, 21st July, it is stated, that " Doctor 1 6 IiorENA has entered Roussillon, with a corps E' itf frhin 4to 5,000 teen; levying ioniributions 44 he adounces to Pont do Molint and Crcaig de 44 Medina."—The daring incursion uf this cuter. prizing parti;an into tho territory of France s is a di-, oer time Out must compel gm French garrisoned the Pyrenean fortresses, to Xecakeu themselves mate rially, for it is by detarhmcuti from them, t h at this dying body of irregulars can alone be re r pelted. aoussillosi is that pruritic° of France, sa hich adjoins Spain on the side of the blediter. meal, by which it is bounded on the East, and tan the South by the Pyrenees. Perpignan is the capital, and under the new division of France, this pa. t of Its uasillun is called the Department of the Eastern Pyrenees. The Niignelats, or Spa, snug ens, of the Pyretiees, are numerous, and, like all other smugglers, active, bold, and otitcriirizing—and their intimate knowledge of the fe.vtitea.ei of this 4 hain of isouutaine, which, tun , the Mediterranean to the Ray of 13ii.cay, extends mgrs than 3UU miles in length, would rill. der their sabjugation physically impracticable— were t.iere but points uf security hum wilisuce they could draw .arms and ausiouuition. 1 Iu the first Espetlitiuti to Spain, it was pa!-1 Fable that we had begun at the wrung cud ut the! Penitisttla—as we have, of almost every thing else --son it dues really scent irscompre4n4hle, that the authors of that unfortunate F;spsilition should, regardless of eitperience, hare repeated the effort f rom toe 64 usa pond— 1•110)011. The hitherto truitl,ss efforts of the 'much to redoes: Arraigns end Cataluna, *holly ansupportal as they hate Veen, a it h the ea misfits, of our assistance at itosu, sufficiently eviller, as well, 'he great strength of the country, u the determined and active resistance of the popelutioa of that part of Spain. It is duty near twelve months since re expressed our (Ipiskion of th.: - istpt.licy of the first effort from Vora:4.ll on the N orth •.4) f Spain. To us it ap. peered, that if the attefirpt to effect the deliver.: sups of by the presence of an EnglisV Army in the Peninsula l .were politic (of e,hieh lar are by nu means cons inetd), the effort should have been made in the summer of lasf year in' Biscay or in Coidonto, or in both, with a( least see Modred thansand men. Lord Cameos:son, in d ie u at io, 4 th e twoi mign in Spain in alehouse of Commons, denied that the military fesourms of ;~~~ 'p Ellland were equal to such an effort. If, however, our troups in Sit ily, and these which have been am. ',toyed in Spain and in the Scheldt had been united, it is incontrovertible, that such a force might have been lauded, two mouths before a single ri4timesit hail entered Spaln to reinforce the army behind the Ebro. Had such an effort , been made, is it within probability that Germany would have been in the situation in which it now is ? In fact, with 100,000 of the best ap. pointed and most effective troops in Europe, Eng. land.has dotie nothing in support of the principle on which site broke the Treaty of Amiens. The power of SAtoutos is extended, consolidated, and confirmed—and our commercial intercourse with the Continent is on the eve of absolute suspension. It is the opinion of many, that the repetition of our effort in Spaiti was im politic.—A ran, ammunition, cloathing, and money, with the aid of eying squadreus, w'oich could come into contact with so many points of the extended coast of the Peninsula, would hale enabled the Spaniards to find the French ample occupation in a country containing near 170,000 square miles, and abounding in fast. nesses and mountains. Germany was plunged into war by the temptation which the contest in the Peninsula held out. Had our efforts, been commeusurate with the importance of the• stake, or the extent of onr means, the conquest of i Spain, or of Germany, must have been abandoned by NAPOLEON, and, possibly, the wise and vi. gorous direction of the strength of England, might have preserved both (rum subjugation. I After our expulsion from Spain, the direction of the force which we have since so fruit. lessly employed there, together with that in Sicily, and the troops employed in the Scheldt, might ei ther from the Baltic, or on the side of Italy, have made an important diversion in favour of Ger ; many.