The Statesman. — London, England, 1811-10-03 00:00:00

1 ~`4 1. 4 'Cri4S3e ;•=:;.ri:e# l ,tAal,l: ;t, totet FRENCH PAPERS, 1 1 11.1119, BZII7. 18.—Last Sunday his Majesty held a Council of Ministers at Compiegne, after Mass. On Monday he presided at a Council of Commerce. We hear of the speedy formation of a corps of lancers, consisting of twelve regiments. Every body remembers the terror and disorder which was spread through the English army by the Polish lancers at the. battle of ~klbuera. What effects, therefore, may not be expected from the powerful organization given to that force? Several Dragoons and Cbassours will enter this new corps, and the commaud will he Oven to one of our Generals, famous for brilliant actions. PARIS, San. 20.--Ilis Majesty set off yester,lay from Compiegne to visit the coast of Holland. It is said that her Majesty the Empress will set off imine. diately for the Palace of Laeken. Costriecom, SEer. 15.—T0-day, after Mass, the following personages were presented to take the cities to his Majesty : The Duke de Majesty Minister of State, named Intendaut.General of the Crown; Baron de la nous nye. General of Division ; Baron Michel, General of Brigade Baron Boyeldieu, General of Brigade; Baron Deriot, General of Brigade, head of the Etat- Major of the Guerd. lleeere, SEPT. 70.--Fire sail of the line of the Texel squadron, the Prince, Zoutman, Brabant, Rotterdam, Jean de Witt, and the corvette Venus, set sail on the sth, under the orders of Admiral de 'Winter, Commander in Chief of the fleet, This di vision, after having manoeuvred the whole day, and performed divers evolutions, anchored at night on the Breswyd, between Sculpe Gat and South Western Gat, The enemy's cruisers, of six sail of the line, a frigate, and two brigs, were in sight.— As soon as they peceived the movements of the Im perial squadron, they set all sail towards the South Western Gat, and sent off a brig, which was lost sight of in the West. The next day, at day.break, we saw no more than three sail of the line, two fri gates, and a brig ; the French squadron set sail again, and passed the whole day in manoeuvring. BLANKENBERG, SEPT. 6.—On the 4th, three sail of the line, a frigate, and corvette of the Scheldt squadron, one of which carried the flag of Vice- Admiral Missiessy, beat to windward of the mouth of the river, to chase a frigate and some of the ene., my's corvettes cruizing. The enemy's division was separated from our's by a narrow sand-bank, and we saw all his vessels fire several broadsides at one of our ships of the line more advanced than the rest. The latter replied by a broadside, which made them bear away right before the wind. Admiral Mis. siessy having weathered all the sand-banks, pursued the enemy till night. 'ANTWSRP, Sraer. 16.—Arrived this morning sere- ral detachments of grenadiers and Polish lancers of the Imperial Guard ; one hundred horses of the Em. p2ror's stud are also arrived. The cavaliers of the guard are 'to set off to.morrow for Holland, where' preparations are making for the reception of their Majesties. . 1 Lioueocu, SEPT. 20,-06 dishes are fulfilled ; we have had again the happiness; of enjoying the pre tence of our august Sovereign. His lmpesial Ma jesty has arrived at Montreuil-bur-Nler. Upon his arrival the Emperor immediately repaired on board his flotilla. and caused it to manceuvre. An English fri gate hiving thought fit to approach, in order to ob. serve what was passing in the Roads, his Majesty im mediately ordered out a French frigate, which in full sail advanced against the enemy's vessel, but the latter sheered off and disappeared. Sermonise 22.—This morning, at eight, his Ma. jesty gave audience to the Civil Authorities. At nine, his Majesty left his Palace, and repaired on horseback to the camp on the right, where he review. ed the whole army, commanded by Marshal the Dlie pf Elchingen. This review was followed by exercise in firing, and some grand manoeuvres. At three-quarters past one, his Majesty mounted his ear- Time, to continue his route by Calais and Dunkirk.— wr leant from Montreuil-sir-Mer, that at the moment when the Emperor was crossing the ford of the river Canche, the water being up to his knees,the owner of a mill on the opposite side laid bold of his Majesty's atm, to assist 'him in mounting the bank. He men tioned to the Emperor, that his mill was about to be thrown down, as being in the line of some pro jetted fortifications ; upon which his Majesty, turn. lug round to the engineers, observed to them, 44 It is me/Diary that this honest fellow should be indem nified {or the loss he will sustain." PROCLAMATION. " DUNKIRK, SEPT. IL—lnhabitants of Dunkirk! —His Majesty the Emperor is again about to tra.. verse our coasts, and every thing leads us to presume, that, on the 21st or 22d instant you will have the happiness to enjoy his august presence. Prepare the ornaments of