The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-08-18 00:00:00

Ifr ~• / ~~ ~ 1.1 IF, :4'l 'I'k.SMA I. Are. M all. flue " Lisbon 0 0 0 • 11ePcolantl will cordially co-operate In restoring the country to the blessings of tranquillity. We never shall expect an entire congeniality of sentiment among the well gifted men of our country; but something like a si milarity of opinion might reasoeably be hoped for amodg thbse few.patribts erhonsrd looked' up' to for their talents as Senators, and who cannot be ignorant of the ruinous tendency of the war, however favour ably or flatteringly it may be chequered with tem porary successes. It requires a mind possessed of more than brdinkry share of tolerance. and indulgence, to view with complacency or even without rancour, opinions broached by our co temporaries, which they themseltes know to be deceptious, and who utter them from self-interested motives. When wq shall reach that happy period, that the nation, like SAMPSON on the hip of DALI - shall awaken to a sense of its dangers, we know not. We are sensible, nay convinced, of their regular, though slow approach ; and cannot con , cientiously refrain from proclaiming them. Our opponents call 'themselves the • friends of the . Go . rernment—ln other words, the supporters of the party in powirj however important may be the in dividuals .who compose it. The motives which ac tuate thise;pitnders to authority, are so base, and 1 their conduct so fraught with. destruction to iv.the country,. against which' they 'exercise their irriritkil maneuires; - that we can •nO longer • restrain - dur indignation. Wihtivolontfett *mired • i that their nefarious practices sinAtl4, injlie end, coo lsign them to that ignominy. they have ,so tong de served, and we have at times been disposed to leave them to their fate. But as their venal sophistry con ! tinues to be rend with avidity (we lattpent 10s - se), 1 we should deem ourselves accessary to the rctierithich is apparently becoming inejitable, if we eettiell to point it out, and thereby prevent floods of teen; of regret froM being poured out, for those misfortunes which the British community seemed doomed to suffer. We have taken this moment' of public com placency, rather than of national despondency, to de clare what we think, and what we feel, on the mea sures of the Government, and especially on the base adulation and prostitution of the daily press in de ; scanting on those measures. PAMIR OF STOCKS TIIIS Rank S pet Cent. Red. 57f 9 per Cent. Cont. 51 jj 4 per Cents. 7€2;',1 5 per Cent. Nits% ik744 Lang. Ann. 14 7-Itij DAV AT ONK O'CLOCK. India Bonds 5 3 dis. Escbevel . Hills $O. Ditto Y &a. pat Oinnium (q; p Consols for Acct. 57j Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAN. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1813. ir In the dearth of news, and consequent topics of discussion, we return to the subject which affords, at best, but a mingled sensation of pleasure and pain t viz. the victories arising out of the battles we are lighting in a distant country, and for objects which se have neither before our eyes, nor scarcely in out contemplation. Nay, we are not sure we shall even 1, he thanked, ultimately, for the blood and treasure we hare so profusely shed in a war, which, however it may he denominated Ministerial, is any thing ra 7 ther•than a National war. We are not fighting for that Ltu s tivry, of which Simla has a faint view, and is daily regardieg with an increased admiration, and an additional desire. Spain has the seeds of a Re • volution within it now, and so has Portugal also.