The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-11-13 00:00:00

har dly woof% stating to your Lordships§ that in lionent was preferred when that imprison. abi..h the Defendant speaks of, sill not a w ee o ld: het be that as it may, year Lordabips w ect that a libeller ought tint leas to br, 7,ioctl because be i s not now, f ur the first thee, , Itkd OA to answer fora libel. Your Locilshisw sipl not Wait that he who trades iu a particular _ we a ught the less to be called upon to soaumg. V or an y particular act of offence, because he by „tooted asany others of thu same description, b oil to b e en called upon to . answer for them. cud nothing of extenuation in that urge. ret , If I chose to search it, I think ,j, „ol d find much of agg r a vation ; bu t all this i, ° ‘ for your Lordships' consideruion. The or. fenc e *Web the Defendant has committed appears rr t „ be a very grave and serious olfe.nce ; it ap. r iri to me to he more grave and serious, and to (Atmore imperatively for your Lordships' atten. from that which the Defendant has urged—l ilJt say in defence, but in eateneation of it— ...bccJe.e, as far as I can fortis any judgment, ee ry topic that he has urged, hoping thereby to in. hcc your Lordships to pass a lighter sentence upon to• h added to the magnitude of his offence, and haivirher shegro that he was proceeding (which be &t oil) from a desire of injuring Lord Castle. r o, or it shcws that he is defending himself upon principles which, if they are not checked, may here. s irr be most dangerous to the country. Wit these illustrations I leave the cue to your Lordships, fuly sati.fied that the punishment will be common. w ile to the extent of the guilt—that it will not go b e yond it—l am the first to desire that it may not to beyond it--but that it may come up to She uses. we of it. Lord liutrtraonoucau —Let the Defendant be onv iiittrd to his Majesty's gaol of Nevrgate, tad brolitht up this day fortnight. -- iiri yeti. IMISIII• - 2 ...... • Dtblin I . 1 .............. • . • • Waterfall' •• • • • • • •••,..• •!• • I 0 .................. Cadiz 1 0... . Malta 1 1.:. . NeligalBB4 0 A01t..11 . • , 8 1.. f .__-.......,. ' -- _ • - . - _ PRICF. oF or KS roiss TAT tHlit tare4loMit. 3Of COL Red. 651 51 13 per GAL Ow. Win • OlaTAme 51* . THE S7'ATES.M.4, LONDON:" &MIDDAY, NOVEllaill, 14' 1110. r S • VIZ ZING. The folios/ring are the Bulletins received at tile Palace this day. The first (the Bunabs of last eight) is very favourable; , and that of this Morning dues sot seem to express any decrease of the hopes of the Physicians, ariaini from yestenley's symp. toms. i e'-. 'S Windsor Castle, Nev. 12,11110.-8 o'Clock, P. M. "His MAMMY has bad some hours sleep in the course of thes day, and, epee the whole, appears better than he has been since the commencement of Du ilium. " 11. R. REYNOLDS. " HENRY )(ALFORD. * M. 1311GLIE. " W. HNBERDEN. " R. WILLIS." " wiedaor Castle, Nev. 1.1. " ills MAJEstY has bed little or so sleep •*1 , ight, but continues as well as in **two preek •t• hg days." ro (sits 1 41404 90 . , This day wired a Lisbon Mail, and two begs of betters from Anholt. From the Portignese mad Spanish Papers we have made *evert' extracts.— ' 'There is little reliance to be placed in the accolade 14 from Lisboa, either by Utters, or in the Pepeell . t but MASSIMA is universally represented to be iota diEcult and dangerous situation. It is stated, *ail be attempted In cross the Tagus, bat was repulsedl In the attempt. His force is, by these acceunts, . stated at 50,000, of which, 8000 ars cavalry.