The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-01-27 00:00:00

whale received an interrning article *um Brighton on iba subject of Taxation, the iodation of which we are obliged to delay till to-raorrow- rr. Mails. Due. A 3 ................ Dublin ..... 0 3 ................ Waterford 0 ................ Cadiz 1 0 ................ Lisbon 0 1 ................ Guernsey ................ . 0 1 ............ ... Jersey II ................ Brazils 0 n ................ Aubelt _____------ 1111'E OF STOCKS THIS k san 3 r er Cent. Cow. 62,i per . Emit. lied. 6;4 4 per b per Cont. Navy 9 4 Long. ion. 161 -716 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Bonds 17s. lgs. pr. F.soltequer Bills sd. l b pr. Ditto Omni um dis. Consols for Acct. 62i 1 Lottery Tickets 'HE STATESMAN. LONDON: MONDAY) JANUARY' 27, 1812. WAR WITH .AMERICA. The ship Lydia arrived at Liverpool on Saturday last, fiom New Tork, with advices from that place as Jae as the Ist instant. The news is indeed IMPORTANT, and we have no doubt that WAR tit' , ALREADY COMMENCED. Congress has adopted, by the largest majority ever known, the witoLe op THE HOSTILE RESOLUTIONS of their Committee, and ordered a Bill to be framed up to the spirit of those Resolutions. Thecitizens were ARMING THEIR SIM... rixe, and all vessels accepting licences from the Eng lish Government were to be most severely visited. In the House of Representatives, a charge of a most horrible nature, was made against our Government, namely, that we bad stirred up the Indians against the United States. Mr. RANDOLPH, the most power ful and eloquent advocate of tke mercantile interest, and of British commerce, declared, that if proof of such a conduct could be addueed, be would himself be the first man at the head of the army to enter Canada! It was ordered that the Executive should forthwith supply the Legislative Bodies with such vouchers as they had, in proof that England, or any ether nwion, had stirred up or excited the Indians to make war upon them. The greatest unanimity prevailed both in and out of Congress ; and the real and steady friends of both countries, unequivo cally declare t that notime willnow be alloz:ed to arertl h,,stddies!! Here is a new, and perhaps the heaviest, affliction brought upon our country, by the friends of the Orders in Council, and by those noodles who were so basely devoted to an abandoned Administra tion, as to put their mad and senseless veto, even upon the discussion of these pernicious awl anti-com mercial decrees. Mr. R.I.NOOLPH—yes, Mr. RAN.. ;mem, the friend of England ; as well as of America, openly declared in the face of his country, and her assembled Representatives, that the British Cabina acted wukr a ITILINos INTATUATION:n 4.41 S (NG of the SIEGE of TARIFA. „RETRE.IT OF THE FItENCII. The Tenteraier, of 98 guns, arrived yesterday at Portsmouth from Gibraltar. She brings an account that the French troops abandoned the siege of Ta rifa on the sth of this month, leaving ten pieces of cannon behind them ; they had previously assaulted the place, but had been repulsed with much loss on their part. They are represented to be greatly dis tressed for provisions, and very sickly from expo sure in heavy rains. General BALLASTEROS was said to be harassing their retreat. The following lmter, containing some particulars relative to the operations of the enemy against Tarifa previous to the raising the siege, will be found interesting. We copy it fr(.rn a Gibraltar paper of the Ith instant :- 1. TARIFA, Dec. 31. " f am trlppy to inform von, that the enemy has been repul sei in an attempt to assault this place. After my letter of yes terday was seat off, the breaching, battery, which seems to have four 16-pounders, and one 13 pounder, continued its are, and made an opening of about la yards, being neatly the whole spare between two of .he fiat/king towers on the east ride of the town. In the afternoon a summons was sent by General Leval, who stated that the defence bad already been honourable, and that the breach was inneticahle the day before. On an answer being returned, the firing was resumed, and continued all night, without doing any material