— . The distant Colonies of' the former 'kingdom, are set upon righting themselves, and are fast throw ing off those degrading, cumbrous loads which have bowed them, like cattle in the yoke, to the very earth which belongs to them. Our short-sighted Ministers look no further than the scene before them : they have no conception of what • is working behind the curtain. The very religion of • the party, Whose cause they are espousing, at the hazard of all which is dear at home, would of itself do much to frustrate oar-gathering those fruits tp which we are entitled by so stupendously expensive a labour in their vineyard. But this view of the state of things will afford, us ample room to dilate upon • from day to day, and give us occasion to call up all the energy and all the good sense of the country to the task of restoring vs toa better order of politics. At present, nothing is canvassed but war; and to dispose the nationapresign itself to this dreadful and deadly pursuit, every art and every engine is em ployed—but none with more effect than the uenalpart of the Puess..The victory over SOVLT is made a fresh web for extending the frightful piece. Every new ad vantage gained, is made a new motive for enlarging the scale of our operations, as if there could be no end to our resources, and no point of endurance to which the people of the country will not give themselves up. To deceive the people into a submission to the will of those who profit by the war, the Times tells then, that " BONArARTE will never, during the war of the North, be able to embody a greater number of men than that which has been recently defeated ; so that, under the existing state of the rest of Europe, even the genius of Lord Weu.saterow must despair of an equal victory in Spain, for want of ability on • the pert of his adversaries to supply the means of it." ..According to this style, this monstrous style of reasoning, it'is to be considered a misfortune that our Generalissimo in Spain wilt be in want of num bers in the foe to satisfy his longing ambition 'as the prostitution of the Press ever carried to such a dangerous extent in any country since the in tention of printing? We hear nothing-of the wis dom and soundness of the policy, in resting a moment upon our arms, and offering to treat with the enemy, upon honourable ter*ts of peace, and thereby giving a truce to the work of human slaughter. The he ' roisrn of our army is a proud theme we acknowledge, but we are astonished to observe the total silence in all the Papers we have occasion to allude to, on the gene . rosily of the British character. Must we continue to war on then, because Ministers have gained a share of popularity with the unthinking, from the prowess • of our armies, and because a few families are enrich ed and exalted by it, and one in particular dis tinguished by titles ? Are we so estranged to the comforts of peace, by the length of time we have been bereft of them, that they should cease to auto ate our views and wishes ? The report of the victory has been ,heard without witnessing those flashes of exultation which serve ra ther to intoxicate than elevate the mind with glad ues3. We do not mean to detract from the conse tioence of this recent vietery, Istit repeat that it must contribute to esalt the fame of the country for arms as well as for arts. We are pleased, however, that neither our Sovereign Ruler, the REGENT, nor. our Sovereign Lord, the Mob, obliged us to illuminate on the occasion. There is be need. to *emblazon the • achievements of our Army by. lighting up candles and flambeaux, and thereby forcing the family sof' small means, who have, perhaps, had no dinner, to go to bed supperless from the espence they would bit • put to by the compulsion of a general illumination: In this way we have reduced the valueal a real vie • tory—the word is become cheap, though the object • is dearly enough purchased. In shoft, we have played off these kind of stale tricks, till they cease to have their ,wonted results. The French have a • phrase for 1 this much worn . effect : they say " le jeu ne vane pas .la chandelle." We shall be'-happy to see the moment' arrive when the Bri tish public, by patient 'nye:satiation tato the object of the war, will require a dithatatiOn in good faith from t:C Ministers, that wheaeter that be obtaieed, they The recent conduct of the Spanish Cortes, in ba nishing the Port's Nuncio from the kingdom, and taking possession of his temporalities, affords