-- The Allied Army is said to coasbt of $4,000,1p, timely, 34,000 British ; 30,0 00 Portug uese of 10,000 Spaniards, !odor Rossini sod' 10,000 Portuguese Militia. Lord WOZLIJS4TOII is Stated to have 120 forts within his position, Oa vbich are mounted 1000 guns; and be has beside a Jorge train of artillery is his lines, and 23 gun. hat' ) some. carrying iS.puunders, on the river to his right. The writers of the present news from Lis boa all express the hopes of the City to be at She greatest pitch, and represent the Allied Army as being in the highest health and spirits. No dis patches, however, we believe., have arrived from Lord WILLL/' The Papers brought by the Anholt bar e contain little of consequence. It is stated, that theitt),ooo i " which Austria is to find France, aro intend d to aid in the subjugatioo of Spain, the throne of ar!tizit is offered to the Aoconott CHAIM. ; and that *Toms' is to go again to Naples. In this "heft, it is not said to what throne JoAcnlss is to be removed, and where he Is to go.—A speedy ar rival of %division of French troops, is said to be ex.: yeeted in thetsland of Zealand. TheGermala Papers "Mail' several accounts of, the successes of the Russian arms against the Porte. This is,'lmerevert to longer of any moment. One muventent of NA-1 taLeox would neutralise all these mecum, if there he any truth in them.—lt is stated in a Letter fro m Riga, that Count Gorton' , (the gx-King of i'I , DEN) has actually engaged bis passage, its ad Arncrioau vcssrl ) bound to Enghtad. p.m VATESMAN. Jest is we training to Press, tie Wars that the A- 1 "E of Swum,' (Count Gottorp) is arrived ,at Yarisouth ) and is expected inTown thisday. We believe this intelligence to Nitre% and sincerely re. lAcn in the amp° of the unfortunate Monarch from the treachery and cruelty of his enemies. ~~ The Cabloet biluisteri a►c.all gone to Windsor, together with several other Privy Cosine Ours, ( who are ilalueluectl for that purpose) to examine the Physicians previous to the ,meeti►►g of the two Houses o►t Thursday, that the Report way be laid on the Tabliof each House. Upon the nature of that,Report the proceeding for the day will depend. The fallowiug is au extract of a letter from FALMOUrif, NOI. e. Tito Princess Charlotte packet, which arrived hero oats Friday, with wail., (coin Lisbon, statos tho following " thip Walsh:that packet iru to sail from Lis. bon on. thn 4th inst. and may be hourly expected. " it was said at Lisbon, that MAssiVIA, bad at. teaspted to pass a force user the Tagus to the South side, which had been frustrated by our guu.boetf.,, 66 The Prisons, Charlotte left in the Tagus hh Majesty's ships Barfteur, 98 guns; Dreadnought s , 98; Caesar, 80; l'onnani f 80 ; Impetsux, 80; illursibal, 71 ; Audacious, 74 ; Zealous, 74; Elizabeth, 74; Mars, 74 ; Poietiers o 74 ; Mat- Odesion, 38; Massilla, X3B ; Se. Fiorenso, 38 ; Melpantone, 38 ; Mercury, 2.8 ; reseal, 28 ; Dot. Sera, 18; Jasper, 18; Espies*, 18 ; Sett/loser, 14 ; Sabrena, 10 ; and Whiting. The packet 'Mat transports golog into the Tagus with the French prisoners taken at Coimbra, 4000 men, which were embarked at Figuerit. .t 4: "Arrived the Francis Fretting packet, Batt, with mails from Halifax, twenty days passage,' nu ',ewe; the Sandwich Packet was. at New York: trafill v ie American ship Bkonsing Rose s Ceptgis front NSW York, for orders. Atialled hip Majesty's brig, Liana, with CAM. 4411011, e" • kit A tiquArtp Imo. p:colloupopt ... L____4 iftiM"iiiew • pima OF . ~ !i , Nor. IS. The Rule obtained WIMP. mkt* by the krrea arzw.eispaaat., to postpruie•the Trial at Bar, was Wedgy' opposed by Mr. Serjeant Suaruage, in a vary able argument, to which the krsonnew-Gs yaw, **piled, in a speech of considerable length ; slop whio the Juimaq all delivered their opinions uptia4lo-4WiSas and rusaniusously decided in favour et *alb. R 4. ch was accordingly granted. ~ DUBLIN. .