injury to the garrison. The 'army made bat little adaltion to the entrenehrivilts ; but early this morning we saw than filled with troops, and observed that great numbers were passing down to the valley, through whit% flows the stream that passes through the town, and in labials the breaching battery is established. The violence of t e torrent bad daring the night swept away the rows of palisades outside and inside the wall, and even bent the portcullis. The enemy appears to have supposed this also had been carried off, as he advanced along the bed of the stream, and came directly to it. The breach its ouly a few yards from the entrance of the water, but not a man strewed himself on it. Finding that there was no opening, and that they were exposed to a most galling fire from a;I parts, the assailants, though they bad Several hundred men under the wall, bc.e , ia to retire in about half an hour, and again bid Themselves in their trenches — Their loss has been very severe. Most of them badly *ounded hare been brought in, including sis or seven officers. The six pounder, under Ca tin Mixestitta, was of most essential use; indeed half the execution, at least, was done by it. Our loin i s not great. L;entonant LONGLEY, of the engineers, and Lieutes , cant MAU., of the filb, are killed; also a man of the rile carpe r and there are about 10 wounded. From the wounded prisoners I tears, t h at flrneral Leval has with him altogether 14 pieces of artillery, all of which are it; battery, Lad nearly 10,000 men; that the storming party consisted of 20 companies of grenadiers and voltigeurs, and two of sappers, making from 1,500 to 24100 men. " JAN. 2. " The weather here has been dreadful. Two Spanish gun boat. hare been 10.91 ; but ire ought not to complain of the rain, since itmust be more annoying to the enemy than to as. lie hat dome aothiag slue the asatult, and there has been !attic Wog ea 1-.. . . THE STATESMAN. either We. We have not been able to aseertain the low of the . Fiends on that day. An Officer, who came with a flag of truce, told me it was 110, but we know that nearly this number was left lilted and badly wounded. They were allowed to t'she all thole not close to us. Some of their Officers brought in, stat 4 their loss, previous to the storming, to amount 0 /00 men, prin cipally from the shells. Seven or eight deserters have come so, and described the clients of the rain ou the French troops, am munition, &e. to be dreadful: • Their battery guns cannot be moved a yard from their present position for some time." DEFEAT AND DISPERSION OF' BLAKE'S ARMY, AT VALENCIA. By accounts from Gibraltar of the 7th Instant, we learn, that by an arrival from Alicant, of the 31st of December, General lhatts's Army had been dis persed and defeated. SvcntT having received a re inforcement of 8000 men, attacked the Spanish lines, and succeeded in dispersing and destroying the whole of their army, with the exception of about 5000 men, with which BLAKE effected his escape, and retired into Valencia. It was expected that the small remains of his army, and that city, which contains 15,000 inhabitants, would soon fall into the hands of the enemy. MAILS'S army was lately estimated at /5,000 men. Two Anholt Mails have arrived in town since Sa turday, by which we have accounts from Stockholm it:, the 14th iuit. and from Gottenburgh to the 18th. It is positively asserted, that Peace has not been concluded between the Russians sad the Turks.— , Another desperate battle is also reported to have been fought by the armies of these powers, and so complete was the defeat of the latter, that they laid down their nrms to the amount of 20,000 men. No date is mentioned when this engagement took place ; nor are we in possos6on of sufficient details to en able us to determine any thing with regard to the authenticity of the report. The old King of Sirs ncx,wtrose late iodispcsition was represented, by the Ministerial Journals, as a mere pretence to make way for BERNADOTTE'S elevation to the throne, has resumed the exercise of the Royal Authority. This took place on the 7th instant, when the PRINCE ttexAL addressed his MAJESTY in a long speech, congratulating him upon his recovery; and pointing out thc, situation of Sweden as it then was, both as to its internal as well as external relations. The mi litary force *of that kingdom, it is said, could easily be augmented to sixty thousand men be fore the month of April. But, even, if this army was to be called for, it could only be for the purpose of defence, as the Swedish Govern ment, says BERNADOTTE, has " no other ambition than that of preserving her liberty and her laws."