The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-09-05 00:00:00

• army. The last dispatches from DeiMose were dated on the Bth of Angust.—Mluisters talk of having the Expedition ready in a week— that brings us to the 121 k of Sept.—allowing only 14 days to reach atia disetnhark in Spain, we ar- Tire at the !GM of September, 49 days after the position at Deleitose was taken—the Expedition has then to march to join the British army. — What will the French armies hare been doing in this imp•rlant interval Handsomely waiting the arrival at our Expedition ? We fear not.— From the Expedition now meditated we anticipate no greateradvantage or success than from the last, whether it be destined to act against any point on the coasts of France or Holland, or against the French in Spain, or against the Neapolitan king. dote of King JOACHIM—from our army in "which neighbourhood, under Sir JOll NI STUART, intelligence has at last been received. The dis patches have not yet been made public, but arc saidtocontain accounts of the capture of Lchia and Precida, the reacnalion of which by the English as announced a few days ago in the foreign papers. Until the date. of Sir JOH NI STUART I 3 dispatches is inuw It, no conclusion can be drawn on this sub. jest—but the probability is, that the intelligence in the Forei4n Journals is of later date than the diipatelles of Sir J. STu.t wr. The passage down • the Mediterranean is frequently tedious ; and iti. telligence fruit Naples by land would be in Paris long before the Princess Mary Packet, by which the dispatches were brought, cauld make her pas sage to En g land. A large quantity of cannuu, ammunition, and fifteen hundred prisoners, are re. ported to have been taken there ; and the pri. setters were sent to Malta. A flotilla of up. wards of forty gun-boats was also destroyed by our ships ; and Scylla, being precipitately evacuated by the enemy, nas taken posse , sion of by our troops. The fortifications on that island had been destroyed before the enemy quitted it.- IVo, however, rcpea!, that the date of these dis pa ches is necessary to enable ns to form an opi nion of the truth of the aY,crtion in the Foreign Journals, of our troops having subsequenly era coated Ischia and I'rucula. AT tenth we has tidings of RaxANA end BALLA 'Tout oi l by • a vessel front Coriiiina in eleven days. The army in the North of Si:ain meditates a coup.ik-main on Madrid, in the absence of the French a rnics—and the Commander in Chief of the Spanish arini.s in Spain expects from this manceuvre to et}•;ct a ileCoise insertion in tivuor of the combined British and Spanish ar►nies. Other communi cations Iw; been received from vari o us p ar t s o f Spain, which, as usual, contain citras.tgant and so ntradi cto ry report'. The letters from Alicant since the defeat of the troops under General (haat by Stream, are not nclrly so sanguine as they have been. The merchants hi that quarter decline coneinercial in.. iercourse with this country, until they shall no linger he liable to the political ticissitudet to mhich they are now exposed. The letters from Seville and Cadiz. are dictated by a very different The security the authors of teem derive from their natural and artificial sources of defence, arms to hare imparted a degree of coofulence, which in more vulnerable situations is not acknuw. The following will sulkiently illustrate what we hare now stated : _ " Codis, Aug. TI. " The Varcitis and spite lin led from the Donegal ihs the Lt A ogua. The follow Ing . tLiv the British subjects and tiler eitassis of Cadis waited on tits I:: seelkocv. nail ins the Bib gave thi aa. splendid dinner at the Puerta de Tigre. and a h . . 11 is the evening at the Theatre, which coutioucil till Ta•s•fay atur:tiog. " The battle of Tahvera ant a sanguinary one indeed t vier hero .s have done their country credit. and the Slat mares have also dour their duty. The fate of the Peninsula i% in a great measure 46.1eJ. France mu.,t withdraw, null in the trise.it of her dercated eolo-tow, she will surer the just pe rally of her perfidy and temerity. " The Panda arrived tra titt ith. and several other yes rls from the c dollies; nor trinn't he it avanash, en rcgi .Ite, with about tie ge'lliora of limns; about tsd galleons 1.1 All are ex pected. 