The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-12-21 00:00:00

gt Th e prudent and foriouite execution of se daring, and to us so exceedingly useful, expeditiou, in particalar with tegard to the intelligence brought o f the oprrations of the army ender Admiral Tack• itschagoif, and of the condition of the enemy's army, i s justly deserving of your Imperial Majesty's most gracious notice, and to which I most hunibly plesnate to recommend him, Colonel Tsehernychew." gEFORT MON THE DEXTRAL 0? CAVALRY, COURT WITTGENSTEIN, DATED VILLAGI TSC II ASCUNIII4 SOVEMDER 37. 44 On the 14th November, Marshal Victor hal , . ing c.liected all his troops from different places, and having been reinforced by a division which had re mained behind, attacked with great fury my ad vanced guard, under the command of Lieutenant.. General Prince Jaschwil ; who, according to my orders, retired towards the corps in the position of the estate of Smolna, in the best order ; and as if were merely executing a mancenvre at a review. The enemv immediately advanced against the centre of my position, and threatened with an overpowering force of troops, which marched in columns, my two flanks; I suffered him to approach near, and then received him with my sharpshooters and artillery. The action was I *en' hot, and continued the whole day, especially in the centre, on which he particularly pressed to take my main batteries, which wereton a height, be fore my position, having in front the vlUage of Smitten which was six times taken by the enemy, and as often retaken by us. At leogtis in the even. leg, thanks be to the Almighty, the giver of all good things, sad praise to the brave troops of your Imperial Majesty, the enemy, after haring lost' , about 800 men, and some officers, prisoners, with a great number of killed and wounded; (for the village of Smolna ) as the field of battle, was fell of dead.heilies) retreated from his position, enraged and mortified at the failure of his enterprise. Imme diately after this the enemy withdrew, in my sight, with the greater part of his troops along the river Oa, upon 13aitsheKowo, where, however, as he was received, unexpectedly, by my reserve, under the command of Gen. Vock, he there made a halt to pass the night. Meanwhile he made a strong de monstration in the night on his left flank, by throw- ing bridges over the river Lukomla, intending, by.this movement, to turn both my tanks and get in my rear, and thereby for sne to quit my position.—But when he found this attempt totally es•feated, he returned back on the 3d (15th), at eight in the morning, and marched past me with his ;if"" force, which was very great, at a consi tie' able clistanci. Ile at length left a strong rear gua d opposite to my position, try' si Lich remained there until Tate in the night, when h. , moved further along the road, to the village of Aksuza. I com manded my vanguard to pursue him is kit cavalry,' winch has already made upwards of 600 prisoners. Should he continue his retreat further, I will, accord ing to circumstances, follow him in person, with my whole force; and I shall not neglect submissively to give your Imperial Majesty information of the direc tion he may take. It is, at present, impossible to know whether he means to retire, he having halted in the village of Mellschkowitscha, from whence there are two roads, one leading to Senno, and the ether to Tschetjoa. " I cannot sufficiently praise the valour and stea diness shown by your Imperial Majesty's troops, as well as of all the Generals and Officers commanding the same. " Our loss in both the van-guard engagements, and in the battle of yesterday, amounting in killed and wounded to 18 Staff and Chief Officers, and upwards of 1000 privates. The Senator Bibikow ha received a severe contusion on kis foot by a bul let:* FROM TIIE ST. 2ETERSBURoIt GAZETTE, OF TUE 15211 (27rii) NOV. It is with groat satisfaction that we give our Readers the words addressed by his Excellency Field. Marshal General Prince Kutesow, in his Parole Or .lers to the Army of the 20th Oct. (10th Nov.) what `perking of the victories daily obtained over the ene my by the troops under his command, and which c3ricludes as follows: " After these extraordinillitreatiluccenes which wc daily and every where are gaining over the eft. rAy, nothing more remains for us to do than to pur bdc him rapidly, and then, perhaps, the Rank* Itni, which he thought to subjugate, may be ifeewed iris his bones. Let us, therefore, pursue his with, lit giving him dny rest. The winter, accompanied i , ll frost and snow, is approaching; but whet have hardy children to fear? Your breasts of steel neither the severity of the weather, nor the ma of the enemy; they are the safest walls your native country, against which all at t.