The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-01-02 00:00:00

- . . . . ...ilk FiteNi ( 31 4PII.IiOUTCH PAPERS. PA ittg, Dac. 43.--A Report was presented on the Ist bison', ti his Majesty, relative to the surrender of FeattehlGuyaste. The Board of in quiry, composed 0177f:rents de Cessac, II olio, and Rosilly, bad to ermine if Victor _Hughes, the Commissioner Commandant in Chief of French Gitjane, employed all the means in . his power for tiro defence of the colony ; or, on the coetrary, whether he had not surrendered to a handful or troops, for the security of • his own plantations, and his fortune. The Board of Iritieio‘ has, after a long investigation, reported, that Victor Iltiglies did not employ all the means in his power to de fend the colony, and that his conduct might to be examined by the proper tribuhal.. As to the question, whether he did not surrender for the purpose of preserving his plantations and his for. tune, the Board has reported that they have not discovered any thing positive in that respec, but that, nereriheless, thy arc of opinion the Coin. missaiy should undergo the examination and deci sion of a Court. His Imperial and Royal Ma. jesty has, pursuant to this opinion, remitted the affair to the Minister of Marine, with orders to cause the laws of the empire to be executed with regard to the accused. In consequence of a Report from the Grand Judge, his Majesty iasued a decree: on the 17th, postponiug until the Ist January, 1811, the prac tical execution of the new system of process in cri minal prosecutions, and affairs of correctional and simple police. On the 10th ult. Baron de Matireilliab, the Governor of Delmatia, issued the following Pro clamation at Zara : " PLOPLE or D tem arra —You are acquainted " with the peace, which the victories of Napo. " 4 leon the Great have rendered glorious to the '• people subject to his empire ; you know, " therefure, the calamities which your insuhordi. 44 nation and disobedience may draw down upon 44 you. The General in command of the Aus. Irian army has himself exhorted yots to sub. gg mission and obedience. Reflect that there is no 44 safety fur you but in the clemency of your 64 sovereign. Make every effort to deserve it, in " effacing by your better conduct the reinein. • " brance of your past errors, and rejecting all 44 bad advice, which can only be gives' you by 44 persons übo have neither grace nor pardon to • expect. If you obey the laws by which the 64 province is governed ; if, in short, by the pru. " defiers of your couduct, you render yourselves 66 anew worthy of forming a part of the Dalma . " tian nation, which preserved its fidelity, I will 66 be the first to implore forgiveness for you from 46 his Majesty the Emperor and King ; and I dare 44 flatter myself, that his Imperial Majesty e ill 64 nut refuse me the pleasing consolation o f an. ' nolliktilig to you the effects of his clemency, as 64 soon as I shalt be enabled to inform him that 66 you are became worthy thereof, by acktrw . . hedging your errors and submitting to his . • • 64 laws.'' •• ' The funeral of M. Fourcroy tout place on the •'• !Ist at noon. The body was deposited in the cc. metry of Aleut Louis. The funeral' was attended by an ininteese concuurse of the personal friends of the deceased, and the admirers of his great abi. liti.s. Among them were Ministers of State, Civil Magistrates, Military Officers, Members of the Imperial University, the French Institute, &c. Ills funeral Oration was pronounced by Count •. Kcinsud-de-Saint Jeart-CAngely. M. Delon. taines also paid some compliments to his memory. . B .t tr.ssx 7.