The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-11-07 00:00:00

I , '~ } 1 91 ij , i '~4 ~ ~I Total - £466,62112 5 " Paid into the Bank of England, since \lr. Coldsmid's death, by the Inspector. of his F.state, on account of the debt due to The Paymaster-General -0,1196 9 1 Treasurer of the Navy 184,395 14 I Treas. of the Ordnance 46,000 0 0 dergone a considerable portion of the examination of the Office. The Hon. Committee will please to observe, that the sums charged against the several Sub-Accountants are iucluded in, and make a part of the general Bar rack Expenditure under the superintenclaace of Gen. De Lancey ; and so far as they have undergone exa. urination, are to be deducted therefore from the amount of what appears to be unaudited issues. .• B. Bankr/g, Eg o . &e. ike. CHARLES gEstities. ILLIAM itaA((lE. " General De Laney had ae allowance 441. per per day granted to him, in 1804, for his firmer ser. vices, In addition to 21. per day, which he was to con. tinue to receive as retired Barrack Master General; both these allowanees have been assigned fn trustees, who receive them, from time to time, as they become due and invest the same in Exchequer Bills, in trust, to pay an)• balance which may be found to be due from him to the Public, upon the final settlement of his accounts. " General.De Lancey is also Colonel of the 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons." MR. GOLDSMID. The balance due from the late Mr.Goldsrnid, and the present state of that business, are sufficiently ex hibited in the following Papers, your Committee not deeming it necessary to swell the bulk of their Re port by printing the Treasury Minutes referred to, and entirely agreeing In the view taken by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the whole matter, as connected with the general credit of the country. —0 341). it is to be recollected, that an Act to provide for the more completeand effectual liquidation of a debt due to his Majesty from the late Abraham Goldsmid, Merchant, and his surviving partners, and to confirm and establish certain agreements entered into for that and other purposes relating thereto, w•as passed on the 27th of June, 1812. " Due from Mr. Goldovaid, at the time of his death, on account of the Departments of The Paymaster-General Treasurer of the Navy Treasurer of the Ordnance Total x 7,916 11 34N,70 1 2 50 00 0 0 I I 813,294 3 3 . .. .; , .. 1 i i! , I ' $ I I . , • '4 iI 1.. 1 . 1 1 ' ; •: .; • .i i . li 1 1 4 -1 :14 'FIIE STATESMAN. them from the charp of the public debt, its order to render them available for the purpose* or the dyed; a Bill was accordingly introduced, has passed the House of Commons, and is now in the !louse of Lords. wasfurther. necessary to settle TarldUa matters of !account between the families of the late Mr. Benja. Imin Geldsmid '(tho brother of the debtor) and Mr. , Abraliam.Goldsmid, in order to establish the right of the latter to a considerable fund held subject to the Claim of the former, but which claim it was appre hended would fall greatly short of the fend im pounded ; hut this could only be effected under the direction of the Ciurt of Chancery, inasmuch as in fant members.of both families wore affected by it ; a suit was accordingly instituted, under which a refer ence of the accounts to arbitrators has been obtained, and it is expected that their award will be made withlu a short time. Independent of the funds to be expected frorothe sale of the estates, and the result of the reference before alluded to, there are many debts due to the late Mr. Goldsmid, and to his partnership, that are now in the course of recovery. (scteett) H. C. LITCIIf tELD. " Genrge Harmon, Esq. dtc." ARMY STOPPAGES. Considerable arrears due on account of stoppages out of the pay of troops embarked on board of ships, long remaining due to the public, have been lately cancelled as irrecoverable; and it is with great re, Bret, but without surprise, that your Committee observe how naturally procrastination a nd delay in calling for Accounts and Balances, tend to Make the production of the former, and the recovery of the latter, impracticable and•desperate. The whole of this business being transferred to the War Depart. ment, in Iso6, shews only the impropriety of having suffered it to continue so long in au Office, which could have no controul over the Regimental Pay. masters, or the Army Agents. TO THE EDITOR OF 771 E STATESMAN. Sit,—Haring very particularly taken notiee of the base means made use of to distress the indus trious poor, I am led to submit the cause, and trust to prove how shameful the conduct of those men who have taken such means to answer their wily purposes. The true cause of the present high price of provisions, is almost wholly to be ascribed to the system of country bank paper, which has now be come the curse of every mau, who, unfortunately, has a family to maintain by his own industry. This paper answers every purpose of the basest combina tions ; for, without this means of manufacturing their own currency, provisions could not have ar. rived at the present enormous price.