— An article dated Berlin, the 2d instant, states, that', an Officer in the l'russian army, who had proposed levying an independent corps, in the event of a war, had been condemned to one year's impr4c2mOnt.— This surely will not be considered a syllipWm of war es the part of Prussia. Letters were received yesterday from Vera Cruz to the 19th November, and from Mexico to the 14th of the same month. Notwithstanding all the exer tions of the Government of Mexico to arrest 'the progress of liberty in these extensive regions, we are happy to find that the cause of the people goes on prosperously. Some of the regular troops had at first gained partial advantages over the Patriots, but this only tended to stimulate them to greater exer tions; and it will be observed,'from the accounts in sertod in a preceding column, that it is not now so easy a matter to defeat them as it was formerly. We have no doubt therefore, that liberty will find a safe asylum in the provinces of Mexico, as she has lately ddue in the Caraccas, and at Buenos Ayres. It appears from the Dublin Papers, received this morning to the 24th instant, that the trials of Lord FINGALL, the Honourable THOS. BARNLWALL, and others, at the prosecution of the ATTORNIYGENE.. RAL, are postponed to the 6th of February next. SECOND EDITION. STATESMAN OFFICE, Two O'Cums. TOTAL DEFEAT OF THE TURAPS! Regular sets of Moniteurs, to the 20th inst. hi-1 elusive, have this instant been received ; they are perfectly silent upon the affairs of the Peninsula. The Gazette de France, of the 20th January,, states, that on the 20th December, a Dispatch, dated December 8, was received at St. Petersburgh, from General Ktrosow, stating, that the Turkish army ou the left of the Danube had, in number 35,000 men, all chosen troops, laid down their arms and surrendered prisoners of war. All the artillery of the Turks fell into their opponents hands. We have this moment received Lisbon Papers to the 13th instant. The following are their principal contents : " LISBON, 3AN. 12. " Great magazines are forming at Pinhel and Almeida, and every thing indicates a forward move ment. It is said, the third part of the Ist and 4th, and all the light divisions, have moved to Rodrigo, so that by this time, the siege must have ccnnmeuced.--- We also understand, that General HILL, ho had advanced to Almandrolago and Villa Franca, has retired io Mereda. NAVAL IN /'E PLYMOUTH, 3 a e s. ?4. Sailed the Itota frigate, on a egotise to the coast of Frinett. Arrived the Sea Nymph, Capt. IVl‘Carthy, from tot. !Slicker% bound to London, with fruits' the Birmingham, Gill, fr ott Swaney t Britannia, Cam?betl, from Greenock ; and l'aitta v°llr armed brig, with convoy. from Wales. Came out of I larbour and anchored in Cawsand say, the 13 :1- wark, of 74 gum.. The Conqueror, of 74 pas, is exrcted to sail to - wormy, morning with the trade for the Dawns. The Itata and Rhia frigaten which sailed on Taitesday night are stated to have gone in quest of two Pt ench frigates and'a corvet, which has been seen to the w.stwarl. They chased tha Darlicgt on packet, iv bleb is arrived at ralmaiith. The Myrtle sloop of war, now in Itatimaze, takes the first convoy to Lisbon. . . The Grace cartel, Capt. Clam p beg 1 , mils in the morninx for Alorlaix, with Mad an tinuggi, which L-aly came to this coantry as one of the salt of Madam Lucien Bonaparte, and at:octi :..J Irmich prisoners goes over in Ih' same carod. PORTSMOUTH, Jaw. 26. Sailed the Oberon, 18 guns, Ca: Lain Murray, on a write. Arrived his M sjetty's ship Temerari-, from ow MAJitertit. nean ; and the Crane sloor of war, from a cruise; alto arrive) the American ship Jupiter, Hutchins, Master, from