7'he Paula brought six mantas., above one taillioa of which is I.r account ut Government. " Vacimt. reports are abroad' of SOVT.T nit% the wreck of has army, without artil:-ry • having reached the Puerte de Minaraz nod surrendered ; but t:icre *soothing certain. The • rquts left this nu the !tan f..r Seville, under a grand salute from the Muralist. Every bn.ly has a good opinion of itim, and anticipate treat things if he i • itationary. " Pay no a tteotion to th- -reports died gloomy slur you still have in abated:owe per the packet. Etery thing is ping on as a ell as ran be elpre.ed :n a contest with such et peri euerd for%, and t. ith an enc my who had so much at stake. Intrigues were on fool. and report sas,s Fta:Rr: wes =Ode a find af; hut the Ilarqtas basset to %seri. the rigot way." Seale of the letters from Spain, not %written it i • those who enamel every prospect of life, frankly Assert, that the present is the crisis in which her fate will be determined, and that a single victory or defeat stay decide whether their indepcwlence may be lett, retl, or Joseen established uu the C. tholic Thrum.. • It appears by the Gazette of last Saturday, that Sir DAVID Duxhas,. the Commander-in-Chief, has bestowed the Colimaley of the 95th Regiment' (consisting of three battalions) upon himself, al. though he is Colonel of the Scotch Greys ) ono of Or: most lucrative regiments in the service. There 15 something which peculiarly calls for explanation in this appointment. Unless Sir DAVID resign his f•olding the office of Governor of Chelsea Hospi tal, while at the same time he is Commander-in- Chief, and Colonel of two regiments, is a circum stance which ecrtaiiilsi requires some animadver sion; Intl if some explanation of this extraordinary military monopoly is nut given, we shall eon (vile it to be o'er duty stivetli!t• to cail the atten tion of the public to this appaient abuse of military patronage. The blaster and Wardens of the IZ . tkers' Com pany this day waited on the Lord iyor to %et the assize of Bread ; when hi• I. , ,rdsliip, after in specting the blealwvighere Mattis, oidered it to moans at its present prim. GIBRALTAR, duo. 7. --....- On the Sth inst. his Majesty's ship Kent, Capt. Rogers, arrived here, and was immediately put under rigid quarantine, information having been received from A licant of her having bee, obliged to plot in there with 200 of her crew sick with a pestilential disease, which was caught from some French prisoners which the Kent had taken out of a French prize from Bona, on the coast of Africa. The Kent will be obliged to proceed to England, as no port in Spain will give her admittance.— Twelve of her crew have died, and some of them with the black vomit. A letter received on Saturday from an Officer on board his Majesty's ship Bonne Ciloyeune, contains the report of the capture of the Parieure, one of the French frigates which escaped from the Sainte', and afterwards from Guadaloupe. It was on the 6th of July, after a chace of TO hours, that the Bonne Citoyenne came sip with, and engaged the Farierife. The battle, M hich was of the most furl , ni dcscription, lasted six hours and 49 mi. nate!, at the expiration of which the Furictice struck, baying sustained a loss of 33 killed, and nearly 50 Wounded, amongst which was her Cap tain. The 1.10114 e Citoyenne had only one min killed, and five wounded, two of them badly. The Bonne Citoyenme is a small vessel of her class; but the Furieuse is capable of mounting 50 guns. She is about six years old, and ex. trrmely fit for the King's service. From the short distance from each other, at which the ships en gaged (from twenty to eighty yards), they were, at the close of the action, complete wrecks. At the time when our informant wrote (three days after the action), the Bow Citoyenne, with her prize, was steering for the Island of St. John's. Newfoundland; but, from the crippled state of the ships, some doubts were entertained, whether they would be able to reach that port. The Fit rieurc was bound to Bayonne, with a cargo of su gar, coffee, amid a little cocoa. In a late action in the Bay of Naples, the Cone, Captain STAINEs, after a very gallant nc tion, in company with the Sicilian pen-boats, took or de'mroyeit nearly the whole (40) of the enemy's tzuu.b mats. Captain STAINEs had his right arm carried off by 4 cannon shut towards the close of 11.