The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-01-04 00:00:00

Considering notwithstanding what he has dole ; i n ce his surprise to bring back the remains of the tao battalions and save the eagles ; considering likew ise that the light cavalry had not established a Card to discover the defile by Which the enemy 'penetrated, I have thought that waiting further in gructions from your Excellency, to confine myself to lepriving him of his command and sending him to Cardonne, where he will remain unemployed till's' e r% disposition. I have directed the General of e:vision, BARROIS, to join the 7th corps and replace ki in . Gen. Count FALLON proposed to me to reduce to two battalions the 34th and 40th Regiments of the Line. This measure appears to me useful for the good of t h e s ervice, in consideration of the actual force of these two regiments. I am going to order it, sad win send the result to your Excellency.. I have re (rived letters from Phillippon, General of Badajoz, dated Oct. 1. He gives me a satisfactory account of his situation. A considerable convoy which I sent i ron Seville has arrive d at Bada j oz. I am, &c. (sirwd) Marshal DUKE OF DALMATIA. gtPOll/ FROM GENTER AL COUNT D'ERLON TO TEE MAR.. SIIAL DUKE OF DALMATIA. " I yesterday received GIRAnD'S report. I send! the original to your Excellency by an Aid-de-Camp of that General Officer, in order that you may question him upon what happened. There was Oroughout a reprehensible security, but tise honour of the French arms has been saved by the firmness and valour of the Generals Gln %RD and DEvtuaovs b at , and this affair, which might have been attended with fatal, even dishonourable consequences, ought sow to be ranked in the number of those occurrences which are not unfreqnent in war. General GIRARD has brought back with him 800 men ; he had 1300. I have drawn from Badajoz the battalion of the 40th; this battalion will join its regiment, and be replaced by one of the 88th. I will form the 40th and 34th in two battalions, in order to give these two Tee rents the organization which belongs to their actual and the number of officers which remain. liambquarters Almendtalego, Nov. 4, 1811. LTTIES IROH GRN. GIRARD TO THZ DORE OT DAL sIATIA, MARSHAL. " The Count IYEaLoN directed my Aid-de-C.esnp to deliver to your Excellency the report of the battle of Arroyo de Molinos. Your Excellency will see that I was in march; that I could have retired, and avoided fighting with my rear-guard; but the cavalry bad compromised themselves, and it would have been requisite to have abandoned them. " The enemy vas numerous I considered ; but Actuated by the honour of the arms of his MAJESTY, and the duty of a devoted soldier, I marched upon the rosii , h, and by drawing upon myself all the forces of the enemy, ciisengaged the light cavalry. We have Alloyed sensible losses, but disengaged ourselves with honour from the most difficult position. Three time, surrounded, three times we opened ourselves a pas sage with the bayonet. Marshal, I shall be in despair if the results of this unfortunate affair should take me forfeit the confidence of his MAJESTY. I !twit it by the sentiments which directed me, by those v‘hith animate me. (Signed) " GI RARD." (.llonitein*, bee. 25.) Weft Or OItIEZIAL BIZARR TO OENERAL COUNT VEILL011 ) 11161LMANDER OF THE FIFTH C 011 3 ,. " RIBERA, Nov. 2. " MY CEARAL,—I send my Aid-de-Camp to you with the details of the battle Arroyo de Molinos. On my departure from Caceres some vague reports, hat nithopt foundation, announced a movement of the English. I quitted that position to come and pasi the night at Torn Moyha; and on the 2:7th at Arroyo de Molinos. Durinf these two days no de mouslration gave reason to believe in the march of Eli enemy's corps. Ivras to pro-eed on the 2Stli to .Merida. Gen. Rxmownhad orders to repair to Medel lin. The troops assembled at six o'clock, and im mediately began their march. The rear guard put itself in motion at half after seven, when shouts and dicharges of muskets announced that the troops of the enemy had entered the town, *hid) was only occu pied by the patroles of the rear-guard. I then hastened thither; General DEHOILOUSLI