The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-06-29 00:00:00

I . goactiered his cbdtiguaicatPo With the lifeihillihA if. . toasted in (follicle; large debeeknients wets gbh to %Una rains mid Vaisheta, is order to bring the Illittalied , which had Wan leg at 'Vey, and tosieoar the coustry. ft emend Loisoo whose death the Baldish have falsely gmblishad, was detached with the sane Intent aiNast Amaraute *cud, and the adjacent !Minh", whh WOO infantry toed 100 bast. The 104 et May, the vanguard of ter Dokis army was In the Vona. h was attacked by several thoistands of font. horie__, and ilphsees of carman , width fumed a part of General s army, lately landed la Portagsl. The ard rationed behind Fevra, and no the ilth ra.gromod the Douro, with the division of Gen. Mermet. The lnerease of the British three in Portugal, and that of the Parta,,wese beergesta, threq the idueoce of British gold, bad, es wit as the 10th determined the Dake of Dalmatia to effect his retreat thrash Amareate,Villa Real, and Bragrorsa,asrend iag the right Inals‘f the Douce. But a sometime carps of English aid Portaihieve having compelled General Luisou to evacaate Amatuate, the Duke found it necessary to pate through the idles of Salamoode, and in order to gain two smirches on the *ltems. to sacrifice a few pima of mason i and their caispot:-. which he ordered to be destroyed. mad the remains of which could prove of no use to the F.ngliih. The tatter not having been able to Fain any advantage on the second corps daring the retreat, the only attires which took place was with our rear-guard at Oporto, the English 1 having found means to convey on the right bank of the Nlition 1 about Kat infantry and MI horses they have swelled this tritiiitg engagement into a battle, the pompons relation of which (in So point of view n military one) Las had ii other end thau to deceive the people of London, sad perhaps the I .11iuisten themselves, in order to repay them for the immune suns of money which this espeditiost ['ILIA have cost the Bri tish Treasury. Om the 19th of May, the Date of Dalmatia was at Alla-. Tits t the 40th he crossed the. Minh° at Orense ; and the 23c1 farmed a cansenunication with the Dukc of Elchingea self, and the carps soder Ins connuand. The arrival o: time !ntiv• of Dalasatia's army n oun Gallicia 1 has been useful under every point of view. It ha , dispersed', the bands at armed tonneau, who, profiting hv the mote meats of the Duke of Elelnageo against Oviedo, had endea voured to tale piathei-iuu of Santiago and Lugo, assisted by the few Li:sahib troops who stiff ocrop• Vigo. Such as • the state of things in Gallicia, and on the hanks of the Mono), during the first der', of June, and the English seemed Nttle inclined to try their courage with the 'id and ;th corps, after their junction. FURTIIRR EXIICICI'S FRO 3t THE GOI'TENBURGII Srocattorm, June 20.—We have not received from our armies any farther official reports, 'or private intelligence, relative to the operations of the Russian and Swedish troops. It is not, there fore, known, whether the former have made any farther progress, or whether their movements have been shucked by our army. Our Gazette of this day contains an article from Berlin, dated the lit inst. which includes in offi cial account of the maim* fought on the Benks•of the Danube on the 21st and 22d of last month, received at Berlin, by a courier, who arrived there from the A ustriau. head-quarters on the 291 h of last month. It is dated head-quarters, Brei. tevilehe, the 23d of May, lfr9. Min Recount word for ward the came which was pub red smite days sign in several Landon Seaspaperi, as the Alsatian Bulletin et the battle alluded us.] The plan of our new Constitution has not yet been communicated to the public. GOIII.NBLTRON, JCINZ 10.—Public notice has thuis dry been given that all the public officers, as wail as all utber inhabitants of this City, are to appear wet Wednesday, the !Ist inst. at 11 ~'!lock in tic forenoon, at tbeSenate-busise,to take 10 oath .1 atieglause to his prow Majesty. Arrived. Moils. Dua. 0 % .. DuUbe 1 • Waamillooll• • • •• ••• ••• s• • • I. .. 0 •• • • •••••••••• .•...•..4.... U. n 1 n 4_ Sr. pIITLk ANDS,. at the POW Ogees. THE STATESMAN. ItiOPOSITI TEMA X. LONDON: VIURSIIAY, JUNE 29. —mar— Tat 18th French Bulletin arrived in town yes. terday afternoon.—We have now hail eight French Bulletins; in not ono of which is recorded any action, or even movement, of the French Grand Army.—A period of inactivity—and a succession of apologies fur that inactivity in eight Bulletins, uho could have expected front the early events of the Campaign 1 This is a convincing proof that the career of NAEOLEON has, for the first time, been at least suspended by a military force equal, if not paramount, with that which he directs.