The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-10-24 00:00:00

i ! : ( I . • , i 4' t 'l f I , .:; • I - . • reign Affairs at St. Petersburgh. He had none, and he oas not permitted to proceed on his journey.— While waiting for the return of a courier whom be had dispatched, he remained under the inspection of the eustom.huuse at Polangen. It is said that he had previously been at Pillau, and that he was oil board a vessel that was just setting sail, whew a Prussian Commissary obliged him to go ashore...DJ The Count then flew into a passion, and tols in his hand, required the Commissary not to Interfere with his actions ; but the Commissary haw. ing observed to him that he only acted ander supe. rifir authority, the C submitted to be conducted ashore. It is out doubted here that he wished to F e. 1)11 board an English cruiser, and that the English entertained the project of using him as an instrument to foment disorder and anarchy in Sweden, which they now see entirely wrested from their interests. SPAIN. CADIZ, OCT. 4.—The isles of Spain immediately adjoicisig the coasts of the Peninsula ought to be considered as so many asylums for the Patriots, their property, their papers, and other effects of amy transport. They may also be regarded as so many arsenals and depots inaccessible to the arms of t he 'Tyrant, where, sheltered from his attacks, magazines are formed, arms are made, and tho de. fenders of their Country InstruCted. 'these coml. •derationg fixed the attention of the Junta of Seville, during Its residence in that city, upon the isle klloan by the name of Cando, which liel at the month of the Guadiana. When the French entered Ayamonte some months ago, both the Junta and the inhabitants experienced the most generous reception on the other bank of the .river, in Villa Real de S. Antonio. The I.lishop of the Algarve% the Captain. General of .the Precinct., the Military Governor of that Port; and all the Portuguese, displayed towards the refugees the greatest proofs of compassion, friendship, and interest ; but this precarious and pomentary kesoureq was. not equal to that which , s 1 as afforded by the locality and easy defence of the isle of Clinch ; and the necessity of providing quarters fur 6000 enrolled troops who had been dispersed, uhligcd the Junta to dcdicate a great part of their attention to their establishment that islaud.' In a few (lays barracks were erected, workihops and magazines were eslablished,..and. a tract, hitherto uncultivated and utiksiowoOsisiim district, where many families live; where wholes communities take refuge whet) threateued by the enemy; where boots, shoes, and saddles are mane. factored for the army ; where muskets and orrery kind of arcs are wade, and provisions prepared fur the troops, In short, the island of Caucus is post, which, when fortified with artillery, besides its natural defences, might vie with the isle of Lion s Cadis, or any other impregnable position. This Dos was published, TOE COMPARISON ; in which MOCK REFORM, HALF REFORM. AND CONSTITU TIONAL REFORM, ARE CONSIDERM Uy JOHN CARTWRIGHT, Esq. Sold by Jes•ph Joliason and'Olt. Si. Chlreb.yard; amid the other Booksellers in general. iVe hate peen (*Taipei with a l.etter frinu Ate taisußo max Caruatac, at Bristol, ly reply to the Letter signed " AP English Catholic," which appeared In Tug STetassiaer on the 16th instant, and wa AO with pleasure insert this Lettirr in/morrow. Tl.e Letter signed Z. X. from Hanlon, in reply to X. Z. na the subject of Di,lillutiuq from Omio, shall have a pipes the first opportunity, and his favoun; will be acceptable. A..i•es. Altai.. lice. 0 Dub 2 -... Witterfilrd ••• • .. I ' , RICK or stodk* nits IiAT AT ORR treAtiCk. peg Cent. Red. 65i It j 19 Per Cents:C (llo *SO I t 51 i dia. - THE STATESMAN . LONDON: WEDNESDAY, OCTOIIBIII $41:1810. In Trak: STATES! tw of yesterday, we emleavoured to give the Reader au idea of the respective nuns- , bars of the contending armies in Portugal. The statement of the force of the Allied Army, we ro. lied on • with cousiderable confidence, for it was taken from The Morgans , Post, which is well known to speak on such matters from the surest authority. No doubt the Government had an üb. jcct in making that statement. Tiny were at length desirous to let down tie public confidence in Lord VllLLirGTON'soucacsc, w hick they were conscious they themselves had wound 'up too high. There could be no harm in this. Indeed, it showed a degree of good sepse, if not ,of feeling, set. due known to our present Ministers. That