• aeihr. Cart. GoArE, who conveyed his Serene High ness the Duke of Br um,wica OELS to England, in the Mocquitu sloop of wir, is promoted to the rank of Post-Cal .ain. - . The Zealand, of 01 guns, is preparing at Sheer n..ss fur the reception of 300 convicts, who are daily expected at that plare, for the purpose of assisting in the erection of a large stone wall, to prevent the violence of the sea damaging the Dock-yard, the sad effects of which were severely felt during the high tides last year. Orders are said to have been sent off on Sunday to some of the out-ports, for as many ships as could be got ready for sea, in the course of three or four days, to he dispatched without a moment's loss of time. The orders to Sir It. STRACHAN announced, that all the ships in the late Expedi tion were to have their defects repaired immedi ately, arid that they would be completed with stores and provisions for one mouth longer. The hero, Revenge, Monarch, Resolution, Dellona, Illustrious, Alfred, Orion, and Achille (of the line), which arrived at Portsmouth from the Ex pedition 9 are also ordered to be victualled fur five months, with all possible haste. The Princess Merry packet, arrived at Fal. month, kft at Malta the Cornwallis and Prince Ernest packets—at Cadiz, his Majesty's ship Donegal, which was to bring home Mr. FRERE (whose arrival Mrs. Faaaa awaits at Falmouth) ; also the Atlas, Conqueror, Leviathan, and Duke cif Montrose packet ; and at Gibraltar, the Kent, Cambi - i in, and Porcupine. The Townsend packet had arrived at Gibraltar. On the Bth ult. the llverion Nailed with convoy for England. The letters from Nialtas are of the 21st June, and state, that the merchants had received accounts by the Thanes frigate, of the French being in possession of Trieste at that time; and that on their arrival there they on!, red such a contribution to be levied on the town as could not possibly be paid. On failure, they seized amel sent to the army as hos tages 40 of the principal English merchants who had formed establishments there. The American Consul was also obliged to fly. Every kind of colonial produce is a mere drug at Malta, owing to numerous arrivals of American vessels with West Indian and American cargoes. The Middleburg Courant of the 31st of Aug. cowaitis nothing but the protest of (he I'OTE against BONAPARTE'S usurpation, and an account of the late paigilistic contest between Maddox and Richman the black. . A schooner, which arrived at Portsmouth the 2d inst. left the Li :n man of war, with the home ward-bound Chin gee', of the Cape, the Bth of June I4st, 31 ;Irg. 12 min. South, long. 30. deg. 33 min. The schooner separated in rough weatk r, at which time only seven of the ships were iliteght. They had had a gale of wind two days before, in which they were dispersed, but all had joined except Os u. The schooner fell in with itit American on the 1 tth July, eight days from Helena, where the Ev4ex had arrived. Orders have been received by the Barrack De par:mmt of Plymouth, to stale/ all the Govern. meet spare ground, and to measure the casements and barrack-rooms of the citadel, and to report thereon to the Barrack Office in Loudco, whether there is space enough fur the accommodation of 11,000 infantry. One of the sudden showers yesterday pro. ' duced an inundation in the narrow part of the Strand, et Exeter 'Change. The grate of the drain having been clogged up, and completely stopped, the carriage-wa, was soon under water more than the depth of • It.n.st's fetlock; the pathway was entirely overflowed, and the water was with difficulty kept out of the shol.s. In five Minutes the lawyer Hours would have been under mat , r, and the inhabitants were doing nothing cf. fcctual to prev.mt this, when ariblic.spiriteddray :nan gut at the drain, and cleared it, called loudly for gin, which we know uut a healer he rcocived. TH io, BtArfE§iiiNt. THE EXPEDMON. PRIVATE CORRESPONDE7CCE. • " Tri virER, Aun. O. " The objects of the Expedition up the Scheldt are abar.- &Hied as unattainable. It was found that the French had availed themseltes of the time which our procrastination af forded, to collect a very c.nbiderable force in the vicinity of Antwerp. Thi, force has been set down by many well-in formed persons at 60,00,1 men. But inderodently of this force, and the obstacles to our progress created by the inun dation, we had to apprehend an increased accometation of resistatice from an army of reserve which has been asserublirg at Lisle, while KaLLEnsis N has been employed in collect ing a large force on the banks of the IVeser. " The troops which we have had in South Ileveland are to continence embarkation to-morrow at the Rompot ; and it is understood that in a few days Beveland will be evt.