a gra tifying proof of the decay of Ecclesiastical influence in Spain, where it had so long exercised a despotic controul over the politics of Government, as well as over the actions and opinions of individuals. Priests. have, in all ages and countries, evinced a disposition towards the aims of ambition and the exercise of ty ranny : every friend to the liberty and improvement of mankind must, therefore, rejoice at any event which indicates, in any country, the diminution,• or promises the subversion of their baneful power. But the liberal and intelligent Briton or Hibernian has more than common cause to rejoice at the proof which has been just afforded of the feebleness of the Papal authority, in a country in which, more justly than in any other, the religion of Rome may be said to be the universal creed, since this discovery 'is calculated at once to set at rest a domestic dispute, whose ex istence is injurious to the welfare; whose continu ance would be fatal to the existence of his country. Who, after the scene which has just been exhibited in Spain, shall venture to insult the understandings of the people of England or Ireland, by attempting to persuade them, that Catholicism is incompatible with the political independence of its professors ? That a man's allegiance to his lawful Sovereign, that his fidelity to his native land, are to be suspected, because he believes in the religious supremacy of the Porn? That the British Constitution would be en dangered by admitting the Catholics of England and Ireland t 6 participate in its advantages ? If the Go vernment of Spain, feeble as It must he compared with that of England, itself composed wholly of Catho- . lies, and ruling over a population exclusively Catho lic, has not feared to set the Porn and all the autho rity of the Church at defiance, surely we in England ought not to refuse emancipation to our Catholic bre. thren, from an apprehension of their blind devotion to the interests of Rome. , Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held at the Fo reign Office at two o'clock, which sat till past four. The 7th Light Dragoons about to depart for the Peninsula are 800 strong. Private letters from Officers, detect off St. Sebas tian's, down to the 11th instant, state, that there was , very little expectation of its fall for some time. The works and town present the appearanca of a sugar loaf, and are very strong. During the late unsuc-1 cessful attempt to storm the place, many soldiers, dressed in female clothing, appeared on the rock above the assailants. It is supposed this was a device ' to induce us to slacken our fire. The castle, situate on a lofty height which commands the town, has a garrison of 3,000 men. PROCLAMATION or SOULT.—Souvr, before he ep-• tered Spain, issued a Proclamation to his Army,'ln' which he says—" That he has been sent by the Ra ni° R to the command of his Armies of Spain, and that his IMPERIA L MAJESTY'S instructions and his own intentions were to drive the British across the Ebro, and celebrate the EMPEPOR'S birth-day in the town of Viria." A copy of this Proclamation was found among part of his baggage which fell into our bands. Sunday was the Anniversary of BAINAIPARTVI Birth day, , The ships Fair& and Princes, Charlotte of ; Tater were at Bengal on the Bth,"Febrility last, and were expected to proceed to Prince of Wales's Island, . Molacca, and Batavia, with troops, and to return °to • Beeg ! for their Eurbpe cargo. AT PLY . . .. . . The . Dulte of YORK'S Birthday tru kept by the Ndl'AL INTE LLIU ENG E. Royal Fatally and a select party, at Fregmere, on I --"•••••••-- Monday. In consequence of the fi ne weather, the ARRIVAL OF TEM. ARGUs entertainment took place on the lawn. The tents TO THE PELICAN. i f) PRIZE PLYMoUTFI, AIM. 16.—The Aega t , A mer . used on the °cession were those taken fr,orn.Ttreog, sloop of war, of 18 guns, lf.; twenty-four, n oe l icat Sane by the late .Marquis Coamwawk and WA . footed to the titneetr. . The one In Which her M. long nine-pounders, commanded by Capt r ,; o „t l - in the Channel, arrived here this mot ing, L. - i - ' ditaTT dinett:liES TIPPOO'S oho tent; It is ,ot a n which has lately so much anro.ed our ? ,.: I ,L been captured on Friday last, after a d . 