The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-10-16 00:00:00

1 . 1 1. I r 4 • t 1 . 1 I'HE STATESMAN. purses, and had placed it under the direttion of M. , Petrucci, the Consul-General of Sweden. lie was also drawing small detachments 61 troops from Syria, TARN, Ocroara s.—Yesterday her Majesty the embarking them as soon as they reached Alexandria, Emp ri . 4 an d ()A u eon came to the Palace of the Thuil and sending them to Jumbo, by Suez, to reinforce leries ; she attended Mass in the Chapel , and jo i ned hitt*son's' army, givtng but donstantly that he was in the Te Deum which was sung for the victories of his Majesty the Emperor and King. The Bishop of about to join him. General Andreossi, the French Ambassador, re- Versailles, First Almoner of the Emperor, officiated. ceived, on the 17th of August, a present from the After Mass there was a Levee. Iler Majesty the Ottoman Minister of three Arabian stallions, one of Empress received the homage of the Princes, Grand which was completely caparisoned. Dignitaries, Great Officers of the Crown, Ministers, Marshals, Great Officers of the Empire, Grand Ea- gles of the Legion of Honour, - fficers wid - iasdies of her Majesty's Household, Members of the State, the Public Functionaries, and persons presented, which she found collected each in the Chamber ap pointed for their reception. After the Levee, her Majesty returned to the Pa lace of St. Cloud. Agreeable to the measures concerted between his Highness the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, and his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, to carry into execution the orders of his Majesty the Emperor and King, they had sung this day (Octo ber 4), in the Metropolitan Church, a Te Deum, •n account of the passage of the Niemen, the Dwina, the Borysthene, and of the battles of Mohilow, of Drissa, of Polotsk, of Oatrovno, of Smolensko, and of hloskwa. FRENCH PAPERS. =TRACT ranm THE ORDER 01' TIIE DAY OF TIIE BA- VARIAN ARMY OF VIE 17rn OF SEPT. gg Mumcsi, Ssrr. 27.—The Bavarian Army have won new trophies by the signal proofs of firmness which they displayed in the battles of the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 22d of August, near Polotsk, upon the Duna, commanded by the French General Count Gouvion de St. Cyr, and more immediately placed under the orders of the Infantry General Deroi, and the Cavalry General Count de Wrede. Colonel Ba ron Hahermann particularly distinguished himself on the 16th, as did the Major-Generals and Brigadiers de Vincenti, and Count Beckers; Colonels Counts Spaur de Deroi and Bottler ; and Captnins Gothard, and Baron Graveureuth, of the artillery regiment, on the 17th. " On the 18th, the Major and Brigadier-Gene. rals Sibein de Itagfewich, Count Beckers, the Cts 'octets Baron Colonge, Barons Strohl and Da Zol ler, Majors Bach, Count Ysemberg and De Maurs, also distinguished themselves, as did the Major and Brigadier-General Sibein, Colonel Baron Strobl, Lieutenant-Col. de Gidoor, the Majors Baron de Cronegg, Baron Gravenreuth, and Count Siboldsdorf, on the 22d. _ At half-past two, his Highness the Prince Arch- Chancellor arrived at the apartments prepared for him, at the palace of the Archbishop. He met there his ili A liness the Prince Vice Grand Elector, their Exedleuries the Ministers of his Majesty, the Great Officers of the Empire, and the Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour. Their Highnesses, accom panied by their retinue, entered the Church, where they had been preceded by all the Authorities, Civil and Military, of the Department of the Seine. The Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, at the head of the Clergy, received their Highnesses at the door of the Church, and walked in procession before them to the place ss here his Eminence was to officiate. The Clergy filled the Sanctuary. The Senators, the De puties from the Legislative Body, the Members of the Court, the Officers of the Household, and the Princes, occupied the Tribunes. Numerous detachments of the Imperial Guards and of the garrison of Paris, under arms, were ranged in the court of Notre Dame and in the body of the church. " The General of Infantry D 2 Deroi led on his troops ith his usual skill and valour, till the moment when he received the ball which wounded him mortal ly on the 18th. " The loss of a General cannot be too much re gretted, who had rendered such important services to his King, to the army, and to his country, and who, to his last hour, fulfilled his duties with the utmost zeal. That of Major-General Sibein is not less sea. sibly felt. " Count Wrede, General of Cavalry, displayed on the IGth, 17th, and 18th, as well as on all other occasions, great military talents, and gave his troops the noblest example of heroism. " The rwrsons employed as Adjutants by the Commander in Chief, and