The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-09-11 00:00:00

• • t•I. TO CO RillelikkolbEing. We have received a commaaleatleft from Isis specting the proceedioes of the blaster . m outh, Portsea, and Gosport, b opposing of Shoes by the French Prisoners at Forten with our Correspondent lo many of marks upon the subject—at the same there is snitch to he -slid ea tee I nestions and although it has uniformly of - tire to advocate the cause of the oppressed, doubtcas to the proprifty of allowing these si t es of war to enjoy the privilege of a' free trade, and there by injure our countrymen, who not only have to maintain their families, bet to pay rent and Me'. We heg leave to inform oar respectable Correspondent, that he omitted to pay the Postage of his Letter,a Lich came to Three Shillings. We have been favoured a ith a Letter from our esteemed Cor respondent, Ttstorny Tavaxasr, tO show the impolicy of in vading France, and the right of the French people to de throne the Severn's, who had originally usurped their authority. He likewise condemns the invasion' of France by the Duke 01 Ilitoresolcs, and the cob: duct of Mr. PUT in joining the Coalition, the ob ject of which was not only to dismember the French Empire, but also to curtail the ireedum of Englishmen. This eminent viriter is of opinion, that the congpests of France are the re; cult of its enemies' conduct, and that a coutinuatice of the,. war i. more likely to increase the power of 11c.fAte tItTE, than to dimini,h it. 'this Letter shall appear ou Monthly neat. Arr. Mail, • , • • lltie O O 1 • * Heligoland. •••.r. •`• • dy:p . ...• •• 0 ?UCH OF STOCKS THIS Hank 3 pet Cert. Ned. 3 per lest. Coos. 571§ 4 i.er Cents. b per Cent. Navy 87U1 I tom. Ann. • I)AT AT 074 K Cit LOCK lodift Bonds 2 di Ecrheipter Bilks I)itto par ?die Minima P Consols for Acct. 57{1 Lottery Tickets THE STA TESMA N. LONDON: , 60 distolved l -t-named The there tits! of the attem miscarriage. The den show the vast it'll bands. That cite is now burying place, the blood of the human have been poured out incitement detestable which inflated Christit as ileathenisb.--N, humour and bickering to arise among which we knew we run no haza, in peg nosticating under such circumstances. Reproach will follow discussion into the condest of the General who so fatally extended the left of the Allied Army on the 27th, as to give the eagle eye of BONAPARTE an opportunity of pouncing upon that wing which appears to have been shattered to pieces ! Those trumpeters of tialsillAte s l./ter. will in vain seek to balance the evils of this battle . ky the advantages gained over two othercorps of the French army by the CROWN PRINCE. Should his. victory., even turn out to be as favourable as represented, it will avail the less now, under the discomfiture of the main body of his great Allies. It will be ) like MAcurru's, but a barren sceptre in his hand.. As* Frenchman against the French, we do not pleas BERNADOTTE beside MoazAtr, since he has had crown placed upon his head by the joint consent of his native and adopted country ; which crown (im. plying the welfare of the state it belongs to) he has sworn to maintain ; and, therefore, we may honour him fur following the fortunes of the Swedes, or leading them to higher destinies, though his old brother soldier has not honoured him with the least notice in his minute details of the stations of the conflicting armies.. This contempt may wound an old warrior's pride—it cannot wound his person. SATURDAY) SEPTEMBER 11, 1813. No sooner had complaints been uttered of the bar- reuuess of the ordinary streams of information, than a flood of intelligence pours upon us, and drowns all j former calculations of what might be the probable issue of the first operations of the campaign. We, ho hare never thought so superficially of these affairs as our cotemporaries, confess that we are astonished at what we have just learned. Considering the dif ference in the relative situation of Napottox, with respect to the part the Emperor of Ausvara should j take, as whether for or against him ; or even the difference, whether two hundred thousand men in arms should