•` ' • POET The Post Assembly took place an Friday last, pursuant to the Loan hissoa's spumous, to tekb into consideration a repeal of the Act of Union. Mr. GI risen proposed an adjournment, upon the grounds of respect to the Royal Family. Mr. UllllOll,. in a very able speech; ezpressed his feel; lags respecting the platelet circumstances alluded to; and should no man world wish to proceed, at that time, to questions of a political nature; bat lit wished it distinctly to he understood on what-Mo tives the Assembly consented to an adjournment. He should, therefore, submit • motion fur Ad rnment, which should include an expression of 11ens resolve of the Assembly to prosecute the. of the Repeal. 'lle then moved the follow. int . • Reselvell-.That participating with the rest of ear follow.' subjecb le thegreat calamity that has befallen the Royal Fas roily, we deem it expedient at this juncture to postpooe our pr o ceedings relative to the repeal of the Act of Union, though at the same time we are &stay convinced that the repeal of Ihat Aet, mad ale eliotessee of a rebldent Parliament lick*. Zll f tiritintilly converted with theprosperity of Ireland, Abe dale •msatioe that ought to rust between the two 41MehlOWL • ' ;Kr. GIVIMaD moved an amendment, that. the who% of the resolutiou tiller the Univa should be emitted—tids motion produced a debate, the most remarkable part of which was a speech by. Mr. M'AvLav, who very neeapingly said—" The Ee. pad is not nceessary—we are the mast prosperous media in the world—we are escreasing is weettli.- "Acre a man bad a guinea. Were the Union, he has now ten. Our bosses have eadreasad too times—our rents have enereascd ten thaw...-our taxes are ten times as great.e-our exports *ad lopoetsare ten times as great--we have au enemas*. of .agri. culture far exceeding what was known before the Unions—and therefore why is it necessary to be for ever croaking fora Repeal ? In short s we.are all tea - times as rich as bcfere the Union. ThisGentlioan was called to order by Sir JANES RIODALL. , • Upon a division, the Amendment was'loat by * Minority of 17; and the orig i n al htotioe.was tbeis, put, and carried by a Majority of 35. Five hundred tickets bare been issued by the Dean and Canon for the admission of 'relators of the Funeral Procession, lathe body of bt. George's Chapel. The Choir will be appropriated to the No. bility, end those personages who term the proces sion. The hiarqnis and Marchioness of StArrotto are shortly expected in town. Earl GREY wilt nut reach town till this day. lie is accompanied by the Earl of LansitanaLe. Mr. Inane of the Bank gave notice of a Lottery ,of 110,000 tickets, to be bid for oq Friday next, at 10 o'clthan tockslwawn in February, and not more hree blanks to a prize ; no prize above 20,0061. and not less than 151. The Qeserr is as well as, under existing circum stances, can be expected. One of her hiziment's toutmen attends daily at the Qtltatel apartments in the Castle, to receive inquiries after her health, who write their names on a paper as visitors. • The Duke of Sussex is nearly recovered from his indisposition : a violent bleeding at the nose on Fri. day, vcry nosh relieved his Royal Highness. ' . 4 t• "Ir.a sP.iztristi AND:PORTUGUESK p4eßas. EARUIiir L il T i 5 DAY.) LISBON ' Oct. 21.