attached to the Staff, as well as the Officers of all ranks, the Sub-Officers and Soldiers of the regiments and battalions, have conducted themselves so as to entirely satisfy his Majesty. " All the health Officers, particularly the first Physician of the Military Hospital, Dressler, per , formed their duty on the field of battle with a zeal and intrepidity, which cannot be too much praised." A great number of Citizens, of all classes, have shown their joy by the most lively expressions of ad miration, and how much they are interested in those memorable events, which will be for ever the glory of the French Empire. There were three salutes of cannon ; one at eight, the second at twelve, and the third at half-past two. At riigtt there was a general illumination. VIEVIA, SEPT. 26.—The Court returned yester day evening , from the excursion they made to Lintz. Their Majesties and the Ileres'iary Prince enjoy the best health. _ The re4iments that compose the garrison of Vienna were reviewed the day before yesterday—they are compete. They will manoeuvre on the 27th and 28th, in presence of t!te Emperor and Staff. The exercise of the artillh•ry will commence the sth of 0 loher, and contittue ten (lays. It will take place in the plains of Mittkvtidorf. The consciiption for Vienna, and its suburbs, will commence the 28th, and continue three days. it supposed that the nurn'rer of conscripts will be about" 1200. _ _ For this some time since, the provision of the ca pital has been regulated by his Excellency Count do W.tiliis; the articles most necessary have fallen in price, and it is hoped they will not again increase. Our theatre has lost the famous Seldifitider, at the age of 60. He was actor, author, director, and ma nager of theatres. It was he who established the Theatre de Fauxbourg, of Vienna. Ile was author of the words of the Flute Elm/Janke, known in France under the name of Mysteres d'!sis. He spent his fortune with the same facility that he amassed it; twenty times he was rich, and as often reduced to poverty. He was always extravagant, awl died in inligence, generally regretted for talent, but blamed for his misconduct. COPLNIIAGEM, Seer. 19.—1 t is well known how a perfidious enemy, in 1807, suddenly attacked this city, and subjected it to a destructive bombarOxneitt. They did not even spare the edifices consecrated to D:6lte Worship, and the Church of Notre Dame,! the chief cathedral of this city, and of the two king. doms, which served in a great measure as a mark for their lire, ssas reduced to ashes, ssith the exception of one p►rt of its walls. Ills Majesty soon mani fested a d •sira to see this important structure, which was a kind of central point for the religion of the Bat., rebuilt. In consequence, his Majesty pro. cured anti adopted plans, which have already begun to he executed. But the funds assigned not being sal:licit:lit for the completion • of the work, the Coal niittee charged with it was unde.• a necessity of asking this Monarch to direct that the funds set a part for the repairs of all the churches in the kingdom, should be applied to that of Notre Dame: au order, to that effect, was, consequently, granted. FRO THE FRONTIERS OF TURKEY, Semi. 6. Some troops are still in motion in the environs of Niss:► and Sophia. They are meant to act against the Servians, if necessary. In Asia Minor, the celebrated Kaliungi Option, who had draw,► upon himself the displeasure of the Grand Seignior by his oppressions, had the temerity to take up arms against his Sovereign. Azia Governor of Niornedia, who had received orders to march against this rebel, has compelled him to seek safety in Hight. Ile was arrested with his two setts in a village near Kutaitia, and the Sultan has sent orders to Aziz Paella to have the three decapitated, and to send their heads hither. We have not heard any thing for some time from I Egypt, concerning the military operations in Ara bi••. Till near the middle of June, the two belli gerents contented themselves with nuking prepara tions for a new campaign. Mehemet' Ali,l'acha was still at Alexandria, the fortifications of-vv hich place he was getting repaired, while at the same time he was carrying on a lucra tive traffic ip corn, on his own account, with Malta and Fpgiu ; awl was establishing an insurance -office, ;o%!ards the funds . of Old he hsd soutrilipted 3QOO 'of these a high character for ability and attention to Ihitsiness, RS exceeded by none of the Opposition ELECTIONS. two Knights to . serve in Parliament fur this Comity i . came on at Shrewsbury ; and the lousiness ha • - Members, except Mr. Fox, yet it must not be for- 1 SHROPSRIRP..