your houses ; let flags, verdant boughs, and flowers, give to our city that smiling aspect which will manifest to the Sovereign your love and your joy ; let a spontaneous ilhtrnina. flea on the day of his arrival be a new testimony of it ; let the passage of his Majesty, above all, present the aspect of a fete: it will probably take place by the street Royale, NQpolcon-place, the street and place Imperiale, the streets de l'Eglise, du Moulin, du Jets de paume, and du Quasi. Second my efforts, inhabitants of Dunkirk ; their only object is your welfare, and the alleviation of the misfortunes which circumstances make you experience. Al G;ven at the Mansion-house of Dunkirk this I,9th of September, 1811. (Signed) " J. KENNY. Maur."' Motertteute-stat-Men, SEPT. 19,—The 'Emperor ' arrived here at live this evening. At the gates of the twee he alighted from the carriage; and accompa nied by the Priuce of Neufchatel andhisaidrcle.camp • General Mouton, he inspected the works of fortifica tion which bad this year been erected. The staff of the place joined his Majesty upon the ramparts, of hich he made the tour; from thence his Majesty repaired to - the citadel, and then visited the ex terior works. An arm of the river de Canche which washes the wall of the lower town, arrested the pro gress of the Emperor ; at the moment when all his at tendants were busy forming a bridge with planks and !tisanes, his Majesty crossed the river with the water up to his knees. He continued his inspection of all the works, and returned to his carriage, surrounded by a multitude of the inhabitants, who incessantly pressed theirjoy - by repeated cries of Live !he Em. 1 , * -The be Ike cb een plisbed, seeing the arrival of her Iml 'al Majesty at the Pa lace of Laeken will seen realised. Already a triumphal area ii erecting # the gate of Anderlecht, send all preparations are reeking for the suitable re. oeption of our august Sovereign. RAMIIIRCIII ) Sear. 14.-+The Prince of Eckmuld, Governor. General and Commander.in.Cblef of the Army of Germany, has just published an eider to the following effect :-.-cc All persons who have given in declaration of funds, capitals, goods, or merchandise, belonging to the enemy, must make a surrender of the same to the office of registration and of domains. This surrender shall take place in Hamburgh from the 15th to the 2.5 th of September, and in the other towns from the 15th to the 30th inetant.— To watch over and accelerate these surrenders, Commissions shall be formed to whom the parties shall address themselves. These Commissions shall he specially charged with the investigation of all funds and other things belonging to the enemy's commerce, of which declaration shall not have been made. The Commissary. General of Pollee shall transmit to them all the information to be found in his offices. The Prefects and Mayors shall send them lists of the declarations hitherto made. The Com, missions shall send reports of their proceedings every five days, to the Commissary-General of Police, at Hamburgh, who shall draw up a general view of the same, and transmit it, at the same periods, to the Governor. General." DRESDEN, SEPT. B.—Prince Poniatowsky has ar. rived at Dresden, and almost immediately repaired to, the castle of Piblitz, where he wos very graciously received by his Majesty. It is remarked, that he has had long conferences with the King. On the 10th he is to set out on his return to Warsaw. Some peo- ple, however, think that he will remain at Dresden till the departure of his Majesty, which is irrevoca bly fixed for the 16th instant. It is said to be his Majesty't intention to pass three months at Warsaw. EXPOSURE OF ENGLISH JOURNALS. PARIS, SEPT. 21.—[On two letters, which op peered in a London Morning Paper of the 9th ult. the one purporting to be from the Count de Broi- sart, General of Division, to King Joseph, at Ma. drid; and the other from Napoleon to Joseph, the Moniteur, after extracting them, has the following remarks :--1 " Such are the miserable means resorted to in England !—There, men are familiarized with every Thing that is forged and false : false passports, false certificates of origin, false pretended American ac counts, false notes, false treaties, false intercepted letters :—but all this promotes the main object, that of deceiving the people of London. In the first place, there is no French General of the name of Broisart. Secondly, no French division entered Spain about the period of the 2.3 d of July. Thirdly, the Em peror, on the 18th of July, was at Trianon, and not at Paris. Fourthly, the Emperor never writes on any business ; it is his Ministers who do so. In regard to the movements of the army, it is the Major. Gen. who writes: and all letters treating of subjects of the least importance, which aregiven as intercepted, are forgeries ; for' since the letter written from Ma. drid, which was intercepted