was forming in co- Lam the troops of the rear-guard, and ordered the second battalion of the 34th, commanded by M. Mouru..turt, to check the English tiralleurs, who began to dehoeche from, and to disengage the light cavalry which was in front of the village, and which I supposed bad alreadyingaged. I knew the force of the enemy, but I would not abandon the cavalry. I made a movement forward. The English columns then wavered and advanced upon me. I had not more ':tat 1500 men under my command ; they resisted 'heir first shock and repulsed the charges of the ca ralry, but the enemy made at the same time a great movement on my left, and manoeuvred to surround P. The road of Merida was already intersected, and my - equipages taken. Our cavalry did not shew itself. I gave orders for a retreat. The English '`ten threw themselves by their right in my rear. I was surrounded. The enemy's General summoned rne to surrender. I pierced through with the bayonet, and we slowly male our retrograde movement. By an aoheard.of fatality, our artillery did not follow me; the rain had extinguished the matches, while the artillery of the enemy played on our battalions, 41 " I I lost a great number of men. I then saw that it wa s impossible for me longer to keep the plain, not I . THE STATESMAN. tieing stippOtted by the catalry: Y resolved to re; treat by the mountains ; but I vtas obliged to aban don my three pieces of artillery. I ordered a move ment to the right, and threw myself on the heights Which range towards Montauches. The enemy pu \ r: l imed me briskly; and I every moment stopped to re pulse his attacks. My flanks were, in like measure, assailed, my march being impeded by these attacks. I had been anticipated on the passage of Montauches, which position I caused to be carried. Leaving Mon tauches on my left, I followed the mountains which range upon Sarza. The enemy already occupied this defile. Gen DEMBROUSKI rallied the troops : I threw myself into the plain, and charged with the bayonet the enemy who attempted to stop me. A second flag of truce came to General DEMBROUSKI and myself, but was sent back with the same contempt as before. I continued my retreat in the plain, without ceasing to engage the enemy till I reached the height of Ibahernando, where I took up a position, and the enemy ceased his attack. I stopped some hours at Ibaheruando. I afterwards proceeded to Zovita, thence to Naval, Villar, and Orelland, where I passed the Guadia. I lost a number of men in the long combats in which I was engaged, during a great part of the day with a superior force. The enemy had more than 7000 infantry. I set at li berty, in one charge, a great number of prisoners taken in the mountains. General DEMBROUSKI dis played great firmness of 'character ; he conducted the troops with equal bravery and coolness. His beha viour merits a grateful reward. The Officers G c ILLOT, VEETAN, MORVELLAND, and \TOMO!" gave proof of valour. My chief of the staff, 11. ANDRY, hits been made prisoner ; this is a loss which will be severely felt. M. M. VEETre and VOIR IT are wounded, and in the power of the enemy. Gen. DEMBROUSILI has lost every thing ; his noble conduct and bravery merit a recompense. I solicit for him advancement in the Legion of Honour. (Signed) " Gen. GIRARD." " LEGHORN, DEC. 19. " A dreadful tempest was experienced last Tues day night upon our coasts. The resets which were in port have suffered considerably ; some have been shipwrecked. 'We continue to receive afflicting de tails respecting the consequences of this storm." — (Journal de Paris, Jan. 1.) The Moniteur of the 25th The. contains the Re port of General JANENS, Governor-General of Ba tavia, to the Minister of Marine, dated Tzikapen deng, upon the road of Cherihon, dated Aug. 29,1 giving an account of his unsuccessful resistance against the English, and his operations from the 4th to the 26th Aug. inclusive, and concludes as follows : V. persuaded, Monseigneur, that I will maintain myself in the island as long as possible; but, I must not conceal from your Excellency, that it cannot be expeeted that the Indians wiH long resist regular European troops. The army is alma() consider ' ably weakened