- (cued altogether. Two division of the transports which took some of oar troops up the Scheldt after the surrender of Flushing, arrived at that port this morning, and the remain der are looked for. The troops on board these transports have suffered int», severely from want of provi,ioas of every description; as it was calculated u; their embarkation at this islrnd, that they would remain hut a very short time on board before their disembarkation, they were very scantily supplied. This improvidence, combined with the disease which so universally presails among our army, has converted these transport: into so many hospitals. 'file ravage of dis ea e is daily aggravating, and in some quarters is truly shock ing. Not a regiment is to hr found, either by land or sea, which has not suffered, and is not daily suffering, by ib cala mitous progress. In this Island every hour extends its visi tation. According to the medical reports of this day, it is Said that nearly 9UO of the artillery, IJO ill the Stith regi ment, 300 of the 26th, 258 of the 71st, 20.3 of the 84th. are afflicted; but the whole of the Zd, with the exception of about 40 men, are in the hospitals. In consequence, indeed, of the sitnation of this regiment, it was yesterday exempted from duty by order of General BaowisE. Several instances hair occurred within the last Ave days, of guards having been relieved twice in the *course of the day, in consequence of the men falling soddenly ill. I have myself , seen men car ried away front the parade. The attack is generally very sudden. The diseases which prevail are dysentery, cholera morbis, and intennittents; these are considered as endemic. The typhus fever is also prevalent, uribm to the cold which en many, both officers and men, have caught during the siege of Flushing. But the variable character of this climate ren ders cold :Linton unavoidable. At one peribd of the day the heat is extreme, and at another, a cold damp, accompanied sometimes with violent rain. We bare not had indeed, since mir arrival in the island, one entirely fair day.—But how ever we may suffer from the mire, it is fortunate fur as that they happen to have been frequent, because they serve to precipitate the noxious exhalations of the marshes, which contribute so much to propagate diseases, and also because they furnish us with water; for there is no water to be bad here but that which the rain affords, with the exceptive of a very few springs; so that had the weather been dry, we sbnuld have been distressed for this very essential article.— 'file French were obliged to procure a supply of water from the other side of the Scheldt, in the summers of 1807 and 1808, in euswequence of the dryness of these summers. Thus it appears, that if it were not for the weather, which we at first deemed exceedingly unfavourable, our troops would have been without water, for the supply of which we are indebted entirely to the rain.—So much for the provident Minister that superintended the titling mat of the Expedition. " That this i. an •arowiliaggly swim-talky pace, particularly io the months of September and October, is quite notorious. Indeed if the solicitude of our Minister of War, with regard to the lives of men, bad disposed him to make any inquiry upon such a subject, he might have learned that fact from any , medical man at all acquainted w:tii the island. The French suffered most severely from it. This will be sufficiently il lustrated by one authentic fact. Out of 800 men, alto were encamped at We staapel in May 1808, only 9ti survived at the close of October. Generally speaking, French had one third of their garrison lying in the hospitals, and they annu ally lost in that proportion, sitatetimes indeed much more, al though they hal the meats of checking the progress of red.- mic disease which we donut possess, through the contiguity of their other territories. " An order has, I aoderstancl, been lowed, that no burial shall take place until after dusk, probably owing to the fre quency of death , . This is a judicious arrangement; for as depressioo of <pink is calculated to promote the prevailing disease, funerals, which mast have* depressing effect, should he as little apparent as possible. Some officers, however, base been publicly buried. I saw ye:terlay that a funeral processing accompanied t• the grave the remains of 31r. II A nov, Paymaster of the 11th Regiment of Foot. " It is intended to sink some of our hulks of men of war neat B:tthz, iu order to choak the passage of the Schcidt.