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tiller?; Vent. Me Donal, ditto; Lieut-Colnnel Tack, 71st Segisnebt ; Lieut. Murray, ditto; Resign Camel, ditte ; Braun Luca., ditto Once dead.) (Signed) ALES. FORBES, B. Major. Statement of P,pert!. raptured at RUOIIOI Ayres, but not removed; and re-cantuted on the 12th of August. Dollars. Goods of Use Philippine Company . . 1041,000 De.ds duo to di•to . 1,011.O4? . . duen Aran B Tobacco (at 6 dollars.) 24,0e0 sold foe 14 i 260 ditto Party ditto . moon . . 1i , J,400 Reims Pa,er (2 dollars) . . 100,000 1 laying Cards . 5 ~ , • CM SOU() Q•lll3tAlt of Quicksilver (40 dollars) . 209,0u0 40,u00.64 Spanish Sone (4 dollars) . 8 ,000 20,0901 b.. Hiyannali ditto (2 dollars) . 40,0. q.) 37040 lb* Bark (II dollar) .513,2',/ 1,67,J,7v7 Vowels and Floating Property . 1,500,000 3,173,797 New --.14:0 sa'uation is made in this statement of the Tim ber, , osre in T.. amt.% , oi the MJgasiote, and of Armoury And r hd,ian.c Stencil Many unnecessary cruelties, we fear, have been eomMtted, which we know not how to recon , tle to the Spanish character. The Spaniards, it is said, were induced to believe, from the number of their wounded soldiers who dird under their own care, that our bullets had been p isoned ; but this err°• neons notion attervards yielded to the circumstance of the recovery of many of them in the English FOREIGN INTI:L' Ii:ENCE. VD RRRRR EXTRACTS FROM THE FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. FORTY-SEVENIII BULLETIN. " PU L II The affair of Czarnowo, that of Nasielsk and Kursomb, that of the cavalry and Lapocayn, have been followed by that of Pultusk, and by the com plete and precipitate retreat of the Russian army, which has finished the present year's campaign. .. Marshal Lannes first arrived on the morning of the 26th, direBly opposite to Pultusk, where, during the night, the whole of General Bei.ningsen's corps had assembled The Russian division, which had been defeated at Nisre'ak. had arrived about two in the morning at the camp at Pultusk, with the thir.l division of Marshal D•visua's corps in close pursuit of them. At ten n'elock, Marshal Lisnnes began the attack, having hi' fiat line comprised of the divi sion of Suchet, the second of Claes , 's, and that of Oudin, of the third light corps urder tire command of General Guttane, on his left wing The engage men was obstinate; after various occurrences, the enemy was completely routed. The 17th regiment oftel h ittit infordry, and the 34th, covered themselves with glory. Generals Veered and Claperede sere wounded Gt n. ral Tredbard, Commandant of the light cavalry ; General Bouslard, C immandast of a brig sde of dragoons, under Gene. al Becker ; and silt , . Colonel Barthelemy, of the 15. h dragoons, we-e wounded with grape shot. V isin, Aid-de- Camp to Marshal Lannes ; and M. Canal, and-de- Camp to General Suchet, were killed, and both have fallen with glory. Marshal Lanncs 'as like. wise glazed by • ball. The firth corps of the army gave a proof of every thing that could he expected ft fir the superiority of the French infantry over that clothes nariong. Marshal Lames, although be bin been for six days indisposed, persisted in follow ing his corps. The 8i;t11 regiment sustained several eh.vgrs of the en, my's cavalry- with great coolness and success. Du: mg the night the enemy beat a retreat, and reached Ostrolenka. While General Benningsen's corps was beaten at Pethusk, that of General Euxbowden assembled at Golymin about noon. The division of P atio s belonging to this corps, whi , h had been attacked the evening before by the Grand Duke of Berg, a nd another disision already beaten at Nasidsk, ar rived by different routes at the camp of Golymin. Marshal Davoust, who pursued the enemy from Nasiehk, came up with them, charged them, and took possession of a wood near the camp of Go-i lyrain. At the same time, General Augereau ar riving from Golazyma, took the enemy is flank. The General of Brigade Lapisw, with the 16th light infantry. cam, d with the bayonet a village, which served for a piint of support of the enemy The division of Heridelet f , rn,ed in line, and advanc.il against tire enemy, at three o'clock in