—Tua idea that t he enemy alight attempt the passage of the Tagus, in bleed our General to have recourse to such effectual means of defence, yid suois was the alacrity of the people to concur with the activity of our *truly Governor to couuteract the plans of the euemy,thet it is not possible to describe the proMptitude with which the whole southern bank of the Tagus was tined with an armed force, .w ell capable of cliectual resistance to any such attempt, not only from its numbers, bat from its discipline and good order. Nut less descrelprout afteution and admonition Is tbo force which las bees collected on the rear..l goad of the etisen—oo one could hire expecteaV that while we had opposed to his front a numerous' and brave army, is hick dears all his efforts, we could have brought another upon his rear-guards which if it be not able to contend with his. in regular battle, yet is sufficient to berretta him and littevcept his correspondence and resources, and render difficult his retreat. - 'rho succours of Great Britain coatinue to ar. rive daily. Largo trains of artillery have been landed within these few days, and proceeded to aPillnent the (01'4'4 our armies. to line, teary dig ought to encourage' nay and ipdiee us ;most evelideeily to trust that the 4y St. ottPeoraplete trimisiiiilt sot far distaato—tridsbea Diary, Qa. 211 • • Lasses, OCT. 48.—Lord Wellington loassheon logBllo6lll in hringiog Manama to his priosot po. sitisi At first *ore it MO electrified by his advisees: but we are now convinced of the wisdom of Lord Wellington's measures. • - . The ease with Which, ?dissent was suffered to ad. vance, the assuraace of a general rising of the na. tires by the traitor Defier's, and the account he reietved from his owe spite of the determination of the *Modernly to embark, all combined to lead him to suppose that it wag only requisite to follow Lord Wellington close to drive him out of Porte. gal. . It is impossible for any person who has not seen Leal Wellington's lines to form An. adequate 'el 'their amazing strength ; the .priatzipld fersllt:.'4lll l the enemy extends from Sabral Taailla-0411111 has very. little force to the left orlhe'Allied Ofterai lines. It is believed that there arc under his cowl mind upwards of 00 1 000 men, of which,Booo are cavalry. Our force consists of about 34,000'Britieb, 30 1 ,000Porteguese troops of the line,lo,oooSpaniards from Romans's army, *id as teeny, Porteettetio militia.—There are 120 1 $ 50 " mounted nearly 1000 „guns,. betides the train of artillery beloogiug to our .army ; and is gen-boats, , Woe mierliog 18-pounders, placed up the rivers W. hate .now in the Tagus two three-dockers, .serew tiro.detkete, three frigates, and slealldr . vales of sier--upoti the whole is conclede mite now have nothing to fem.. The enemy is not well supplied with tive.requilite articles ; and the daily less he sustains by desertion, sickness, and -the sword, is not lest than 109 Mee. . . It is said Massim*is wildest)* arrival of his Sth - corps, and has thrown up some winks of defence near Sabral. There are continual skirmishes. We have no news here ; our army is patiently waiting till Massena thinks' proper to attack it, and when he does, '4 vire her .firmly perineded that our gal. tent troops will conquer or die. Two companies of artillery have arrived here Most reasonably from • England. Marquis Romans and his army came over here last week. On the 26th of September, the Commender.ln• chief of the Army, D. -M. do la Pena, prealtted himself in the Hall of the Cortes, *treaded by the Generals end Chiefs otaall•the corps which are now UM Island. •Ho 111M1,Ireeeived with . suitable .dig. ,nity and ilseoraire' 'ail impressed himself ita the :following terms .t.