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

V . .. Practicable breach for a front of 50 men. In this time the enemy has thrown 10,000 bombs and grenade , , and the consequence of all this fury has been, the reducing of the houses to mitts, but not s u debilitate-in any degree the spirit of their inha. Wants, who every day with ittere. , sed enthusiasm aid lore for the justsause which we defend, run to arms whenever they are required. " The garrison, although very small, as it scarcely amounted to 2,500 men, has performed prodigies of valour, and in three sorties and two attacks (one of them repeated three times at the breach by the enemy, and repelled with consider able loss) has well manifested the discipline and courage with which Spaniards fight. But all these details have doubtless already reached your Ma jesty through the General of this army, whom I have regularly informed of the whole. " Your Majesty, who ever has your paternal anxieties fixed on maintaining the national ho nour, knows well the great benefits which the inhabitants of this city have rendered to the coun try. Never, Sire, have I seen their 'precious en thusiasin extinguished for a moment ; a thousand times Would they have sallied out to seek a glori ous death in the field of honour, if their limited number hid not rendered it necessary to rtstrain them. In this critics, situation I have repeatedly represented to the Marquis de Cunpigny, the se. fond in command of this army, that he should reinforce me with 2000 men at least, although even thus, the garrison would barely amount to half its complement ; hut hitherto he has not done it, notwithstanding that, in proportion to the exi. gency of circumstances, instances have been ur gent, the whole of which I think it my duty to lay before your Maksty, assuring you that this important bulwark of Catalonia will defend itself to the last extremity, and will sacrifice itself for our adored Sosereign Ferdinand VII. whom God preserve many years, renewing the memory of Numantia and Seguntum, rather than bend its neck to the yoke of the tyrant. " I have pledged myself to this efcct at the I!ead of these brave Spaniards, and I again renew it at the read your Majesty, assuring you that the enemy shall enter this city only over my dead body. "At the feet of your Majcity, MARIANO ALVAREZ. " Ceram, July 17." PARIS, Arc. 12.—The communication made to the Senate in the sitting of the 14th of this month, by his Serene Iligliness the Prince Arch Chancel. I.or of the Empire, and the report of bis Excel !wiry the Minister of ‘Var, have acquainted the nation with the fresh attempt made by the English, the aim of their Expedilion, and its first resul!s. It is known that this expedition is apparently only direciA against our neighbours and allies ; but their interest is so closely interwoven with ours, and the enemy's attacks on Zeal.tiid arc so evi dently connected Ittith his projects against the Scheldt and Antwerp, that the public opinion can. nut but be strongly engaged by these events, aid the public must be desirous to know nut only the whole, but also, if possible, all the particulars of that expedition. A' ems *,sent when this opinion renders itself conspicuous by numberless traits sif public spirit sad attachment throughout all classes , of French citizens, and by sacrifices of every description—. by an un e animous submission to the measures adopted b) the public authorities for the common defence, and by a general cry of war against the English, at the moment when these emotions, truly national, oppose considerable forces to the enemy in places which he supposed he should be able to surprise in a defenceless state, and permit the Emperor's army, while it completes its grand work, to depend on the fidelity and Jurage of another army sprung up, as it were, from the ter ritory which it is to defend; it is of very material importance to justify that opinion, to fortify and oulighten it, and to inform our enemies that on this memorable occasion they will see all their de losive hopes destroyed for ever, which they had conceived with regard to the pnblic seutinients iu France, and the extent of the means of govern ment. With this view, all papers ‘s hich relate to the operations on the Scheldt shall be coinmuni. sated to the public in tbcir natural order, either at full len4th, or by extracts, according to the degree of interest and importance attached to them. COPY OF A REPORT, MADE AUGUST I, 1809, ST TUE MINISTER AT WAR TO TUE EMPEROR AND ZINC. " 6 I had the honour, by a report of the 31st of last July, to render the Emperor an account of the appearance and movement of an enemy's fleet