the afternoon: the fire was CXITTMCIy hot. The Grand Duke if Borg made several successful charges, in which Kletn's division of dragoons dig. tiagui-hed themselves. Night coming on too soon, the battle continued till eleven o'clock, when the enemy retreated in disorder, leaving behind his ar tillery, his baggage, almost all his knapsacks, and a number of dead. Ail the ememy's columns re treated towards Otrnletika. General Feneroilles, Commandant of a brigade of dr igwris, was by a musket-shot. The intrepid General Rapp, the Emperor's Aide.de-c.imp, was wounded by a musket-shot at the head of Lis division of dragoons. Col. Semele, of the brave 24th it - Rini' at of the line, was svnonded. Marshal Augereau had a horse shot under hi:n. .. In the mean time, Marshal Souk with his corps bed arrived at Maud, two miles from Matzoh; but die horrible sloughs, the consequences of rain and thaw, arrested his march, and saved the Russian army, of which not a man would have otherwise es caped. The destinies of the army of General Ben ningsen end that of Buahowden, seemed as if they would have been completed on this side the little nine. d'Orege ; bat every plan was thwared by the effee of the titan-, and that to such a degree, that the artißery could ant move more than three leagues in two days. The Russian army lest tO piec os of cannon, all its ammunition waggons, more than 1100 baggage -cart., and 12,00X1 men in killed, wounded, and prisoners. The movements of the French and Russian columns will furnish a suhJe* of real curiosity for military men, sv , :en traced upon a map. They will then see that the whole Russian army was on the point of being annihilated in the course of a few days, and that in consequence of a single orersiglit in the Russian General. •' We have lost 800 men killed, and eOOO vorrutides!. Masters of the greatest part of the Rus sian artillery, of all its positions, and having re plied the enemy near 40 leagues, the Emperor has ord , Ted the army into winter quarters. Before this ezpedmen, the Russian Officers say they had PO.Otpu wen, now they say they bad but bait that Umbel. I. t i Which is to be believed, the Raisin Officers before; or the Russian Officers slier the battle " Persia and the Porte hare declared war against Russia. Michelson attacks the Porte. hAte two great empires, neighbours to the Russians, are kept in continual anxiety by the fallacious policy of the Cabinet of St. Petersburgli, which, for ten years past, has ailed by them in the same manner as it con duffed itself for fifty yea's, with respea to Poland. " M. Pulip Seger, Camp Marshal to the Empe ror, on his way to 'Vasjekk, tell into an ambuscade of Cossacks, placed in a wooden house behind th place. He killed two of them with his own hands, but was made prisoner. The Emperor claimed him immediately, hut the Russian General had Al ready sent him off to St. Petersburgli." Gl.NhitA!, Dor Lt.'s SPEECH. An ispelfcct Account hiving Appearel of the eloquent and very interenang Speech delivered by Levitt -Gen. Sir John D•tyle u? the Question of the Aim, Estimates, on Friday la•t, induces us to tiviert the following corrected Copy. Siirt admit that it would be much more con venient 5.' agree to the adjourionent proposed by the Hon. Member (alluding to Mr. Rose), though it certainly does not c me with the best grace from this side of the House (the General spoke from the Opposition bench), for, in their long calculations, they forgot to calcilate time (A loud laugh). Be fore I ooserve upon what has fallen in the course of this discussion, I w sh, Sir, to account fur my ad dressing you from this side of the House, differing so materially as I do upon this suOjeft from the Gentlemen who usually sit here. I have not, in truth, come into their camp to spy the nakedness of the land ; but speak from this side for reasons, perhaps, similar to those of some of my oeighbours, because we cannot getl_guod places at the other side— (l bra created a :corral horst of laughter throes both Me House.) I perteely couctir with my lion. Friend who sp tkis last (Sir James Pulteney), that we ought to have an augmented, a well-organised, and well disci plired army—that we should allow no