• . . • • •' •; • ; kit soWlere In •the army destined for itsse l defence of bleed, I come, with some of m y etnnpanions, and la the mime of all, to emigrate. late year Majesty on your *ages( and long.wished for union. I am ready, loveably to your Keel jesty's Decree, to take the oaths, both as Captain. General of Andelusie, and as Commandet.inschi4 reldinterios, of the Army, as aeon as your Majesty . Sty beptessed to. order it. 9 . • llere the Rtardent made a suitable; repi?, - tod the chief resemed biseddresa thus :--" I am ready, as well Mitt my withers, to.shed to the very last drop of blood for our religion, ear country, our King. ' s After-ibis, the siid . General took the oaths, and ou the following slay he. issued to his army the ing order :—" Suldisirs I The day "so for by the Spanish station is at length arrived ; General Cartes have assembledln our island, anti IS. has happily 41[010 our lot to 'feel the 'matt lively. , emotions of respect, confidence, and joy, which theW presence is capable of inspiring.. I: hare presented' Myself, with alltheGenerals residents% these quarters in the almost the whole army, in order to coagra. Wale his Majesty, confident that. all the troops which I have the honour to command, wish, by every means, to manifest their affection to our King Ferdinand, whose rights we ought and will defend to the very last drop of our blood. Let the hopes of deliverance be again felt in the bosom of the na.' lion ; a deliverance which we cannot fail to obtain, if, to our wishmi, we add the most constant deavours to consolidate the most exact, instruction and discipline ; by these means yen cannot fail to obtain that victory, to which pear General will Me ways endeavour to conduct you."-,(Ormatte of Sdrrnsadura, Oct. 16.) I . •4. i ,* * ':''', -••• _ SP4NLSII PAPRIIS. • • —..... • EXTKAOADINAKY DIARY OF COMINNA, 21. Ills EaceUency the Ceptain-Gener3l of this kingdom Ms ordered the publication or the Mlo4_ ing actuaints, wtsicd 00 has raceited, in order that bit friluse.taentrymen >wad deaniatiN, attached to die glory of their country, stay be Wormed i.l she heroic efforts et our illustrious warriors, mid lbw:, of our attics, the generous English and Porta: game : -- ACCOUNT% FROM PORTUGAt.. MU bliiituel Aotoato de FouserA y Geese*, Head of the Tribunals at °pert() ) in a letter of OA 11th, witty, as follows :•-• 44 Our Goternari Trent, ou die ?tit init. with his division of atilitia alune, resume( liberty to Coimbra, oak's( prisoners the 3 ar G,OOO French *to were 'there. We have already Is advance of Coimbra a tolumn of mere than 111,000 men, in order to attack the rear u( the roomy. • It is sitsis certain, that Mettler, having posed the 9ierns Morena, marched towards Andalusia; acid that the 'Marquis Romans detached General liallasteros so svize the defiles of the Serra, whit* he has dune'. Aliment have, therefore, assumed a filrourabl.: as. pee', and we hop* shortly ter a happy reetnint.' non; dries our army is cenatautly Increasing in strength and splits, while that of the French p daily decreasing." A. letter from Gloms, dated the 19th, contains the following t-ti. , 4 ! Ike enmity' having advanced -to °rides, wa defeated by oat troops with eoashierible loss. Thu divisions of Millet sod of Trent ave'dtstriblited is ,follows :-6,1%00 • men leVolutbra, tiro battalions ,feud two squadrons I% •Ceildielits, and 1,000 men lit Montesnar el Viejo. ,/(;!,,,,_ .. • " Coimbra is tortilla . 401.41te left bash .of the, Moodcgo ; thicriver and the Taps have inereas...l • in an extraordinary degree, siirthat it will be vrily dili4nit fur the eneiey to elleot a. retreat ; and, if the positions of Lower Beym are properly de a feedcd t retreat will be Impossible." , • -• RI vAnto, Ocr. 22.—A Spiral - sit brig, which had ' entered Gijon with tobacco, bee et last arrived in this port; several credible persona Wilieerd ofllt. alto the following accounts : '. '- ,':- s• " Oil Wednesday, the ttth inst. tiirtioope aka_ toed Gijon, preakely at the time when the ettemre: • garrison - there • bad been ingmented with those of 11Ausacts, Candao, sad Avilec Though all these ' garrisons united' oaceeded 600 men, they . declined en action. which' was altered by our troof:s. The famous Portia was the first who vilered ` that lOwst with slits eols%en ; Eacandon and Catitheoh followed bins with their's, and afterwards Reuovalei, with those .of the expedition under hie ' command. Pother pnneed the eaerey with hate. • purity, tithes gome t and makieg soma of the 'reef. guard pX?stintrat but in eonsequenee of the rapisliti • . ' oC theli flight, being unable tie: bring them to 'action, be returnedioGijon, isitriag pudes of observation. at the motif impelled purists. 