—lf the reported disadectiens of the North 1 -of Germany, mid the ribration of Prussia, be at Ball fouudcd in truth, the ',rescues) of such a force would base induced a general avowal of the pies said to exist there—and if the side of Italy had been chosen, the Tyroi ',reseeded a field in which the energies of the natives appear to he in. vincible, even after their cause is become ahso. lutely hopeless. The cinetra.st which oar situ ation now presents, is not more humiliating than alarming. We have wasted our resources, in efforts, conceived in fully, and executed with inca pacity. With the iucestant intercourse that has been for centuries kept up betweeu this country I and that part of the Continent of Europe through which the Scheldt passes, it appears inconceiv able that Ministers could be ignorant of the Mutinies which aro now said to hive frus trated the ul.jects of the Expedition. The situation of the Islands at the mouth of the Scheldt—the strength of Fl .'iing—the import ance of the possess:oil of Call and—the depth of water in that channel—and the ot!stacles that would present themselves in the attack upon Ant. wcrp, must have been known to very many per. ,sons. Mr. Thomas Johnson, who accompa. .nied the Expeditioo, dutibtivss communicated 'all that he knew—and it is a matter of noto riety, that (lucre is scarcely a . port or erect on the coast of France or Holland into which Mr. Jonmsox could not conduct a vessel safely, with out the assistance of a coast pilot. Fur some years his residence was flushing, where he chiefly car ried un his illicit trade, and hi, intercourse with Antwerp was frequent ; sir that he must have possessed every requisite information, supposing what i , very fur frum being the case—that there wer e n o t numerous British Officers, intimately ac quainted a ith the position, and approaches, of the place against which our armament was directed. When we reflect on these circumstances, it is more than extraordinary—it is absolutely myste. rious—that sic should now, and only now, be told of difficulties wide!' it k niorally impossible should nut have. been fureseen.—That slut delay produced by attacking Fiushing would prove fatal to the Expedition, to us appeared pal -1 pable—but, presuming Ministers and the Com. maitiltr in Chief to possess information of which we were destitute-- we therefore., when Flushing did surrender, ventured only to inquire (ott Mon day, August 21,) " Was it absolutely necessary to redeem Flashing before any thing far.' CC ther ::as attempted That it is as necessary, appeared to us incomprehensible—but that it was, not, appeared (ruin the concurrence of Mi nisters in the procectiiii i gs of the: army impossible, for if the attacks on Wa!ehervu and Beveland, had been in opposition to the opinions of Minis. tors, orders would have been traus:nitted to the Earl °Vett.% rtt ass not to linger at the Mouth, but iintnedi•ttely to argent thelicheidt. That the FArl Or CIIATRAW had Orders, there can be no doubt ; and on the Inquiry, or Court. Martial, that must take place, as we Seg. gested several weeks ago —those Orders will. be produced—until which time they public will act wisely to suspend Omer judgment. —That the Eir. ',edition h4=': felled, awl that it Might isave succeed. ed, is the goners! belief. Ou whem the bl.vno" ~. ~._..f ~~ ~ ~,-- 7imim THE STATESMAN. ought le fall, investigation can alone show. That Wai‘heren will beloved untenable against the tenni which, at hit leisure, NAPOLZON will direct against it, appears, from all that we can learn, ionise, possible. The sickness of WOO of the garrison, al. , though of a nature not likely to be generally fetal, necossarily incapacitates the men from doing duty; l and may be expected to go through every regiment in its tore. It will therefore require a perpe. tual supply of troops, provisions, and water— and It may be reasonably doubted whether, ender these disadvantageous conditions, a depot for smuggling our redundant commodities, be worth having. The fleet in the Scheldt, is really of very inferior importance as to the issue of the eoetcst between us sad France, whose means of building•' a Nary are far (rum being corufned to that river. will be seen that every succeeding account from the Peninsula announces an increase of cala. mity. The distress of the army under Lord Wtt.- turcsow is hourly increasing ; and if the report of Gen. Bsacsro an's having quitted the Purtu. guese army, in consequence of the mutinous dispo sition which it has Manifested, is true, it may even be feared whether the swords which were drawn in conjunction with those of the British, will not finally be turned against them by the Portuguese. ‘Via anxiously look for more authentic advice', in the hope that there is much of exaggeration in the accounts that have reached England. As to maintaining permanently our footing in Por. tugal, if the submission of Spain should be accomplished, every one must see that such a hope is absolutely chimerical. THE Proclamation of the PRESIDENT of the United States can have surprised no one—the conditions of Mr. Easwina's arrangement have not been fulfilled, and the whole ne. guciatiun is to go over again—possibly %ids an increased irritation on the minds of the Americans. The consequence in this country is already felt, by the instant advance of American produce. To the obstacles thrown in the way of the salu of our manufactures, will be stiperadded the high price of the raw material, cotton—thus doubling the difficulties of our manufacturers, whose stocks will accumulate not only in (loan. tity, but iit a greatly increased ratio, in value, from the high price of the raw material.