relaxation of our efforts to °horn that desirable object; because I feel that the perils which tail for that army are by no means abated—that although danger is at a dis tance, it is not at an end. But yet I differ must materially from my Hon. Frieed as to the means of providing the army we require. I differ from him, par titularly, as to his opinion leveeing the Addi tional Force Al. that A6l appeals to me to have done almost every thing hut what it professed to have in view. When it was :alive, it was mischiev ous ; when it was inasive only, it was tolerable. ' Alter IR months trial it was found defellive, but I then Ministers' were just going to mend it. 1 his puts me in mind of one of our poets, who was very deformed, and who was in the habit of exclaiming " God mold me," and having once uttered it be fore a country clown—" Mend thee !" quoth Hodge, it would be easier to make a &lien new ones, than mend such an ill-formed one as thou art."— So may be said of this ad (of book./ The time they proposed for the Amendment, reminds me of the story of a certain priest's maid, who, when found fault with for having omitted to do any thing, her constant reply was, " 1 was just going to do it ;" the priest, to try how far she would carry her excuse, asked her why she had not washed his hooks and pope's ? " Lord, Sir," replied she, " I was just going to do it."—/ if loud laugh).—ln this they (the late Ministers) seemed to have resembled the Duke of Wharton's puppies, who never opened their eyes till they were in the all of drowning. The Parish Bill was to aid the ordinary recruiting ; but in this it followed the French example, and began by cutting off the resotirces of its new ally ; whereas the plan of the Right Hon. Secretary is calculated to produce a gond regular income, without racking the tenantry. It appears from the statement of the Noble Lord (1 lowick) that since it has begun to operate, it has produced more men, for a similar period, than the Parish Bill and ordinary recruit ing put together, even without including the enlist. ments at head-quarters, and the dttscrtions consi derably diminished ; and here 1 must say, that the Right Hon. Secretary has not treated his measure so well as the measure has treated him, by having lost sn much time in carrying it into effeel. I will not follow the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) in his in finite ,et ies of diverging calculation, wl.ich rapidly accumulating in its progress, was to overwhelm the country with the expence of providing for its brave and worn-out defenders A calculation that would deprive the veteran of a chance of spending, in calm repose, the evening of that day he had dedi cated to the service of his country, and bring " his grey hairs with sorrow to the grave." A calcula tion which stooped to visit the truckle-bed of info.. mity. in Chelsea and Kilnoainhani Hospitals. A cal.ulation which wanted n , thing but just data to stand upon ; thereby following the mode of demon stration ascribed by Mr. Locke to a certain class of unhappy people, who always reason right from wrong principles —(A load laugh ).—1 am perfealy willing to pay every tribute to the eloquence of the Noble L. rd, and his Right lion. Friend. I can not, how. ver, but deeply lament, that it should, at such a moment, he employed in obstrubing that unanimity so essential to the interests of the coun try, and which Gentlemen themselves profess to Lave so much at heart—for surely there never was a period in the annals of our history, when unanimity was so imperiou.ly demanded: for a nation, no more than " a hou,e divided against itself, can long stand." But I am not so romantic as to suppose that political hostility shalt be for ever buried in oblivion. I lend only hoped it would have been allowed to sleep, till the great obje3 of rational security was petrel and complete. I am aware, Sir, that in a free country like this, an opposition is a wholesome check upon Ministers—if so, the gigot er the talents in apposition, the more effeflual the check. Now, as every man must admit the pre sent Opposition to possess great talents, it follows, a, a natural corollary, that the longer the present Gentlemen iemaiti in that state, the better for their country—/ .l lough).