—lt will be said, what can be substituted Most easily answered— restrict the circulation of provincial notes; Bank 1 1 of England notes being a negotiable paper commo. dity throughout this country, would supply' every other fair gapping. If this suggestion was but adopt- , ed, in less thy) three months, every article of the necessaries of life, of home growth, would be consi. derably cheaper. No excuse can be made at the pre sent time with respect to a scarcity, in keeping up the price of bread corn, and will fully point out the necessity of a stoppage being put to the system of country banking; as it is an ideal hope to suppose, that the markets will be amply supplied, while this power remains in the hands of the wealthy farmer, miller, and provision dealer :—such men have the means of causing a fictitious scarcity at any time,; which it would be impossible to do without the aid' of the country notes. Reautins due X-219,322 9 44 The accounts of Mr. GoldsmirlistOe examined by the several departments by whom the Exchequer Bills were placed in his hands; but the Lords of the Treasury directed that this course should be altered, horn the Ist of January, 1810, from which time it was intended that Mr. Goldsmid should have passed his accounts before the Commissioners of Audit.— [Vide Treasury Minute of the 15th of May, 1810, copy whereof is herewith transmitted.] The Minute of the Lords of the Treasury of the sth of October, 1810, copy whereof is also transmitted, details the proceedings taken to secure the debt due to the Crown ; and the letter of Mr. Litchfield, the Soli citor to the Treasury, of the Ist May, 1812, copy whereof is also transmitted, shows the present state of those proceedings." " Linentif. lan. 14 May, ISM " Stn,—ln obedience to my Lords' commands, Signified to me by your Letter of the 27th ult. de siring that I would detail to their Lordships the mea sures which have been adopted for the recovery of the balance due to the Public from the late Mr. Gold. amid, on account of Exchequer Bills issued to him for sale ; I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of their Lordships, that upon the death of Mr. Goldsm::1, a statement of his affairs was sub mitted to the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, upon consideration of which it appeared to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the immediate issue of the Crown process for the recovery of his Majesty's debt would have been injurious to the pub lic, and to the creditors in general ; that the property of Mr. Goldsmid, and his surviving partners, consist- The Lady Arabella, PORTEUS, from Lisbon, has ing principally of Government securities, were so brought over Lieutenant-Colonel KING, of the 6th mortgaged to other creditors, that it would be out of who lett Madrid on the 16th ult. at which time Lord the reach of the Crown process till those creditors WELLINGTON was hourly expected there from Bur were respectively satisfied, and it would then only be his. The combined enemy's forces, under SOVLT, available to the Crown to the amount which those se- amounted to 80,000 men, and were on their march curities might produce beyond the debts for which towards Madrid. they were pledged ; and upon taking the Stock and Col. HuTcnissoN has resigned the contest at Cork. Omnium at the price of the day, it appeared those We suppose it is from the very little regard that the securities would produce a sum not much exceeding Roman Catholics of Ireland shew to their own cause, what would be sulcient to discharge the debts for by their treatment of those who were its beat friends, which they were so pledged, and that the remainder that some of the most splendid of those friends on of the property, as well of the partnership allot* the this side the water have thought themselves justified individual partners, would fall greatly short of de- in looking to their own interests. 