they began to entertain doubts respecting the issue of the campaign, is a good symptom ; fur it does skew, that they do oat go on, to the cud of the chapter, with an utter indifference to all the probabilities of calculations ; and that they endea voured to damp the public expectation, often they themselves began to apprehend disaster, has shewn geother rarity in their conduct—for it has given jailor of 4otne cumpassiou in them for the public feeling. Blaine Time: is very angry with theseagree. able symptoms in Governmeet. It is angry with misters, and angry with The Mor (fins. Post. it is somewhat hard, that w hen The Morning PHI does right it Is to be blamed. That Paper did well to let the public expectations down a iiitle--aad it acted generously and candidly in taking the rep.. lotion of my Lord Wsidismerox under its prow. ten at the expense of the Government. It would have !ken extremely hard upon his Lordship to have permitted him to go into a field more sanguine than perhaps ever mat ked any portion of the globe, and wnder-difileoliics that made his coming out of that field with glotY next to a miracle—it would bait' • _ THE STATESMAN. 1 . beets cruelty to. his Lterdship, to have permitted this, with the aggravated ill of public having I formed exaggaated notions of the extent of • hie I Lordship's forces. A genie was playing ante for my Lord Weeertioxos, io which he had:v.44lEL to win, but.iecransiderable.prespect of lois. Ititti. 1)10$ the enemy, that would be taken as matte et course, from the strained accounts given of his Lord. 'eliiega strength, acid the enemy's weakness ; while, if he lost with inferior numbers, and under very seri. sous disadvantages (we mean s disadvantages, iude. pendent ofany error he may have fallen into), then he alone would have to bear all the disgrace of the defeat, neither circumstances, nor other people's faults being. put hi the apposite scale, to check the abruptness of his descent. It was fair and candid in The Mot ning Post to ;et the matter right with the public, and thus give my Lord IVELLINGTON a chance for the due enjoyment of the glory be may wine and a just protection from undue disgrace if he should fail. The Times had much better have acknowledged its own errors, than ten about . to seek t acks in The Morning Post, w when there were none. The Times has dune more mischief, in one day, than The Morning Post in a whole season ; and fur this palpable reasone—that when it errs in politics (at present) it misleads the !people, who have much confidence in it, whereas the adherence of The Morning Post to the present ! Ministers destroys all public confidence in that Paper. Now, The Times has sedulously, and often with ability, upheld the destructive po licy of wasting the nation's blood and treasure, in building castles on the sands, that crumble with their own weight—and it has aided Ministers (Ministers whom it justly despises), to carry the nation on, from point to point, with falacious and impracticable expectations. Why ! that Paper has told us, that MASSENA'S situation was desperate tong ago, with noground but what his army covered, '.and yet that General has my Lord WELLING. TON shut up, literally with no ground but his position, and the City of Ltsoom to retreat through, if disaster should arrive to him, while he (titssitim) has all Portugal beside at his command,. when he chuses to move. We do not believe, that the lines of Torres Vedras and Maffra arc the best positions fur Lord WeeeinGTON to fight in— for in any of the positions' be had previously chosen, be had good ground to fall back upon, and opportunity to repair disaster ; whereas, here if he fails he cannot rally, and he cannot move, ex. I cept to escape! Bet be that as it may, no one will demy that what The Times said of Messzere was net true respecting him, and is true respecting my Lord WELLINGTON. But if The Times did not chuse to retract its own error, it might have served the public by skewing the errors of Government, in this very affair. My Lord WELLINGTON is left to fight a battle on which the fate of this country does depend, with disadvantages Ministers might have removed, and which he was led (if the public arc nut misin. formed) to believe would be removed. My Lord WELLINGTON would rather have fought this battle with something like a force, in British troops, equal in number to the enemy.