The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-08-16 00:00:00

1~~ TO CORIigIIPTIL la answer to several kittliesifoles complaining of the atee-delirery of This if .11Ianday last, we AO beg to state, that ONO of the Public iiipa lqa so that day were lath, that we B Capone* to keep pace with the demand I lb coorgoodre of which several of the New s-venders cold am alipM their amply awn it was toolate fat the Post-Olicd. Wasttail eadmmair to pre y.** a mearrence of this be4eVibiztre-kbel s Awn" as we are for the disappointment of oar 1.111. he are well m owed that they w ill agree with us idsktag for the recur rence of an event s which shall cx c le a similar degree of impatient* in the British POW. arrived. 0 DAlin 1 O O 1 Jamaica . ...... 0 PRICE OF SPICKS rum 3 perCAnd.Cnow. 67i B e*. die. 9 per Cent. Red. tidi 4 per Cent to 41 Nair./ Cnrsols fnr Are BPS uAy AT ON F. O'CLOCK. iireniano Prem. Lnog. Ann Filch. Hill!, Si 194. prem. India 134n414. 395. Cle. prem. Intim, Tickets. THE STATESIVIAN. pitopu4lTl TEMAI• LONDON: wrnmssnAv, AUGUST 16. —rpm— RUMOUR was extremely active during the af ternoon of yesterday, in circulating throughout the Metropolis " the surrender of Flushing." That report was incorrect. A Telegraphic Dis. patch had been received at the Admiralty, an. smearing the opening of the mortar batteries, but Flushing continued to display a disposition to re. alst to the last extremity. In the foreemon of yesterday, Captain Donis, bearing dispatches, dated the 11th instant, from Sir RICHARD %RAMAN, landed at Yarmouth from the lkrneuda, and reached the Admiralty late is the evening. The intelligence which he brings leaves but little doubt that the progress of the Expedition will net be nsoch longer ar. rested by the resistance of Flushing. On the 11th, ten frigates, under the command of Lord WILLIAM STUART, had stationed theta. selves abrea.t of the town, and from that time to the 13th, on which day the grand batteries on the land side also opened, they had kept up an in. cessant firing on the place. Capt. Dome left the Scheldt on the 13th, and at the time he came of, Flushing appeared to be on fire in several places. Lord GARDNER had anchored with eight sail of the line in a bay neu Flushing—and Sir H. POP. MAK was at Bath*, with a number of gen.brigs, sloops, and gun-boats. Intelligence of the snr. tender of Flushing is now hourly expected. The Expedition arrived un the coast offlolland on the evening of the 18th offuly, and the batteries on Fleshing opened on the 13th inst.—a period of 10 days. 110 a much longer the Expedition may be detained before Fleshing is entertain; but even In that interval the enemy has had sufficient time to collect a force which must render the ultinsato success of the Expedition if not absolutely impracticable--et tests extremely doubtful. That our operations will be attended with no inconsiderable loss, is certain ; bat that Is the natural condition upon which every naval and military enterprise is undertaken. The int. portant question is, whether the loss will be cons. alensurate only, with the result. If an enterprise be successful, that the object should be purchased with some loss is reasonably to be expected. Our greatest apprehensions arise from the length of time which has been aforded to the enemy for pre parations of defence. Further information, though not official, has been received by the arrival of the Defender gun_ brig, yesterday, at Margate. This vessel left Campster on the morning of the 14th. When she was getting under weigh, Flags of Truce were seen coming out of the town, and the firing had erased—but, at nine in the evening, a renewal of the cannonade was heard. The I. tter adds-- 46 Admiral KZATS was proceeding op the West 44 Scheldt—the peasantry about Rotterdam had 44 risen to support us, and it was hoped that 66 Rotterdam, With three French sail of the " line, would be in our possession."