- Apts mast fail. You are likewise adequate to the oorport of any temporary want, in case that sa,.!! should take place. Good soldiers prove them selves such by fortitude and patience ; of which the veterans set examplPs to the younger soldiers. May every one keep Sewarrow in remembrance : he taught how to bear hunger and frost, when a sic ! tory, or the glory of the Russian nation was in view. Let us go on ! God is with us ! Before us is the beaten enemy, and may peace and happiness be be hind us!" PEON TUE IERLIN GAZETTE, IT DEC. 1. The latest accounts from the Russian corps lo Cos:land state, in substance ) as follows : ... _iam.— THE grATESMAN. .: • The garrison of Riga haeingfot silese•timit alarmed our advanced posts, and madi movements that threatened our right wing, and took prisoner Lieute nant Ludern, with s srnall'perty, of 17 nit.,, of the Battalion of Fusiliers, the Duke of Tamotsu' deter mined to drive the 'Seely back to his position before Riga, and for that purpose seat the French General of Brigade, Beckett', who, on the 12th, took the command of an expedition for that purpose, which completely licceeded. According to the report of the Marshal, the enemy, by this expeditioo, which scarcely cost us 30 men in killed and wounded, lost from 12 to 1500 prisoners. Considerable reinforce ments have been ordered to the Prussian auxiliary corps. THE HOMEWARD BOUND FLEET FROM THE BALTIC. On the 7th or Sth inst. it was officially asserted, that a convoy wai to sail, but as no ships had arrived before the packet sailed, no accurate account can be ; given; nor can it be ascertained what number will i r accompany it ; but it is said about 200 sail, ou t o f 4110 in Carlsham and Carlscrona. STATESMAN OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK. Mr. MILLS, a King's Messenger, arrived this Morning at the Secretary of State's Office, with Di.- 'patches from Lord CATIICART, containing the agree- 1 able intelligence of the Russians having farther suc cesses over the French army. A Bulletin is expect- ed to be published in the course of the afternoon, which we shall give in a Second Edition, if in time 1 for the Post. Saturday, tt half-past one o'clock the Lodi) CHAN. =LOB broke up the Sittings of Chancery in Lin coln's Inn Hill, and proceeded to the Council Office, Whitehall, to attend a meeting of the Lords of the Council at tco o'clock, which was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers, the Judge of the Admiralty, Sir JOIIN NiONOL, the Master of the Rolls, and Mr. Ryoza. Their Lordships sat till about three o'clock, when the Cabinet Ministers adjourned to the Foreign Office, where they held a Cabinet Coun cil, which sat till past tive. The Marquis CAmntx has resigned his seat in the Cabinet. Hegave up his key of oicial boxes this day so'nnight. Yesterday tie Lean CHANCELLOR had an audience of the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton House. A letter from St. Petersburgh, of the 20th tilt. says, that merchandise of all sorts had advanced ma terially in price; and several purchasers had arrived from Austria. It was expected at St. Petersburgh, that various gcods of British merchandise would be admitted for exportation, on paying a transit duty. A commercial treaty, containing this, among other favourable stipulations, was expected to take place between the two countries. Marshal lityrusoer has been created Prince of SmoLcrisso, in consequence of his late brilliint achievements in the destruction dale corps of Nair and DAVOUST. General VERDIER, who passed through Frank fort, on the 2d instant, on his way to Paris, and is said to have reached that capital on the 6th, is not likely to have brought any dispatches direc.ly from BONAPARTs, as he belonged to the 6th division, and i was employed under Sr. CYR, on the Dwitta, where he was so severely wounded, on the 17th of August, as to be obliged to resign the commaud of his divi don to General MAlsoN. Licences for a limited trade with France are ex pected to be issued in a few days. The Members of the Board of Trade met on Saturday to prescribe the form of them. Ministers have received no answer to the pacific overtures transmitted through Admiral Waattex to the Government of the United States. From this delay nothiug favourable can be inferred; for, as we are informed, the period for an entree. was not li mited, and the Admiral