— Then he would have feared nothing—then he could have feared nothing. But who believes my Lord Weeettrozox relics with any steady confi. • donee in the Portuguese troops, in this fearful con. filet ? If there is any man believes that, he has credulity, of which we do not envy him. But had :Ministers sent out British troops (in this ape. culation in my Lord Weeevicroe's behalf we bar all foreigners, all legions but our own), equal in number to what they had reason to believe the enemy had, then, we say, neither his Lordship, nor the nation, could have had one mo. ineut's anxiety, except what arose from pity at the quantity of blood that must be shed. Ills Lord. ship, however, is left to fight such a battle with half the number of the enemy in British troops, and his e derisive position liked up with foreign. :en, with Germans, and Portuguese! We must say, that this would have been a good theme for The Times to have descanted on ; and the morees. pecially as The 7'inies does hold this battle as like. ly to stttlo the fate not only of Elighind, but of France, and fallen Europe! As to this last idea of The Times, we cannot agree: in it, although it is argument against their silence on this gross error of 1 Ministers. We look upon the approaching battle with nothing less than terror, because it may decide the fate of England against her, and cannot avail her one jot, except in adding to that glory which cannot be surpassed; in aggrandizing the reputation of her unmatched troops ! It was fur this reason, we argued against the policy of hazarding our troops in Portugal, and lamented what we deemed to be the errors of the campaign : we lamented those errors, as throwing the troops away, by tactics that could not crush the enemy ; and we reprobated the policy at home that placed the troops in such cir. cumatances, without au object that cuelai demand , the sacrifice. Perverseness, or party artifice, may bate effected to mistake us ; but they have not in reality done so, for they know wo loathe the common enemy as much as they fear him, The passion that excited all our ssmarks respecting this campaign is made up of anger mai* Meister& for ... a ...~ this:wanton and useless waste:of British blood, and of surprize at the weak ness of my Lord WELLINGTON'S scheme of the campaign. We have endeavoured to chew that weakness is the true character of that scheme, and we have laid our seasonings, we believe, its:Unassailable principles. But, however that may be, we shall have few, at this time of day,. to deny that other proposition—namely, that the war in Portugal is without object. It is true, that on this subject The Tines• runs riot, and one battle Ja to recover, not only Spain and Portugal, hut all Europe, and to free France herself from the tyrant's hands. Wby ! this is too much, even for the Trea sury Print, and The Times might have stopped -short of this. Why is France not able in feeling to bear the loss of one army ? If there be any reason for that, it is because she is spoiled with in dulgence of victories won by the genius of her mas. ter, and cannot bear one reverse! Suppose this to be so, she may pine over her lost army, but ahe will turn to her Victor to lead her to new conquests and fresh triumphs. Will she Incur anarchy again, the horrors of a civil war, and the worse horrors of the reign of the multitude, to avenge herself tot the loss of One battle? How idle is that thought I sad as to the fallen Nations of the- Continent, will you bring them up, and place them In the field again, by saying to them—look r ye here BONAPARTE bas; lost a battle, and an army !-.41111.1, yea have laid them too low for that! Many a battle and many as army must he lose before you will reins their 'pie' tits, to listen again to your deceitful prophesies 1...., But MASSENA'S arty annihilated would not even give you Portugal. Yon cannot hold Portugal, sinless you some way dethrone, or destroy the . TYRANT. Come ! we will call him TYRANIT- with all the Ministerial tribe, and as cordially and hoar. lily. But, let us not be led by that, or any thing elm, to run away from the true object of thii dis. cession. To think of holding Portugal is as grave a folly as my Lord HA WILESEURY'S scheme of marching to Paris. It is of the same nature and complexion. England is fighting there. I f a r o f u r nothing ; but Gon knows, and Goo only, what she has to lose. This battle may decide the fate of Edgland--no other nation's fate can it touch, except for au interval that is not worth the purchase of one Englishman's life. And now, we turn with exultation to speak of our brave troops. Let my Lord WELLINGTON give them any thing practicable to do, and (as we have said bet fore) they wilt bring him through the