—Of the truth of this account, we have sou means of deciding. But hitherto we know, from a ithority of no queslionoble nature, that the repulsive fri gidity of the Dutch to the b/w:dish/nen/a of our j Commanders, had not, at the time Flushing was nirktel.y inrested, given the smallest reason to ;tope for their co-operation. Even local inforina titan, with respect to the internal state of Flush. lug, we understand, was firmly refused. It was reported last week that Aitruua O'Commoe was in Flushing ; test we are assured that, that report is unfounded. Several commercial agents from London, are, however, known to have bee° dispatched to Flushing before the, Expedition sailed, to he in readiness to meet 4' coniignetents." They perhaps did nut expect to have had quite so warm a birth of it as the bom bardment will give them. A great number of vessels, loaded with coffee and other prn.lnce, have for more than 10 days been lying in th e r i ver , ready fur a start the moment that Flashing is known to have surrendered. At priest our beet does not suffer ens vessel to approach the L THE 'BTAtESMAN, BY a vessel, arrived (nisi NeweSork, Letters and Papers to the 11th of July baseballs isosivell. A New-York paper of the 10th is pretty head. sotnely stuffed with the following correct intelli gence, extracted, as we imagine, from the corre spondence of the girt:sale agents, who hive so Jong furnished the hireling, deluding prints of London with articles from the " Shores of the Bay of Biscay," " Banks of the Danube," " Banks of the Elbe," " Banks of the Weser," " Private Correspondence," &c. Ruscia has &dared ear against France; the Freed; to. tally defeated in Italy ; and the French Army la Pompl completely destroyed, die. he." The Boston Neil annals as wood of the celebration of the 4tb July, at that place. At one o'clock, a grand federal salute of 100 iguas was iced ea the Comm... The Boston Seailsel, after pobliabing an account of the proceediap of the day, says— - tttM stee *enteritis; the Aestrise llooarehy, le alesiiko‘ of the glorious efforts of the Archduke Csaiaus, aid the brave see ender his command .—ciao as bnege as the French, or ease the Dri. tisli..-Miniviees wore bold* wading British va lour le 81417, aid in Portugal ll! - " As On the Anniversary of ladepewience last year, all oar shipping were lying rotting at oar wharfs, the a:Albinos, as the regent Anniversary, of a ship moving gallantly throttles the streets, moat have bees highly pleasing, as sliewiag the contrast hetwee■ the two yeari. Every thing demoastrated that the celebrants@ of yesterday was the Jubilee of Trade and Cammerce restored, as Well as lidepeadessee." 66 WAIMINGTON, JULY L— The Natkwal Aspiratory was yesterday celebrated is this city with the highest deatow• strati= ofjoy." As article from the Maine, dated July 30, sesta, that notwithstanding the negociations are carried en, the march Of troops, *c. proceeds with the greatest activity through Strasbutgb to the French army. Yesterday, at four o'clock in the afternoon, a telegraphic communication was made to the Ad. miralty, announcing that a Messenger had arrived from Waicherea, and that the general attack upon Flushing had commenced. A vessel laden with goods for the Eastern Coast was on Monday warned of by one of our cruisers; and it was understood that all private intercourse with the opposite shore would for the present be obstructed. • A Gentleman arrived in town yesterday from Caen, in Normandy. He mentions, that but for the Conscription and the Public Papers, they should feel and know nothing of the war in that part of France. Provisions were abundant, and alert of tranquillity approaching to stupefaction generally prevailed. It was reported that the Pons had entered We French territory, and it was supposed the ecclesiastical authority of his Holi ness would be re-established a' Avvon. We have, by a vessel fro n Corunna, some par_ titulars of RO3lllllO. army as late as the Zit's Jet,. It was supposed he hid before that time entered the Province of Leon. This is not cor rect ; he was nut further advanced than the defiles of Villa Franca. lira army was in high spirits, and 'lady aeeumelating ; aod it aas presumed he would march vapidly to Burgo., to intercept the enemy in hie retreat to the frontiers. I' is now stated, tin the first authority, even in the Ministerial Circles, that the facts of the Ar mistice between France and Aortas having ben concluded and acted 'gain, is now universally cre. diced at the Courts of the various Princes on the Continent ; and therein not the smallest doubt en. tertaiued as to the Spent) ci rr i lesion of peace upon terms to the full as unpleasant to those Courts as was at fist reported. Yesterday Papers were received from Paris to the 29th, Frankfort to the elst skimp, Berke to the let, and Hambitrgh to the 6th instant. They owe two facts of considerable importatice s—Tbe. one, that the French are assembling io great num bees round Antwerp, which *hews the impractica bility of any sneeriststi attack in the East Scheld. The other is, that Conscripts are plotting into the territories of Austria, through Strasburgb, from the interior of France. Yesterday tiamburgh Papers were received to the 6th. They take notice of onr Expedition, and state, that as soon as news arrived a the landing in Walcheren, the Dutch troops left Am. sterdam, Haerlem, and other places for Leyden ; and troops are rad to bo marching towards the coast. _ _ _ Tim safe arrival of the Duke of Baunswica Ou.s, with upwards of 1700 of his men, is a circumstance which illustrates, as well the testi. time ascendancy of this country, as the singular situation in which the Continent of Germany must be at this moment, to render it practicable for the Duke to have reached the sea coast with this small bet faithful band. They are ordered to be disembarked at the ',le of Wight, where they will at length enjoy repose, after the incredi. ble fatigue they, have endured. The intelligence from the Continent abounds with rumours of a general aivicipation that hosti. lities in Germany will be renewed at the expiration of the Armistice. The continued march of con scripts through Strasburg, for Germany, seems to be the principal foundation .on which this opi. nion is raised. It appears, however, from the very conditions of the Armistice, improbable, that the war should be continued between France and Austria. May not the project against Turkey be near maturity? N APOLSO V is now separated from Turkey, in Europe, only by Hungary, and Peace with Austria will open to him a road into the heart of herTerritory.—W bile Russia is at this very moment advancing on one side—the cu-uperation of Austria and Ntrouton from Hungary, would instantly overturn that Empire, which now totters on the very pinnacle of destruction. Of rein. lineaments to the Freud' Army in Spain we hi. therto hear nothing—Ntroczon has nut yet se. cured Germany—and until that be effected, he will leave King Josses and the army to maintain themselves in Spain u well as they can.— The Public will doubtless be iisfinitely amused by the grave comparison of the Courier of the Battle of Talavera with those of Crossey and Agincourt. As we recoiled, on wither of those days of immortal renown, were any " missing" recorded.—And it is, in truth, impossible to sug. gest a comparison more ludicrously absurd. The bravery of our troops is too well known, and too generally admitted, even by the French themselves, to require this sort of adulatory "fiadian."—Our army his exhibited, under its able and gallant Corn. mender, that characteristic bravery by which it has from the earliest period of histurybeen distinguished. The attack which it repelled was truly formidable —but let us not 64 out Herod tiered." A loss of near 5000 in killed and wounded—has not, until the battle of Talavera, been recorded in the his.' tory of this country since the fatal day at Font. nuy ; and if, as is now asserted, the British army did nut amount to 20,000 men, every fourth, in stead of every fifth man has, for the present, been placed " kors du combat." However the assistance of the Spaniards may be slighted—if they had not prevented our right wing from being out-flanked—the fortune of the day had been much more destructive. We may conjecture that the erent of the battle would not have been an nounced by the Park and Tower guns. LinaiteU as is our force in Spain, we might exclai.n with PYKRIIIIi, after his victory over the Romans— ,' Another curb victory and we are undone." The unrivalled bravery of the British army is but libelled by the ridiculous gasconade: to which we have alluded. A vessel is arrived from Bilboa, which place she left on the Ist inst. The Ikters-rooeivecl by this aeoveyance are dated the day she sailed, and re. port, that JetSEPII BONAP4II7II was preparing 10 1 leave Madrid. The whole of the French garrison at Bilboa had been withdrawn, with ,the amaeption of 400 men. A letter from an Officer on hoard the Ragre,74, stales, that both that ship and the lospelataiz bier received so much itamsge by running foul of each other, that they must come home rg be reiAiretl. The Impeitieas was on shore 30 hours, and the Eagle nearly twice that time. The Right lion. R. Dumm', the new State Se. cretary of Ireland, is expected at Dublin Castle in the course of the present week. The Palace of St. Claud is newly fitted up no. der t he di recline