— And although the situation of the French army cannot, as we think—be rationally concluded to be of that dangerous nature which the sanguine hopes and expectations of the public induce them to bereve—it cannot be denied that the be lief of the if-reusability of the French Army, %%lien eotuntanded 6.11 NAPOLEON in p2.eson, is un. qaestionahly, for the present, destroyed in the public mind of Europe. But to indulge the hope that 200,000 regular troops—under the command of a General possessing the consummate military genius, which NAroLuoN is universally admitted to possess, can be repulsed without tremeadaus cfrorts—is most futile. Great as there is reason to ham the success of the Archduke has been...it is not the battle of Ealing alone that can preserve the Austrian Empire..-and if the spirit of insurrecetion should have diffused itself throughout the North of Germany, to the extent that is reported, the French, although they certainly mast be embarrassed, will net be de feated by such EMI. NAPOLEON has under his immediate direction au army, which is by massy thought to be competent to resist any force that can be brought against it within the space of country that he occupies. That army is so con centrated, that should a moment arrive in which he could bring a mighty force to bear on the ex tended of the Austrians, the consequences of t:ic battle of Essling, and the hopes excited by it ; throughout all Europe, may be destroyed ae a blow. If the French army once completely vet penetrates the centre of the Austrian line, ilere sill then be but a very slender hope of _ osa — ial r abare • iisistimeo. Met is 'sow bosom& trrery titiw: as welt to pilatoratos as .to the Aeettieltt. It is imnifestly the interest of NA. POLION to wait for a diversion by'lite Russians and the Poles in the rear pf the Austrians, if he eau depend upon the iteadinesev Ataxsvoin. That it is not the interest of tite"Aostrians to wait until that force shall come into dodiact with' their rear, is equally clear. On the other hand, to prolong the inactivity of the French Grand Army, will certainly afford an opportunity of as certaining the sentiments of those. countties, in. which disaffection is supposed to exist ; and of organising the forces of thole in which it Las actually appeared—and the Austrian Army may be expected to acquire a greater accession of strength than that of I\ Aeor.toe—so distant as ire its resources.—Frum famine and disease ...as mach or more may be expected—as (role tbesword.--for, aithough...tree it is....that while there is sustenance, the French Army will have it, even though the inlabitairts of Vienna pc rish—it is, nevertheless, indisputable, that the force, in that elide, required to keep down a fa mishing population, must materially subtract from the strength of any army—and that conta. gion, although not originating in the French army, may possibly and probably be communicated from the starving inhabitants to the scantily-supplied troops. After the accounts w e had received in termer I „ „ Bulletins, of the castigation of CUASTELLAIt with sticks, and his escape by flight—who could have believed 'lt possible that he should have been so snort condition to resume offensive operations ?—His progress in the disoction of Hungary has been inconceivably rapid—for Clagenfurth, where he is said to have been de feated, is at no very great distance from Trieste, directly north of that place. General Ruse*, it sucms, engaged him...and " nine hundred pri soners were made"...bat there ends the narrative. —Has CIIASTELL AR advanced or retreated a... The inactivity of NAPOLEON is extraordinary— possibly it may be a delusivo.oppearance...that stillness which precedes the stabs—bat the an nexation of the Papal territories to the Great Empire, at such ,a moment, is beyond all cum ptehension. One important conclusion must, however, be drawn from this extraordinary act— That the confidence of N4Poreo:v in his Iron strength and resources has nut Net SUittabgert tI, slightest diminution. • a - NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Pentsiorrn. JUNE 77.—Arrived the yleche, Cap Iliatimada, from a cruise; Hardy, Lieut. Dutton; ami the USW, Lieutenant Irene, from Plionuath. Jeca Yd.—Arrived the Phsenia frigate, Captain Mudge, tram Plymouth. Balled the Goshawk, Captain lanes, en a cruise. The 13d and 3.5 th regiments, being the first in the order of embarkation, UMW into this neighbourhood this morning.— The, will not embark fcr several days, as they are to wait till a greater number have arrived. The Fifesbire Militia embarked this morning fur Leith. Picstorrit, 'stir 47.