Chorister., left on the 7th oh. is company with tae Moont, Hope, \flinty, Mailfr..aud parted the same d .y. On the rill inst. in tat. 49. long. f.s, deg. was hoarded by a French privateer of .4 pap; the privateer bad captured the ship Mary, of Greenock, from Lis. bon to London, which she burnt. \\ hit , Cap . Hutchins wet OR board the prif4tecr be saw an Engiisn '.rig that be was la emt rumwith the night bofore,which he supposes would be; capturC DEA 1., SAN. 2i. Caasedawn (ram the River the Augustus (! msar, and the. Pitt radioman, for Jamaica; and remai .. with the Larkins, Asia, Astell, and Earl St. Vincent East-I: &amen, and sclera) others. FALMOUTH, JAN. 44. Arrived the Union, Baptista de Arbello, from Coeunna, is niue'days. Sailed the Cartaret packet for Lisbon and Surinam. • GRAVESEND, J or. . Sailed the Prirce Regent Left i.ty. , ;.n for India; and the Mary, Irwin, for the Cape of Good Hope. SHEERNEs, .)Ate. Went out of harbour to the Nore, his Majesty's !hip Prince of Wales. Came down from Chatham his Majesty's brig Martial, Lieute oaut Oliver, where she h received a thorough repair. COVE, JAN. ICI. Came in on Saturday morning, from Lisbon, the Compendour transport, with detachments from different regimen's in Portu gal, consisting of eight commistioncd, and eight nos-eammis stoned officers, and privates; mostly sick and invalids. Sir Edward Pellew is lying at Port Mahon, with the fleet, consisting of the Caledonia, Hibernia, Teineraira (going hnniels Royal George, Ville de Paris, Repul.e, America, )'orinpFarse, Berwick, Rodney, Bombay, Ajax, Centaur, Implacable, Le viathan, Make, Magnificent, au Invincible. The I)asher, Captain Kelley, which arrived on Tuesday, at Portsmouth, from Java, left Batavia oa the TM of October, on whica day Commodore Broughton and Sir Samuel Ancuanitv sailed of their return to Madras ; and Lord Minto, in . the Mn deste, for Bengal. Captain Sayer, of the Leda, was let Senior Officer at Batavia :he had quite recovered. A ship had been taken up to convey Gen: Janseas to France. The British troops were tolerably healthy. The Dasher was ten years uu the hag India station. THE MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 47. This day - the arrivals of Waeat and ths coattritht on hand. • with part of last wee!:'' foreign, about 3,,10 quarters, .make a considerable supply t . 1.:d;% 4.411; Fine nearly ,at the last cur. reocy, *scout maxi Inferior at somewhat less. Barley, WWI Malt, keep their price. And the sine in Pets and Beans of each description. Tne rerminisig quantities of flats are. she considerable, and sales of this article are quoted at little Atte• titatiun. Flour is geueraliy named cheaper. 1 Wheat sls 71s 98s I Tick do. Fine ditto lei 118 Do. (Fine Old) .. 50 58 Rye Barley B4 48 Poland do. ...... al •55 Malt 7B 85 : Potatnedo . White Peas (boilers) 78 84 Rape Seed i Grey do. Deans — 50 56 Seconds SMITHFIELD MARKET.—JAM. To pink t.he Ofol, per stone of Hlb. Beer •• • .51. 0.1. 10 et. Od. I Helot Cottle On. Mutton . OJ. to I. fd. Sennte —St Venl ....2s. •d. tot ols.. 04. Sheep ...... 14.240 Pork ....6s. 01. to to. U. Cole s .... Lomb • —Os. Od. to Os. ud. Pirs '‘R 114V-10ARRET. nay Straw Clover 5: Oa. tfd. to St Q.. Yesterday . Mr. PQN‘ONISY and :Mrs ELLIOT ♦iSite(l Lord HOLLAND* - - _ A suite of singularly magnificent chairs are new getting ready for 'Whoa House ; they are intended for State occasions. The Duke of &Drown has lately presented hie amiable partner with a very elegant astivine chateau-, a recent purchase, near Exmouth, in Devonshire. PA LERMo BAT, Nov. 18, 'lBll:—The Archduke Francis, of Austria, has left Vienna on an Hymeneal pursuit, after the eldest Prinuss of Sardinia, his niece, whom he has the permission of the Pope to marry. He is not a brothel. of the Emperor, but a first cousin : he is eldest brother to Maximilian and Ferdinand. His Majesty's ship Victorious has - taken him over to Sardinia, the Princess is a most beautifd woman about 29 ; his age is 35: you.will have him soon in England, with his Princess. He is a man of very great property, and purposes taking up his re sidence with you. FASKTON ABLE ELOPEMENT.