declared, that he should cruise off the American coast one month, in expec tation of a reply. Letters from Bourdeaux, Coblents, Maestricht, Nancy, and Chalons-upon-Marne, state, that the re maiming conscripts of the year 1813, have been called out to join the corps to which they were at tached. Many of these young men are not more than sixteen or seventeen years of age. It appears by letters and journals from the United States tote 9th November, that the Government had determined to make a third attempt upon Canada, the troops to be under the command of Gen. Da.ta lielta and Gee. flAanisox. Gen. DEARBORN was in the beginning of last month, concentrating his forces in the neighbourhood of Plattsburgh, a town situated on the western margin of Lake Champlain,and about one hundred miles south of Montreal. Gen. HAR RISON is supposed at the same date, to have been in the neighbourhood of Detroit. The army under Gen. DEARBORN, which has been so long stationary, and daily receiving reinforcements, do not, however, amount to more than 12,000 men. Gen. Muslims is said to have demanded and obtained of the Govern ment the appointment of Commander of all the forces on the western and north-western frontiers, with powers to compel the Governors of Provinces to fur nish his army with necessaries. Gen. VAN HANS SALMa has resigned the command of the forces at Niagara, and has been succeeded by Brigadier-Gene ral Sutra. A letter from Albany says—" General BROCK'S horse was killed in the late attack, by a private of the name of WrtiLow; the hero did not remount, and while cheering and encouraging his men to de fend their position against the superior numbers of the enemy, was shot through the heart, within pistol shot of the American troops." Saturday dispatches for Lord CATIICART ) at Pe ' tersburgh, were sent by a Messenger from the Secre tary of State's Ace. They are understood to re late to the vote of Parliament on ,the preceding night. . . On Saturday, the dispatches ty the Charles Graal, Martuir of gig, Perseverance, Marquis &nerd ILerrir, for Bombay anti Chios, asr for St. Miens, Bencoolea, and China, were finally closed at the Eliot Itt4ia Hoosloosl siolisupsit to their respective Rumen, % I. w • , - J _k, --- _._,. , NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. - • DRURY-LANE THEATRE, On Saturday evening, the love-inspiring and heart- I Drat Dec. 20 terdaysthe IVY mphen yes rending Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was repre- • frigate T tented at this Theatre, under some sent circum- s , om o. Fleshing. stances, which render it, in a degree, interesting. . Sailed the Pla n t agene t, f rem Sh eerness , an d t h e s AA all the round of th a t c h equere d species of Creta n , f or th e S c h e ld t. •drillip, which now holds possession of the British Arrived to-day Ms Majesty's ships Cordelia, Bar. WO, there is no play which premises to live longer barn, And Boxer , from a cruize. in the general esteem thanthis. We have used the Sailed La Hogue, for Portsmouth. term chequered species, to denominate the current PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 20.—A rr i ve d yesterdayy Majesty's ship Bermud a , aspect of our drama, as there is no determinate fea his - ture by which they can be not e d, or measure d, In i n from off Cherburgh. other civilized nations ; and this jumble of constis Sailed yesterday his Majesty's ships Derraent and bent lineaments bath arisen from the unrestricted in- . Alert, en a cruize. tlulgence of a wild composition in the infancy of I The Beagle takes convoy for the Downs, iattead our stage, which, like the very gen i us o f our f ree- of the C oun t ess o f El g i n . dontr om, seemed to owe disdain the fetters sort those of a foreigtin; Piestouru, DEC. 19.—Arrive. the Irisard sleep coul, her c- of war from a cru i ze , an d th s Crescent frigate, from tical manacles might have been p resen t e d t o cur b the struggles of the imaginati o n. Th e F renc h stage the eastward. is greatly bound down to the observance of the Sailed the Princess Caroline and I ... envier men of Greek institutes, in the formation of their Tragedy. war, for off Cherburgh ; Prometheus sloop of ear to The Spanish stage (which owes so much to Lenz rats the eastward ; Surprise. frigate, for Cork, to take Vice, who was the Iberian SIIAKSPCAItE) bath a dis tinct character,which is altogethe r national ; and many to the eastwa r d ; I n t e lli gent gun-brig, on a cruise of their most pop u lar Comedie s are b u t S eynetes , or Farces, of a broader compass • nor doth their then. off Sally; and Andromeda slo o p o f war f er Gil.ral trical taste seem m u ch amend e d now, as may be seen tar—she takes out Rear Admiral Liezce to relieve from the following sketch of the Comma Theatre, Commodore Penrose. to which we received from an Officer, who was on the F ALMOUTIJ DEC. 18.