—Sailed hit Majesty's ship Eagle, of 74 guns, for Portsmouth. The 1 aspetueux was paid wages yesterday; Admiral Stop - ford hoisted his Ali yesterday on board the Cesar, of SU was: the two latter ships are hourly expected to sail for Portsmouth. Arrived the Mariner and Martial gun-brigs, from &cruise. Also the Pappenburgh galliiits De G.tede Verwagting and De Dogger'', both from London ' in ballast. Came down out of flamossze, and anchored in the Sound, his hiajesty's brig Peacock. Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, hill MAJESTY arrived from Wiudsor at the Queen's Palace, and soon after two o'clock held a Private Levee, at which the following Gentlemen had the honour of being presented to his MAJESTY : (:.load FltZessait, no his being appointed Lieut.-Colonel- Commandant of the Fint Regiment of the Bead Local 1111itia. The Rev. Dr. SPA all% the Dean of Bristol,on his intend ed promotion to the Bishopric of Chester. Lieutenant-Colonel Maxon t., of the 26th Regiment, on hi; going upon the Expedition, h ; the Marquis of Ituntly. Lieuteinuit-General D. D. WEI* is, on his appointment to the Chit ermateat of Tynemouth. After the Levee, his MAJESTY held a Privy Connell, at which the Recorder of London attend ed, and made his report of the convicts capitally convicted at the last Old Bailey Sessions ; when his MAJ war vraa pleased to respite thew all dur. ing his pleasure. Ilia MAJZSTY afterwards gave audiences to the Duke of PORITLAND, the rest of the Cabinet Mi nisters, and Sir DAVID DUNDA! ; and soon after six o'clock, set off on his return for Windsor. Yesterday, the Cabinet Ministers dined with the Date of PORTLAND, at Burlington-house. Mr. HUNTER, the Messenger, goes out in the Resistance frigate, with dispatches to Mr. ADAIR ) at Constantinople. The Sealark schooner bas been upset on the coast of Holland, and all hands on board, ex. cepting one man, unfortunately perished. The packet which brought over the Mails from Guttenbergh that were received in town Jester. day, saw un the passage several Danish guo.boats, firing at a convoy that was close in shore; but a thick fog coming on, she did oot see the result of the attack. The Coronation of CITAULLI VIII. was to take place on the 2.oth instant. A letter from Memel, dated May 29, gays:— War has now actually been declared by oar Governmeut against Austria, and a Russian army is marching through East Prussia against the corps of the Archduke FERDINAND, who is retreating from the Vistula. ?'he King of PRUSSIA re mains neutral, and seems o be entirely influ enced by the Russian Govenitnent." The French Five per Cents. *era on the 21st, at 8.2 r. 5 c. ! - - -- . • '.. .• • 77111 EX"Ailing* ~==r::: cAiikt•_ ... __ sTsits p por.sh ri,..: .. - - The preparations for 1110 grand expedition ate on a scale of maguitude equal to any yet recorded in the military history of OW coontry. Many speculations are agoat as to its daslinatioa, but it would be absurd to notice them, as much will doubtless depend on the event of the expected con_ diet on the Danube ; this much, however, is ea tain,, that the coasts of the enemy, from the shores of thy: Bettie to the extremity of the Bay of His cay, are open to attack, and .will probably be as sailed at various points. Indepeadeutly of a large army of cavalry a:id litantry, that important arm of war, the artillery, .41411 be extremely great; sit troops of horse, and eight brigades of foot, are under Orders; and an immense battering traiu, with ammunition suffici. ant for a six weeks siege, ie embarking in the Ri ver ; a number of Colonel Congreve's rockets are also to accompany it. Of the artillery, three ,mpanies are drawn from this district, Captain ,Adye's from Dover, and Captains Munro and Oliver's from Hythe, the two latter of which will rive in Centerbotry this d.my ; they will be re- Caced at Flythe by Captain Bean':, and a part of ptain Trunotra companies, who march this ,day from Canterbury for that purpose. . Movetnents of the infantry for the points of embarkation commence this day in Sussex, in the Eastern and in the Kent districts. In the latter, the kith regiment marches from Brabourne Lees, on its route for Portsmouth, and will be followed by the 71st and 85th regiments, which together form a brigade, from the same place on Friday. All the other regiments in the Kent District (ex cept time brigade of Guards, which is to be em. locked at Chatham), it is understood, will be em. !Perked et Ramsgate, as aeon as the transports, (splay 200 of which arc collected'in the river, wive for their reception. .; 'The reeloi ' its 1.4. d from the Sussex di.- ma Oft , e trict are the stfl foot, Ist battalion ;'231 ditto, 2d battalion; 2.eth ditto; fa battalien ; 3'2d diami Ist battaliuu ; 25;h ditto, 24 battalion ; 36th ditto, lit 'battalion ; filst 'ditto, 3d battaliqu ; with two light battalions of the German Legion. 