'The world evil! fraying the Crown debt, leaving all the creditors who ' not hesitate to- say s that they merit the desertion, had no security - to a certain and totalla r d. Omagh it may reprobate thedeietters. ' Upon this viewer the subject, it appeared that not I Thursday evening the llama REGENT honoured only the Crown, but also the individual creditors I Drury-lane Theatre with his presence, for the first who had no security for their debts (and whose debts : time. amounted to about 90,0001) were deeply interested ! The PRINCE REGENT honoured Covent-garden in preventing, if possible, such a mismanagement of Theatre with his presence last night, to see The tliat part of the estate which consisted of Government Lord of the Manor and The Cheats of Scapin. securities, as by bringing them unwisely and at once I Sir Roweeen HILL is said to have resigned his into the market would .naturally occasion a very command, and to have been succeeded by Sir IL great ad,litional depreciation, and remove all possible PAGET. If this report be correct, the chap has hope of that advance in their then present value, to probably taken place in consequence of the HI state which alone the Crown could look for the discharge of health of the former able end pliant officer. of the whole of its debt, and the remaining creditors CASTLE or Beteeos.---Accerding to a plan of the for any payment at all ; while such an improvident . Castle of Burgos, drawn by an Officer en the spot, sale would have produced great depression of the pub- it appears to be uncommonly strong. There are lie funds, and materially affect the public credit, and two hills—an one is the horn work, which we took generally the monied interests of the kingdom. !by storm on the 19th of September : on the other, Those considerations led the Chancellor of the Ex- the castle and a convent. The horn work is too chequer to withhold the Crown process, upon ob- large in proportion. The kill on whickit is formed' taming the consent to and co-operation of the parties is about the level of the other, consequently, it is' And their creditors, in an arrangement for a discreet commanded by several guns mounted on the sum. and safe management of their concerns, for 'the in- mit of the castle. There are sucoessive ditches and terests of all ; and a deed, hearing date nth of No.. covered ways, with palisadoes and (rises round the veniber, 1810, was accordingly executed by all the hill. The cavalry are in cantonments, three leagues partners and their creditors, placing their affairs under in front of Burgos. General CASTANOS, with the the management of four Gentlemen named by the Spaniards, is in the villages out) league in front of Lords of the Treasury, and the Governor ar i d Ilse. Burgos. The sth and 7th divisions are also in front puty Governor of the Bank. of Burgos, The environs of the hill on which the Under this maesgement, two dividends of 461. per castle is situated are occupied by the PorNgueae cent. each, upon the sum of 466,7001. the debt due.' Cadores of the 6th division. The 24th, 424 and te his Majesty, have beet' paid. But in the further-I"th Regiments, forming the first division, are, we prosecution of the 'measure adopted, it was fouss4l , ,lselleye, chiefly employed in that siege . . The Guarda necessary to apply to Parliament l to enable the pees.„tud King'i German Legion, with'Geoeral time, ties. , . to make a title to the estates of Mr. Goldsmau, are,' we uhdeiStadd it aetterqbat blithe 110, Of apd one of his. partners (Mr. Mom!), by %Living the tiara work. A SHIPWRIGHT, Faikrsham, Nov. 6. With Six Children to Maiutain. 4.----------- _ -.-- TO THE EDITOR OF THE ET:ITESIOAN. gman.mia•..., • Art e ats t i t , price 3. t,,. '....."6." --coo.— • I A CORRECT REPORT of the MUCCI. 1) ' N Sin,—lf we look at the list of captures returnedat Char ejt Tal Al ' 4 V i a l hVI V P 1.1":1 1 " I l' ''N. N .1 (2 Lloyd's, already made by the American etruizen• I .1..- °4 Kai L acas w, btlille:fle Lt"llb 9116.41 . 111 : h/ 11:: : : : - . --- .9uer. at an Thursday. A . 1 1 - e/ /' - ' u 'l ut IC. *hat disasters may we not expect- ia the course of I Takeo is Short-kisat bb G. PA RallVt l ");'4 4 twelve months ?—ln the course of that period they With 11° lutt°4"tari Nar ia n we 'p J.l.E.ikht. ole 4r 0. will be able to equip hundreds of fast-sailing vessels .44 What arbitrary power ib grow; up to it% fII ken .h for privateers, and they will be found to be swarm. ; h) Nen violence. *tribe wiforatations :tad cooked -s o prow: 1 vigour, whoever Om oppose c its vtr sr li ' 1 6 . - -!.. -r Z lug in the West Indies, in the Atlantic Ocean, and li "'',„ even the chops of our Channel, menacing our shores,.Lcserdhanwidbrillaer.loojil4:27,s6:4, brteerliaad:Eiotori:74Nietiwafgatoine.e4.reesmstT7lj , .11 and pursuing our commerce to the very entrance of 1 _ our harbours. They did so In the revolutionary war, when they were poor, without seamen, and when they were net three millions of people.