The Statesman. — London, England, 1811-10-24 00:00:00

+ • % . FRENCH PAPERS. PAters, Ocr. 17.—Their Imperial Majesties the Emperor and Empress are not expected 'here till the end of this month. M. Gandofi, painter and engraver, a Member of the '{ova! Academy of Boulogne, is occupied, at thii time, in Wile-donee (stroke engraving) one of the most beautiful pictures of Guido, in the Gallery of - Tanari, of that towq, of which there has never yet been an engraving, nor even a copy. This picture represents the Virgin, with the infant Jesus and the little St John. At Munich, Stutguard, and in other towns in tites south of Germany, where there are Observatoriev, the remarks which have been made upon the Comet are publi , bed ; those of M. Seyffer, Director of the Observatory at Munich,are accounts the most curious Sand interesting. We are informed from Augsburgh, that M. Art r.Stark, a distinguished Astronomer, who has determined with great accuracy all the moN'..ments of the Comet, has not seen one of such brilliancy and beauty, and that its tail has never been so long as on the 7th of October. He has estimated its length at . 800000 German miles (fifteen miles Gertnan are equal to 25 leagues French). The diameter of the Comet is 860 miles, and its distance from the earth 36,000,000. According to his aecbunt, the Comet was to spin oach thp earth till the 16th of October, and its distance then would be 32,000,000‘0f miles. from the Continent, was, of neces change the destinies of Holland. 1\ had remained shut up between the sea and the line of French Citstom-honses she would have but a precarious indepet..ance, cempanied with the total ruia of ; i ndividuals, and evett with' a general famine.' Onitetrto thigreat ens pire, Holland suffers; undoubtedly; alithatacommer cial house must suffer which loses heratiCientrelations; but; at least, she does not setter without hope. She must foresee, that a Power so formidable as Francs cannot,. in the end, be deprived of the benefit of a safe , and honour ablemaritime peace"; a peace which, thence• forward, will guarantee to the Dutch a new sphere of activity, tint less extensive, and flinch less precarious, than that of Which they were master's in the last cen tury. Situated at the mouth of the Rhine, the finest river of France and Germany, Holland is the natural i port and the c.orne..e.ti market of those vast and rich co.lnt ries 'hat' arc watered by so many rivers, the tri butaries of the Rhine : the Alps of Switzerland the vineyards and corn-fields washed by the Moselle and the Meuse, the Neckar and tie Mein ; the woods and mines of the Vosges, the Aideunes, the Black Forest, and the Odenwald ; the manufactures of Ap p-nzell, &rich, Wirtemburgh, Frankfort, Ilanau f &c.: such are the objects to which the speculatlas spirit of the Dutch, become Frenchmen, will be di.. rected. They will be the agents of all the northern part of the great Empire. The Dutch, who are the most attached to the old commercial reputation of their country, feel these troths, profess and circulatp them amongst the least enlightened classes. That} the Dutch people have every where, during the Etn peror's tour, eithibited the most perfect confidence in the genius and fortune of this great Monarch. His Majesty arrived among us while we were raising the second year's conscription., and he cart judgge himself with what facility this law; was executed, which unites under the same standard the warriors of old and new France. TheDut seatr.ca feel, with some pride, that theyform one of the most essential breeches pf the French Empire ; and it is partly oil their talents, amil, and courage, that the Continent relies for the arrival of the happy epoch of the freedom of the seas. The Flo- mish, German, and Danish seamen. speaking almoit the same language as the Dutch, having the same man ners, fraternise, on board the Sc;teldt fleet, with the countrymen of Roy ter and Tromp..is it to be believed, that, among so many seamen, there will not arise*. lents capable of fighting, and even of conquering, the English ? All classes are convinced that the present ills of Holland proceed solely from her having been a co lony of England ; and that her future hopes are founded solely upon being a province of the French Empire. This positive and evident fact strikes minds, whatever be their dispositions. Hence the English influence if, become almost With the mass of the nation ; and when we are told that the Ens, lisp have still much friendship for us, we feel that it is the interested friendship of a merchant; who, by his folly, has lost a skilful and intelligent clerk.—. Moreover, the Emperor is visiting our cities, ports,. and dykes—he inquires into our 'Wants, studies our resources, and will leave here; as every where else, memorable marks of his visit. PARIS, OCT. Ig.