by disease ; I never was able to have more than 8000 troops under arms, almost all • Javanese. Cabil Yesterday, at h:slf-past ti;o o'clock, a net Council was held at the Foreign Office, and was at tended by all the Cabinet Ministers iu town : they continued sitting until six o'clock. The PRINCE REGENT will hold a Council on Mon day next, when the Address of his Royal Highness, with which the Session of Parliament is to be open ed on the following day, will, in its perfect form, be submitted for his final approbation. In consequence of the late Brevet Promotion, Lord CHATHAM, Lord CATUCARX, and Generals Vese, T. DUN nati, and FLovn, are put off the Staff. It is understood to be finally settled, that Sir JOHN llore is to be Commander in Chief in Ireland, in place of Lord HA itatseToe, and Lord flutsrmee is spoken of as successor to Lord CtTIICART, in the command of the Forces in Scotland. Mr. CorAtatt, wAI died recently abroad, though only Serjeant at Arms in the House of Commons, was a Brigadier-General in arms in Portugal. He succeeded to his Parliamentary office on the resigna tion of his father, who is still living. The place is n cork 2,0001. per annum : it is in the gift of the &EARLS of the House of CostmoN9. Mr. CLEMEN sow, Deputy Serjeant, is expected to succeed to this valuable appointment. SUICIDE.—Oa Tuesday evening, a man of the name of Battell, who long had been in the service of Mr. Trew, brewer, South-street, Chichester, hung himself in his apartments on the Broyle-road, near that place. He was a man of peaceable habits, and had realized some property. He had been indisposed for a few days, and had been let blood in the morn ing. The fillet from his arm was the means with which he effected his dissolution. A few days ago a child belonging to a bargessasf, Arundel, incautiously took from the table a teapot that had just been filled with boiling water and drank frotn the spout. It died the following morning. rA melancholy catastrophe happened on the even ing of Christmas-day. As Lieut. Damereque, of his Majesty's sloop Hawke, with seven seamen, were returning to their ship off the mouth of Southampton river, after spending the day with their friends, the boil. was unfortunately owerset between Weston, and Netley, while they were stepping : the roast.— ' The Lieutenant and two men swam to the shot* but could not make a landing owing to the vitit+ so returned to the boat, where they peeljed with the cold, being found dead in the fore *MOW Four men were instantly drowned, and pickeVeis the. next day ; one only escaped by swimming to dui; shore and clinging to some bushes ; he was disco- ' vered by a fisherman, almost speechless, but soeill recovered to tell the sad tale of his officer and com panions' fate. The six men were interred at Pee.. tree chapel on Sunday last, with great aeletatkity. Several depredations have been cosamitted in tists neighbourhood of Chichester, since our last; d - tion, we regret to state, has followed bat its few its: stances. s - . . AIR; CHARLES KEMELE: THB EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN: - Slii,--Having this morning had two paragraphs poi.t ted out to me, in your Papers of December 31 and the following day, which, if uncontradicted, ate calculated to injure both Mrs. C. Kemble and myself very much in the Public. oplitioU, f beg leave to ac quaint you, that the InfOtthation which they contain is utterly false; and I libpd that you Will allow me, through the medium of vour valuable Paper, to warn their author, that if be does not desist from his b4e and cowardly attacks, I shall, though most unwil; lingly be compelled, in self defence, t o publish the WHOL E correspondence between Mr. Harris, sen. and myself, with a brief statement of the treatment which Mrs. C. Kemble and I have experienced from that Gentleman since, we have been engaged in Co vent Garden Theatre; or resort to such legal mea sures as will effectually protect our characters froth the assaults of anonymous calumny. 