—Saturday last the Nomination of I gotten that such recommendation for character was i reig " with , Sheri ff , Lord Viscount Cravi'. TCS:', :Intl in .1 the High i not admitted, even by Mr. SIIERIBAN—for, at that • . peen opened by Richard Lyster , f'• tl mated and impressive speech, proposed Jol:i: a K n yZ i ", I time, he is said to have reproached Mr. PITT and . ! ton Powell, Esq. who, as a Seitator, in l'ailiameht had discharged his duties faithfully ; a; a Soldier knocking owl the brains of an Administration, i crying out here's rigour fur you." whenever his country had demanded his serrices ii lier defence, had instantly obeyed the call ; and as The Treaty of Amiens, therefore, was a treaty of Magistrate, had conducted himself with that striii fraud ; but Mr. At:rem:Toe was enabled, by means . regard to justice, and yet with that reildates, whir of it, to sell the principal part of the Unfunded Debt at the highest peace Price. lie also, under colour of it, procured the repeal of the Income Tax, does honour to him in that station ; al a mail lie W • though this tax was mortgaged for so large a sum ; , too well known to need any praii4 from Lim.—lfand as the Session of Parliament was closed in about' Lordship's address was r e ce i ve d w i t h great applau ; S ir ANtritew Convey having 6econdt.(l the e e ,t,, , Col. PoweLe rose to thank the Meeting fer the two months after the ratifications were exchanged, l manner in which his name Lad been received. cur all parliamentary controul over Ministers was there- . dill by at an end, and no article of importance in the and hoped he might infer fr o m th a t c i rcemstance, treaty was ever afterwards fulfilled. It required that his former conduct had met with their apprub e . . tion, to obtain which had been the chi e f aim end return.some dexterity, perhaps, to spin out the time of its continuance ; and this alone is sufficient to illustrate bition of his life. The Col o nel conc l u d e d b y retu in ° e thanks for the honour of th e i r attemlanee, and the talents of Mr. ADDIfIGTON, and to account for requesting their support on the day of election. all the false assertions of all the Ministers, and their T/IDMAS WHITMORE, E. . th en proposed Jahn adherents, which were so industriously made during ' , Cotes, i• sq. the other late worthy Member ; a gen. this period, both in and out of Parliament. tleman of honest integriV, upiight character, and ' It is, therefore, an absolute and daring falsehood independent principles, and wh o h a d a t a ll t i ros • shown how much he has the interests o f thi s comity which Ve'res has repeated—"that the weak, but un -1 offending, Ministry of Lord SIDMOUTII, was driven at heart, and who is in every respect well qe iltietl to fill so important and arduous a situation--‘VI wee headlong, by this bold add reflecting people, into a Lroen, Esq. of Ast on , secon d e d th e me r le ; and revival of the war in 18u3 ;"—that 44 the unpolluted :- this nomination also was received with loud demon. i air of every cottage in the Island, breathed jealousy, aerations of approbation. i hatred, and suspicion of BAA ONPRTE ;"—that " the ; Mr. COTLS then shortly addressed the M e eti ng, thanking them cordially for the honour they h a a very wives and mothers (why not the daughters) of done hini ; and solicitine their attendance on W., : d. ~, : England beheld the hollow peace with terror, and nestle v next. open hostility with confidence and delight."— I -- The truth of the whole of this quotation I utterly deny—and in few words affirm, that Stracwsupay.—The election of two Members tc serve in Parliament for this Borough commenced on Wednesday se'tinight. The contest was carried on with great zeal and energy, and at the same time with great temperance and good humour,by the friends of Lieut.. Gen. Hill and Mr. Benyon for the first four days: but at the opening of the poll on Monday morning, Mr. Bettyon signified that he had directed the poll in his favour to be discontinued ; and at the rtri4t. CLOSE en that evening, the numbers were-,- the contrary attached to every inhabitant of the Island, except his MAJESTY'S then Ministers. and those who live upon the effects of war. There was no Address for the destruction of the peace from one end. of the kingdom to the other, until the Deslora tion of War was made, and then nothing was more easy than to procure and manufacture Addresses on the occasion—more especially if we recollect the danger which all would then have incurred, who attempted to say any thing to the prejudice of the most honest Mi-' nisters—and while the cry of invasion was so indus triously propagated, as to put all the old women in the kingdom in fear of the terrible consequences 'of the landing a French army, though nothing was : more improbable, or morally impossible.