remain neuter or act hostilely, consider- • ing also that the conduct of the Court of Vienna Las indicated rather friendly than unfriendly symp toms of interference, which must have been matter of more surprise and alarm, and of probably more . ' detriment to the French cause : discovering also in the plat of the commencing campaign a con sentaueity of action and am:A throughout the whole line of the Allied Forces, we do again say, we are struck with amazement that this new ALIXANDER has escaped the peril m Lich appeared so imminent! This surprising, this unexpected news leads us, nay, forces us, in spite of all squeamish restraints and re— serves, to contemplate so extraordinary a result.— There must be some invisible, but not inconceivable, principle in all this, which sets common calculation at defiance. We say iarisiblc, because it is not ob vious to all men that there is a principle in opera tion which, unless studied and combated, will alter the physical face of Europe (with respect to Go vern:no:its), as it has changed the moral face of 8 . ,' and is changing that of other quarters of the world. The bodily powers of one man are not so superior to these of another in nearly the same climate, to account for an inferior number of cohorts, overrunning war like countries, as though endued with a supernatural power. There is nothing exposed to the view of or. (finery Statesmen which informs them why new French guards, never in action before, should rival the exploits of the old in the field, and stand against, and at length defeat, phalanges of warriors, hitherto accounted the steadiest in the work)!!! We must look for the cause, then, in no common-place rea soning, nor in the sophistry of the renal part of the press, disseminated by those pests of society, who know the mischief they do, and the violence they offer to truth, by the false colouring they throw over the facts we allude to.--The profits of the practice, and the temporary delusion they keep up, lull their miuds into composure, and se cure them against the just indignation of an iusulted public. It is then in the corruptions and vices of those Governments, now united against France, that we mot trace their failure in driving beck an invader of their countries, who would, in fact, never have let foot in them, but for a superior knowledge of the great, the incessantly operating principle we have alluded to. But we shall hare numerous and ire. queut opportunities of recurring to this first of all subjects, of which Ministers appear to be es ig norant as the mole is of the colour of the sky, and which the one appears to avoid equally with the other, from the sense of pain such light must We need not, like many of our cotemporaries, fill our columns with an analysis of the occurrences in Germany, as communicated through the French Papers, which many will insist upon are exaggerated ; but which, at all events, we are sure, are bad enough to place the Allies, ,as it were, by one throw of the die, in all the leepardy we so lately beheld their opponent. — spoke of the opinion ...a first successful Lluw would create to the ezttemest point where AIOREAU, by his conduct and counsel among the Allies, has proved the justice of our observations re specting him, almost at the instant we made them.— Ile exactly represents what he is in reality—a French man out of his own country ; bet a Frenchman never was the same person on a foreign soil. He has, however, presented one of the qualities of his countrymen entire, which is impetuosity. It is he, and he alone, who must have urged the Germans and Prussians to a precipitate attack like that upon Dresden, which has undone them. They are of them selves too methodical and phlegmatic to have con. ceived such a plan as has been chalked out for the commencement of the campaign. It too is in the inalienable nature of a Frenchman, to con ceive what is seldom accomplished. The de sign was unquestionably a grand one, and, as , .we observed Lefore, was calculated to put an end to the war as soon as renewed. had it succeeded in all its parts, we should have seen BONAPARTE down indeed, as low as the chances or fate of war could precipitate. him ; but then the adviser should have reflected, what was the nature or quality of the troops who were to execute the vast project.