— But, to give them greater weight, I would humbly recommend they should adept the words, us they have done the arguments, of M. Talieyrand, and make them serve as a pree n:inns to their speeches against the Treasury Beech —" ltloast tie roes detnaadorm rite," in plain English —it %Vesta for nothing that you possess" (A laugh). The Noble Lord alluded to the Negotiation, starch I am the snore surprised at. after the unanimous vote of the House, aperoving of the measures that had • been taken to uphold the charafter of the country in that transafticto Ihe proposition originated with France—the Negtsciation tom:wooed ender aos pices the most propititots. At the head of the Foreign Department was that Minister whose loss the nation sn jtotty deplores—a 111A11 who, amid the endow ments of a mighty mi•ol, was peculiarly gifted woh those qualities which fitted him for Negotiation in difficult times. To a vast, comprehensive, arid cul tivated understanding, h • joined the most intimate knowledge of the vari ars interests of Europe, a suavity of manner, and • spoil of conciliation, which engaged Foreign Ministers to treat. while his probity and known honour irsur .d the con fidence of their Masters. Des old of guile, he had nothing equivocal in his condua—nothing a m'oiguous in his language. He moved straight onward to his ohj-11, without turning aside into the winding ways of crooked policy or left-handed wisdom. There was nothing counterfeit in hitno-his affability Rowed from the heart--his natural greatness required sot the aid of aoumed arrogance to give him conse quence ; he was too great to be hty, ten wise to be cunning. He was one of th ew statesmen who knew the value of that adage, which, though homely, is tole in politics as in morals, that " honesty is the best policy." Far be it from me to attempt his praise ; it would require powers gigantic as his own to do him justice. --Were he living I should be silent. I never received favours at his hand. I leave it to those who have. to treat his memory lightly. 1 speak of him as a man who loves his country must do, is hilst deploring its brightest ornament.— (Hear ! hear!/ If Mr. For were qualified for negotiation in gene ral, circumstances rendered him peculiarly so for that with France. His charatter stood high on the Continent, as at home ; and a former acquaintance with the Prime Minister of France, gave a facility in his Case, that would not have applied to other Ministers, however capable. Thus com menced the negotiation ; in its whole pro gress, it was condo Red, on the part of England, in the true spirit of peace, and with a sincerity which has always charaaerised this country. Its rupture was occasioned by the duplicity of a GOTernfilent, whose fidelity to its engagements is measured by no other standard than that of its own immediate in- terest. If Gentlemen were serious in their profes sions of unanimity, here was a favourable oppor tunity to display it ; for it was not a question of party, but one between France and England, to be tried at the tribunal of the Nations of the World ; and it was essential to the eharsater of the coun try, that its good faith should stand contrasted to public view, with the chicane and subtilry of its wily opponent.—But to serum to the plan of the Right Honourable Secretary—lt has been remarked, that this measure of limiting the term of service, would have no erre& upon the minds of soldiers, or those likely to become so. —Now, I have in my hind, Sir, two papers that will show the futility of an observation so opposite to common reason. The one is the return of a bat talion of reserved men, in which, for the six months previous to the new measure, 147 men engaged for general service, while 994 engaged in the six months subsequent to his measure. The other is a still stronger case, for seven months prior to this change, only one man, out of a battalion of 400 men, extended his services ; but in the month when the Right Honourable Secretary's plan was explained to the battalion, 264 immedi ately turned out ; thus polling, as it were by accla mation, for his measure (Hear ! hear!) These were good men, fit to be soldiers, capable of a military life, and not such as were received into the at my, un der the Parish Bill; for the recruits obtained under the Right Hon. Secretary's measure are not only superior in quantity;but better in quality, than those furnished by that notable Bill. 