— Certainly the river may by this expedient he rendered im passable for men of war, or any ve,:sel, I understand, above 40 tom, until the enemy curs contrive to raise or destroy those hulks. That it is practicable for the enemy to do so cannot he denied, unless we could maintain batteries, or keep vessels nn the watch to prevent it and how is that to be contrived at such a distance top the Scheldt, at such a distance from any pn• sition in our power to retain t We cannot, in fact, for any long period, impede the navigation of the Sebeldt,or disconcert the views of Boas,ftc with regard to Antwerp, unless we continue to retain possession of this island, which I think to tally impracticable. This opinion I shall endeavour to jus tify by a communication of the grounds apes which I have bees induced to entertain it. "I have just heard that the troops in South Beveland, al though they have Never been in any action, and although that is regarded as the most healthy Wand to Zealand, have suf fered very considerably by disease. " It is reported that rather a warm controversy has ariseo among some of our Chief Commanders. The principals en gar,ed in this controversy are Lord Cu 4TIIA x and the Mar quis of HVJTLY, who are said to he directly oppoied to each other. Our troops are understood to be destined for Spain.'• TLAVEri, SEPT. I. " Fifteen thousand troops on to remain here for the de fence of this island. which it seems the resolution of our Go wsnmsent to retain. But how far that resolution is justifiable, I shall endeavour to shew in my nett letter. From all that I have beard and seen. I haven° hesitation in stating my opi nion. that (be channel which separates this island from South Betelaad is not to be calculated upon as any material obsta cle tithe progress of 13071APARTIR, if be seriously determines to retake Walcheren. South lievelaad, It Is on all bands agreed, mist be abandoned a; unbeaable; and the communi cation of that island with the CO/lineD4 is at low water per fectly easy. ludeedaey somber of troops may march across the smuts. " The prowess of disease at Flu-hint is, 1 understand, my considerably promoted, by the necessity imposed upon the soldiery to appear quite clean at panute, ootwithstandiwg the number employed at working pieties, tic. In vase-, (peace of Ibis nectssity, and their previous eraploysneat, the men are very frequently obliced to wash their trainers, lbc. aid pet them on net. to pruteti themselves from censure, or maiethiag worse. Their doing so is a notorious fact ; and it must be paiofol to any haasatte baud to reflect upon it. R fly .~ . ~ , . . should dimiplind older seek circumstance; be m • minty en forced ? In the opinion of many . Olke►:, ordinar. . parades ought to be dispensed with, Khan there are ric:;ree'v men runnel in benitli to do the nece.sary duty. General Piero" commands M " Several of our ;.ssels rind gun•boats paned Wane Cad and yesterday morning, and returned with interest the ftre of the French Watt ries. We distinctly !maid a cannonade of some hours continuance." The advices brought by the Princess Mars from Malta are of the 14th of July. They communi cateno events of importance. The packet sailed from Cadiz on the 17th ult. Letters from that place mentidn this arrival there of the Franct.,cu de Paulo, from Vera Crue, with eight millions of dollars on board. No additional information from the British army in Spain had been transmit ted from the Junta at Seville, or by private letters to the lith. Serious apprehensions were entertained for the fate of Crcr ma, which, it was feared, would at length be compelled to surrender. Letters from Cadiz state the arrival at that place of the Franci s co de Paulo, from Vera Cruz, with eight millions of dollars on board. A Gottettinirgh Mail arrived last tt4ht, which firings advices (tom Stockholm of the 21st ult. lip to that date nothing decisive had occurred with felted to the relations between Russia and Sae. d n, and military operations were suspended. On Monday se'nuight a Court-Martial encase bled at Portsmouth, to inquire into the conduct of Captain H. E. Cut.vmstez, Commander of his Majesty's late ship Solebay, and that of his OE errs, and ship's company ; and to try them fni the loss of that ship. I'he Court agreed that no blame was imputable to Captain Cozestams, nr his officers and shin's cocripanj, for the loss of his Majesty's late ship Solebay; but that it appeared, the' after she was on shore, and Itzfore she was abandoned, ,Michael Grace, 7'l:atria: Jones, Charles Niletts, and Robert Storks, seamen, be. lunging to he:, had been in a state of drunken. ness ; and the Curt adjudg-d. that Captain Co . LUND! NE, his Officers, and ship's company, be acquitted, excepting