1 "9 • 1 . eetagen lone, the *outside of strong oil cloth, and. the top exhibited evident marks of eastern aplen ty._ action, which lasted 40 minutes, by his 14,, , j . ::;: l : dour ; the inside was lined with printed cotton,. brig Pelican, of 16 guns, Caplaso Map , . s ; tile pr % sembling India shawls; the back part of the tent was hydrangias and roses, ornamented with the Prince's feathers, composed of ray's loss was very severe, having had the Firit Lieu . 'e. wounded, among the latter Captain Ar.t.tx, who lost nod as !N his- leg. We are happy to say the Pelican', loss wa s - &c. under which .were the tenant and twenty MUM' killed, letters G. P. It also formed of flowers. The whole • comparatively trilling, two only of her seamen w was encircled with wreaths of laurel, in honour of the Marquis of WELLiNceroN's brilliant victory • and on the right and , left were the letters F and tdcilled.' Previous to her capture she had taken P 2l "-. - W. formed likewise of the choicest flowers. The vessels, the whole of which were o t destroyed, p ic whole of the tasteful arrangements of the tents were the Betsy, re-captured by his Majesty's ship L ouo planned by the Princess Emollient. The new , dat, and a brig made use of as a cartel. O ne o f di plateau dessert service, made of fillagree, under the vessels ca p tured and destro y ed was the Redford, :1 orders of her MAJESTY, by Messrs. RUNDELL and , Dublin , with linens for New foundland, I BRIDGE, was displayed on this occasion. The large 100,0061. the names of the others we cannot l earn.— worth • centre piece exhibited his Majesty in his full corona- .Arrived the Bloodhound guri.o)rig with a convoy of coasters from Wales ; Bultcark, nel fleet ; -oust the Redeole and Reind eer Gm : , a tion robes. The outside posts of the tent were de- 74. from the Ch ou . coveted with heaths, &c. ; and on each side of her , I MAJes . ri's tent were stationed two long tents, simi. crnise:;---The Goldfinch big of ear, Cl l thin ttia 1-, lady ornamented. At the end of these were two which arrived here yesterday from St. And ero , h a d t , . and 11 and set Pm ,her, who smaller tents to correspond ; in the front of which long Passage, having g . . lel fourteen das s sitre , a n d l I were hung hay-rakes, hoes, and other implements of consequently does ne. b * any ncas. G: nerst rustic labour. The tents were surrounded with Clinton caw pissrng r off for London immedi te'y. orange-trees, in t a b s , the latter being completely 9 I hid by geranium and other flowers, placed for that 'PORTSMOUTH AUG. 17 —Arrived hi s : s l a i esty's I purpose. A party of the -Blues (dismounted), and ship Thrian, from a c nits;.;--Sailed lie M j e se % . s 1 of the 55th regiment, stationed at Windsor, were &d- . ship Drcarf, with a convoy to the Donn ; aw l th e i mined into the gardens. Jaseur, with a convoy tss Ci.r,k. I • , The company began to assemble at half-past four. . DEM., AUG. 17.--Sailed t•is Majesty's hi sVe 72 . About halt-past five the Patrice REGENT, mom. gear, for off Flushing, to join Adm ral Y , : -,,,, t panied by the Earl of YARMOUTH and Colonel Csqaumeadron; down from the Ri ser the Earl .k,t V' and th e Grasshop per, f r Fortsmn o i. ___ Dale, for Quebec ; and the Sun- ) 'frit tt, for it.r: a g .ocilingLo, arrived from London.• € -.nt About half-past eight o'clock the company left GRAVESEND, • Ana. 17.—Arriv d the Mg ' r the tents, and retired to the Pavilion, where the Th° ll " 6 • •••• ... Queen's band, in their full uniform, were assembled, Lasisou, and the . Ipswich Trotter, front the G. t - to . sand played. / Among the company, besides the QUEEN, , th e land fishery. 11xewicir, Auo.l7.—Arrived the Ea I of 14. PRINCE REGENT, the Duke apd Duchess of YORK, ; the Duke of CLARENCE, Princesses Ave LNTA rester packet, ~ ELI- with a Mail and passel gers fp m Ile. Z 4RETII, MARY ) SOPHIA ) and CHARLOTTE Of WALES, i ligoland. . ; PAT:MOUTH, AUG. 15.