— What may they not do now, when they are eight millions, with nearly one hundred thousand prime seamen, and rich in specie 4-011 1 infatuated Conn ell', that urged a rupture. Had not the ill-fated measures of Administration blasted the fair hopes of Mr. Ensitbra'a arrangements, we might now be reaping the fruits of a great commercial harvest —and had our brethren of America united with us in a common cause; but the tergiversation of the Rulers of that day left them nothing to hope. The writer of this letter was at that time in America—he heard the sentiments of the heads of the Government, and the general expressions of the people upon that ar. rangement. It was, on all sides, in the fullness of their hearts, as if one common interest drew us to- gether. The writer endeavoured to impress upon Mr. PLRCEVAL, long before his death, in letters under his real signature, the importance it was or to preserve peace, and not drive matters to the last extremity ;—for, when the sword was once unsheathed, it might not be so easy to settle the points in dispute. He reminded him also of what had happened during the revolutionary war— one half of what they rejected from the Commis- 1 sioners sent out from this country to make peace, would have sufficed, before they had recourse to arms, or the battle of Bunker's Hill ; but fresh objects grew out of delay, and the state of things, which carried them beyond what they first intended, secured their independence. It is so now—and the most extravagant demand on Mr. Easzinz's arrange- I ment (the right of search), never expected to be I oaded to them, they will contend for now. In the letters above alluded to, the writer adverted to the danger of driving a daring and enterprising seafaring people, rising from the same stock with ourselves, into the arms of Frauce, our most dangerous enemy, who want nothing but seamen to overrun this coun. try.—He also adverted to the situation of Spanish America, and how impolitic a rupture with the United States would be, whose situation is such as to" enable her to either mar or further Our commercial visors with ail those revolutionized colonies. I for bear, Sir, any observations on the great lack of knowledge oar Administration had, or indeed seem to have, as to the strength of the United States. If peace and friendship are desirable with them (which I think no one will deny), no time ought to be lost in procuring it; and some person shonid he sent out to negociate with them, upon fair and liberal terms, and whose negociatien, when once entered on, is not to be biassed or protracted; as heretofore, by fine; tooting councils, determinable by either our good or bad success in Spain. They must be governed by de termined and fixed principles of what is right, and upon a liberal basis due from one maritime nation to another.--I repeat again, Sir, no time ought to be lost in making the negociatlon, as well to preserve our seamen, as to increase our commerce. Arr. I 1 Jl :erie. i u . M:: ia . nl4 ... .......................................... - Cadit ... ................. jj 1 •Guernsey .................. I 1 • ---- PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY' AT O;+1; (I°Cl (1--.......1.!;. Bad India fluod•••1 dis. 3 per Cent. Red. 58*j Exchequer Bills3jd. 1 3 3 per Cent. Cons. 59e 9 Ditto 36d. 6'4 p 4 per Gee's. 74# Ornnimn 51 pr. S per Cent. Nary 91# Consols for Acct. 594 Long. Asa. 15 1-16 Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAI. LONDON: 11 , 111114041 r, novamsea. 7. left. ••• • • We have received Lisbon Papers this morning to , the 28th ult. from which we have taken the follow. ing important extracts. By these accounts it appear., that the mine prepared by our army A t the siege of ' Burgos, and a counter-one by the French, exploded both together on the I.Bth, bringing down the con. vent, containing stork, &c. The Castle was imree., diately stormed by our brave troops, with their usual gallantry, but they were unfortunately repatied with the loss of nearly 100 men killed or wounded._ These accounts do not come up to so late a date as others which have been received from Burgos, and consequently they neither confirm nor contradict the report of the siege having been raised. Our own opinion, from every information we have received, is, that Lord WELLINGTON has, frommotives, laidable no doubt, thought . proper to change the siege cf Burgos Leto a simple investment. Lissom, Oct. 27.--Acconnts from our army state, that our mine being ready, the French having coun. ter,mioed, at seven P. M. on the 18th testant, both mines exploded at the same moment, bringing doss the Convent, containing stores, 4c. when p.r bra: , fellows stortred the castle with their use at galtanttsj but were repulsed with the loss of Sr , y 100 men killed or wounded. . On the 13th inst. Colonel PDXSOWST. tt: the Ladl of' ;party of cavalry, repulsed a party the FT. eb cavalry, killing and wounding 50 ri leis consists in four killed, and 14 wounded. The Guards, arc. from Corone t were on their march, but had not joined op the 1011. Gen. Mu, remelned at Aranjues ; thp 3d division was between that place and Madrid; the light dill. start In Madrid ; n 4 the 4th at the Emilia. 