an the side of Flushing; and of the measures hi herto adopted for the defence of the Scheldt. I have this morning bad a conference with the Mi nister of the Marine, who thinks it necessary that all the troops which cau be drawn from the garri son of Paris should provisionally be ordered to march to the Scheldt and Boulogne. In conse quence thereof, I have directed General Mullin to order this day the half brigades of reserve to march, one moiety to Luzanher, and the other to &ides. These troops will find in both places waggons to convey them to their places of desti nation. They who march to Boulogne will reach it an the 4th August. The half brigades which march from Senles to Ghent, will be there the sth of A ague, and proceed from thence to the Scheldt. I have ordered several battalions and squadrons of the second military division to march to the coast of Boulogne. " All these orders had been sent off when I re. wired a telegraphic dispatch from Gen. Suzanne, informing me that he had ordered all the national guards of the department of the North to pro. ceed in waggons to the isle of Cadsand, indepen. dnsttly of those under the orders of Gen. Rumpon, who are marching in the same direction. Pursuant to these dispositions, the troops employed on the coast will in three days form a considerable force, exclusive of the gens.d'arines, the companies of reserve, and the officers of Customs, who have also 6, en called out. In additiou to these troops, I limp 4140 ordered the Fro•lsional battalions aid squanmos of the 21tb, 16th, 2d, and 4th military THE STATV,SMA, --- divisions to join and repair in waggons to Antwerp with the utmost speed. " I have charged the General of Artillery, Saint Laurient, whose health is perfectly restored, and who happens to be iu Park unemployed, to hasten to Antwerp, thence to the Scheldt and the hleof Cadsand, and to direct the service of :sr , finery, and aslertain the state of the batteries. Ile is also charged to inspect the artillery of the coast of Boulogne, in the district of the 10th mi litary division, mid to give all necessary orders that the service may he duly performed in all its different branches. Independently of the forces employed between the Somme and the Scheldt, every thing is arranged in the district of the military division, agrecahly to the orders which I gave before, and which -I have lately renewed, to embody, at a moment's notice, (X )0 choice Na. tionat Guards, to ho taken from the Itgion in the neighbourhood of the coast, and to be marched to the four principal points of the coast, such as Havre, Fecamp, Dieppe, and St. Valery, exclu sively of a strong reserve, destined to march to the point of attack particularly threatened by the enemy. " I have also given all necessary orders fbr the defence of the coast, from llavre to Bayonne. is I shall have the honour to report to his Ma. jest) , the result of the measures adopted to re. pulse the attack on the side of the Scheldt, as soon as the Generals shall set out, on their reports. " COUNT ItUNNEIWItC." CADIZ, AuGusr 13. —..m... It is barely possible to imagine a more re. markable moment than that which hailed the appearance of his Excellency the Marquis WE:L UMLEY in this country ; and, as if purposing to enrol his arrival among the memorabilia of Spain, Providence seems to have fixed the hour, when overflowing with admiration and gratitude towards his brother, far the signal services Spain and her cause bad derived from British courage and British gallantry, under Sir Awl-It:Ws cow. mend, on the 28th of July. The day, ushered in by the ringing of bells and the discharge of can non, was closed with a most brilliant and general illumination, and every other demonstration of joy the inhabitants of Cadiz could display. To et, querate the honours paid to the Marquis, would exceed the limits of a letter : his reception was distinguished by marks of enthusiastic love and veneratioa for the Sovereign and Nation he is crime to represent, that assuredly never have been surpassed, if ever equalled, on any occasion ; and which must have been to his Excellency, indivi dually, a source of proud and gratifying smsation. Au immense concourse of persons, wi•hout dis tinction of rank, had assembled to meet the Marquis on his landing, and many were paying him the rather unusual compliment, in this coiei try, of drawing the carriage, the doors of a hick were open, the box and eery part occupied promiscuously by thirse eager to greet his ar. rival. His Excellency selected one out of the number, and gave him a purse well stocked with gold, to distribute among his fellew-citizens ; hut the honest Spaniard, named JUSTO