—Whilst the bodies of troops united in the environs of Toledo arc purse. tag the remains of the insurgent army, defeated at Ocana, the banditti who infested different pro: winces of the kireAnit have been dispersed and de. • •stroyed in all %panels. A burly of 1200 of this description, availing theaiseires of the absence of General Buget and his troops, hail the audacity to attack Tudela, Where there was only a garrison of 160 men ; but this handful of Frenchmen, %ruder the command of a brave Officer, after disputing with them inch by inch every squaro and street in which they strewed themselves, succeeded at leirgth •in repel. Hag them wilt the loss of 45 killed. Thirty of 'eer men, who occupied a tower, def, ndcd it a gainst 300 of the insurgents. la the upper rallies of Arragun, Sarrazar was, on the Ms ult. de- Seated and expelled from Valtanie (,• In Biscay, the Marquis de Balio Lizio's bawl a of marauders, from S to 900 strolls:, having ap , preached Durango, a French column gave them a courelete drubbing, and took from them a stand ,„ e • of colours, and three pieces of caution. The other bands have recrossed the Penns d'Ordunita. :7 0 '04 1 *. Tissearenchioluors which severed the en sirens of Durango brought in a great quantitY • a tritigititg' led military stores. The yeutig men who were for. cibly enlisted in Biscay and Alava are returning to their homes. MA some, Dec. 1 ; .-.Tile Duke del Parque, who has by turns served and betrayed all parties, had assembled a ceusidarable body of trinipt in the environs of Salamanca. Ills intention seems to, have been to support his colleague Ariesaga, as soon as victory of which the Junta assured the latter, should have opened to him the gates of Madrid. No sooner, however, did the Duke learn the impedimeats thrown its the way of this plea by the battle of the 19th l than he took to. flight. Ilis rear guard has nevertheless been over. taken and destroyed. We expect the ulterior. de. tails of this Adair. [This, of ceune alludes to the battle of Alba del 'tonnes.] • The lessuna of experituce are not equally throin away upon ail the Spanish General's: If they do not instructuoy of them how to beat, they at leak teaeblerare.af thee') to avoid being beaten. - • Hence Ece,ut, mtd Vsitegas also, who cannot for. get Aluarnatirl, obstitiately refused the command of the Owl of picked troops who are at this inutneut marching from (tine to France. • , - In this memorable battle whole regiments were taken, that had not been able so mac;. as to burn • priming. Starcaly was one battalion secured, when another was in succession attacked, with the rapidity of lightning, - surrotiordeil and clic. armed by the self-same troops. now cueld the I , \ \ TFI Spaniards make any resistance? There were none to command them ; nobody knew who he wa s t o obey ; nobody knew what the General was about, or even where he was. [lle was .in the steeple of °emu.] Guns, muskets, tum brels, baggage, all the material implements of an army, and the army itself, became the prey of the coneeeror. If it be not treachery, it is consummate igno. 1 ranee that makes the Junta persist in a system so destructive. Vithout veteran or skilful officers, shat can the best soldiers do? The Spaniards want officer. This they admit, and yet they wish to continue the war, for the purpose, it should seem, of giving them time to acquire experience. There is only one inconvenience attending this pl in, and that is, they will begin to hate Generals when they have nu longer any soldiers. M %Delo, DEC. 6.---On the anniversary of the coronation of his Imperial Majesty, graml enter tainments were given here by the French Am bassador, the Duke of Campo-Alange, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and M. de Azanza, Minister of Workhip and the Indies. " At the entert:tiument given by the French Ambassador," says the Madrid Gazette, " we remarked several persons of consideration, who, siuce the commencement of the disturbances in Spain, had constantly maintained the greatest cir emuspection and reserve. His Majesty's return !After the battle of Deana seems to have been the 1 epoch of a remarkable change in the minds of men. The satisfaction which begins to beam in every countenance sufficiently proves, that even i the most timid lay aside their apprehensions: The , battle of the 19th ult.