by Gen. Moore, the Major-General has been in the habit of putting all his letters in a cypher. We are sorry for Lord Wellesley's editors ; they are not at all dexterous. In short, what proves demonstratively the odious system of deceiving the English people, by false hoods, is, that in reality, at the end of July, four divisions, amounting to more than 60 battalions, ar rived at I'au : ten millions of people knew this fact. There are at Rochefort, upon the Charente, more than fifteen thousand men ; at Toulon, more than twenty thousand ; in Italy, more than one hundred thousand. It is not, therefore, the fear of stripping our northern frontier which prevents the sending ofi troops to Spain. But it is necessary to have recourse, to all means, for the purpose of persuading the English people that there is no longer a sou in France ; that there is no longer a man ; and that boys of sixteen are forced to march ; that there is no longer a single ship, &c. It is a bad symp tom in a Government, when it has perpetual recourse to falsehood and imposture. An English Journal of the eleventh of September announ ces, that the French licences, of which it had spoken in one of its preceding numbers, were only two in number ; that one permitted the importation of 30, and the other of 40 tons of coffee, on condi tion that it should be of the produce of Martinique and Guadaloupe. " Notc.—No licence whatever has heengiveneut to bring coffee from England. The false assertion of the Journalist is one of the means employed by the English Government, to excite expectations, so often deceived, in owners of the immense quantities of colonial produce which encumber the warehouses of London. They wish to induce a belief that the Em peror Napoleon is disposed towards a change of sys tem, while new measures, more extensive and ener getic in their nature, are developing every day, in order to secure the strict execution of the Continental blockade." Cultaavvt, SEPT. 19.—A Heligoland boat was shipwrecked at the mouth of the Weser, and the men in her have been brought here as prisoners of war.— It appears from the examination they underwent, that the greatest misery pervades the island of Heligoland, where sugar and coffee were lately seen piled up in vast warehouses, and where 'the very porters made 1 enormous gains. The severe measures Which have reo. l dered impossible the introduction of English goods on I the Continent, have at last obliged the spemdators to empty their magazines. Heligoland has reverted to its primitive insignificance ; and to save themselves from dying of hung-r, The inhabitants have been forced to resume their old occupation of fishermen, There were found upon these Heligolanders some copies of an English Journal, the Courier, which they were probably employed to introduce wpm% the Continent by some means or other. That Journal, in its own name ; or that of the Ministers whose servile orgatt fishermen to eta, .s in England, emigrants use etscoessfel in ex- Such a eontempti inhabitants of the completely, the feel in maintenance system of mari time tyranny. The - population of England is in 'sufficient for the supply of armaments so vast. Fence arose the necessitylor her violating the neutrality of the Americans, and carrying or the seam* of that if independent nation as they were vile sires. At present, Americ*, sensible to the voice of honour, Is no longer disposed to talent* so crying an abuse. Next, the most high 4 4dintralty attempts to straw to the Oritish shores, the Dutch and German fishermen, to subject them forthwith to that frightful impress of sea.' movy which is the disgrace of England and of a civllized But these perfidious seductions, which, perhaps, have been tried at several points of the northern coast of the empire, have every where met with con, tempt. An exact end official inquiry has proved, that for many months past, no fisherman, no inha- Want of the coast from the Tele' to the Elbe has been so infatuated as to exchange a tranquil livelihood in his own country, for the harsh slavery iu which the English seamen lire, It is possible that some English crimps have gone off to avoid the vengeance of the law, These are doubtless thefishcrmCn whom the Courier pretends to have seen arrive in England. Certainly, fishermen of such a sort are in the right to fly from a coast, where death awaits them, as the oily fruit of their disgraceful industry. C. •~ ;~- ~- o,_ . . NAPARTE is anxious to have placed mdie immediately under Ms controul, To this report, however, 'though brought from several quarters, we do not attadi In addition to the important " Declaration of Rights" promulgated by the people of s'panish Atne. rice, which we exclusively communicated to the pub. lie yesterday, we have received some intelligence from that quarter relative to the subsequent progress of the *evolution there, which, at • the present moment, cannot fail to be perused with interest. By tt arrival of a Leeward Island Mail, which bring. 