— MOR!Au should have borne in mind, that the time, the place, the object, all differed from those when be was at the head of a French army, in Flan ders. It is, therefore, as we said, that his advice, like that of any other Frenchman in the same situation, was not worth a shilling ; it has marred the chief and almost the only view of the A:lied cam paign, and will be reproached or despised, and so will the advice of any other foreigner, to whatever country he belongs, when he is counselling the un doing of his own. It is an unnatural proceeding ; it cannot, therefore, succeed, and ought never to be esteemed, but rather suspected. Who can direct the feelings of a nation, or its revenge, so properly as the people, actuated by those emotions and pas sions ?—From DARLA representation, it could not have been imagined such decisive results had followed the battle of the 27th, since he prepared us to ex pect a sanguinary combat the following day as only likely to have brought them about. It is not usual for a Frenchman to spare colour when he is painting a victory; but in this instance the facts far surpass the representation —even should the smallest number mentioned of the Allied Army be put hors de combat Sixty thousand is such a thinning of the ranks, as must appear incredible to those who, nevertheless, ansider the exploits of this marvellous man. Ber lin, however, did not, as BONAPARTE'S ei-deaunt Secretary presumed, fall into the hands of OUDINOT. The Cnows PRINCE'S timely and, well-judged inter position prevented that occurrence at the given time; but we do not see how it can be long kept out of the possession of the enemy under the actual state of his . • triumphant affairs. We find by letters from St. Petersbergh, that the American Embassy, undertaken by Messrs. G4LLA• TIN. and BAYARD, has failed of it► purpose for engaging the Emperor of RUSSIA to employ his interest in the way of mediating to bring about a Peace between the United States and Great Britain. Under the aspect of genera affairs at the time of the attempt, and well knowing the disposition of the Ministers of England, we are not surprised at its uusuccessful issue. the lamented Baron Da Roux. Colonial produce, : particularly sugars and rum, have had a considerable advance during the present week. The Island of Jamaica is represented to be in a very distressed state at present. The high price and diflyulty of procuring negroes, the scarcity of pro visloits from the war with America; the krises re cently sustained trthiritorms," brit 'the melancholy prospect of shorictqqn for the ensuing yeltr, added to an unusually large export of .specie, must compel the House of Assembly to a 4 some legislative mea sures of importance.' It laid that Delegates will be sent to this country, to lay at the foot of the Throne those grievances of which the colonist's Ita . re 'long complained and w h i ch thet are able no longer to endure. • • • . . • Speculations' it) a great extent „were entered into yesterday in the Stock Market,, and a very respect able Arm, agents for many opulent persons in the East India connexion and others, purchased, at the opening of the market, 300,0001. in omnium, at 61 and 6-1 premium. Afterwards omnium fell to AL, but was again raised without any sufficient cause ) to dt, at which price the market closed. Letters from St. Petersburgh state, that Messrs. CALLATIr4 and 13.1 YARD had received their dismis. • Von from the Imperial Court, the mediation of the stetson to restore tranquillity between the United States and Great Britain nut having been accepted by the latter. An official notice having been delivered to this effect, the American Plenipotentaries. were preparing to take their departure. Coniiiendee in Chief of the Flushing squadron, arrived, verf unexpectedly, its the Downs, this morning. lit the Impregnable, of ' ; 9B gulls, having the following ship, under Iris constoond, viz.. the Chatham, Cumberland' Women:, and :•York, English line-of-battle ships l'rocherarzoff, Netron, Scintastof, apd