—the precipitate retreat of I the English army to Portugal, who were, the same day, at Trukillo—the total defeat sustained on the 28th at Alba de Tonnes, by the army of Estremadura, left to its own strength—these, there is every reason to think, are the causes of this happy change, which permits the inhabitants of the capital . to .• declare, without any restraint, their genuine sentiments." . . .llis Majesty, in a decree of the 2tl inst. calls upon the rcgltineuts 'of •11w line to furnish ) fur completing his guard, .drafts of such non-com missioned officers and aohlierit, 'as may, by their conduct, have shown themselves worthy of that mark of distinction. We learn, that the consequences of the'battle of Deana have produced the utmost consternation at Seville, and in some of the Southern Provinces. Some loudly ascribe them to treason ; others blame the stupid ignorance of 'their Commanders ;• and the greater part openly declare themselves dis gusted mitt' the inefficiency and oppression of the Jirota. Alarmed by the complaints which reach ! them from all quarters, the Junta are compelled to solicit their own dissolution, as the only means left them of escaping the pnblic resentment and in testine division. VIENNA, DEC. 9.---The Archduke Ferdinand 1 has repaired to Buda, froni his Fluid-quarters at Bruno, to have an interview nit!, the Ploperor. It is said that the Archduke John is highly of. fended at the long official report published by the Austrian Government relative to the battle of Wa. gram, and that he has loudly complained of the passages thetein, which advert to his proceedings. We remark, pith regret, that several .persons of ilistioctios indulge in very imprudent observa tions against the politi:•al system . adopted by the Russian Government ; (ruin which it might be in" fermi that there was a coolness between Austria and Russia. The cessions which the latter has obtained from our Court by the Treaty of Vienna, arc more particularly the subject of the comments of the discontented, who do not choose to per ceive that these sacrifices were perhaps Preferable to the chances of the resurrection of a great state in Poland. By the last accounts from Blida, the Qwsett was, by the advice of -her physicians, to make a further stay there of six weeks, previons to her return to the capital. The Pripet: Royal was I dangerously ill of the measles. The Archduke Francis, the elder brother of the Empress, had recovered of the same disease. DECEMBER 10.—His Imperial Majesty reached Preshurg on the 4th, at two u'lock in the after noon, in the beststate of heaith. Ile is expected to return soon to his capital. • ° The Emperor having resolved to make some changes in the Administration of the Council of State, has suppressed the offices of Ministers of itate and Conferences, occupied by Counts Zin. rmilorf, Zichy, and Meilath, leaving them never , Odes% iu possession of the titles and salaries thereto attached, until his Majesty Anil( bait. otherwise provided fur them. AUGSBURG, DEC.B.—Leitcrs from Vienna state, .. Prince . ititiif of T.i teratein harrowssoted to take the supreme command of Upper and Lower Austria, and that he will forthwith repair from. his estates to Vienna, to miler - 110 - the e x ercise; of his functions Among all the Austrian Gene. rats, he is the principal favourite with the iitha, bitants, both of the Capital and the Provinces of the Austrian Empire. Jas.' Stffles, driver of the hackney-coach, No. 301, .s as fiord twenty shillings by the Sitting Ma gistrates at the Worship.strect Office yesterday, fur gross misbehaviour to a lady of the name of Cundy and five of her daughters, and for driving them in a direction dillerent from Oat in which they wished to go. He was also held to bail fur an assault on one of the young Saturday night, about seven o'clock, a yori . ng man of the name of Peake, belonging to the his, a transport, lately arrived at Dover, from Flush. ing, with