taste of Madame Bon *PARTE, with the must costly magnificence ; but the chief suite of roams are whimsically furnished with chairs, each of them being of a different pattern ; so that it snore resembles the display of an upholsterer% warehouse, than the state apartments of a Gallic Empress. The new Arrhhighop of Dublin, Dr. CLEAVER (brother of the Bishop of `iT. AS %PH), owed his tratislation to no Nlinisterial influence, his Mi. aisTY having promoted him out the personal re. commendatiim of Lard RI nz-nis LE, NI the Prelate most likely to titanium the Protestant ascendancy in Ireland with dignity and firmness. The navigation of the Thames has been lately impeded by timber, and other obstructions. The City of London, consequently, commenced a pro. cess against a ivharfingcr, fur sutlering his craft to project too far out ; and un Friday last the goes. (ion was determined i , i favour of the City, at Croy dust Assizes. By this decisiois, all nuisances will be renioted, acid the plying places left open for the watertueti. The Volunteers of Bandon,in Ireland, continue to preserve, with unahating bigotry and animosity, those religious prejudices which bare, unfor:u_ nately, so long disturbed the peace of We have heard much in our time of the bigotry -- - of the votisries of the Roguish Church ; but it !gory he questioned whether, in any Catholic Country gi Oh, that 20,000 British troops had been in of Europe, a public avowal of ilitulerance is to "the battle of Wagram!" exclaims the Courier be found, that can equal in bigotted seal, and of last night, which but a few weeks ago was ex- blind prejudice, the inscription, which, to this tolling' to the skies the unexampled bravery of moment, is legible nn the stouegateway at the en. the Austrians. This is surely the very climax of trance of the above town : absurdity. But why, instead of calling upon A Jrw—a Tuast—or as Arnerse, slag corer here—but net a r itlfT. II Liteticxs fur assistance, like the waggoner in 'rho pertinacious adherence of the Corps to the the fable, did not Ministers send 50 or even 100,000 old custom of wearing . oraoge lilies in 'Nei,. caps, British troops to Germany :—they might then have in defiance of the reasonable Remonstrance of their commanding officer, iniffici,•nily shews, that been in the battle of Wagram, or in the many these Champions of Protestantism are not " de battles that preceded the fall of Vienna. Minis_ generate."—A wag, *briber Catholic or Pro. tern had ample means, they had ships, arms, am- testant history does not record, though by Lobe munition. and British soldiers. They had, like it has been attributed to the celebrated DRAM their gssconading echo, every thing but under. S W I Fr, on reading that bloody inscription, wrote iu chalk beneath it: -- stinding to decide upon the proper measures for t , Pare Christian Clarity I—we kaow right well etkci;rig the d e livermee of I:ernpe, While N tlrco• ' os This durtrioe's written—es the times or Hell !! I" Due. A Till DUKE OF BRUNSWICK OELS. .Yeeterday, at noon, Captain Gusts, of the Mmirrito sloop of war, arrived at the Admiralty. His Serene Highness the. Doke of Ileumsa scat Ova had arrived with Captain GOATS, at the Clarendon Hotel, in the morning. A bout three 0 0 ..10 k her Royal Highness the Prince s of WALES came to the house of Mr. W. Puts, at the Ad.. mtrally,where the Dukeof Beewswitsz had the first ;ut e ri' .w with his Royal sister. Their Royal Hog' - nesse, remained a longtime at the window fa ms th e street, for the gratification of the public. 111. High. Isms appears to have suffered by bodily uxertions and the etch of weather : he is 35 years of age, five feet eight incises high; has extremely large mustachios, aud whiskers on his upper lip, and side of his face, with eye-brows of a light colour. He oss dressed in a dark green coat, pantaloons, boots, and spurs, a large sabre by leis ail., a n d a Lather cep, square at the top, from %hence hung somepurse-hair. L ord MULOSA•E and the Board of Admiralty offered their cungratnlatioons to his Highness. At four o'clock, the Princess Of WALLS, ACCOOlimisjed by the Duke, left tho Admiralty for Blackheath, to pay tneir rusptcts to their Royal Mother. On his highness leaving the Admiralty-yarJ, the populace gave Noy three cheers. CORN EXCHAAGS, duo. id. The Market today has tolerable suppli-s of wh eat , th e Samples mostly of second a vl in tutor quality, and fine fetches a vita I adv..nee; B i.ley in short supply; and with Malt maintain la+t prices; Beans of the two kirds l►kewise; of Oats the supplies are but inconsiderable, and sales in this tratl.