— The im.iuutntly critical situation of England is, however, inch, that it is difficult to perseetie ourselves that Ministers will much longer ha. &aril an experiment which threatens in its consequences calamity—of which the czte•nt is far beyond human foresight or sagacity. if Mr. JACKSON'S instructions are !swift—that is, if they are consonant nut only with policy, but with jus. tire and common sense, the intercourse with Ame. rica will bo speedily restored; boot T, unfortunately, they should be (heisted in the same spirit of arro. gatit fully, and domineering hostility, w Pilch has hi. therto marked our supercilious diplomatic corrc. spondence with that country-- England will feel the- consequences amore acutely lluin is yet uppre. horded by the public,. Ws areisnrry to announce the stoppage of a Banking.house. - A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Foreign Office. A Military Officer arrived yesterday at Lord CASTLEItiIOII I + Office, with dispatches from the Earl of t.:11 %%II A 31. Captain Wasr, of the Guards, arrived in Town ou Sundae itigii , , with dispatches from Portugal. Sir Juuv Caanoca is on his return hone from Gibraltar, on account of ill health. The corn. mood devolves pro lentpore on Colonel SMITH, of the Royal Artillery. Mr. FMB takes his pump honsittrues Cadiz, on hoard the Donttell. Several wagieus tilled with sick and wounded, bulonging to the Artillery, proceeded from Har. wick to Ipswich. The transports whisk arrive from the Scheldt, imhiediateir after disediharkldg the troops return to Walcheren, fur the purpose of bringing home other regiments. BONI &Num has ordered the formation of a Le. gior from amongst such of the Austrian prisoners as are natives of Gallicia, and has given the nom. mond to Gen. Baostuowsus. A ship laden with wool is arrived from Gijon, in eight days. The letters by her inform us, that the Spaniards arc once more in possession of St. Ander°. The Marquis of Iluariet is stated, since his arrival in town, to have expressed his conviction of the preeticability of taking Antwerp, even at the moment when the Expedition elMe away, lie k also Said to be much dissAtisfied with the in. sufficiency of the supply of hosts, by whick his division was disabled from landing in Cadsand.--- We do sot know whether sham statements are to be relied upon. The lion. lisuitY Dissrt.t.t, second son to Lord BRATOSOOII.I4 died, iss Spain, three days after the battle of Talagerß,from exec:nitre fatigue. The Earl of and Lord s —BARLES and Roscoe MAPlRkall.itero espected town last night from the Scheldt. They had nut arrived at twelve o'clock It night s but the servants kid ur. dens to be in Yesterday-beke the grit of the sew 'ear among the Jesse, tritrkeplas a hizti feitival. arid vs'aioh Auistias this • ' • ' .., . . P!, Stirteact siir a &MIR /loss (wow, eats* user. 1. " Santateder is mow is poseroismi of the riga' V* Rise tw,. Isig bees ovaesolad as else 31ith GA. ky al the French, ow .mss to a cheek lia&LAirretios bait gives thew so the memo Os/. in the easiness of Torre de la Vega, io winch he sneeerded ia 'taking or destroying tat Frees b repo egg Nn. 1111. We are in heady expeetattou of Nis &nag mesons,' 1,4% so. 4L, which is the inky ear Bowser his be iippos a etivi.iiia u ile i wo Met how ender BAazoorgaoe towniand. a rums this and ' ether circumfusion, it isnot, to be hoped the ',roseate of siao- Weer will be liberated ft,,oi sue Gu d i neur i sw , of 1 „.. e tied iatruders. A 'marl is ill, au doubt, be dilattbed ficw the Commodore, off liamiau4er, *ids we portico/44n of the ttaissactioa." The following has been tranirsitbd to Us for insertion :—• The Coosel4leneral of Spain le tsar arttala, *stress se. :inform the public, and mute esprei.siky the oisly. of ttstlilli Merchants who nu) be divined to miter 'lvo commercial specalatiacs la graiewini Spain. thit the Spaai.b Gowinitnent leas. by a Royal militia* publicietl at Semite, Jane 16, of tbepreseut year, declared iota, all trek, 3W , nod rube, um, beimported iota an, purl of Spain. free from all duty. hush Royal and Municipal. and ul . ewer) t h at; eandssoing is phi: meanire the eastc.t mode of supp/.iiig the Penins u la wit h provisions. with thr greatest prow to lorries) Mertii.vits aho may be disposed to avail ttieut2elviN of this JUSI:.F. ALCINtIO 1..1 11L, No. 7; galisbary-street. Crow!