troops, had the misfortune, in getting on board by the jib-boom, it being very dark at the time, to miss his hold and fall into the harbour ;. notwithstanding immediate assistance was procured I hu was drowned: On Saturday last, a Court Martial was held on board the Gladiator, on Lient. John Root, First Lieutenant' of •the Peruvian, for flogging ,a man without the order of the Captain. He was dis. missed the service; and recommended to thdcousi. duration of the Admiralty. LNt, • • •- r - , .40. AGRICULTURE, er c. ' The young Whekts, in most situationt, are in a vigurons and flourishing state: in the lower dis tricts, indeed, they hive sulfured in some degree by the wet v 'which is the case also with turnips and some other green crops. Little business has been done in the field ;—but a groat deal of corn has been threshed out, and much barn-labour performed. The cattle stock, both of the lead and fattening kind, have' gone on remarkably well ; but they keep very high in price. Fodder is, however, iu general' abundant. .The quantity of rain fallen between November 24 and December 21, has been somewhat more than six inches in depth. This is a large propor. tion for the season, and snore than has been expe rienced fur some years. The, rainy days include full half the mouth. The barometer, taking the average of the month, is equal to 29.154 only :—but it is very extiaordi nary, that on the 15th ult. the mercury stood as low as 27.9: a fact never perhaps before obscrv. able; and is an exception to the general rule of the barometer's range. CORPORATION OF .bONDON. The late Alderman NEWNIIAit was the last, ex. cept Sir WATKIN LEWES, of those independent Magistrates of the City, who supported the manly and constitutional principles of Mr. Wi lie was elected Alderman u( Vintry Ward * in. 1774, and served the office of Sheriff with the bite Alderman lIA y LEY, bruther.in.law of Mr. WILKES, the following year. He was chosen Member for the City in 1780, and Curd Mayor in 1782. But the same year he absented. himself from Parliament, on the great question for putting au cud to the - American war, which was lost by a single vote ; this his Constituents never forgave, and becoming afterwards a lake-warm patriot, he dwindled down to a ministerial unit, when his old supporters deserting him, and the ministerial party.rather rejoicing in his disgrace than inclining to depend on a man on whom they had nodependanee, he lost his seat in Parliament for the City, in 1790; and, though he made an attempt to regain it upon the death of Alderman Siwnuznoe, in 1793, his popularity was gone for ever, and his exertions, consequently, proved fruitless. In the late Election of Mr. 117A:1NAY to the honourable office of Alderman, we look forward with a lively hope to the patriotic exertions of a Gentleman, whiise independence of character is well known, and cannot be too highly appreciated. In truth, the Court of Common' Council has recently acquired• so important an accession of independence, as well on theßench ‘ as amongst the annual Representatives of the City, that we are not without a very sanguine hope of seeing the Corporation of London resume that independence, once the pride and boast of England. iIM MERINO SHEEP.—The farmers of the United States of America arc introducing the breed of Merino Sheep into their country . The last Wash ington papers speak of a flock of 27 of these va !liable animals having left that city, on the 4th of November, for Frankfort, and three remained in, the vicinity. It is said, they are the first of these: sheep ever seen in that part of the wield, but it is', not stated where they were brought front. TUEATRICAL Bur.r,.--In an adiertisement in a late provincial paper, after enumerating the per formances. of the week, we read, " Perpetual tickets to be had of Mr. -, fur eighteen nights ! !" The post beticen Manchester and Oldham was robbed last week. The buy alighted, and entered an inn, leaving his horse and its load at the dour; in the mean time the bag, containing !alters, with, bills and notes to a considerable amount, was tick. terously extricated from the saddle, and carried away. CHURCH REVENUES, &c.