—Arrived his Mp. ty, whipthere were— Lord and Lady Rulkeley, Lord and Lady Langford, Mr. Goliak, Capt. . Mai"astd. "with at:on. 25 , Al 3 of ttle 6 t Lake, Sir Land Lady Hope, Earl of Yarmouth, Col. Bloom- Indiamen, from Portsmouth for the West mites, field, Lord and Lady Boston and daughters, Count Munster, . Col. Stevenson. Earl and Countess Harcourt, Earl and Coun- but to call at Cork. • teas of Limerick and daughters, Col. Howard, Col. Deshrow, ' LLOYD'S, AUG. 18.—The ships from the Lee vard , . Sir T. Stepney, Dowager Duchess of Leeds and daughter, Miss Island , . Knight, General Calvert, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Northey, Gen. , under corn iy of his Majesty's sh p Cr sga, Winyard. Gen. Taylor, Earl and Conntess of Macclesfield, are all accounted for, except the Betsey, • Joh 'so 0, Lady 1. Throne) Countess of ItnsdYn, Mn.s and Mils Yysc, from Barbadoes to 1 / 1 1 ; 1 in. Lord and Lady Hamden, Mr. and Lady Culling Smith, Lord . and Lady Ashlwook, the Marchlnuess Cornwallis, Mr. and F ourteen bound to Bristol ; three taken: one of Mrs. Fremantle, Lady Melville. 6,:c.- them' re-taken ; one given up; and 1l sal , a reed. Yesterday morning the PRINCE REGENT left Win- i Twenty-six bound to Liverpool ;21ar. i e : stria ; sor for Brighton. ' . land two left behind at St. Thomas's, leakj. Mr. ALEXANDER BUSING has thought it necessary I Three bound to Lancaster, an iv.,!. to declare the very impudent charge brought against ! Seven bound to Greenock; six arrived; and one him, of being 'concerned in a loan, raised in this : gone to Bermuda, leaky. country for the United States of America; to be Twenty' bound to Glasgow; 20 arrived. false. No man of honour believed it to. be true.— Two bound to Cork; one arrived; and one left We saw the scandalous insinuation, and .utterly dis- , a t S t. Thomas ' s, leak y . believing it, we did not mention either his, pr the t Eleven bound to Dublin ; nine arrived; one taken; name of another eminent merchant, whom we know ' one as above unaccounted for. to tie equally incapable of lending himself to such a I I Onebotutd to Belfast, arrived. transaction. We cannot help observing,' however, Eighty-two houndto London; supposed no be an that Mr. BARING must be aware that it was -first arrived.—Total 167. stated in an American Paper, and thnt the rumour was propagated before it brought him before " the tribunal of Newspaper. Editors in London." Would he wish that there existed no such tribunal ? Would he desire to live in a country where his character might be whispered away, and where no' channel was I open to him for rpublic appeal ? To the licentious-', ness of the press we are as hostile as he or any mau,! but ee do not like to see the friends of freedom so ready to attack, without discrimination, the press itsolf. What should we be without it? EXTRACT PROM A LETTER, DATED AUG. 3 : —.' " We never yet saw such desperate fighting, or expe rienced resistance so obstinate as on these days (the 28th and 30th). The manoeuvres of the enemy wert admirable, and all his positions chosen with infinite I skill, either' for attack or defence, victory or de feat. He could assail us from most of his crowned points with great advantag e , ' or he could reinforce and protect his troops on tese stations with celerity and effect. If successful, they were well calculated to ensure the fruits of victory, and, , if beaten, to save him from the disasters of retreat. Yet (rim all these positions he was completely forced, and dread fully cut up in his retreat, which it required all his efforts to cover, in any way, so as to prevent its• being converted into a disorderly flight, notwith standing the mountainous nature of the ground, which in many places defied combined and extensive move-, ments. Lord W eeetstutois was struck by a spent tnusket ' bullet, vihichlodged in his sash,. but, thank Ilettien, did no harm to our beloved Commander. Ills Lord ship says he never met with so daring and powerful an enemy ; but it seemed only to rouse the British lions more to vanquish him. Indeed nothing-can de scribe the devotedness and ardour of our forces.