victor And, really, we do look fora ;Wary, if one can be gained in my Lord WELLlNarors's circumstances. Once more, we have no fear ) but for my Lord WELLINGTON'S position ! A Mail from Jamaica has arrived, and brought papers to the 18th August. they inform us, that an attack was expected to be made by a British force upon the island of St. Bartholomew ; and that, according to the recent accounts from South Ame• rica, the province of Santa Fe had become a scene of disorder, in consequence of the Viceroy's wishing the Regency in Spain to be acknowledged by the inhabitants, but to which they were completely averse. The people obtained the ucendancy, and seized and imprisoned the Viceroy. PRINCESS AMELIA.—The account which has just reached us of the Princess Anzt.ra, from Windsor, is truly distressing. Her Royal . Highness had an. other bad night, having only one hour's sleep, *bd. is this day about the same as yesterday. The !broke, WHITESI DES, from London to Africa, fuundered utf Beachy.head, 9th inst. crew all lost. The Hussar brigade, consisting of the 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th regiments of cavalry, expect im. mediately to go on service. A detachment of the 3d Dragoon Guards, sta. Belied at Blatchington, arc under orders to proceed to Portsmouth, to embark, with other detachments, to reinforce our army iu Portugal. A new mete-drama is in preparation ceum Theatre, from the pen of Mr. Dissents son of the Proprietor of the Bath Theatre. We hope that the comic put will sparkle with wit. Munoss has returned to town in perfect health, after hating been much efilicted with a fit of the gout is Liverpool. DORTON is so far recovered from his late frac. toted arm, that he will be enabled to perform Doctor Can:wil l In the Hypocrite, in the course of the ensuing week. JOHNSTON the Mechanist, late of Drury lane Theatre, di ed within these few days, of an exhausted I constitution and a broken heart. A gentleman, named Buctiimax, was lately ehoaked at Jamaica by a live sprat, which he at. tempted to hold in his teeth whilitiewas fishing. . It was Lieutenatit.Colonel IllaiivaY, of the 79th regiment (and not Captain Itaittily, as stated by mistake), who received a wound in the arm, in Ono of the late skirmishes with the enemy's att. 'zinced pests. Colonel ll.4,itvav is on excellent °Seer, and has brought the Portuguese bripde under his command to a proficien c y in not inferior to that of Britith troops. . Box eas.—The lonpexpected match bOwite Crio and Afolinews. vis at length made. The blends of Kolioeaux, some American C..ptsins, have . at Itiogth . come forward to bind th e ma t c h, by s t a kini 601. Thu battle will be fur ItOctgitineas aside, and it is fixed to-take place on the 51bod* January next, play or pay, the day when Doilietty and Sam. terra arc already matched to exhibit. Crib is the favourite as about six to four. ■e - 'S I • I BRITISH ARMY IN PORTUGA, As a tribute of justice to the very gallant achieve. in Port uga l , we iii mtheeaftsololefwtlanegi3cropitiyshoUfaavaClrayvalry Order, Which, cords one of many recent instances in which Noy have nobly upheld' their lung established rept i b, tion • . - - CAVALRY DIVISION ORDERS. Lima(.-General Sir STAPI•6I-0/1 COTTON W OCT. 6, IN as tomb pi a* . with &he steady and gallant conduct of the squadrons 01, gee ts which were engaged yesterday with the enemy's asil ad guard. By the repeated and suc ce s s f u l attacks made sp ill the head of the'eonny's colorists (Which was suppor ts ,' pieces of artillery), be was kept in cheek, nor was it atit i lh infantry came up, and the country became aafavotwattle to*, operations of cavalry, that be ventured to push oo vaaced guard. _ _ The Lieutenant-General returns his warmest thinks N ti t OfSeers and Afro of the 16th Light Drapes ! ' An d ji a , v; • welt ai to those composing the picquets of the Rsyah anal l% Light Dragnets., for their steady and suldier-like belkuin4 and Captaia.Ber.t. will be pleased to accept, and e cm ,,, the Dicers mod bleu of his Troop of &yet Horse Artie ft ,. the Lientsaant-General's best thanks, f ur the seal and/sot& which was yesterday, and has at and Me and thoOf allup. times been, 'ben. 41144' l ficen Men of his Tro Lieutenant-General Sir STAP‘ETON COTTOM is iss t h dabted to Lieidessas*-celauel lieLsr, Assistant Ailjoi sab c„ areal, fur the andsedtced and able assistattee white IM deri,y4 OA the civilises Of that Colikset, and whic t en d o , 6 h to th at order mad steadiness displayed by the troop! iari ' beat of coasiderabla instate, before