—lt appears that the revenue to the episcopal clergy amounts to 120,0001. per annum ; deans and chapters (Matto 1700 per sons) 140,0001. ; universities to 180,0001. ; infe. rior clergy to 1,950,0001. per annum. The num. bet of the established (logy is about 18,000, and with their fimilies and dependants, probably make up 100,000 persons ; which, computing the population of the kingdom at eight millions, is about the eightieth part of the people. It is now said, that the troops embarking at Portsmouth, which were intended for Portugal, arc to proceed to.llalifax. Another embarkation, for the - same destination, is immediately to take place at Cork. • lattirstellowit We-wife. ta-in reMainder to the Aline of England, being grand-daughter to -the tifelkesa of BRUNSWICK . , and ulece to the Prin. cess Witfn • i few years the bed of the Thames has sltereitAse materially at Woolwich, that where a line.otbattle ship formerly/floated, with many of her st.Ofes on board, a frigate, with nothing in her, will us& ground ; an:l, notwithstanding 120,000 tons of mud and soil hare been taken. out of that part of the River, within the last 10 months, no relief has beta afforded to the ships at the moist. ings. This is s;sibi to have been occasioned by a wall, which several years ago was begun to be erected, Mat which is not yet finished, projectink many feet into the River. The American Papeis say, that the cause of Mr. Jacxsoses dismissal was, that he indecorously contradicted Mr. Secretary SMITH by Several persons in the parish of Si. &coolie, Hanover-square, were imposed upon last week )ry paying the carriage fur baskets which ?pramd to contain game. The baskets were-neatly sewn up, with the legs of u hare siieltiog out at each end, but when they wereutapened they were found . to contain only hay aud Sir G. Ptievo;er, lit consequence Of the uncet. tain state of our relations with America; dderned it imprudent to withdraw from Nova Scotia any, part.of the military ;•ised Sir .A. COCHRANE bay returned to the West Indies Without troops. • 4 Ls -• • MJRQUIS WE.I4LICSLEY. It is wdll•ltnown; that in addition to the mho serious •ehar,Oes which were brought forwa r d against thib . 'NolOeman for his' conduct in .he was considered as having done more than ap of his predecessors in annihilating the freede m 4 the press throughout that large portion of his IL jesty's dominions ; in proof of which, we submit) to our Readers the following Asiatic Edict of ha Lordship, for the regulation, or, more corrily speaking, the annihilation of every vestige of th i liberty of the press—An Edict, which exhibiti principles of the most despotic kind, altd tot a ti i incompetent with the British*Constitotieno tl i which insist excite in the bosom of every Brit s - tiscutmust indignation. &SEGIJLATIONS RESPECTING TUE PUBLICATION pi NEWSPAPERS, VIZ. 1. Every printer , of a newspaper to print name at the byttow of the paper. 2, Every editor and prOpiiator of a paper, t i , deliver in his name, and place of abode, t o thew. deter/ te . goVernment. . 3. No paper to be published on a Sund a y, if; Nu paper to be published at all, until it shat I lave been previutisly inspected by the secreturpo A. government, or by a person authorised by him for that purpose. 5. The penalty fur offending against any of the above regulations to be immediate embarkation Jo ? Europe. • I RULES .FOR THE GUIDANCE of THE SECRET‘Strf .00VERNMENT IN REVISING VIE MAWS. PAIDEAS.. • To prevent the publication of 1. All observations on the state 01 publicrre. dit, or the revenues, or the jinam:es of Ike C um . pany. '. All observations respecting•the etnbarltaiioa of troops, stores,, or specie ; Of resoeetii any naval or military preparations whatevt.r. 3. All intelligence respecting the destination of any ships, or the expectation of any, whether belonging to the CoMpany or to imlividunis. 