—Ws are assured that Genera ' Decaen has set out for Spain, where he will have a command in Ca'alonia. Amman su, Oct. 1-I.—Yesterday the Emperor gave audience to the Court of Accounts, to the Beads of ,religious worship, to the Institute of Holland, to the Professors of the Atheneum, to the Commis.;oners of the Bank, as well as to a number of distinguished persons of this cite. His Majesty condescended to receive at the same time all the Functionaries is no have already had the ho nour of being presented to him. His Majesty then went to business with his Ministers, and with the dittereet Councils of Commerce and of Customs. We are assured, that his Majesty Las decreed the establishment of a great rope-work for the naval ser vie , at Amsterdam. Barracks of brick, for lodg ing troops, are also, it is said, *to be built at Zeist, near Ctreeht. His Majesty, who was tp have set out this morning for the Helder, appears to have put off his journey. VIENNA, Ocr. s.—His Royal Highness Prince .Antony of Saxony, and the Archduchess, his wife, after passing slack days in this capital, hare returned to Shlossof.—Yesterday morning. at fifty minutes past nine, a slight shock of an earthquaks was felt at the Observatory of the University, which lasted three seconds. The motion of pendulums Rao net stopped ; but a lantern suspended in the Observa tory Hall was slightly shaken. This phenomenon was felt at the same time in other pails of this capital. The hope of seeing the improveMent of our cburse of exchange was realized 3esterday. It was then it 7 ; and we expert soon to see it at 209. It is,betieved that the revenues of the Archbishopric*. of Olmutz will he considerably diminished s but a fine property will still remain attached to it. The Count de Trout mansderf, at present Bishop of Kenigsgmtz, is named as successor to this 4e, since the Archduke Rodolph has declined accepting it. C tssz (Wesvauxtrs.), Ocr. 2.—His Majesty has issued a Decree, order lug that the regiment of Light horse of his rind shall be armed with lances, and shall take the name of the Light Horse Lanciers of the Guards ; and also that the Ist regime* of Light - .LONDON: • florse of the Line shall be similarly armed, and THURSDAY, ("mem 24. take the tame of the Ist Regiment of Light Home — "et" — . - • Lanciers. The fahricaters of the late disgraceful reports of Touxots, OCT. 2,—General Lariboissiere, Inspec. supposed victories obtained by our Armies in Portu tor-General of Artillery, has been in our city fora gal over the French, are again at work with their idle month past. He has caused batteries to be erected on the isles of Porquerolles, Porteros, and Begat', and rumours. Lord Wer.mocron, it is said, upon the at the point of Bregaseon, on the peninsula of Gien, authority of the Lisbon Papers, and private letters and at several other points of the main land, mounted f rom Oporto, has again advanced in the direction of with artillery of a new invention : In cons'equence Ciudad Rodrigo ; tied by a vessel in eight days from of these batteries, whatever anchorage ground off the . . Cadiz, ietelligence is reported to have arrived of llyeres Isles the enemy may choose to take, be will find himself reached on all sides. An English ship General BALLASTEROS'having been successful in two hai just made the experiment. This chip having en- attacks upon the French, and that BLAKE had also tared Hyeres Roads, and anchored where the English I been victorious in Valentia. We really do not know sqUadron had been accustomed to come to an anchor whether those individuals, who thus' persist in their without being reached, was immediately fired at and to gull the t' attempts hit: She at once cut her cables, and made off, keep ing the middle of the passage between the isles of or of ouecontempt. Can it for a moment be be ing and Porteros. It was unfortutate that I lieved, that Lord WELLINGTON, after having so re fifteen pieces of artillery, destined for the defence of cently been convinced of the impracticability of pre this passer, could not be fired off, on account of the I venting the advance s of the French, should again thickness of the weather ; this ship would not have think of investing Ciudad Rodrigo ?s---Impossible.-- otherwise got off so well. Ills Lordship's last approach °to that place, ac- ST. PETER4BURGH, SEPT. 21.