'there has been a great difference in the desertions also, as a Right Honourable Gentleman has observed. But per haps it is not quite correCl to set down as de serters al! those who received bounty under the Parish Bill, and were never heard of more—for such fellows never joined, or meant to join any corps, and therefore could not striftly be called deserters, but robbers; and I am not sure that it would be quite incorre& to consider those as ac complices who held out such temptations to them. A great part of those, whom this Bill colleded, were, in fail*, unfit for service; even where they were honest enough to chew a disposition to serve. How many of them have 1 seen, each bring a wife and six children. The old adage says, that it requires nine tailors to make a man, but nineteen of the fellows I have al luded to would not make a soldier. They were really for the most part such as Falstaff would be ashamed to march with through Coventry. You would in fart imagine that they were raised by a general gaol delivery of the Nation, and a discharge of all the parish workhouses. It was, in short, taking a heavy load off the parishes, and transferring it to the army. The force which is entitled to our confidence, must have the habit, the shape, the charafter, the soul of an army. I lay it down as a proposition, as incontrovertible as any theorem in Euclid, that whatever weapon the enemy assails you with, he must be met by one of equal efficiency. If the enemy were to invade you with the Trained Bands of Paris, I should be eon tent to meet him with the Trained Bands of Lon don. But as he will come, if he can, with a regular disciplined army, inflated on the one hand by re cent vietories on the Continent, and impel:3 on the other by the prosprAive plunder of this country, he must, therefore, he met by a regular disciplined army, prepared to conquer or to die. But by this allusion, although it naturally indikes a reference t the Volunteers, I would, by no me an -, b e un d er • stood to speak lightly of that meritotious body. I admired, as much as any man, that brilliant effu sion of national spirit and valour, which burst forth so nobly in the hour of danger ; and, I have no doubt, that the manifestation of that spirit had a very powerful impression on the enemy. It is not, however, inconsistent with the eespeCt and regard which I always entertained for those gallant men, to express my disapprobation of the system under which they were originally organised and trained. A great deal of unnecessary iiistruelion and inap propriate discipline was, at the outset, attempted to be communicated to them. It did happen to me in America to meet with a circumstance lions which I derived much useful information on this brad. About IA recruits were seat out to the regiment of which ; • I was Mliont ; I immesSatoly pro m , them taught, * Weed! M amen, eyes to th nut, dm But I was Isom:toed in r the Major, who was a very sensible, and who told me, that, " I beg, end." I aconolingly changes! ranght my men to manage , ti.e fire) the Major's advice. who thougf.t it particularly when time pressed, that. learn to fire at the enemy, and this 4 ., wise, for in three weeks after they arrived, cruits had to meet the enemy.—Now the ought to have been so instructed. for the enemy was almost daily repeats.' . time that a kind of discipline was commenced, they could not learn for montho, unnecessary even if they could. They tremely useful :IS ouxiliaries to our army landed. particularly from the name et and their local knowledge, were they as light troops ; in which case o the f of the individual, and his parrieti have fair play. Be.ides, it is the which we are the most deficieut peculiarly applicable to an inclosed perhaps I ought to apologise for speakini upon a military subject, because On-- military, speak must leuruedly upon in other cases, men seek to know well as theory of a subj tf, be fore a