Chetise% Ruseiais shiPi'of the line, and Scoot/or* atistian fr 'w#oolfremain lu the Downs with the NOigoo- Dictotors -Bedford; mud , L'4elstll4 Of Id tunel 4stdroincds frigatei Alert, Thunder, Comte*. of Elgin,' Nymph, , Rinaldo, Olympia, Arnim' and Defender sloops,7•brigs, cutters, and luggekta That the arrival of this squadron was quite tin. expected, cannot be more clearly demonstrated, than that forty live bullocks were yesterday sent from the Contractor's Office here, Op board the Norge, to be conveyed to this very fleet off Flush-. ing, and she was to have sailed this morning for that purpose, but the arrival of Admiral Youwo's squa dron in the Downs, having been announced by ti`. nali the Norge remains at anchor. Conjecture, ways busy in the absence of real facts, has destitisid this squadron, with six or seven more ships of tint line, and the necessary number of bomb-tessele, gun-boats, rocket-ships, &c. to mike another attack. on Copenhagen. What ground there may be for this supposition, those deep in the secret can best tell. Pf. TMOUTU, SEPT. 9.—No th Sertflorcer coop of war, with a fleet to tlie Eastward FALAWOUTII, SEPT. B.—No arrivals.—Sailed _ for Lisbon; - the fise4. On Tuesday was landed at Deal, from the Bed ford, 74, recently arrived from the • West Indies, about 25 tons of specie, in gold and 'silver bars, and a quantity of gold dust; when landed, it was con. ' veyed to Messrs. MAY and Co.'s batik at Deal, and , ' from thence to the.Baak of England, under a strong !' military guard. • • • Two brigades of gun-carriages and tumbrils passed over Westminster - yestemlity morning for Woolwich. These, with. the .1114 , brigades whidli tool die satow•route the . daY before, were made by contract in the rontitry, and are remarkabl light -r of fitii debsdi to the e d pos. neces• .turone part of Alice, Garrulity and apestry petticoat, were obviously among the indispensable. and a ti of the author's conception; and it is, we suppose, and compact. They will be immediately mounted, , satisfying her full thirst of praise to say, that thia at the royal arsenal, *ith guns upon an improve d venerable and trembling Mit:tante was, in all principle, and, it is said, will be shipped for Stral- • 2 ; points suited to t he 66 beau ideals , of Div: L xwis. sued, for the use of the Allied Army. We feel the due respect for agn, and are inclined to The dispatches brought by the last Messenger from : feel more,—even compassion—for age urged into si. Stockholm, are said to contain information of certain Itua:ions that- must te so irksome to its fading fa. bills having been drawn on this Government, without culties : but, though we must not talk contemptuous. I.the previous consent of our Minister, Mr. Tnoex- I ly of this ancient person,- we feel no such restraint TON. Whether there was any thing fraudulent in when we speak of those who announced her appear- I the transaction we know not: but if so, the Go- aitce in the regular form of in acquisition -to the ivernment having been apprised of the circumstance stage, and actually made her the novelty of the lin time, will be on its guard against the possibility of n i ght. Th i s looks wonderfully like a mere vulgar imposition. It is said the bills have not yet reached trick of trade. By following up so brilliant an arti. this country for payment. • flee a little farther, we may be gradually introduced His Royal Highness the Duke of ComopeLAND into those arrangements which have been hitherto so arrived at Lundack -on the 14th of. August. On the I grudgingly, kept back froln public edification. Every evening of the next day he went t o a bait which was ; night may then have its novelty. Who shall calcu. I given there, accompanied by our Minister, Sir Ctias. late the spur that might be given to languid curiosity, STEWART. On the f o ll o wing m or ni ng his Royal lby the intelligence that the lamps were to be trimmed Highness left Lundack and proceeded on his way to.sl" on that night, for the first time," by a celebrated - wards Prague. artist, who had snuffed candles at the Theatre Royal, One or two of the Irish Judges are said to be York, for