—According to letters from Odessa, dated the 13th, commerce, both by sea cording to his. own account of the matter, had "no and laud, becomes there every day more flourishing. ' object" but merely to gratify curiosity, by obtaining On the suggestion of the Duke de Richelieu, govern- a sight of the enemy, That sight nearly cost him mein is taking measures for removing the obstadei e e r y dear, and taught him a lesson which we suppose which have hitherto incommoded the navigation of the, he would not like to have again repeated; for it now . Dneister and the Bag. By thts means the export of appears undeni e, abl that the army under his command the produce of the fertile Ppdolia has become more use resistance to the easy, as welt as the communication with Combed was totally inadequate to opp and Brody. Several new silk and woollen manufac- r overwhelming numbeq of the enemy. In the General tures have this year been established at Odessa. The Orders of the army , published since the appearance of I improved breeds of sheep in the southern provinCes the &m en ' leatau G au g e , i t i s stated, that " the Of the Empire furnish wool of the greatest fineness I • ° enemy's cavalry charged three faces of the square of the raw silk is brought from Peraia, and the Russian Governments on the borders of the Black Sea and the , the ik i ti6 . l4 infantry," Which proms beyond contra- Caspian. The navigation of the former of thpse ° dictioe, the'vest superiority of Psis description of the seas has been secure all the summer ; the flotilla eta- French force over the Allied 4rmy. In every re-_ tioned at Sebastopol has protected it from the enemy's sped indeed were the Allies inferior itt point of ships of ear. At the beginning of this month, they , numbers. It is only it few days since it wikt admits had heard nothing of the sailing of the Turkish fleet, 'led by the Ministerial Journals, that Lord 'EL or of the great expedition which the Cipitan Nelms, LTNCTPIS had not more than 33,000 effective men was to have attempted against the Crimea ; they were lie , ides completely tranquillised by the metmui es pnder his command. We are now informed, by pri which the Duke de ltichelieu bad taken against every sate letters from Officers under the immediate event. command of his Lordship, that not one half of UTRICIIT, OCT'. B.—The march of events had that number were engaged in the late efrairts with brought Holland to the situation of being no longer I the eaemy. In ene of these letters, dated Argenhals an independent nation, but a simple comme r c ial lac -I tort' between Enslard and the Continent. • France; near Almeida, Oct. 5, an Officer states, " I under forced to exclude her blind and implacable enemies stood from the best information I could collect, that - Arr Ma 1' Publtet 'Waterford ' .• •.• 6 Malts • • ' • 0 1 - • l 4,l l Wambd • PRICE OV STOCKS 21:11.5: Ban 3 per k Cent. Cons. 641} S per Cent. Red. 64ii 4 per Cents. 7E Wl4 5 per Cent. Navy 9t 1 .1 Long Ann. 16} 5-16 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Bonds 14 15 pr. Exciscoorr Bills sd. par c 2 pr. Ditto 31(1. 4 5 pr. omnistin 4 die. • . Consols for Acct. 64 Lottery Ticlytt Xl9 THE STATESMAN. . 15,000 men, ceding General 6th division,. which aced under on the left fiat this airountstance, lied dom our of sickness in the ranks ral.- 1 -In a letter from Oporto, as . i . z , ! -•..4".1%,,,5;.• , : . • *fih 'and' 29th ultimo, Jri* Beth pf which aetiong he had been successful, taps % aboy,g.. 460 prisoner!. —The French under the above Getter:4 were 5000. Gentlemen, wh?6:tfii.:elire seen, have hejleffi7g,fliei.say. that BL EE ettliCk Met by hist on. the the 13th instut s , «je 'am* Vest. aeconnts• from , Head-quarters 44 , ep tha 11th say, that the British army was rather sickly. The number of the sick in the Anglo ! Portnitaeas forces, amounts to 15,090, .but it will decrease as the season advances." Whatever may be said in defence of Lord WELL 1110•• TON'S recent advance to Ciudad Rodrigo, it is im passible, now that he has seen the enemy, and ascer tained his strength, to justify a second movement in that direction. The report of his having again ad vanced is indeed contradicted, first by the above let ter from Oporto of the 13th, in which it is said,,that 64 neither army is preparing to do any thing at pre sent, and the head.quarters remain in the same situation ;" and by the following letter, dhted Plymouth, October 111 : l el The Saratioro, MA TISEWS, has arrived here in seven days from Oporto, and I have seen the Captain, who says, that at the time of his sailing, there was nothing known of im portance frotn ‘ the British army. Tile French .had gone into cantonments as well as the English. The vessel sailed on the 14th inst. and brings later ac. counts than any others from that quarter." There is here, therefore, an end put to the rumour in the Lisbon Papers, and in the Oporto letters, of the Allied Army having again proceeded to the North of Portugal. With regard to the reports of BLAKE and BALLASTEEOS' victories, we regard them of no conse quence, even• supposing they should turn out to be correct, because, unless the Spanish and Portuguese people make head against the common enemy, it in vain to expect he he driven from the Peninsula, by all the force which Great Bri tain can send thither, or by all the hireling troops in the pay of the Junta of Cadiz, or of Lis. bon. The inferior