Michael Grace, whom the Court sentenced to receive 150 lashes, Thomas Jones to receive 130 lashes, and Charles Niletas atnl Robert Storks to receive 50 lashes each, and to be mulcted, or to forfeit all the pay due to them from the 11th of July last. On Tuesday a Court-Martial was held at Portsmouth, on JOHN ASHLEY, carpenter of his Majesty's silt!) Dcrwent, for being drunk when or &red on duty, at the capture of Senegal ; so that he was incapable of leading his men to the attack of that plate. Ile was sentenced to be dismissed the service, rendered incapable of serving as an officer again, and to be imprisoned six months in the Marshalsea prison. A party of frieuil to the purity of Election, consisting of about 80 respectable inhabitants of !Leading, dined together at the Bar Inn, in that town, on Tuesday last. Some resolutions were passed, with a view to preserve the purify of Electioa in that borough, and it Ina agreed to renew the meeting next year. •C *3 ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—A nuniorponaid In a Ge Al.:mews family iu Paddington road, Mary e-'ione, and the daughter of a respectable fruit.. erer, after having gone out with the children, retired to her bed-room, and in half an hour she was missing, when called to breakfast. The door Hof her chamber was locktxl, but the other servants having some suspicion, the dour was forced open, and she was found banging by the bed-post. The body was cut down, and by the assistance of Mr. Hawthorn, a surgeon, animation was re. stored, after the young woman had been bled, and put into a warm bath. Pregnancy was the cause of the rash attempt. CORONER'S i.NQUEST....-.An inquisition was tak cu yesterday at Sunbury, hliddle•es, before Mr. Hooosox, Coroner for Middlesex, on the body of a master carpenter, in Jertnyu-street, who was found drowned in the Thames, at Sunbury, on Sa turday last. It appeared in evidence, that the de.. ceased, who was an industrious, respectable tradesman, left his house in Jet-ors : street, on the morning of Monday se'nnight, anti be was not heard of afterwards. He was found by some fishermen in the River on Saturday, and tbr body seemed to )save been two or three days in the wa. ter. He had been seen in the nfighbourhood in the early part of the week, and his loose conduct' attracted some notice. It appeared also that t h e deceased was subject to fits of derangement, and in this situation he had before attempted suicide. Verdict—Lunacy. The report of the death of lady EctioT, lately, at Worthing, in consequence of a dreadful *eel. dent, we find, was out correct. It was Miss ISA ner.t.A ELLIOT, youngest daughter o f th e l a te NICUOLAS ELLIOT, Lbq. of Winterborne Ginner, neer Salisbnry. Miss ELLIOT was walking near Worthisegos hen she was met by a boy on horse.. back, and the buy being unable to manage the horse, she was beaten down against a wall, her skull was fractured, and this melanCholy accident occasioned her death. Her remains were brought to Winterbortie, on Saturday, and deposittd in the family vault. Among the attractions of that annual scene of amusement, Bartholomew Fair, the most promi nent is Mr. Pot.rro's exhibition of Wild Beasts and Birds.—This beautiful and extensive collec tion, which has been exhibited before his Majesty and the Royal Family at Windsor, and which has attracted the universaJ admiration of the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, may now be seen near St. Juba-street, Bartholomew-Fair, where Air. POLITO has so provided for the accommodation of his visitors, that these wonderful productions of nature way be inspected without the slightest in: convenience or danger. Extract of a letter rrom Dr. Hartsseker, of Amsterdam, to Dr. Andmy. of Pates:—" My dear Sir, to give )ne my " opinion on the ruse you wrote me, l p e l isse that m om , 1 ' are the cause of almost every 'anemic with which 01111- .4 ki n d we ; also the hriste eresnieu is tlestruyett " bs vermin of various kinJs. More than AV dillkteat ours " of worms have been discovered, many of wbuui ore as " ,sash as mites • and are seen in the wOO% of intui ts. I.tr, mammy, of I,dinburgh. asserts, they are observed in the e' hen patients are in 11l Issmit:l. Tory brio.; um fevers, " ant even tits. awl a lock kill thoutonds of the human &specie , before Vl.r. are ever fuspected to be the cause."—P. 4. Sy, wish that .:ay Medical utiationaa could sad a cue for Worry, Mile tini (;out--than he would du more for the ow id his fellow sesatares than any compirtat. Maia • --, w 11 r•• .. a