—An unexpected elope ment took place a few days since from Piccadilly, by Miss Cti---n—v withdrawing herself at night from Ch—d—y House, and putting herself under the protection of Mr. LAMBTON (soil of Lady AstN), setting off with him post for Gretna Green, when', ere this, this couple of adveatrous lovers, by the matrimonial rivets of the Scottish Blacksmith, have felicitously been made one! This beantiful and ac complishetl young Lady is the only child of the cek . brated Madame ST. ALaav, who, dying a few years since, after her return to Paris, bequ .atn...(l her daughter 20,0001. This event is not looked upon as an unpropitious one at Ch—d--y House, the Noble Lord havieg, as it is said, wri . ten to the amorous fugitives, kindly requesting thit, on their return, they will make his seat, In Cheshire an honeymoon asylum ! On Thursday night other robberies were committed on board ' sundry vessels lying in Plymouth Pool. Amongst •lk arirli stolen were the picket-book' of two of tee Captains, one of which con t a ined antes, and the other 9a.. 's pagan. A few doss ar, a mamma named Salitngeis; who Hies at Manton, Knee into the town.ou au erraod,lefs in the ho ' ed tw o ornall children. —Oise of them. about two ye.tat old, was burnt to death b •fme en.. i.s.ti , rance emill be &ft. We leans uat the celebrated aeronaut Mr: *lime with the ‘, hir,fry nets ut 'Bin..W,Ot.b"lid miry, pr.-paring a new and splendid } tattoo.. hts a l.) • Red second ascent from that time, which it Is especial, sib sal. ' place oa Laster Mos*, siva yazashali Garda% • • " 116 d-quarters were, on the 7th instant, at (;al legoo." . Wortley a Cabinet Council was held at the Fo reign Office. The Board of Trade has come to a resolution in favour of a strict adherence to the sth article of tne Treaty of Commerce with Portugal, and has accord ingly recommended to Government, " That notice should be given, that from and after the first of July, ISt?, no wort shall be permitted to enter in any !ma of Great Britain as a Portuguese vessel, unless the same shall have been built in the eontithes belonging to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, or in any of them, or snail have been tams :ry any of the ships or vessels of war bclongine to the Portuguese Government, or any of the inhabitants of the dominions of his Royal Highness the Prince Rment of Portu gal, having commiwions or letters of marque and reprisal from the Government of Portugal, and condemned as lawful prize in any Coart of Admiralty of the said Portoguse Goverment, and shall he owned by the subject* of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, or any of them, and whfreof the Master, and three-fourths of the mariners, at least, shall be sobjects of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal." It Is said that only six licences have been granted by BONAPARTE, for the importation of silk into this country. They are under the Sign Manual of the Emperor, are all dated on the sth December, and the privilege of export is confined to the ports of Rouen and Havre de Grace. Three are granted to each of these places. The quantity of silk to be sent under each licence is limited to 25,000 kills grams, but this weight may be forwarded in two dis tinct voyages. The returns to be made are to be in Russia produce, sail cloth, hemp, &c. and not to a greater amount than the value of the silk; but it is not a condition, that any returns should be made, the ships sanctioned under the licences being at li berty to come back in ballast. Four American ships at Gottenburgh, laden with tea, are said to have obtained leave of BONAPARTE to forward their cargoes to France. They will run the hazard of the ice, and proceed to Copenhagen, from whence they will cross over to Keil, and from the latter the ar ticle Kill be transmitted by land carriage to France. The last di4rttches from Lord NV sta.iNwrort are dated the Ist instant, from Freynada, u here his head-quarters still were. It is said they announce his Lordship's determination to advance aniast the enemy; 1(4 it is reported, that in consequence of the preparation and strength of the Allied Army, MARMONT bad countermanded the march of a co-' ltinin . on its way to reinforce SUCLIET. On the 28th of December, the French army occupied a line ex tending from Toledo to Talavera. The French head ' quarters were at the latter place—Avila, Momboltan, 'fietar, and other places had been fortified. General BRY.NNIER was at Placentia. The central army amounts to 42,000 men. TUE POPE.