4, . counts. from Caracoa to the 15th August, we lean, that his Majesty's ship Avon, Captain FRASER, who had wised at that pine., stated that about the be gining of July, the inhabitants of the Carac, as a 4 I ?orto Covello, had declare.' their independenc2 with shopts of " Death to FERDINAND the SEVENTH, I and all European Spaniards." Twelve per;en - , hostile 0 the measures of the new Government...ll.a 'bent condemned to death ; and many individuals of the same description, foreseeing what would happen, had previously withdrawn from the country with what property they could contrive to carry a ith them. k ; consequence of the refusal of the inhabitants of Va. lencia to join the Cunfederai: , General Min t , , DA had been dispatched, at the head of s,ooomen, to re. duce the place, iu which, however, he hail proved unsuccessful. The Valencians, with the view of mss. leading the General, had agreed to capitulate; beat on his entering the town, he was fired upon from the, windows and tops of the houses, which forced him to retreat. This induced MIRANDA to send off fe reinforcements a hich he obtained ; hut the result was not known at Curacoa on the 1 4th August, the day on which the last intelligence from that place is dated. By a Mail which arrived yesterday from the .I,Jrazils, we have also intelligence from the River Plate to the 15th August, by which we learn that the Monte Vi. deo sqeadron arrived at Buenos Ayres op . the 15th July ; and on the same night commenced the boot, bardmont of that city. On the other hand, the army from Buenos Ayres, which had been sent against Monte Video, had arrived before that place. No, thing of any consequence, however, had been ef. fected by these forces when the last accounts came away. It is evident from these movements, that some great events are on the eye of taking place in South America, The people of these countries, who have for centuries groaned under the iron rod of desr potion, have at last burst the fetters by which they were held in bondage, and are determined to resist every attempt to reduce them to their former de, graded state. We are sot surprised, however, that th e a b e tt o rs of their Ashler tyrants shoold 'endea, sour to accomplish this. Power is sweet ; riches 'Wm desirable. The man who has once ob tained these, cannot be expected to relinquish them without a struggle; and if he has possessed 14. self of them by iniquitous means, his exertions to retain them will be the more strenuous, because, if once redacted to poverty, he will find it difficult again io acquire these advantages by dishonest practices. h this great ace, therefore, of the people of South America to establish their independence, we mes Ispect to bear of occurrences taking place, of a very disagreeable nature—Aostile to the feelings of huma, pity ; but they are inseparable from concussions of this sort, and were It not for the destruction of the supporters of tyranny, the oppressed would peter be restored to their just rights. Another Cabinet Council was held yesterday en the subject of the affairs of Sicily, which was at tended by all the Ministers, and sat three hourr, during the whole of which time Lord W. BENTINM was in attendance. Previously to the Council being held, his Lordship accompanied the Marquis WM.. LESLEY to York Muse, where they had an audience of the PaiNcr REGENT. The result of the delibera tions of the Cabinet Council is said to have been, that military possession is to be immediately taken of Sicily, and that Lord Wm. BENTINCK is to remit thither for that purpose. Tuesday the Cabinet Ministers dined with Mr. RYDER, at his house in Great George-street, WeA minster. Earl CAMDEN, being just come to town, had not a carriage of his own that he could conveni ently go in, but went in a hackney coach; he did not allow the coachman to set him down at Mr. R,v- DER'S door, but got out of the coach at the end of King-street, and left official papers in it, On the Noble Earl discovering his loss no means could bedevised for recovering it, ashe did not know the number of the coach. A similar accident happened to Lord CASTLEREAGH and Mr. Coox, when they were in office. The Foreign Papers state, that the celebrated na, turalist and traveller, PETER SIMON PALLAS, Coun cillor of State to the Emperor of Russia, died on the Bth of last month at Berlin, in the 70th year of hi , age. Ile was a native of Berlin, and had been there for about a year on a visit to h 6 brother. Accounts from Lemberg mention the melancholy news that the city of Pertyckow, one of the richest and mostcommercial in Russia, experienced, last month, tL dreadful fire, which burnt 662 houses, with many shop , The damage sustained by commerce is incalculable. Nearly 500,000 ducats in gold, and three millions and a half of rubles in silver, were either