-GmberAl of Spain. Eztrart of a letter from nn Officer on hoar:! his Majesty's ship Sultan, oil Totsluir, Aug. • • A s the Thames is on the eve of leaving this for England, I send you a few lines by her : we still remain ereiting off Toulon, blockading the enemy's force, which consists of thirteen sail of the line, ciglit frigates, a store ship, and use brig ready fur sea. They have foor ships of the line dismantled. o deserters fr om the enemy have brought us the information that Admiral A i.i.twaox g his arrived from Rochefor t and has hoisted his flag. Four thousand eight hon. dred seamen are on their match Guns Rochefort ; the first division of (heat is said to lure joined the beet In Toulon. It is generally expected, la our fleet, that the enemy will make a push fur some place shortly. We have 13 sail of the line, two of is hich generally rctieletvous at linter : ea for water and provisions, in order that we mar not all gait the station together. C 4l lotit INi an. cIIALL, according to report, has relieved cerools with 3000 men, horses, powder, ant unnitiai , &C. and the enemy has been obliged to raise toe sire. Commodore *bestow), in the orihumbattand, is before Trieste, with three aril of the hits., be. sides frigates. We have no certain gence respecting the Expedition which ticsrtt utl to Naple.s some time since. Report says that we har t; taken the whole of the small Islands in the Gulph of Naples, including Capri." Sir Rascal' WiLsox in his official dispatch gravely states, that •• the enemy will only hay., to boast that he has achieved his passage." %Yak great deference to this modern XEMuloitu X, it ap. pears to he but tau pistil that (list was ill of which he desired to boast. Four thousand of the seamen who formed part of the crews of the French ships destroyed, ai'4 rendered useless in Basil Road•, have been sent over land to Toulon. Adrires from Turkey, by the way of Malts, state, that '23 bags of Russian ears had been sent to Cunstantinuplo, as truphics of thu success of . the Ottumaa arms. On the march of Gen. MAntiolicr from pal. matia to join the French grand army, a great com motion took place at Hadusa, in %stitch several of the French troops %etc killed. Yesterday the .linerica, a new 74 gun ship, was hunched at Biaokwall ; another 7.4 wets launched Woolwich. The tine new rope-house, at Malta, took fire eta Sunday, the 9th of July, alabout half-post seem in the morning, and in Iris than ten minutes if was in flames from one cad to the otlit r. The conflagration threatened destruction to ev ry part of the dock-yard, but by the prompt exertions of the navy and army (front whom there was itettleo thaw assistance), it was kept under, and almost extinguished by one o'clock at noun, with the loss only of the repery and pitch store. The 4..-ies were only six feet from the hemp stores; had they taken lire, every thing in tn.: yard must have been destroyed.. Dual. PltereNTED.—Tero Onkel", of the name* of Moues and Ken*, met to 114 tit duel at six yesterday morning, in the fields Untwist ii.4hgas and Hampstead, in consequence of a family dis. pate; but informatioo having been given 4,11.0 d; signs, they werc prev,:itted from accomplishing the object of their meeting, of er having measur:d paces, by two (dicers, who apprehended them,. and they were held io proper ILifetiell to keep the peace. We think it proper to inform the Public, that Air. Hamar Assort.. late of Essex-strect, Strand, and now of Clement's Lin, Navy Agent, is no; the Person alluded to in the Papers of this Morn. ins. The mistake arose from a card of his ad, dress being found on the deceased, List week a foregn seafaring man hung himself in his apartments in Sutfolk-street, near the Com: mercial Road. The Coroner's lnqiiest will be held this day. He was genteelly dressed, had a watch and money in his porket, bat his name is unknown. The Planet Jupiter, which shines tipon every find evening its the East, is just now palming through a chister of small stars, so very like his satellites, that he occasionally appears attended with are, sir, and semi, hut four only really belong to him. Sundon and Mitchel., the country Rank Nola fabricators, stood in the pillu•y at Warwick ine Saturday last. They were well driwsed, very pudent in their behavionr, vowing veisgeanco against their prosecutors, &c. On Tuesday last a fire was discovered in a harm contiguous to the dwelling of Mr. SANDON, at Harlow, in Hertfordshire, which was quickly con sumed, together with ten stacks of hay, and several head of cattle. Covent.Garilen Theatre is to be lighted up, amid the scenery exhibited, one night in the pre , ..os week ; when her Hoye! Highness the Princess of WALcs, the Princess Cu ‘n Lorre, and a schist party of the Nubility and Qeutry, ire estiierfed to he present. The Patentee of the Theatre Royal, Dublin, has obtained a patent also for a Sumner Theatre there, to he etcried scar Sackvilie.street, and to b e called the ifiteat re. Rli) al, Sark ville-strect. It is Oa be on a small but elegant Wee. Imrm . 7 .”" . 4 "RW •T • - : u.: L r+ . •- ...• f