1 am, Sir, with great respect, • Your very obedient servant, Westbourn Greta, Jan. 4 CHARLES KEMBLE. A most audacious attempt m rob the house of Mr. Thomas, grocer, at the coiner of Portman-street, Oxford-street, was made on Thursday evening, and that, too, attended with the violence of tbemost abandoned ruffian. The servant-maid was spreading bread and butter for tea, about six o'clock, when a ruffian-like fellow opened the back-yard door, and walked forth into the kitchen. The servant, shocked at the moment, asitedabe fellow hastily in a loud tone his .busiriess, when he struck her twice with a bludgeon he bold id his hand, and charged her to keep silence, or he would murder her. The servautanaid then made a thrust at him with the knife she held in her baud, and he felled her to the ground, where she lay speechless, and was found in that state by another snvant. Oh coming to her reason, she related what had happened, and the knife was found in the area, covered with blood to an inch and a half from the end, which must have entered the villain's breast, and which was got out in esefiping over the rails. A rope was also found suspended from one of the rails, by which the thief let himself doss a, as there is no area eat", or any other communication that way into the street. Mr. Thomas immedi ately gave infunnation of a bat had liar . aned at Marlborough- I sheet Police office, but no tidings has yet been had of the odbader. Stacina.—Mr. J. Pearson, Secretary of the Lottery Office, Somerset-house, about five o'clock last evening, put an end to hisexistenee, by shooting himself with a pistol through his body, I at his apartment's ia that public building. The report cf the I pistol alarmed ha; servants, who, on entering the office, found him weltering in :tit blued. Application was immediately made 'to Mr. Stanton, is the Strand, who, on his atrival, (mind Mr. Pearson quite dead. In addition to his office, Mr. Pearson held a coal-wharf at the bottom of Water-lane. lie was about 60 years of age, and remarkable for a large wen upon his neck, the I pain or debility produced by Shish, may prole , bly have -eased this rash act. He was a man much respected, and has left a family. On Monday last, about five o'clock in the afternoon, a villain, ' labia five feet eight inches high, black coat and w aistcoat, blue worsted striped pantaloons, aad Hessian bouts, with a gair of white horse soldier's gloves on, and a black crape over his face, with a horse-pistol in one hand, and a broad-sword stick in the other, entered the chambers of Mr. Holship, solicitor, la, Cle ment's Inn, when he immediately forced the mouth of the pistol against the head of a youth about 13 years of age (being at this time the only person iii the chamber's), and threatened, in case be gave the least alarm, that he would immediately blow out !rains;flit he then compelled him to sit down in a chair, which be placed in a particular part of the room (turning the youth's face Dom the villain), when, after tying his hands behind him, he bound ban securely to the chair. After be had done so, lie proceeded to examine Mr. 11.'s desk for notes and cash ; at this moment a person, in the chambers over Mr. 11.'s, in rcmos ing a bax, made a considerable noise, and immediately walked a quick pace across the room ; this, it is supposed, alarmed the villain, ns he made a precipitate retreat without taking any thing of material value. Ills Royal Highness the Ddke of Sessex has been appointed Deputy Grand Master bf the Fraternity of Masons, of which the naves REGENT is Grand Master. The honour became vacant by the death of Sir PETER PARKER. Two beggars, one apparently blind, and the other having lost the use of his arias, were sent to the notice of Correction at Be verley. When taken by the constables, the blind man imme diately recovered his sight, and endeavoured to make his escape; and the man without t 4,4 e of his arms, made such use of them as to knock down two of the constabi's. By the investigation which has taken place, it has been found that many certificates of servitude, Which entitle seamen to be received into Greenwich Hospital, have been improperly filled up, and in some instances the name of the Chief Clerk of the Ticket Office were forged. All the Greenwich Pensioners lately passed, are ordered to attend the Admiralty. The persons sus pected area Mr. bawler and a Mr. Needham. It is related as a fact, that one of the most notorious traders of one of the 'east daring gangs of pickpockets that infest this metropoli, lodges in one of our principal jails; but not as Falstaff has it, " What, upon compulsion, flats' nu, hot upon compulsion, but as a voluntary inmate. Surely this circum stance will scarcely bear a comment; bat the fain is, that hit favourite sultana 13 indisposed there, sad his Most Serene High ness is admitted nightly, to soothe the slumbers of ber downy conch. WINDSOR, JAN. 3.