111RyfiCii.,Jusa 27. A large fleet of transports is expected hereevery tide, to take on hoard troops from Colcliespr, Ipswich, and lliteeley barracks. We itkpot know a place more convenient for thiS' purpose, ; as troops may be embarked from four different points at the same time, and all in the same com pass, viz. Harwich, Shutly Ferri, and Wallet . Ferry, iii Stiffolk, and Landguard Fort. ULM. BARRACKS, Sexe Se. Extract of a letter from an Officer belonging to . the Expedition :-- 44 We marched into Deal, from Canterbury, on Friday morning, the 23d. The time of our embarkation is uncertain, as the trans. ports arc nut arrived. They are, however, daily i eseeeetee. Sumo say k l 9 InWrided to embark us `et board men of war. It is said we have been ratted to the coast thus early, not only to be in feadincsa to go on board the moment the ships am 'i'te, but to give the men an'opportieity of bath. lag in the sea for some days previous to 'their "goin g on service, with the tie, of preventing amid letting rid a an opthalmia, which hail begun to Mils Appearance among them at Canterbury." C/11' VW/SESS. Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall. The Committee of City Lands delivered into the Court a Report for exchanging a pared of ground in St. George's-fields for the scite of Bethlem s pita, now in lease to the Governors ; which being reed, stated that the said Governors would erect an Hospital (on the scite where the late Dog and Duck stood) to contain not less than 200 patients, together with an open space, of about eight acres, fur the air and exercise of the lunatics; which being agreed to, it was refereed back to the Com mittuv to carry the exchange into executiou, and to report thereon from time to time to the Court. A very long debate took place relative to the London Militia, and in the end it was referred to a Special Committee to report whether it may nut bo adviscable to prepare a Bill to be presente►l to the House of Commons, wholly to repeal the Act of the 36th of his present Majesty, authorising the raising of the two regiments of Militia ; and after such repeal, to offer their extended services' his Majesty, upon such terms and conditions as his Majesty may graciously please to propose, and as the officers and privates, in their seal, loyalty, and affection for his Majesty's Imraw► and Govern ment, may be willingly inclined to accept, •OLD BAILEY. Yesterday tie Sessions cothmenoid. before the RECORDER of Lotteen.. Sir SIMON Lt BL4MC and Sir ALLA!, Cu %suite. • .• Richard Oakden was pat to the Bar; on a ca. pital indictment, tor an unnatural offente ; but put off his trial by affidavit, uutil the nett Ses. lions. Thomas Edward:, a young man of 23, and slid to be a person iu' genteel life, and of consi. derable fortune, was tried fora similar offence. — Two witnesses were adduced to sustain the charge; but the capital part of the isidiettneitt not being sufficiently proved, the Prisoner was 'acquitted upun that point; but detained in order to take his trial at the nest Quarter Sessions, for the assault and misdemeanour. James Browne was restricted 'of stealing, on the night of the 19th of June, a horse,, value 351. from a field, at the back of Holland House, the property of a Mr. Lamas, a hotelier of that vil 'art.—Death. ?Una. Bowe was capitally cooricted, for bur. glariously entering the chambers of the above mentioned Richard Oakdcn, in New Inn, St. Clement anes, (IN the eight of the 14th instant, and stealing therein, a tieve.pieee, a lea.aaddy, and some ether articles, which were found in the Prisestr's possession when be - was apprehended. '4 . tiisPi APPIIFATION FOlt A MANDAMUS. On thciait'slay of term, just before the rising of the' Cart, Mr. Trotter entered, and made his promised Motion roue idatialanass to compel the prodsfetion of an loformation upon oitli ctintSin. leg allegations, ythich he stated tu be untrue. [An application to this effect bad been pre:. riuusly made to the Cuort by Mr. CrAno.usr, which appeared io Tog STATISM 4.111 of Airy 16.3 Mr. Trotter stated, that Nell himself to kayo been severely injered and aggrieved, by "'Met he conceives' to be an illegal commitment, he in. treated the attentiott of their Lordships tu a case•, not only of importance to himself, as an indis victual, brit immediately atil.ctiog the liberty of (he rubject.