500.% Sonnet, wed Jou% are gone 4o Y& 9, 441 1 1 ;u d eo a o rta , O ter cow . 24. mandett --Tbe he t ;d ere .qua nera rte l rs EL/ f o, th w e er 2 e d , on the 4th, at Taranaln. General HILL'S army if calculated at upwards 30,4300 men, which has now be. joined by Conde de Pomo and Moatt.r.a. In consequence of the arrival of an extraordinary Gorier from Alicant, a report has been circulated .that the expeditionary troops at Alicant had drirau the Peach from the town of Monforte.—(This ac. 'count - appears to be confirmed by others from Gra. Veda, which add, that the French suffered a great loss, and that the French had taken the Castle of no longer appears doubtful to be the inteutien of Souza to retire to Valencia or Navarre. Lane, Ocr. 12.--Peueral .84LiArsEttos has addressee a Proclamation to the Sentient, request. ing thsen to contribute tnteards clothin4 his army. • Ay i thelipgrs received from ,the South of Spain Cesina ilarkitelligente of Soetifs Baying marched for Valencia by. Nattier,. It appears that SOULT had a conference with -King JoSirif, since which the latter marched for Morviedro, teethe purpose of pre paring.to accompany him. There have been disputes between Sucurr and SouLT's troops,. on account of -provisions. The French, who had advanced as far as Penhat-de Si. -Pedro, immediately returned. It is supposed. that General BALLAsTraos is now la Ca. rabaca. .General Faririts is in Villarrobledo. On the 7th Oct. the van-guard of the sth Spanish Army was in Oreajo, and was to proceed to Santa Cruz de Ia Zarza ; upon the left of this was General Eno and the 3d Army. General HILL had his head-quarters in Araajaez- SUOIRET still remained in Almanza. On .the 12th and 13th October, a division of 5000 Portuguese anal English entered Truxillo, and Weis illth and 15th inst. set out for Talavera la ina. Upon all these accounts we with much plea sure give the lie to the reports which for some 0 1 have been circulated, that SOULT was approximatig to Madrid. I remain, &c. Nov. 5. aEVARG. FOUNDLING HOSPITAL AT MOSCOW.;;:. This celebrated hospital, the Steward of illicit,' as Lord Cathcart states in his recent dispatch, was. 4 4 the most eminent Public Functionary found id the city," by the Gallic incendiaries, was the noblest and most complete institution of the kind in Europe: it was founded by the renowned Empress Catharine, in 1764; an immense pile of buildings of a citiadran /Jr shape, and calculated to contain and accomrao -8,000 foundlings. The utmost privecy and freedom prevailed in this institution ; candles were placed during the night in niches in different parts of the building, in these the infants were secretly depo sited and the bells rung, the bringers immediately retired, and the children were speedily taken into the house. It was also at the option of mothers to come and be delivered privately in the house: no questions were ever asked, and every proper care and attention was paid to her ; the infant was left, and considered as the child of the State. Those were taken the greatest care of, and at the age of 14 they had the liberty of chusing any particular branch of trade, and for this impose, different species of ma• nufactures were established in the hospital. When they had gone through a certain apprenticeship, or about the age of twenty, they were allowed the li. berty of setting up for themselves, a sum of money was bestowed upon each foundling for that purpose, and they were permitted to carry on trade in any part of the Russian Empire. A very considerable privilege in a country where die peasants are slaves, aad cannot leave their villages without the permis sion of their masters. This admirable and incalcu-t lably useful institution was in a great degree sup ported by voluntary contributions, legacies, &c. to encourage which the Empress granted to all benefac tors some vuOuable privileges in proportion to the ex tent of tier liberality, and a private merchant, named Dimitiorf t expended on this institution sums , amounting to nearly 900,0001. The number of cont7:77rt reland is considerably greater lo the present General Election thau on the occasion of the last ; while in Great Britain -0.71 were film In nearly the same proportion. LETTER FROM ENE MARQUIS Of "WELLINGTON TO EOL D. .1. PAL UREA. " I have the satisfaction of sending to your Fad lency a swordashich I have just received, by order of his • Royal Highness the PRINCE therm! of Engla"(l /rebind. His Royal Highness presents it to Yor VI .