the last •70 years? An animated sUcces- • about to retire ; in which case, Mr. Serjeant Monet ;lion might thus he kept up, and the critics perpetu and Mr. Towiiseen, it is supposed, will succeed . —lally . exhilarated by the passing of those .luminaries Mr. JOY is likely to be the new Irish Law Serjeant, ! over the horizon. •We recommend the expedient to in the room of Mr. Serjeant Ilma.; lately deceased. Mr. LEWIS in particular t' his fertility will best know • Yesterday morning, Mr. NI ETTS, the Messenger, how to " make something of it;" and we know no accompanied by Captain Loci', of the 25th regiment, one to whose multitude of Tcafedies and Comedies arrived at Lord Caput:at:toles office with dis. it would be of greater necessity. We know the paches, which. were; immediately forwarded to Mrdieterest annexed, -for instance, to his Alphonse, TIANILTox, Under-Secretary of State, at Fulham. The! or his East Indian; but how much a keener interest Messenger and Capt. Locu landed' from the Vixen must be thrown round them than it was ever in their gun-brig, at Flamborough Head. ;nature to excite, by his being ,intelligibly made Yesterday dispatches were received at the Admi- ; known, that on thi same night a new kettle-drum. ratty from the Mediterranean. They contain the mer was to peal -his thunders, or a new sweeper wield; details of a most gallant enterprise performed by the ; his brush upon the stage. boats of, Hut Bacchante frigate, Captain Hone, in A melancholy accident happened at Cork on the the Adriatic, under the command of Lieutenant , inlet--the second son of Thomas Deane, Esq. un- Hone s of that ship. It appears that Captain Harm fortunately, while Rustling himself in a window, received informetion of a couvoy having assembled was, by the sudden giving way of part of the sop. in one of the ports of the Adriatic, to the amount of port, precipitated into the yard of the house, and between 00 and 70 vessels, which he conceived it fractured his scull. He languished in extreme agony possible to destroy. He accordingly embarked 150 for two hours, when, in spite of the prompt aid et seamen end marines iu the boats, who were after- medical skill, he expired. wards landed, and had to contend with upwards of t The Doiset Regiment, quartered for some months 400 of the enemy's troops ' whom they completely in Limerick garri s on, have received the route for routed. They next proceeded to attack the convoy; ' Trate. and its cantonments, to replace the Royal and, it. is said, that upwards of forty of the enemy's Queen's County Militia, who have received the route vessels were burnt, and the remainder brought out. for Cork, and march on the 11th inst. The first The loss sustained by the enemy is stated to have division of the Dorset merched on Monday last. been severe, while that on our side, considering the iMonday se'nnight, as tie iien f near Frome, were difficulty and danger of the enterprise) it .not oft going with a waggon for •11 lead df wheat, one of much magnitude. . • I them (John Yeoman, aged 90), attempting to get LusiTANIAN LEOIOL—This legion, ,tb, most an- into it, fell , unnoticed by hiceompanion, and the • client of the Portuguese regiments, is Jaew• divided wheels inning over his body crashed him so dread. ~auto three battalions of Cacadores, eie,„.7411, fitk, and that he expired t de , • 9th. During the glorious action of Vitt.aria, cue of those battalions captured part of Kin Joilabis baggage, amongst which was a full-dress , coat, with • a Royal- Star. The battalion has presented the star removed to Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley. St. Leger. Hin g e( the Bth Cacadores, as a proof of their high esteem and respect for him, being now- the only Field o:ficer serving with those battalions who belonged to the, Loyal Lesitenian Legion. :LL:sktMit plsl `r.sv_ b:Preech garrison that& et wire, te.. • creased the Elbe, Shoemakers at Ports- ping the manufacturing hid been dissolvi Forum t and we agree beyond this tast-no of his judicious re- • ale time, we tbinki perhaps for ever. other side of the enterprises will it mly been our prac- failure in the same pressed, we entertain belov ed I' HAETON) these unfortunate vie- -1.1..0••••••e ..0 tha .tt „ . - . . .. .... .