--It is, therefore, on the ground of fraud, on which the Treaty of Amiens was negociated, that it is con sidered by France as void ; that the security to which those persons trusted, while they visited France, was a nullity—it had no sanction in the law of nations, for that law gives no support to intentional bad faith. It is true those detained persons became victims to the iniquity of their Government—so did others; but that is a matter resting on the responsibility of Great Britain, whose Parliament approved their con. duct, not on the Government of France; and Mr. PERCEVAL has repeatedly admitted, that neither party had a sincere intention to perform the Treaty of Peace. Lord YARMOUVII Is, therefore, in my opinion, correct in admitting the right of detention ; for those persons were tresspassers on the French territory, ab initio—the treaty under the sanction of which they visited France, being, as before said, void by frau dulent intention. Upon some of the other points in this 10th Letter I may address you again, provided you think this worthy the insertion ht your valuable Journal. I therefore, at present, subscribe myself, Your obedient servant, SERTORIUS. Temple. For the Hun. Mr. Bennett 121 o fo : PETIT, ea e r7eu t t b le e m be eu lui t i o r V f h t e h r e e umpaoynotrh:As declaredsesso lieut.-Gm Sir ltinaiiht Hill, K. H. NI o Hen ) on, Assessor, o r : have been duly elected. During the interval between the last proclamation and the declaration of the assessor, " God save the King!" was sung with admirable effect by Mr. Perry, accompanied in chorus by every lady and gentleman in the crowded assembly. As soon as the numbers had been declared, the Hon. Mr. BENNETT returned thanks to the Eleaton for the honour they had conferred upon him, by re. electing him one of the Representatives for their ancient and independent Borough. He said— " That it was customary, on similar occasions, to make declarations of political conduct, and profes sions of political principles • , ho would do neither: they had judged of him by his actions—and by his actions he wished alone to be judged. It was the kindness of the Electors of Shrewsbury that had placed him so high on the poll : and it was with pride he viewed that he had the great majority of the free, unbiassed, independent suffrages of the 130. rough. That kindness he could only repay by a steady and unremitting attention to their interests; by being a zealous defender of their rights and liber ties; and the constant advocate of those measures which are most conducive to the peace and prospe rity of the Empire." Colonel Bit& then rose, and spolse to the follow lug purport s— " GENTLEMtN,—When I had the honour of ad dressing you, in the name of my brother, at the close of the poll on Saturday, I then expressed my confidence of ultimate success ; but my most san guine expectations could not have led me to expect I we should so soon have proved triumphant, and that our victory would have been so splendid end corn !plete. But it is to your exertions, and those alone, my Brother is indebted for the highest honour that ever was conferred upon him: and you must allow me now to repeat the promise 1 made at the com mencement of the contest—' That he will faithfully discharge the important trust reposed in him. by an impartial attachment to the Liberty and interest of the Subject, and the Dignity of the Crown.' 64 I must also beg leave to retort' my wrsolial thanks to Mr. Benyon, and his Avnt,, for the perate and peaceable niacin( r in WhiC'.l thif =. • has been conducted." Both addresses were rerei , ,TO ithi the r:-• dial and marked approb: ti Mr. Bennett and Colonel hill were then carried through some of the principal streets, attended by bands of music, colours Hying, &c. the hells rang merrily, and we are gratified to state that harmony (not indeed without some ebullitions of party spirit) continued through the evening. Expresses having been sent to the tenants of Sir Andrew Corbet, with information of the went of too election, the bells at Shan bury, &c. rang a joyous peal ; a sheep was roasted, and bonfires lighted on Grinshill 11111, and the sante repeated last night with ;increased festivity. N. 13.—1 n the Address of LEwts G3LDSMITII, as inserted in the Morning Post, of the 10th of October, 181'2, there are some curious circumstances relative to the paper war betwixt the two countries, during this swindling Treaty of Peace was permitted to exist. But in one particular, LEWIS GOLDSMITH iS iniquitously incorrect—he says the war took piece two months after the Ist of March 1803—when in fact, the Peace was put an end to on the Bth of March, 1803, by Mr. ADDINGTON'S bringing down to Parliament the Message from the King, requiring provision for augmenting the forces, and announcing armaments in the ports of France and Holland ; and which provision was voted by Parliament - , according to the Message. •t. A private letter from America states, that at the time the Americans declared war against this coun try, there were acteally 170 sail of privateers in the several ports of America ; the greatest part were nearly ready, and many sailed, the day on which the intelligence of war reached them ; as, by the same conveyance, they received their commissions, signed by the President, NlAnisox. The largest were ships of 20 guns and ‘2(X) men : one of those has sailed for the Cape of Good Itope.