—Arrived his Majesly's chip Zephyr, and a frigate, ha v i ng a s i gna l f ur the Ai ed;e spot about three years since :—Then i s a Th ea t re ' at Cornnua, but it is as miserable •an es t a bli s h men t as ever d isgraced the muses since t h e d ays of terranean convoy, supposed •to be his Majesty's ship THESPIS ; it is a dirty, oblong building (the Pot- • Andromeda. tuguese Theatres, for Comedy, art built in the same ; Sailed the Ramilies and Bold, for Cork, to join awkward manner), badly lighted; the price for ad- the West India convoy, said to be destined there pro mission, to the Pit, was a pisturina, Officer en nce, . nous to their final departure; Castilian, on a cruise ; English money. While we (the British) re-1 Pickle schooner, for Guernsey ; Carfare( packet, for ma fed , they had the political civility to represent a spectacle, in which BeN A I , A RTE was introduced in , Corunna; and the Diana packet, fur the West Indies. chains, while FERDINAND VII. was led on in triumph I YARMOUTH, Dec. 19.—0 n Thursday. night about 12 o'clock, the John and Mary, of Hull, Holcroft by Britannia! In the course of the ente r t a i nmen t s they introduced a fandango, in which the gesticu- Master, from Wisbech, bound to London, with lation of the lovers was so much at odds with de cency as to bid defiance to the descriptive pencil; potatoes Ons driven on sh o re at Corton ;--crew for the facetious Mr. Punch, in the full blaze of his laved. pleasantry at Bartholomew Fair, never ventured to This morning early the Bee, of Hull, Hewitt, insult the Grams so much. i Master, hound from Hull to London, with potat oes, The Italian Drama was more purely constructed, • was driven on shore near Yarmouth Pier ;—crew . but not perfect ; and it sometimes embraced religious ' sav ed. topics, which it represented in a way that bordered I s . mewing, Dec. 20.—Arrived the Beaufoy packet upon impiety. Among their best tragedies was La! Pamphila, by Aserosto DI Pteroia, which was first with Mails and passengers from Gotteeburgh, sailed played in 1508. It was fouudcd upon Boccasto's the 16th inst. story of Gismonda and Guiscardo, but the scene is o The Heirkr frigate, with about 20 sail, came oat shifted from Salerno to Thebes ; this author seems to • tnst before her, and were collecting; they meat be have followed the Greek model, by his attempt to now near the laud. preserve the unities, though he departs from it, by dividing his drama into acts, which was not the prac- ' The Auckland packet arrived at Gottenbargh the tice on the Greek. Stage, but invented by the same day the Beaufoy sailed. Romans. ICaptain Wilkinson, of his Majesty's ship Coura. It was in the century, immediately preceding the geux, had detained a guti-hiig for dispatches in can first representation of La Pamphila, that the feast- ; the packet should not be able to proceed immediately. cal event occurred at Verona, upon which our of Romeo and The ice is about as low down as the su g a r -h ouse . SHAKSPEARE bath erected his Play Joliet, as may he • ascertained by a 'reference to Ban-1 dello's Anecdotes; and the history of Verona by (=moister CORTE. But ee are going too far out to sea in our researches, and must retara to Drury-laao Theatre whiCh is the port of our departure. The first object of our attention and attraction on this night was Miss SNIIIII, who personated Juliet ; but though she plays the character altogether better perhaps than any other actress now living, she was, notwithstanding, faulty and unsuitable in several points. In the first place, her person is not precisely of that sort which is required to aid the delusion of the scene in the personification of Juliet, whose beauty " Tian w spun the cheek of night, Like a .it•lt leavel in an Etiss , .p a ear." Not that we are disposed to insist swots the actual necessity of every Lady's being 33 perfect in contour as the Medicean Venus, oho uedertekes to enact' Juliet ; but it is absolutely necessary that she should have au aspect fur the spectator that is young, charm ful, timid, and obedient. Now, wills Mil our respect for Miss Sean, she did not seen, all this. Her eyes were too decidedly expressive to convey the first amorous emotions of an artless virgin, who feels a rising rebellion in her heart which must be alarming to