a sm og , wham of neer. The Liostiesaat4leneral begs the Marquis of TWCtODALI, and the e t a is ssaf, will also accept his watzat stloae ledgmeats fat their *Mous ismi&ince. TiIE4TRES. COYENT•CIARDM The T ragedy of The, Gamester attracted a no. Ineretie audience last night, chicly to witness tho pathetic acting of Mrs. S i DDO Ns in the Character o f Mrs. Beverly. The domestic interest of this Trag e dy comes home to m ca etes business and bosonss,"ind w hil e it inspires the audience with respect fur the •amiable qualities of Mrs. Beverly, it slush a mural lesson against indulging in the rice of gaming. Mrs. SI !MONS performed with uncommon feeling, and ovary person in the house 1)16. cipated in her woes, while tears in abusdauts were cicited by her afflictions. 'loom, in Ile. verlif, appeared to great advantage, and portray. i:d Um chewier with much truth and discrinduatin. , &time was respectable its Slukely; bat the rot does not suit him; his voice and manner arc, u fit nature and habit go, ill suited fur the villain. C. KritieLt acquitted himself excee di ng sell in 1 Lemsow, and the Tragedy on th e w h o l e was dm. r rably performed. LYCEUM. That excellent Comedy, The Belle's Stratagem, Was performed at this Theatre last night. Dati. court does not find a sufficiently elegant representa. tive in swum, yet his conception of the character is good, and he plays-with great spirit. The novelty of the eveuing was Miss DuNcart is i atitia Hardy, being he r fi rs t a pp earance season. She was most warmly greeted on her entre. The chiracter was throughout sustained with great effect ; but there is a coarseness in Wu DuNc4u4's kctilig that destroys much of the pies. sure that is really given by the vie consica,which this Actress possesses k tia .a very high degree. In the third act, where shdAseuases the hoyden to banter Dericourt, she convulsed the house with her witsi. resits delivery of the laughable points with Atli, the author has enriched this charming character.- t 1 Where are you- going my pretty maid" MN lb lightfully sung, and loudly encored. The rest eli ettactecters were very welt sustained.—The WTI/ Windsor gave Jou NSTOIII' IN :opportunity ot playibg his talents to great advanilage, in the puts! Looney Mactwolter. • CORN ~ Oar. 24. day tioellOrket has , bet . few fresh :mirth of Wheat, but tolerable remaining quaiititin ut hand, and sales fully support Monday's OM Barley in short supply, and, rather dearer. Mill and Beaus of both sorts continue to wary. bat But few White Peas, and those higher. Oits to again in short supply; and this article ouotedsore• what dearer. Flour remains at. our last gurratio. Wheat, - - - 65.. SO.. tio. Tick Beare, - Fine ditto - • - Oats Rye (new) • - 441. .414. Poliads . 1%.1641 1 0' barley, - 411.. Potatoe ditto • - •*- Malt, - W. Yeas (Boilers) WI. 661. I Floe Flour -• • 0 Grey Peas, - - SI-. Secaadb wilt+ ab Beane. JETFERY the seaman was in town on Mondry Inds when the Lords of the Admiralty gave him his fru discharge from the service; and the friends of Ci pL LAKE made him a compensation, which, of coon they deenaml an adequate one, for the hardships St had sustained. He it a good looking young fellovi and confesses he made the Pitl for his frame, 000 he can write; but he says that it is common smog sailors to use the cross for shortness. lie says 0 was eight days on the island of Sombrero, daring all which time he had nothing but rain water to Flip , sist on, which he drink out of the crevices of 10 rocks—that several vessels passed within sight, •ht; sas too weak to hail them ; and that b e ass it IA the very last stage of starvation when the Oak° vessel touched at the island. lie kft town yawn's! in high spirits, with his money, to see his mother, Some people were after him, to make him exhibit himself for money ; bailie got his discharge fry the service expressly onlhe condition that he thr • iapnediatelN quit London. Public curiosity, which, perhaps, has never, nn similar occasion, helm so strongly excited, *ill length, be gratified by a perusal of Mr. llaorrie tivo American Tales, Wieland and Ormond; editi°"l having been announced fur publication bi Mr.. ;Colima, of the Public Library, Co duil l i street. ,The former, we understand, is rich"! 1 , to Mr. SHERIDAN, who, among o ther distiogu t personages, was struck with the originality aid. genius displayed by the Author in tbearr 4117 traordinary Narratives. ru r the dip to! lest :OU !tlf pte,: T 1 us: lilu Or I iord ery lost ucti od, hitht lore le r r 0 tj e St USE! Lc Ben lit thi (au