• are q toted rasher dearer ; Have Seed also; Flour on the terms of oar last curreacy ; a ud some further arrivals from America. CURRENT PRI Whew.. • - 745. 5i.N10,14 Fiat slip) a - - a lei. I. Rye. 44. lak. Barley. 14ii. SOL W. Pea. (Bailers) -90 s. Orel Peas, 41K. Beau s4s. tit. CB OF GRAIN. Tick Mme. - - - 430. 51.. Mits. Poland ditto - - - 38.. C.. Potato.. ditto . • • - . Rape Aced . £414 Floe Flour • - • - Pfo. Suomi Oss d the Right lion. Members of the Four. in.hand Club %elite lately on his return to Lon. don, stopped at the Red Lion Inn, at Breatfurd. An old woman wanting to go to London, went to the Right Hon. Driver, supposing him to be the coachman, he being standing dote to the horses, in a true coachmanlike style, and the carriage to be a star.coer.h, and asked him to take her to London, outode, to w hi. It h.• 4grred, but pe•saad. ern her to get inside, observing that they should not • fall out, when they got to London,abuut the fare. The groom, who was acting the part of th e B e ar d, 'petted the door fur her, and she went of in grand style. At the Derry Assizes, an action was brought foe a breach of promise of marriage, by a Miss M migoll against a Major Sin) th. The promise and correspondence ether nu the action was founded took place several years ago, and More the lA. feedant had attained to his present rank in the army. It was said, that an offer of 5001. was male the evening before the trial, and on that scan being rejected, am offer of marriage was also made and rejected. The Jury found a verdict fur the Lady— Damages 20001. • Pas. SIRI ANISII.—T94 rage fur pedestrianism his extended to Churivy, in Cheshire. Mr. Gray, the Clerk of the Church, a middle.siged man, of al:oot 50 'can of age, walked last week 140 miles in 45 boort. Ile commenced on Wednesday wonting, at and walked live times to Wigam and bark ; and on Thursday three times more to Wigan and back, and two mites on the Preston road from Chorley and back. loins last visit to, IVigan and back, he did not much rutted four hours. A band of music was indispensable at thus completion of this extraordinary feat, by which, awl an assemblage of more than 1000 spectators, this reverend candidate for pedestrian glory was attended the last wile of leis nodertaling. Bets were two to erne the first day against him, but the next day they experienced a change of four to 904 in his favour. The Mr. HARVEY, who started on Saturday morning to *elk to Brighton fruw Westminster. bridge in thirteen sueres,ive hours, completed his task in eleven hours fifty.seten minutes. A con. c,leraiale sum has be.n lost, as great ',rids were belled against him, he having had no training. Monday evening a Ing-host going down the River, ran foul of a vessel lying off limehoii•e, hy which she upset, when the waterm.in was foitu. oat l$ saved trim being drowned, bb a boat corn. ing up at the time, just as he was sinking, and the lug.huat was stove in and sunk. Labourers are now employed in pulling down the ruinous walls of Ohl Dritry, ss hich it is sup. posed will be eff,:ct:d in the course of the present week. A sparring eahiliiiion took place yesterday at the 'fen-room in the Strand, for the benefit uf the •eteran Maddox, which ss as attended by the &matte's's. Thu lielcherg, Richman, Cropley, Porvell, Dogherty, dtc. set to, and afforded crimidera• le atntqemerst. BiXt No.—Richman is matched against Cropley f. r guirway. The battle will be fought in the middle of the nest month. Sunday morning early, two persons of the names of Sealy and S confined in the [louse of ciirre coon, escaped over the prison wall. In the afternoon of the same day Trott, one of the Officers of liatton.gard-n Office, coining through Cheshunt, reeognizel Smith. t..)( k him into cus. (fitly, and safety ludg 11 him in his old Tuners. Th o. her has nut yet be..n heard of. Yest rd.ty the party.wall of a public-Abuse in Graft nt.strert, Seven-disk, gore isa, and part of t tiors, the bar, and stain-Ns descended to the parlour. Scircral persons had just time enough to escape the ruins. All the inhabitants were coon. pilled to make a hasty retreat fi l m th e p rem i s es. No lives were lost. Orpington Church, near Mary Cray, in Kent, was set on fire• by !he lightning nu Thursday night, and graily consumed. -AN I I