plundered during the confusion, or melted by the excessive heat of the flames. Twelve' hundred chests of sugar, each 40lb. weight, 14,000 boxes of raisins, 2,000 chests of coffee, and pelisses and furs to the amount of three millions of rubles, were burnt. Various merchan dive, to the amount of five millions of rubles, brands and wine to the amount of two miflions of rubles, have also been destroyed. If thole details are cor rect, this event will be marked as one of the most unfortunate in Russian history. At a General Council held on Monday, in the an- Bad. hWineenstbattnryd swop t a r Min. Recorder;o, 1114 t c he lea pa t b t o ro ro n 7 w h u of c JORN Hontrat ? Esq. was elected Mayor for the Yvvi , fllsVinigt • • • • • • • s• • • • THE grATF2OI,IAN,.. pet-or! His Majesty spoke with isitidssess to the it is, invites Daft& and German fishermen Commandant of the place, to the Engineer charged grate, iu offer 'to establish themselves in with the direction of the worlss, and to the Wars where, It says, a number of such emigre Commissary, whyraccempaniedidm throtighout. 4 iltoady arrived, and have been secuessti wounded at Ea.tisbon, Merit% istenpmesfed -.robing their peacefol industry. Such a w to the Emperor, his Majesty mode hisk . o 4 present s . bhp mailman far seducing the inkabitam and ordered that his claims 8110011 t belied to hiss at coasts of the Continent proves, oomph Boulogne, _ di/lenity which the English Admiralty BRUSSELS' ) Sirr. 20.—The wishes of the Inhabl- equipping •their numerous fleets, the ma tants are about to he necbtplished; sod the hope of iof widah is neceisary to their system I) k 11 . t rci.oo%. T E n t la heri:r ai dlts l p s ar p 4 r. dk. Ditto Ail. par 3 pr. Omnittin f dis. Consols for Aect..69o Lottery Tickets £l9 19s. THE STATESMAN. LONDON: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3. THE KING. " Windsor Costle, Oct. S. " His MAJESTY continues in the %Me state. " H. HALFORD. • " M. BAILLIF.. " R. WILLIS.* By a vessel arrived at Dublin, in a short passage from Boston, which left that place on the 4th of Sep• tembor, we have.the following extract from the Bog. ton Gazette, of the 2d of- September : " The last Baltimore Federal ,Republican has the following article :—' The PRESIDENT having, et the demand of the British Minister, disapowed any orders as having occasioned the chace and battle with the Little Belt, and agreed to call a Naval Court upon the conduct of Captain Roncras, as we intimated some time ago upon the authority of accurate Letters from Washington, the apprehensions of war excited in England by that conflict, and the sailing of Sir Jost PR Yoftit's squadron, with a reinforcement for the Halifax fleet, in consequence, do not indicate the approach of hos tilities '" We understand Letters have been received in town, by the same conveyance, and of dates subsequent to the above, which tend to corroborate the statement in the Federal Republican. A Mail from Jamaica arrived in tpwn this morn ing; bringing Papers from that place to the 18th ult.; they are entirely silent as to the reported insurrection said to have broken out amongst the Negroes there. Paris Papers reached us last night to the 23d ult.; and this morning we received some additional Jour nals to the 26th. They are principally occupied with details of the route of BONAPARTE along the coast, and accounts of the movements of the French navy in their different ports, from the general nature of which it appears pretty obvious, that some opera tions hostile to this country are in contemplation. We hare given ample extracts from these Papers in our preceding columns. It will be seen by an article in the Heligoland Mail, which arrived this morning, that BONAPARTE. is expected at Ilamburgh, where, is is reported, he is to have an interview with the lima of DENMIRK I relative to a rigorous enforcement of his Decrees against this country. EXTRACT OF ALX tra ntox DUNKIRK ) DATED SEPT 0, 1811. " On Monday night last, at ten o'clock ) his JESTY the Emperor and King, passed through this town on his way to Flushing." 64 HELIGOLAND, SEPT. 26. " We have had latterly occasional arrivals from the coast ; but which, from the difficylty of learning what is going on in the interior, bring nothing satis factory : all accounts agree 'in stating, that the pub lic mind is much averse to the conscription. DA TOM arrived at Cuxhaven, from Harukurgh, a few days ago, and ordered the greater part of the garrison stationed there to Hamburgh,to suppress the murmurs, which the enforcing that law had excited ip that city. Reports state, that Hosrsrvat was expected in Hamburgh on the 25th inst. to have an interview with the King pf Dzsrmsgs, the abject •of which was supposed to be some arrangement relative to the ports in the Battle and Holstein ) which it is aid Bo- 11111 An. Mails. Due. 0.: • .., '. 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