numbers of the British in Portu g4l, and their repeatedly retiring before the French, has, in fact, effectually extinguished the small per. tign of spirit which remained among the Portuguese people. Referring to this subject, and to the late Operations of the Mlles, an Officer in our army Wiles as follows :—" Lord NVELpuornu, 4111 threatening Ciudad Rodrigo, obliged the enemy to assemble a large force; said to be from 50 to 60,000 men, to relieve the place; 'while his Lordship eased l Portugal for the time, by drawing supplies frogs, and reducing the enemy's resources bp Bring upon their country. NIARMONT age*, wed this greet army to relieve Ciudad, and, having effected that object, adianaid upon us, probably, from, a mere motive of etiquette, to retaliate our menaces against the place, and to show the inhabitants on the Spanish frontier, that when collected and drawn out in force we cpeid not 9tand before them. Those im press:ens, lam sorry to say, are likely to follow, and to prove disadvantageous to. our cause, and to the spt-' rit which we are endeavouring to keep _up. lam coll. ! ' vineed, from what I have seen in the villages I have frequented, thit this spirit has much subsided; and as the people gradually perceive the French to be the strongest, and therefore likely in the end to prove suck cesspit, they will become indiffemst throughhopeless ncss, and perhaps even wish the success of tke French; in orthr to get rid of the, burthens of the contest ; for, besides the exactions of the French, they are obliged to furnish bread, meat, wine, corn, straw, &c. to their own Guerillidwithout any paymeut,and they feel it more irksome to supply then] than even the French on such terms, as they think it less natu ral in the ordinary and proper course of human af fairs. I have been at Almeida to see if any progress had been made iu restoring the fortifications destroyed by BRENNIER previous to his retreat. A regiment of Portuguese militia has been for some time quartered in the place, with a view to this work; but as every man has a wife, perhaps children, baggage, and one or two asses, their time is chiefly taken up with domestic occupations, and they havoiccordingly made little pro gress in the repairs• I'steeit: few of them in a ditch re moving stones and clearing, }way rubbish ; but no pal i • sad ing has been fixed, nor anyapparent effective repairs performed." When we have this information from a per 7 son on the spot,who cannot be supposed to be influenced by any ether motive, than a desire ''to promote the 11 welfare of his count►, . ii!would be folly in the ex. .• treme to expect, apy,egectual co-operation on the part of the Portuguese. Of course, our persisting in the war with unequal numbers, is equally.foolish and impolitic. Since writing the above, the following letter has been !received as I.4ove's, which merely repeats the Report that had previeu,sly reached us, respecting the success of BALL4fruttot, and which, as we have already 'said, can have tta itifinence upon the general aspect of affairs in Spain, even sltheufh the advan tage gainpd had heen greater:thins whit is reported.- 7 We were alio appriSed by our Correspenclent at Portsmouth, that the French were bombarding Cadiz, heroic wq received the felloWing 4* POIITSMOTITII, (A F T. 23, • "Arrived the ship Henri, DONOVAN ) Master, in eight days from Cadiz. She passed this port this morning: she is a running ship. By her we learn the Vrench were, at het departhre f firing en the gar rison, but with little effect. fl,l.t..jarcaos had en gaged the French, -under tklnerel o . ousugeTi en* ... ••, 'FILE STATESMAN. iity, Bi!fjgid to the.g4ctire force a if thfi tetintrY dons did not ezceed ea on .one side, c •ASIRRELL S, the 8i PS on the other, ac- General GRAHAM 0 dependence, ii N di r i c i aa i al an d indeed surprtsed at I 'to thigreat etn- counts _lately receit 1 ank." Wean not' Some .Spanish Gentles .nce, because all sae= landed here from tbe army, represent the , has been sacCeoful in 1 iks to be very gene- " French in Valencia."- rto, dated so late , ' 5........ L.... Pen/bra in .~,,.i rapers to the 13 ulf. arilied this. morn ing.' The following are extracts : [FaOlll THE BOSTON INDEPENDENT CIIRDN: 'err. 12.1 " Yesterday we were present at the Court of inquirj .on the conduct of Commodore RODGERS, in chasti. ing the insolence of Captain BrsonAst, of the Little Belt, and we are happy to state, that the naafi. nation, as far as it has progressed, is such as perfectly to gratify every friend to the reputation and inde pendence of the country, and to the gallant Offiter, who so promptly and efficiently supported the honour of the flag. We understand the inquiry is to pro. oeed, until every Officer onboard the vessel at the time of the action, is examined ; every Officer yet, before the Board, has confirmed the statements of