—Upon the authenticity of the follow ing most important intelligence, though not mention ed in the London Papers, the public may confidently rely :—His Holiness the POPE, having complied with the wishes of BONAPARTE, by nominating to the va cant Bishoprics in France and its dependencies, has been freed from all restraint, and granted a palace at Parma in Italy.—[Freeman's Journal.] A flattering account is given in the French Jour nals of the progress made in the manufacture of beet root sugar and woad indigo. The former, they say, sells at 18 sous per lb.; and an expectation is held out, that by improvements in the process of manu facture, itmay bereduced to 15 sous. To giveit pre ference in the market, it is announced that BONA PARTE intends to continue r for several years, the heavy duties imposed on colonial sugar by the tariff of the sth of August, 1810. The will of the late Sir J. Stepney, Bart. who died some months ago at Trieste, has at length been proved, by which, to the astonishment of his rela tives, it appears that he has left his whole estate, of more than 40001. per annum, equally between Earl Xholmondelev and the Hon. Mr. Bennet. His eldest son, now Sir Thomas Stepney, derives only 3001. per annum, which, as property in settlement, legally devolved to him. On.Saturay a Coroner's Inquest was held on the body of Mr. Fox, late clerk, at the house of Messrs. Pellatt and Green, St. Paul's Church-yard. The deceased left the office on Friday evening in apparent good health, and was returning home, when he fell down in Blackfriars-road, and was found lifeless. — Under these circumstances the Jury returned a ver. diet—Died by the visitation of God. • Another fraud, we hear, has lately been disco vered by the Admiralty Board : it" chiefly relates to the forging of the seaman's discharges, a practice which, it is supposed, has been carried on to a great extent. • * Martial w- extent. Coen! m A rri AL .--on Monday last, a Court Martial was as- sembiod tin beast the Mesegleell, le the Downs for the trial of Lieuterast tAmirlee Clarke Dtstoww._forrserlv CO-,mander of the 1:.6 Bta;v *l for a breech et the -tith article of war; MI it ta rt Col i r the trial had not been insti- tip the twelve menthe etter his arrival l• she Ac t racikildell +pod/I•Wy enjoin', lie . . RIOTS AT NOrI'INGHAM. Normos Jan.2l.—About 50men, armed with I 'various biatrumetita of destruction, entered the vil lage of Lenton, oae mile from Nottingham, and demolished twenty-five frames in a very short time. Every avenue and bye-path in the village were well guarded during the time the mischief was going on ; so much so, that not a man was suffered to pass. One man, with a loaf of bread under his arm, was stopped, and compelled to motnt guard himself, with an iron bar kill's hand; with an order, if any one approached, to give the alarm, otherwise he was fairly promised to have his brains blown out. One man who ran off to alarm the soldiers in our bar racks, which are not more than half a mile from the scene of action, had a narrow escape with his life, for one of the Luddites pursued him, with the most horrid _imprecations; he, however, escaped, and so did the depredator. There are now 2,500 paupers in one of the parishes of this town. On Saturday the SPEAKER of the House of Com mons gave his first grand dinner to the Ministerial Members ; and yesterday he gave a grand diuner to the Opposition Members. "Yesterday Lord GRENVILLE gave a grand dinner to Earl GREY, Lord HoLLAtio, and a select party, at Camelforil House. Yesterday the Duke of NORFOLK entertained Earl MOIR and a large party with a grand dioner, at Norfolk House, St. James's-square. Lord PAGET leaves town this day, post, for the King's Head Inn, at Co l eatry, on business of ire , pertance, • 'lh c N I • 1 ~;` 1 e ~. tt I I 1 , ti . i i h. 4 .1 1 . 1 '