Lossre, by trade a shoe-maker, instantly returned the parse, with Its contents, to the Marquis; anti in the name, and amidst the acclamations of the sur rounding multitude, coupled their thanks fur his Intended princely gift, with the assurance, as an apology for declining it, that the proofs of respect, esteem and gratitude, he was then witnessing, were the genuine and universal sentiment of the whole Spanish nation, who found the only re. ward they could most value in the opportunity of tin manifesting their fe,dings. _ _ The British subjects here, merchants and others, were of course not behind.hand in the attention due to the Representative of their beloved Sove reign: through our worthy and respected Consul, JAMES Durr, Esq. they begged permission to wait on his Excellency in a body, by whom they were recei►ed with affability and ul hanky, at once ho nourable to him, and flattering to them. On M inday, the 7th inst. the day fixed upon by the Marquis, the entertainment prepared for his Excellency was honoured by his presence, that of his suite, the heads of the Government, Army, Nary, and other departments, the British Admi ral, and other Officers of distinction, the Sicilian Ambassador, the Pope's Nuncio, several of the first Grandees, and other Spanish Noblemen, the principal British Merchants, and others connected In the trade of both countries, &c. &e. The dinner on the occasion was in the most ca. pacious room Cadiz could afford, at the Land. gate, or Puerta du Tierra ; and the whole was conducted in a manner that reflects the highest credit on the Managers, at the head of wham were JAMES GOHDON, ESC!. President, and Ms- CAN SIIAW, Esq. Vice President. Two regimental bands, Spanish and English, struck up favourite airs to welcome the company as they alighted from their carriages. At half-past three tho table was served, and be. tween the removal of the first and the introduction of the second course, the President gave as a toast, which was drank with three times three : " His Excellency the Mart Noble the Marquis litatt.aa- LEY ; and !nay the auspicious woment of his arri►al pro►e the presage of continued succe,ses•, mid of perpetual tunny and union between the two countries." ills Excellency, in a concise, but most able speech, took occasion to address the meet ing; and concluded by expressing, in a tune of energy and confidence,. in which every one pre. sent sympathised, his firm belief and hope, that a perseverance in the enthusiastic spirit of attach ment to their country's cause, which he had re. marked since his arrival, would afford him the gratification, before be left Spain, of seeing the liberty of the country firmly established on the basis of their ancient iuslittations, improved and perfected by the experience of modorn wisdom. When the desert was placed, independently of the plateaux, ornaments, and other devices suited to the day, the table presented a very pleasing,' , though perhaps novel sight, to the British eye, the cloth being decorated with graceful festoons, formed by variegated coloured leaves of different ' odoriferous flowers, terminating at each end with the Spanish motto : “ View Fernando Septinro y Jotta Tercets." (1) After dinner, the following toasts were given in succession, in both languages, accompanied with appropriate populariSpantsh,or English airs, marches, Sc. " FERDINAND the Seventh"—with three time. three. " the Third"—with (line, three. The following were drank with three only : " The Emperor of A u vrn t.t, ILA our other " am may the heroic etfortv of her brave and loyal People terminate in the complete resturation of her lailepen deuce, Liberty, and ' " His Excellency General Duo liatic.oato DE LA Cuesva." " Ills Excl.llyncv (:ear.ral Sir ARTHUR W rt./X.11.1:Y." " The Arcltsim: CaURI.I:9 of Austria, aid success to the Austrian arm-." _ _ " The Spanish Armies. and their gallant Commairier.." " The British Army, and their gallant Connumders." " The BrittA Navy. - ' " The Spanish Navy."