-•-lie then repested to read an atR. davit. Lord EvArvenarieno desired to know the no. lute of ti , ^ motion, iut-ntled to be ,grounded on the affidavit %hick Mr. Trotter vroposed to read ; be -1 cause, if it ' was the same case that had heen brought before the Court`by Mr. Gar row—that had a IriNtly been heard, and deter.ninell---aatl could nut he heard spin...miless there wa. burns new matter to lay before the Court. Mr. Troyer repliea, that he etaiseeited Mr. Garrow had n.,t strictly altered to his instroc. tions, but he by no mew,. al triboletrit to an im proper motive ; be then brzgell permission to read the motion he had himself proposed to ,nape, which he had previously shewn to Mr. Gerrotc. • The motion was fur a Mandamus, or such other interposition as the Court might jodge proper, to compel the Magistrate to deliver copies of the infor , mation, and of the anonymous letter, or fee Mr. Trotter to have access to those •,,apers. Mr. Trotter then stated, that he had watt(/' tb the Magistrate's Attorney, soon after his commit. meat, to know if the case would be investigated at the quarter"ession, and that he had urged him specifically to answer that inquiry, which was as follows :—.444Vi1l the Magistrate promote a fall and comp/ett inveitigation of the whale case, and restrain his Counsel and Attorney from starting any oVecsion atieh might tend to obstruct it ?" [Mr. Trotter overanxious to state this clearly, that it might be evident to their LOrdships, Most if he thus courted publicity in the investigation of the cave; in the presence of the County, there conld be no conscioesoess of impropriety on Ms part its presenting himself before their Lordships. Mr. Trotter - observed, that previous to the quarter. sessions he had applied to the Magistrate, for co. pieS of the information on oath, and of anon).- mons letter, and had caused him to be served ith a notice to return the original into Court; that lie (Mr. T.) had appeared at the Sessions uptia a bail recognizance, which declared itself to be void if he fulfilled the conditions of it ; and which, of course. becam.....;.t ..putt his •ppcorartiCe in Court. Notwithstanding this, the Chairman refused to hear his Counsel, or himself ; and stated that if any doubt existed of the propriety of the Magistrate's proceedings, he was amenab!c to a higher Court, but not to that. fle t:tit a question to the vote, whether the recognizance should be distdiarged or 'continued ? although the commit. title Magistrate, the Informant, and Sir Buck liar-wow' were all in Court, without either of them supporting : his own act ; get, (as Mr. Trotter stated.) under such cireunsetancis, a question was put to tfic vote, whether a British subjoit should continue tinder restraint, without either inform"_ tion—evidence—or_ charge—not even an arenas. tics preformd against him—and himself unheard. it ended in his liking discharged. Mr. Trotter then stated, that upon his Counsel applyi..:2, to the Clerk of the ileaie, to know if the inftartnation on oath, and laiCloymous letter had berg reto oled into Court, he received for answer that " tto sorts Papers had heen returned to him as Cie, k of the Peace," consequently there was no record of the Magistrate's proceedings. Mr. Trotter then submitted to their Lordships, whether he who had been the cense of all the miss chief and distress which had occurred, was nut the proper person to be made amenable to the laws of his Country, and submittolfto the Court the im. possibility of laying an action, if the Magistrates withheld the precise words in the information ; he applied to the Court to pre►ent that e►ident fai lure of justice, and observed, that if an in formatioe upon oath was not to be exhibited as the charge prior to commitment " there would be nothing to answer to," and, if it were permitted to be withheld afterwards, there would be no record ; and a Magistrate, by the means of a third person, might imprison whomsoever ha pleased with impunity. Nay, without a this d person, he might profess to have an Information, and imprison whomsoever he pleased, to answer some particular view of his own. lie begged, howe►er, it might be distinctly understood by the Court and the Public, that be did not ap. pig it to the Magistrate is question, whom no use could be less inclined than himself to suppose ca pable of such an offence. Mr. Trotter again stated, that all the authorities concurred in it being necessary to state the precise words, or no action could be laid. Lord Ettemeonovau hero observed, that It was not consistent with the practice of the Court triadeise • party holly to act ; for if that was done in one instance, it might be required in many, mut said it was aut as the power of the Court to issue a Mandamus to compel a Magistrate to give up his information. Mr. Trotter conciliar] by submitting whether the anonymous letter should not be considered the information received, anAbe information on oath the charge to bb eshibiteo at the time ; and as Ma. gistratcs were compelled to make records of their proceedings, he imagined the record to be f ur i n . spection, or it could answer no useful purpobe. Lord ELLIMIIOII.OI/011 said, the Court had net the power to grant a Mandamus, and on the dust day of Term an information could not be granted. His Lordship recommended an application to Counsel, who would, me doubt, point out mai legal redress which the law affautled. Mr. Trotter did not apply for an iliforoastists. 1.v.. . N