4. •All observations with respect to Mc conduct of government, - or any of its officersi civil of military, marine, commercial, orjudiciaL 5. All private scandal, ur libels Ott Wiwi. duals. It All statements with regard to the pr o b a bi e • Itt.y of tear or peace between the C om p any an d any of the native powers. 7. All' observations tending to convey infers's. thin to an.clierny, or to excite alarm or comma Hun within the Company's territories. 8. The republication of Such passages from the European newspapers as may trod to a f fect the in f luence and credit of the British power mitt native states. TOE. AL4RiCE7St. -. CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. Ty CURRENT PRICE. • • , Wheat, - 76,. 86,.10.N. Tick Beans, (old , 511 r Fine ditto -- - - 1061:110s. Oats, R*e. Barley, .Potator ditto, - -1. to 37s Molt, - - - Ae46 151 W. Peas(Boilers) 745. B*. Fine Flour -- 1 -90 s. Grey Pray, -- - - 50, 5Si. Seconds Beans, (old) - - - Ws. 654. • • 8:1tITHFIEL1)-.Tats. I. • To sink the Offal, per•stone of 81b. 8eef....45. 80. to 6s. 2d. Head o 1 Cattle this 06 1 Mutton ( 10d. to 6s. 4d. Beasts Veal ....6s. 6d. to Bs. 01. I Steep .11,609 Pork ....6s. 6tl. to 7s. tit 1 Calves * ' ILO Lainb....os. Od. to U. Od. Pigs 14AY-hIAttKET. Ifay sl. ' 6s. Od. to 61. Os. Od. Straw Clover - 81, 10s• lid. NEWGATE AND LEAI)I.NRALL MARKETS. • (Ity the Carcase.) n et t Is. B d . to si. o.i. I Veal 4s. Bd. to 6s. 111, _ _ _ 7d. Muttua 41. Bd. to frs. 40. Purk co. Otl. to 7i, F . 110 PS. Kent, 41. AL) It) 6. fo. Susbex,. 31. bs. so 41. 15s. Fartaluttn, 61.. Oa to 101. Ok STRAW YESTERDAY. PRICE BAGS. Kent, 51. W. to 61. OW. Sussex, 41. 10s. to 51. lOs. Lases, 41► 10s. to 51. 10s. PRICES OF HAY A. IT. J • WES'S. Hay, 41.45. Od. to 61. 10s. Straw, Yl. 94. to 511.115. Od. W/I ITSCH A P It:Le Hay, 41. IL). to 61. 6s. Clover, 61. 10s. to il. Hs. ,Stroh, 11. Its. to NI. Bs. ALLOW &c. Town Tallow Ins Od 00,04 Yellow Russia 9150 d 0010 d White ditto ... 865 Od 00104 Strap Auto Bslod Bdl O 4 111e1tinA Stuff 70 Od 011 Ihtto rough 505 Od 01b04 Groves I Quid Dregs Yellow Soap, 1026—Mottled. 114s—Piects, 104 k 811—Cv 4 5 • 1185—Castile £7. is a £9. 10s: Price of Candles, per dozen, - 1910d—hlouldr, 14s Od • PRICE OF LEATHER. Butts, 50 to 551b5. each - WA to 14d per lb. • To 681bs. 'elclt • tqr • Illiom-••••.-tv - Mere :ttits' Hacks - 214 to ' • 1 1)ressiug tildes -18 d to 1144 ;. Fine Coach Hides -19 d to. 91d *, • Crop Hides J 5 to 4011 to for rutting 174 d tit 190 , Ditto 43 to 50ibs. ;194d to 22d Calf Skins 30 to 40165. -28 d. to 31111 Ditto 50 to 701b5.. - y 44 to 404 • Ditto 70 to SOlbs.. -21 d to 99d Sin All Seals ((ireenland) , 31. to $. td. Large ditto sUOs to 146 s per dozen. • COAL MARKET. Ships at Market. - Snips- sold. ' Price. Slit Neu raxle . • . e. 4.46.• W. •to 665. 441 6 Sunderland - 4 •5. 04. to Mo. 04; 0 Cinder. 0 • • 005. It Fogeh•Coiii • ' 0 " • •• OOl. PRICE OF St. James's Market ss Oil Clau•e Market S 014 Whitechapel Market .5s Ott per st. of 131 b. 15s 14 Average .ss Ud • BIRTH. OU Sunday, the 9dth lilt. Ludy Robert Fitsserakl, of ii OU. at her hour, in Clarirkairect, Piccadilly. DJAItRIF.I). On Saturday last, at Hackney, Mr. Wu,- printer, of t.ae borough, to Miss Rhodes, sic Lodges Olt Thursday, at St. George's, flanever-sqsave, A. ford, E.q. ot 'l'hauses-streeti to Ni S: Wakesrfsf Tr street, Walt% ortit. Ke. DiKUI ^• • ' - PTI Yesterday se'linight at the DaaarpfloirOvi _Tort airt the very Kiev. Sir Itichard Kaye, Bast.•l.L. tleali min, Rector of Miry-le-buae, ltd ideated' . tta4 of Clairrq Nottinghamshire: a Pr e b e nd ar y o f t oe collegiate "church santhwell, Archdeacon of Nmtiugharis, a Governor of Christ ° . Hospital; and member of ember cliaritable corporations. Lear' ing uo issue, the title is exilic,. ... LONDON-t Priateil and Paditlied by I).'Loynts., at 0 Iliamisnfax iCE, I wasi I I E 1,1 ... _ _ \ •