14urlos . pond*? . the abortmert.ticueedificers, aid the orisleste,lTOdi deetileit - command, remained It Gijon, sod mutt night neeavalei rmembeakodto onatiatie his ems*. dhltet s iteerty about the mate hiehr; Pother Put hills. ' Win march for Oviedol•batiag destroyed the het.; tents' of the enemy." .. „- . • pia peasant 'who. Ist flail anima at allotrope,. . from the quartet of Oviedo, we arc Infortned that theaperatione of Pottier at Oviedo were successfel, /IS set at liberty all the Soanianis wise were prison. err, and took NO of the enemy, who precipitously abandueed the pie,. Hinds° useetta, that Senor do • • ,Pol hat advanced, and bad itillniad.quitten at Grisdo CIOIttIVI4A. Oct. SI ottgavotte ow rigs ARMY. OF &ALICIA, MID O. NAAS or IVA OSNIXIAIo Osas to oorse, vrtrd ALL TEI OITASIOSA) RIM IPSINGIIPAL ATTACK IN Tat ASTllltiAle . . Letters trots O. Muriel de Mita, tinallialtdlns the division of the right, to D. F. ?abases i Gll, dated Tabor% Oct. 15. . . 44 I hare just driven the carry from this point, and perused him titre) leagues to Qrmlllos, *hers he rapeseed the Tertititb precipitation. • . it We have taken .twenty eart.loads of corn, several eamp.kettles, and other small matters: 'our doss dues not exceed live wounded. The number of o enemy amounted to four hundred and fifty in.. 'fantry, and one hundred and eighty horse, whit Jiang which joined them lu Ormillus. • • A letter from D. Manuel de Nave to D. F. Ta. beads y Gil, dated Sta Marta. de Feva, 23. d Octo. her, gives an account of his attacking the enemy at Sta Marta. "To acComplish this object," says . he, " 1 began my .march at half-past two is the morning of this day." , : , 'The enemy were posted in the streets of the town, and as• seen es they saw our troops ,they opened their fire, which was returned with the greatest vivacity, foram them to a precipitate Meat. ' Both .infantry sisdeavalry pursuedthem with thegrestesf Vigour, driving them across the giver almOst up to ;limit necks, to Which coesidersble mom*. kat 1 their lives. 4:0 4 r troop. pursued them Moro (him a league 4.. they have-eastalned'il lostrif sheet . 170 ,•killed, 'rounded, mid prisoners; of the 21 ;Moon. ers, there are 16 dragoons. Our oily loss liaa been 3 wounded, and Intade prlsouer. . • gricoacemmuggineigr ~, I I: The tide flowed's') high on SAturday last, "ileitis wind blew so strong up the river, that. the arrows' -• part of the bosses in the tteighbourhood or West. Ininstbr were flooded so ai to reader the beisemeitt story inaccessible. . . A reward of 300 guluees Is offered by g Mr. Roncwrs, of Shrewsbury, for the apprehension of four persons who obtained oonicastillob i at Melpes, from the Bishop of Cap 44 ita, -, felled eeryficales from a Minister, of which, wham dlseestierd , they charged Mr. Ronan , with being the liliter.-.-Tho advertisement is headed " Few* sad Conspi•-, racy." . . While poverty was honoured at stillete, the Coes', selship, and other °faces of soagistraer, were eon. kismet( on the most deserving ;. on those who were *Most able to command armies, Or. tale the Vow. monweeltli 1 but when the love of ridges deprave 4 the Itosnans, aid that, as with us, men quitted i their courtlier far coronets, their great empircergt to pieces. . - ' • • . ... ... .. . . - . .. ..:.., , „...... 1 4 .4 ~ '•,' ..; 4 . ..41. : ‘•'. 4.',..;' • - .. . ` _ • f t - , 1 11 • •