her sensibilities, though it is congenial with na ture. Under such circumstances, if the rosy suffusion of the cheeks, which will arise from feeling the ten derest and dearest chord of the bosom, first vibrat ing with the touch of love's necromantic linger, can not be openly assumed at will, an affectation of its delicate operation should be manifested by the sym pathetic accordance of every lineameut towards the furtherance of such a public supposition. But all this, we will take the liberty of telling this merito rious Lady, cannot be effected by matronly gas. tures, and an indulgence in smiles, which savoured : more of the fond preconceptions of an idiot than the I first symptoms of the heart's overthrow, especially In such a morel and well bred spinster of condition as Juliet is presumed to be. Yet it is pleasing to us, when we are enabled to acknowledge, that Miss SNITS'S excellence in the I fourth and fifth Acts, made us forgot tier inaccuracies in the three former; and if she was not so finely •i natural as we could have wished her to have been,l pending the overtures of her lover, she was emi nently great and illustrious in the sad consequences of her passion. • The Romeo of this evening was Mr. RAI; he per formed several portions of the character with 'due feeling, and certainly gave a truer reading to the part than we hareiseen recently accustomed to hear. 1 He was very animated in the garden and tomb scenic, and was, in toio, infinitely more entitled to the ptau. l dits of the judicious than in either of his anteriar ex ertions at this Theatre. We should notice that this Drama was more l strongly cast than the Tragedies of this place usually are. Putting Mrs. SPARKS in the Neese, Mr. Hot.- VOID in Ressoolio, and Mr. DC CAMP In 7)6014 wu doing rightly : as why should the nobility of 44, scene be evermore consigned to the rit-raf of the establishment ? Mr. R. Putman is not *Rhona Isis claims upon a limited approval, yet the morel Obilos iopby of Friar Lawrence would come• With more int president from Mr. Po weal, and _the head of the Ca p:dots might 'be sustained by any sow witkapt 114 Mead 1- . • Extctrrioss.— This'morning Charles M Palo and Samuel Telling, for murder, of which -they were cenvicted et the Admiralty Sessions, ost Friday list * were, pursuant to their sentences, executed onrsterts. porary platform, erected ori the o-casion, at Exec:l - tion-Dock, in presence of an immense crowd of spectators, who had collected together during the procession of these unhappy creatures from New. - gate, from whence they were taken iu a cart at nine o'clock, in which they were accompanied by the executicher, and were dressed in blue jackets, blue pantaloons, and wore red caps. They were escorted by the Ifigh Pailiff and a number of City o.llcers. I —During their pia session along the v: rious street-, Palm appeared extremely dejected ; hut his frllner sufferer, Telling, was quite the contrary, and kept , continually conversing with their atseudant, the este. entioner. flaring at last arrived at the fatal s pet they were taken from the cart, and were thelateach. ed by two Clergymen, nith whom they remained a short lime in prayer, and the remainder of the Li .13.:C.01y ceretnuny being assigned to the execution:.r, who, with his assistant, readily prepared them fur n.e aw ful moment, they were launched into eternity.— , These wretched men appeared to meet their fate with, out much stuggle ; their bodies, after having been suspended the usual time, were cut down, aud de livered over for dissection. John Bruce, who was to have suffered fur a simi lar offence on the person of James Donne, in the harbour of Milford Haven, has been respites! for 14 days. ,In a late sale of curiosities at Paris, a r•stie, sail to have belonged to Voltaire, was knocked does' at 1650 francs. It came into the family of M. Chu in the following manner :—Voltaire, in his last journey to Paris, was taken very ill , when a Monk insisted upon seeing and attempting to convert him. The Irascible poet, enraged at the officious zeal of this importunate visiter, said to M.& Clos, " Take ray cane and drive this fellow from my sight ;" M. cle 4 vas preparing to execute the orders of his friend, when the Monk took the alarm, and hastily re tired. M. Clos retained possession of the cane, and bequeathed it to his family, for whose benefit it was sold. The Lacedernonian frigate (of a large class) will be launched at Portsmouth Dock-yard this morning. CORN EXCify,!:cv,,./),,c.21 ....„,„..,-..,t. Dec.2l. 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