—tiiven by the Marquis before sit ting dew,. " His flolitwss the Pore, and may be he delivered from his actital state of bondage, us the Children of Israel Were from the land of Egypt. " The Suprenie Central Junta of Spain, and may the mean employed by them to place the canuory in its present proud situation, never fail them until tlwv have accomplished the great end to which they have pledgee{ thewselves.' " The Immortal Defenders of Saragossa :/lltt Gerona." " The Heroes of Itayien." " The loyal Inhabitant, of the Spanish Culonie , , and pros perity to their Coot nerve wid Estaldishnwats." " The City of Cadir., the prosperity of its C unimerce, and happiness of its worthy Inhabitants." At about eight in the evening the dinner party withdrew, to prepirre fur the ball that was to fol. low at the Theatre ; and at which not only the nu bility, gentry, merchants, with. their ladies resi. dent in Cadiz, bat time of Puerto Saints Maria, Isla, Xcrcz, and every other place within reach of the very short notice that could be given, were in vited. The Theatre was most brilliantly illumi nated, and so contrived, that the stage and pit forming a most spacious saloon for the amateurs of dancing, left the first and second range of bons for spectators who chose to appear in full dress. The third and upper boxes were for the accommo dation of thole who came in the usual costume of the country ; and the remaining parts of the house were appropriated for the other inhabitants, among whom tickets of admiisiun had also been distributed. At the end of the saloon over the stage a trans. parency was placed, with the device " Vivan CUriTA v Wri.t.usLEv, v los bizarros Defeo sores de la Patri.t. del dia .2S de Julio." (I) . At the end opposite, and between the portraits of the Kings of GREAT BRIT %I v and SPAIN, which were surmounted by the Royal Standards of both Nations, another transparency had the following inscription : (3) FRIt .4 A IMO et mac enado, N iNima de tr.ticom TM pueblo lot de veugatte, (.om Cry E11:11.01, 1:41:111i4 toia. Se tnlA ha de eumplir; Pia y au Rey, De %enter o murk. As an attempt to du justice to the splendor of the scene, to the assemblage of rank, fashion, beau.) , and elegance, that graced lbe Theatre, I , out of all question, some faint idea may still be formed, float the fact of between three and four thousand pct sons having st:ended ; and that, until seven o'clock on the morning of the Tues. day, the merry dance was kept alive with that vi vacity so peculiar to the Spanish fair : at this hour the house was cleared and all had retired, highly pleased, and in perfect good humour with each other. 04. 6. 1.., rERDI,II D the Seventit, old LITURGIC tbe bird." N. B. The ripviiite end n •is reversed, and 6count:l he Third placed lira ia the motto. (4)" Long live Cur t and W I.l.e.if.EY, and the valiant Derianicrs of the Country, on the 'ietti July." 0) Fr ROO:AND, most laiiived, Hy a treacherous foe betrayed, Ths . People shall avenge thY riuse, With tirtnne.s undismayed. Lath Spaniard's heart and 'band shall join, And shout the N -Ilion'. cry, For their faith and their king, runquer nr to die. Dile. U U Cottesehergia Lisitur PRICE OF SPOCKS tills I/A If AT ONE. 41't:Lue1i, J perCent.Cson. Oki 1 ()Imaiwn 3 prem. :I per Cent. Red. Mi I.tonA. .Init. .slist 4 per Cent sant lisco I:ills:is. Jas. posh Nary .993 I Indio Bonds. M. 21, N . rm. Consols for Aec....eflill Letter) 'fiekeb l 21/. lilt. THE STATESMAN. raorostri ?VIA'. LONDON: TUESDAY, IMPTEMAIIII 5. .....01...... AT no period hf the contest between France and Austria have the people of Eligland been so imperfectly informed of (he real state of affairs in Germany, as at tho present juncture.—The Armistice of Zisaitri was signed on the 12th of July, and intelligence of that event reached London oe the 26th of the same month.— When the consternalinn nit!' which that news filled the Metropolis hail, in some degree subsided, the Loudon Newspapers almost one race set to work to r , ..ritiade the people or England that Austria had h..en tricked into the Armistice ; and that the re.cointnencetnent of - hostilities WAS inevitable. The hirelings even went so far as to induce au expectation that Ans. trig would out wait fur the expiration of the term prescribed fur the cessation of Then came the manufactured account ref the bat tle of Wagram, shewing how (el ri4ly the Freorli were Mauled—an:l lastly, as the peroration of the argument, the extraordinary infatusiion of the de. luded Archduke CHA 111.1 up•)n huge head the whole blame of the diststious i•!tite of the con_ toil vies laid without i:i..rey. Al; hope nu; then fixed on Pante Join of I.lciti v. 'lli' in. numerable absurdities on this sobj.'et in The Pod, and more especially in The Courier,.are fr,•sh in the recollection of every uric-- the profound di— covery of The CO atria l that there were two des_ criptious of courage--uue of the . fichl, ai.d the other of the cabinet—in which latter the poor Aitennotia is gravely alleged to be extremely deficient--was highly instructive. However, it turned out at last that the Ancirocirr, iustead or being pacifically infatuated, had voluntarily re tired fruit the Austrian army frum a very ditfereni species of infatuation—and it %%mild have been but common justice in The Po4t and Courier to have resumed that fulsome strain of panegyric with which they were wont to plaister the Ancu- I DUKE, before the discovers of his difieierscy hi the courage of tile Cabinet. The signature of Preliminaries between France and Austria has been reported in Foreign J ournals and rtirate Letters reiteratedlj ; and we are now again called upon to give credit to that event, ou the authority of a private letter from Holland, of so recent a date as the Ist instant. The date of the peace, thus announced, is not mentioned ; but various particulars are ;fated, for which we should imagine there can be little foundation..