—This morning the Princesses' horses were ordered for them to ride out ; and remained at the door of the Castle upwardsof half an hour, when the orders were countet mended. Neither the ()vats nor any of the ROYAL FAMILY have comeout of the Castle to-day the reason Is not known. Sir Ilisai ',ALFORD'S carriage was ordered to bring him to London; but It was put up again, and he remains here. l)octars MORRO and litawass arrived to-day about twelve o'clock. After their arrival, Maur R. %Thais set off for London; he is ex. pectotto return here to-Hight. Aaattempt was made on Thursday morning to break into a Souse in Market-street, Newport-market. Longs Hotel, in Bond-street, has lately been robbed of a num _ • ber of silver table spoons. .Mondiy neat being Plow-Monday, an Especial Sessions will be holJen at Guildhall, before the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, the Recommit, the SIIIGRI/PFS, Re. for the purpose of swearing in the Common Com:climes, and other Ward Officers for the City of London. The body of a murdered man was found on the Cerise-hill road of Soinerset.hire: he was much disfigured with wounds, but was recognised as a Halwell labourer.—Wiffill murder is returned in the Inquest against persons unknown. We copy the following article from a Paper of yesterday :-- An anonymous Correspondent desires us to say, ' We are happy to kern, that the Dube of CIARENCL is to be at Bushy , on the 15th instant, again to enjoy those ties of lore and affec tion, which, for twenty years, made his days pass i the s n happiness and comfort: fatten to that effect having passed , to atisfac tion of his Royal Highness and Mrs. J.' Of course we cannot verify this statement." T 9 wine great Heiress a Royal Hake try'd, Receir'd as a Prince, bat his offer deniedi He pass'dover Jordan, this prize to obtain, The journey wait Long, yet be could not refrain. 66 Rehm:to your mistress," .the lady replied, 4 ' And do Met forsake bee to'make me your bride: For rather than wed yea, et cme of the whole, aly fortune and person I'll hang *a a Pok." NAVAL INTELLIG`ENGE. • . PIXAIQUTIit Jin. 2. Came into Cawsind Bay this Morning, ivis Majes; ty's ship likeadnaught, of 98 ems. Arrived the Favourite sloop of Wars from f cruise the Concord, of this ports Capt: Widdicomb; from Prince EdWard'a Island, with timber: Ationt /1:1 leaguet to the West of §Cilly she piCked np, deserted by her crew, the Wheat Sheaf, of London, Robert . iturtOni Mast*, laden with potatoes, front Scilly's bound to Gibmitirs Which she has bibught id *UK ' her% Also theAkte,from Cork, bOtindto LondOn,vilth ' provisoes;the b i dui Friends, ' schooner, *in; 'Boni from Oporto, with fruit, 14 days passage; brings u news: . • - - • General Bran, Prince d'Areiiibtrg, Wild the tong niiisarylGerieral, *hii *ere made prisotteit by Gen: llili, and !added here out df the iirreond frigge, frdm Lisbon, set off from hen6e . yesterday, for thet purpose of proteeding td Oswestry, in Shropshire; oil their parolei Arrived the frit, Morgan, from Trinidad bound to London: DEAL, Arrived the Robalist, from a cruise; his Majesty "hip Seine, from Portsmbuth, and sailed fdt Sheer: nets; and the La Plane from a cruize: TORBAY, J. 4: . Bit into this bay his Majesty's ship lasici; d•ith the following East indiainen, all well :—'fi g►ca, Royal Charlotte, Neptune, Arnittoss,Catavra, Conti*, and Thames ; also put into this bay the Esther, • for Afria ; and the Baroness Longvilk, for the South Seas: • LEITH, I. The Swift mul l Capt. Ord, on her passage front London, in company with the Union, of Dundee; On the 30th ult. fell hi with a Danish prirateer„ which they immediately engaged, and