—From the I Sussex.—Yesterday the Election for two Repre. defenceless state of the town of St. Andrew's, wherel.sentatives in Parliament for the County of Susses, there was collected a fleet of forty sail of timber took place at Lewes, when Sir Godfrey Webster, ships, seven schooner privateers had designed to : Bart. and Walter Burrell, Esq. were unanimously make an attack on it, on the night of the 17th July; elected. Never did greater unanimity prevail at any and would have succeeded, but, fortunately for the ' County Meeting, and the Members, particularly convoy, his Majesty's ships hidirte and Plumper, Sir Godfrey Webster, were hailed with the most en. on the morning of that day, arrived in that Heigh. thusiastic applause. Sir Godfrey Webster was Pro' bourhood, and captored, by disguise, two of the posed by Sir Cecil Bishop, and seconded by Thomasr. seven, sod the Wooded loader of the expedition. Phillips Lam b, Es q . the Member for Rye.—M The Specials pfterwards arrived in the Bay of Fundy, B urrell was p ro p osed by Inigo Thomas, Esq. Pan d and made an attacis on a nest of privateers at anchor seconded b y Charles Forster Goring, Esq.---A up a small creek : bar boats succeeded in capturing awkward occurrence took place previous to the Elec. the whole of them three were burnt, and six sent tion, but it was not attended with any serious cense hitt) St. John's; one wait a ARO revenue cutter. Thus quence. The s Hastings ' er ected in front of the the Bay; which at.tirst swarmed with prtvateers b County Hall suddenly gave way from the rest it bees corepletely cleared. piessure upon them, but fortunately no perso n s VETUS ruf. DET.IINED IN FRANCE. TO Tan EDITOR O' THE STATEqMAN. The vehement attack made by this writer on the Earl of Ynnmou flf, for presuming to defend the conduct of Fr.lnce, in detaining the persons of those resi,ling in her territories, on the rupture of the Peace of Amiens, I conceive, calls for some animad version ; especially as this writer has produced nothing like argument in support of his declamation, or stated any grounds, founded on the Law of Na 'lions, to prore that France, in adopting that measure, violated those rights which all civilised States had re : cognised, in the compilations of GROTIUS, Purres- DORFF, and VATTEI.L. The Press had been sufficiently inundated with abuse of BONAPARTE, for his alleged breach of these laws, long before the flippant oratory of the passage in VETUS'S Tenth Letter; but as the para graph is too long to quote here, I must beg to refer you to that Journal; and proceed to state my sentiments on this transaction, as briefly as pos sible. But the compliments paid in this letter to the Ad. ministration of Mr.Aont Nan*: (now Lord Sidmouth), are not only, in my opinion, unmerited, but highly pernicious to the public morals. ilia talents, as a statesman, are contemptible, almost in the extreme; if we except only those talents of deception, by the use of which he contrived to spin out the time that , this Treaty was permitted to continue until the day he brought down the Message, which put an end to it; and never was the grounds of any public act, more completely refuted, than were the grounds of the Declaration of War by Mr. Fox, on the 25th of May, ISO 3, when the whole was sobmittelby Mi nisters to Parliament for discussion ; indeed, if Mr. Fox had only entered upon the real grounds (►which Ministers concealed) that induced them to enter into the Treaty—his speech would lump received a new illustration; and proved one of the most important L pieces of political history, that ever had been record ed in our annals. What Mr. Fox has omitted, I will here take the liberty of endeavouring to supply ; and as your co lumns are too important to be taken up in compli ments and deprecations, either to one party or the other, I must beg your excuse for omitting them, and proceed to say, that the Treaty of Amiens was a necessary coasquence of Mr. PIT r's resignation of oaiee.—A resignation which he was compelled to adopt, from the dilapidated state of the finances ; for, on the Ist of February, 1801, the aniount of the Unfunded 13,‘iit, was no less than 138,680,000 i. —The Unfunded DAt, not Withstanding the Income Tax, and the other unprecedented means for keep ing it under,which he previously had recourse to, was now become too heavy for his shoulders, and as he could npt himself •negotiate a Treaty of Peace with FrAnce, he was obliged to resign that task to other hands.. Itv doing so he certainly did eßpoint his awn ro w ans and 4epetulpts though he eye one {_