-. __ . _ , • . • . i r &. ..•.. , .• . ft.7_,1.::_..3e;.._..... ..._' - ”.- . \:..1.16111 • - - - PUPAL, is itatistitst. 7 , ..fiis*.fAilied IS Will be /WOW* *Dag 114111 4 . ii ) ai die idiia.. . - it , _l'l .. 2 , 1 , 2 'lt t h e ceeredeee.y o f ige . itatise ,dron under Admiral. Tame, whish has lately been , P6iTsilettrii 444 . 4 - WWI loot krfeoll , )i1 e d , and DotrApisTele sway apsployed. in . the blockade of lirkishing, ii.atfiVed in - .. 4 _, . , 4 ,,, , • • 4TT • ,_,,.... d 1 ' l6 met! river, had bin destroyed, the Downs, wad is suppoelnittrkirititended ,for au Majes t y '""N" j ik. 91 4 1 0: 04 441 '.`""" 9.a , 1 . ....,., .: ~ . ~. Capt. Dtgby, with abob t pigkesioemen, to Joie At. The adviser, of this portentous esPetlitlon to Copenhagen : Nre - prt4ittnei 11. Sir James Yeo. en s l o ake, sitt,,itv Uppti• Canada. herefore console lsingitif •n its that shOuld such anothertioilbißlfbfint of theba ~itir: !-J-This silly' Ai - rived the AChiltu, 743 (.'apt: Voiles{ manner ss'Aenes.o kvditt of his Denmark,asWehgforecondit;4 t iseintendesi t eta§re and 71 1 hatler boob, :cliA, P 4114 kin* the Mediter;. ‘ i Magnum dui' 1 t le" The part of the squadron on thOeisemootetion can bti te:- Mien . ; AwirOettio f .s4 4 ,Papti Arlhuri Ood hilt: tempt must be the odlf , tittle for iptireti, since the Danes haveesiskterty any shipping to fri24t troop Ihi - P.i truth F tiQw94 l, l4ll " , 74, 4:110 -. ' t , . ~. • (: ag e , from. ott Fl • • and:, osie r I(o..Lapt. he attack and rest/team of Ares . oppose to us; - We are sorry'n*liiie obliged to have Felow , / voin ... /ja i i i . 4 di o . tip ,s ti ifekiiimoo . importance of the pate , Itveither recourse to such a terrible ekpitaint, theush we do Ni entett , 3g , c ap t,li et ... .. , . cot pretend to say the eroitiairii now would be ai fixawicui San k 104-41 y the ;titbit efili -irk - now celebrated to time end, - as the e horrid Golgotha of. the best illegitimate as the former one, when the Danes de packet, Blames, raider, trom_Fieligoliod, Ail more: . log; our -:gtin-boaes in the. Slim are said lately to I race. What a pity. It should notatwar with. us: . have engageda Danish fOrt in-that river, and to have ut in the cause of ambition. An memeirsememr 7 mmwee suffered severely. The Vast* brig of war is said t 6. L bl e in the eyes of phitosophs, Vhe Staff Officers ordered to the Peninsula, have h ave arriveilsemeWbere on. the ooalti and to base ,Istionity treats with contumely 'been infermed that their horses a n d ba ggag e m u st be I b roug h t - a - tenfirroation of the Crown Mote et , I Sweden's victory over ihe Frauchi and lb* assimio.l _N o w we may expect that ill embarked at Portsmouth on Th urs d a y nex t. !ring to arise among the Allies, We hear that the hereditary Prince of ORANGE is quest retreat of -the latter' .-- to h. h:tve t h e a_ lozi!n r7ttim . ent vacant by the death of L I?c . a . a : Serf. 12. :: ,—A L. dmiral . Young,_C:ri___ i rivander____ . we run no hazard in yrog- ,- f i rsisces - e Elizabeth packets with • ail for Li and the Osborn paqsat, with for the %ard Mends. - • - 4. • " 44, • -••- • • . Cctye 4iit.---Litsits's pity Castle,* •/ • - .16ited fast night fol the of an act,', whOttas come to an her lustre conitisitart of totent.Garden. As all the dren of ttltgrowthe in England have seen, and sibly admired, tile Castle Spectre, it is the less sary to detill the qualities which that when person mutt'possess who undertakes tit part of the Ifourtelietter of - Coii*ay Castle. Garruli wrinklee, a ,armor double entendre, anda to folly, that he - expired neat day. ' • • InTuatara. or pig DEstraxsavw-Monday night at twelve o'clock, the body of the deserter, who hung himself in the strong room at. Whitehall, was removed from St. Margaret's Workkonse in a shell f amidst an *sense concourse of spectators, by torch-light, and interred in the cross road in the 11orseferrv, Westminster, a short dietsece from the Emanuel Hospital. Happily, howellir, it is said, the unfortunate man had left no bumf'''. . • .. — ' l4 o 4 ""' v.lo.'ov.•ei.t.s. • f 4 l 1 .4`