beat off. COVE, Dec.3d. Yesterday morning sailed for - Plytnoith, the tort Spencer cutter, Lieutenant Bothwell. his Majesty's ship Stork, Captain Le Cleyti sada yesterday, with convoy for the DoWns. Remains his Majesty's ship Semiromit, Cgptaiii Bichardsoni ' • Tho W. India convoy it is expected, will ihortty sail, trod the comber of ship's daily ctillecting: PIiEEDOM'OF ELECTION. A•reeent and well-known transaction tehitHe tif the Borough of Granthims tiny be selected tis one of the West perfect and convincing specimens of th 4 nature Of that prdetical Constitution, Abe . prdibes of which are sounded out from so teeny interested mouths. The . good burgesses of Grantham hoe, by law, the right of choosing two perisens to . relireseet their interests in the Commens House of Parlfituseet;.. But the Duke of Rutland, who sits lb the House (-.f"P- Lords, has stied the good people of Gristtifile Sl!e' • trouble of choosing for themselves, by eommenei:ig them f utider pain of his high displeasure, to elect ae cording to his nomlnatioti. It is clear that the two . representatives for Grantham, as they are pro forma called, are, In tact, the representatives of the Duke of autlend.--- , --Sir William. Matinerss however, a neighbburing gentleman, thinks he has as good a right to be represented as his Creep, but as his interest in Grantham, that is to say, his power over it, is not so great as the Poke's, he was obliged to proceed another way to work than by opposition at the election. The Duke of Rutlaid is a great fox-hunter, and his hounds, which are very cele: brated, must necessarily pass over Sir William's estates, as they lie in the centre of the hunt. This the Baronet had a right to put a stop to, Red in fact did put a stop to, by bringing fictions against his Grace, which were decided in the Plaintiff's favour at the last Lincoln Assizes. The Doke, it appears, well knew the motive of these actions and compromise has been entered 'into, according to which a share in the votes of Grantham is bar tered for the pricitege of fox-hunting ! This is the practical Constitution, in support of whichore are called upon to spend our property and shed our blood ! The elective franchises of the people of Grans them have been, without any reference to their will s given up, like so much possessed value, to procure the Duke of Rutlal. , l a favourite amusement ! At present, they are represented by two ministerial Members, his Grace's politics being ministerial ; but is the next Parliament, it is probable they will be represented by at least one Opposition Members for Sir William is an Oppositionist. Still, however, they will be represented, and we have an excelleut and free Government, and they are all Jacobins who say to the contrary. A Commission of a a singular kind has been sent out to Jersey, to examine into the records, and to re form the Constitution of that Island. It is certainly one of the most eligible prerogatives of art, to tarnish over and disguise the defects and decays of nature. As the original Inventor and only Proprietor of that truly, useful, sod admirable dis covery—A rtificial Teeth; Mt. De CHEMANT, Sur geon and Dentist, confessedly stands pre-eminent among the higher circles, for the display of his ex traordinary ability in repairing the damages made by time or accident, on the choicest natural ornament of youth, health, and beauty, the Teeth, which he can replace, from a single one to st whole set, in so ingenioas a manner as to deceive the most curious observer, and which operation tiot only preserves the powers of speech, and beauty of appearance, but answers every .purpose of mastication. It is worthy of remark, that this celebrated Dentist rilft• nufactures his Artificial Teeth from a prepared mi neral substance, entirely free from taste or smell, which mast render them unobjectionable even to the most delicate; and particularly so, as he he can fix them in without the least injury to the mouth by pain or irritation. We understand the decided su periority of Mr. Ds CatitArrr in the above astonish. ng art, has been sanctioned by the first 'Surgeons tad Medical Professors in Europe. ••• • • -" INTELLIGENCE. . _ ; :f 1 ~~ , 11 kfp.