—The sub stance of the reports on the Continent respecting the terms is—that FR A !qui, abatithoing the title of Emperor, assumes that of King of Bonr. MIA and Hes:catty—and that he also abandons Austria, of which Narot.rost assumes the title of Archduke. Other repoc:3 state, that the ei.dc. cant Emperor is to retain his ancient title of King of BOHEMIA only—relinquishing Hungary—aud accepting a portion of Turkey. We apprehend that all these aceuunts originate in cottjectur c only. The extinction of the title of Emperor seems ut. terly improbable—for it is difficult to cult ceive a unto, so framed as must be that of FitaNcts to endure existence under a stale of degradation so absolute. That the negociations for peace have been so long protracted, has cer. tainly excited our surprise —and we are persuaded that on this subject no correct infurniation is be. fore the public. In no former negotiation of NAPOLEON is the field, has there been any such delay. If the affairs of Austria were so desperate, 45 to have filially compelled her to the abject sub.. mission »Ilia is now stated, it might be thought that no longer time would hare been necessary to settle the basis of negotiation than was occupied in framing the peace that succeeded the Battle of Austerlitz;—and if, on the other hand, iheDictate of NeruLLox has bceu resisted by the Emperor FHA:refs—it might reasonably be inferred, that he was not rcducad to the necessity of finally sub mitting to the A bdication of his title of Em.. pour, and the surrender in perpetuity of his capital.-..and hereditary dominious. The re. signation of the Archduke CHARLES —the removal of the negotiation from Znaim to Vienna, from Vienna to Raab, and from thence to Allen. burg, together with the prolongation of the Ar mistice, are circumstances, the grounds of o hick are so unknown,'that it is not possible to place any confidence in the reports that have now reach. ell us—it is therefore certainly premature to form any opinion on a subject respecting which we ars hitherto in profound ignorance. AGAIN do Ministers give "note of prepare. lion."—That the Eritisir army shall strike a blow, is their absolute determinaitun—but when ur whc•re, is not yet announced. Public rumour assigns S:iaiti as the point of " ulterior" opera_ tion.—lf to protect the retiring army of the Vis count of TALAVERA be the project, it may be hoped that no 1..1h.: will again be wasted-- for delay, at all U411.'6 dangerous, may, in the pre sent exigency, be peculiarly hazardous. Ou the active efforts of the truly formidable force which the late Commander in Chief of the Expedition had under his direction, it may be worthy of re mark, that the horses of the cavalry and artillery that were embarked at It antsgate in the month of July, were disembarked at that place in the month of September, after remaining in the vessels 48 drys. They went out with the Expedition, they remained the whole time in the we:sets with the Expedition, they came back with the Expedition, and they are going out on anotli , T Expedition. Orders have already beca dispatched to our na val arsenals to make the necessary preparations, and the Resolution, Ithistriams, Alfred, Revenge, Hero, Orion, Monarch, .Achille, and lit/lona, which arc returned to Pertsmtrith, have been di. rccted to take in provisions for flee monthy.— From the length of time for which these vessels are thus provided, it might be inferred that the object of the Expedition is more distant than Spain. Dispatches were yesterday received front Cadiz, which produced some bustle amongst Ind possibly the Alarquis Wert.t.st.cy may have suggested lonic new pl In for a freilt , 11 . Worm The confidence of the people of Cadiz appears so totally iticonsistiuit with wii it we know of the situations of tie French , u lilies, that it will not be surprising if even the penctratin 4 and bagarious Marquis should be de. Wetland deceived by the ignorance and misrepre. sentations of the people of Cacti:, who arc talk. ing of the surrender of Sour.r, whose advance threatened to cut off the retreat of the Briti,h ~'»- •