the Coto modore in every particular, as far as came within their means of knowledge ; and there is not a doubt existing, that the result of , the examination will fur piah to the werld, the most. contOete,„ unequivocal s and unshadowed testimony of the scritpalous - cor rectness of the demeanour of the American Commo dore, and his minute and rigid fidelity in the , ac count of the transaction." gt PROVIDENCE, SErt 5. The brig Ruth, from Lisbon, arrived here, was fired at and brought to by st British stoop of war, and when within a short distance, a musket wastred, the ball of which passed very near the than at the helm. The brig Tekgrcph arrived here from Charlestown, was flied at and brought to off Block Island and detained all nigi.t, by the British frigate Guerrierc, the Commander of which inquired of Capt. Orsfrop whether Commodore llootaas was hut*; do receiving an answer in the negative, he informed Capt. B. that unless the Commsdore should soon, that was the last bag of cotton he should be suffered to bring from . Charlestown; and that Le ex, petted eighteen, ships •Of tear -from England every bony, with orders to capture every American vessel they found en the ocoan:” AN9THERIMPUDEST tresitALITISTtiOGE RE. FUTED, CL In our Paper of the sth ult. y,sontra:lieted the ridiculous falsehood copied into, sha ; Pocaers t frog WAGWER'S tfraz . ,th B ripe. • . 4 , - 4 ‘ The followingy tide from.the htfiligancJr of the 7th, proves the entire correctneu of the statement we then mad" : 6 paragraph is going the rounds of the Opposi. _flan Prints, which originated in •a paper called the Petkral Republican, intimating that a Court of In+ quiry was about to be held in New.Vorh, on the I Conduct of Commodore RonofitV, in chastising the Little Belt, 4t 'compliance with a demand of Mr.. Fostea. It is true that a Court of Inquiry haS been called, and Is now sitting; but it is not true Plat this, convocation arose from any requisition on the part ,or Mr. VOStaip TIC. Court is called, in consequence Cr the renewed and 'very earnest request to that effect, from goiltnaodore . Roonuas, and not from the interfirience or• any Pot , reign Minister, in the . airair. of Oat Navy Depart! nieut,. as the Feder# Rept:l4ogs !iar!.:l4 . radars be!ieve:•". • •:• ['item VT*, itesstos'oestriti or TtiF " We noticed, Ins late Papery *.Proclamation bg the Executive 4.0 ho of 4nier Canada, enforcing an Act of the British Government, prohibiting the bp ! portation into any of the Colonies of that country of East India goods, except suck only as shall be bona `fide slapped in Iligland, in vessels navigated ac,7ord ring to law. It has been since understood, however, !that the Collectors of Canada are instructed in the event of bona fide Importation of such goods, to re. Train from a seizure, and to admit the cargoes to be entered for exportation." 44 , The Spaniards,..-so far from yielding the Plori. das to Mr. MADDISDN'S kind invitatior., .are fortify. log Dolphin Island, in the Mobile, to prevent any attacks on Mobile Town. If Soaid is overrun by the cannibals,' it is possible the Florldas will afford la safe asylum for aunty thousands of the armed Pa. iriots," •••-•••MP••• . Two packets with Mails from Malta r eached towel this morning, one of which touched at Gibralter, the gates of which place, it is stated In private lettns, are still shut. The followi”g are extracts from the papers brought by these Mails PALERMO, Avo. 14. " The news from Naples re resents that city imd liingdom it a must wretched state. Italy is fat approaching that Dobai iq of the dark ages to aid, b vonssesnvx threaterd to mimee 4a - Europe. The landed proprietors pay tipwardi of SW. per cell. of the prldtite of their c0t...t , 2 to the Goverinent. Lie large palaces of ibotobility are ra, idly failing tb rein, the s:reets unpaved, every ar earance of a city sacked by its eneiniei, and of all the brilliancy and s, lendour t - .at so.distmgeishoil it formerly, nothing is seen toil the equipages of the trench flenerals and Comm/starlet and the immediate Officers of its Cciirt, 'The taxes and - duties levied on dm produce of the country are positively stated at twice the amount of' its first cost, which, w itn the mote, or a still more ruinous course of exchange that prevails there k 1 believe rather it ss ttiatiihree dollars pv. 'pound sterling), prevent foreigners from pOrchasing, which aaaoys MURAT, os be h 'abject to a bear) , eipenditure ; indeed, %tell truth, it i f not Whim that these Cala mities art to he attributed, but to the dem/ orders he daily rectilves front Paris; fde, spit*" the Nenpoli talk ore rather attached . to aim that otherwhe, b•lag mi,TYY food of playing the King, and sportl4 his figure. is tb .atric. 1 ,dstims, such as the'otd Spanish hihiti 'Reinist boots, C. We y forp a figor Idsa that his salons sag iptent;orf'•gre I I 4 E,