ivise upon it, at least it is but nat should inquire, whether they hat ledge, before their advice is taken. conclude men to have some kuowledt profession in the ordinary concerns don't send our watch to be mended by unless, indeed, we inverted Horace's nit Sapient est Solos;" but even in further diredions should be obsero ultra crepitlont." ( Hear! hear proceed farther upon this topic at present, opportunities will occur for discussing now let me implore Gentlemen to the eyes, not only of this Country, 1 and of the whole civilized world, fixed upon the proceedings of the British Semi; and let it not be said. that the Imperial Parham-so forgetting the great objetas of its dignified chatoo ter, shall occupy itself with the little disputes tI party politics, contending how to get this mu or to get that man cut of the Government, iosteao of employing all its engines to Letg owe the atca enemy of all legitimate GJvernments. We are en. gaged in no ordinary warfare. We contend wita no common enemy, unless, indeed the eormaro eoenty of mankind. Ile has stvcrn vengeance. Your sins are of a nature he cannot forgive. lee are loyal, content, and tree; you aggravate these crimes, you resolve to continue free. Your punido went would be extirpation. Ile comes not tor coo quest only, neither would pillage satiate his wrath. Desolation and destruction are his objeCts—the Deleado Cartiego he applies to you. The existence of all you hold dear is at stake—property, kleent. and life. Be but unanimous—banish potty churn sions—let every hand and heart b• joined in the common cause. Be but vigilant—let him advance —he will he met by fieenaeu, determined to lose their liberties but with their lives."--( liver /seer .' hoar!) IN7'ELLIGENCE. TORBAY, JAN. ft. On Thursday last, it blew a tremendous pie of wind, but I am happy to say, that the men of war in Torbay, all rode it out, without sustaining the least injnry. A merchant vessel parted her cob;cs and drove out to sea; she returned to this post ycs terday, without damage. Sailed yesterday, the Mars 74:guns, for Plymouth s and the Nary-isless frigate, on a cruise off Brest. This day the w lad got round to the Northward and Eastward. Vice-Admiral Sir Chailea Cotton proceeded to sea s to resume his station off Usham s with the following ships under his command : Sate Prince of Ilfalet, Bari/cu► s Princess 14 , 44 Leedom, Giiraltar, Bsileroy.kon, Csavearse s Rose, and Ckassetion. i • 1 rneee.leil to l+na to the rigl.t, t‘ a , in ray t, ir.telligerat L'l4l: :An 41 the w , ; 111 : my comae, ir r ,l relock. This w ssi It must nec..1 521 , , it the 114e0 0 1 (, 0 ' this proved to t o arriveJ, these et. ow the vokuise t y, 3 or the idcasiis k o 'fled at the -fir unimenee.i,wh it i it and ishich u s; 'hey would be rmy, it the cam-7 le et ti,.. Lttint:A . , ey merely phys:, qic spirit, 1 le spvcics in, and „ ed country. :, sss 1 ;peaking it,initici hose v.ho crc Olt on it. Altiirmp!,, v the praate.rs .e they ve nture mural that others •I ave that 1. We getu.s.lr edge of their or rns of life. lN e by a shoemaker ; 1 e's rule tit in that ease, his rced, a jv c saw But 1 will ux present, as other tossing it. Ail 3 to lecolla4sl, that , but of harem I._ are 21111.02/yir CORN EXCKAAGE. JAY. 26. The fresh impure of Wheat to slay are ver: considerable, and the sales in this trade Luntintie heavily eBeaed s whidt causes a further reductare in prises of 3s. and 44. pee quarter, on sa.nples n( second said ordinary qualseles.—• There are again large arrivals ul hark y, winch further deCli...l in price, excepting prime samples. Malt Wreaker. Wants Pea. ats Grey at ien. Sean., arl S/Ch lord, Ma plenty, Sal go off heavily. Oce u. tolershle supplies, ead vary but little in price. Flour is as. per sack lower thea she late general paces CURRENT PRJCE or GRAIN. Wheat 50, 78s. Beans. 42. 41t. 01. Fine 40 801 A 4.. Od. Tick Heals .....34. 40. U . Rye 4Cs 445. GC Oats ..Vds 26. Sda. Baxley 3'ss. 41s 04. P.4a,ids 31.. 3as 6'. 1414 665. 745.04. Vino 241. 111 e.. White P05....64c Ills. 0.1: VW. 1.0.ir 7us. erre Pos. 414 48. . Dd. . PRICE OF S rocKs, YESTERDAY. II put Cent. Reduced 60:ia 4: per Cent. 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