--f• ,_, ___ The Portuguese acted nobly. The Marquis of WOR- 1 It is not true that Mr. KEMULE has entered iutc a CUTER was struck by a ball, and fell from his horse; re-engagement at Covent.gardou Theatre. but this brave young nobleman was only stunned, ! The following is the extract from a letter of a and. was soon ready again to partake in the glory of'. respectable Clergyman in India :--" You will re his comrades.' The de fi les and passes, which abound joice to hear that the Inquisition at Goa was abolia in this district, afforded much facility and security, ed in, October last; and it is now thrown open to to the flying foe. We have nevertheless taken great public inspection, with all its cells, secret chant abundance of stores, baggage, &c. Numerous psi- , bers, &c." • : Boners are hourly bringing in, and Ido not think 1 There is now Ming in Leeds; a youth in the 21st r their•total loss can be less than 20,000 men , " I year of his age, lately discharged from the 53d ro g i. . Coax Excleotn a, Atm. 1 8 .— The Wheat/ left: men . t. of Foot, who received 18 wounds at Sala tnanca, over from Monday's arrivals made a large supply for , viz; .17 . by sabres, and one a musket-shot, the hall this morning's market, and having but few buyers .of which has not yet been extracted. The name of the sales were exceedingly heavy, yet we cannot this young veteran, . yo u Of; in years, bot a veteran is quote an alteration. in our prices, except inferior red his cou ntr y' s . service,. is Geoven, and last week he Wheat, at a reduction. of 2s. per quarter.. Barley earned 18s, by weaving. 1 dull sale, and rather cheaper. Oats se ll full as well Th e ce lebrat e d. American p h y sician, Dr. Benja• las on Monday. Beans are rather lower, the supply rain Bush, of Philadelphia, being large. •In Peas, and other articies,,no alters- rain April' last,' of the typhus fever. His loss is tion.., . muck regretted in, the United .Stittes,. where Isis emi departed this life on Wheat (Eaglinh). 80 122 New ditto Ditto (karate) . BO 120 Bean. .:70 T.i humanity had endeared him to his countrymen. Rya. ..........5 0 be lick do. , 6t 66 - 00 (O wineskin , had , gaiued-him a high reputation, and his IR" .a • . 9.• AMA :* 0 • . 4 2. j6,./. - ine , , : Gen. llumbert v wbo commanded the French troop s kme e litto Orth . 4 ° 46 that invaded Ireland •in 1707, has lat , ly arrived in s Malt es 92, 4F4oe ditto ..... .'.... 51 00 ) 4 0 1 . 'While Peas . c • --t ,--. APlAand do Dilto,bollera). ' 9O 'Feed ditto 2 4 40 name. It is conjectured • that he will solicit entploy the United ' Stites, from France, tinder n Mined Near ditto,..t e,.•..... 00; Flue Flour . : ... ... 95 100 . 11 t , .i'l • • • CICY rats . s - 100 10 5 ►t the !Wirier:l shop- BIRMINGIIAVI THEATRICALS. • MurirWes lively Comer!) , of All in the TV on; has been brought forward here. Mrs. Grecs, from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Ilaymark, t, made her appearance in Lady Restless, a character well suited to display her very superior abilities to advantage. Mr. Ela.tsroor was extremely happy in pourtraving the arduous part of Beverley; Mrs. Ea wyt's Belinda was firfinirlbly 'conceived, and sap ported with the greatest spirit and animation ; Sir John Restless met with a very able representative in Mr. BARTLEY ; fortherly of the late Th,:atre Royal, Drury-lane. The performances of Friday last were appropriated to the benefit of Mr. BARTLEY, our acting Al:ranger; by whose indefatigable exertions the business of tr:e drama has been so ably and prosperou sly conduct?d. On this occasion SnEntoArr's celebrated comedy of The . Rivals was represented, wherein the prineii , al characters were enacted by the following London performers:—Sir Anthony Absolute, Mr. BA RTLEY ; Captain Absolute, Mr.*ELlasTor; ; Jens ' M A i.- I.lWsus - ; Mrs. hlalaprop, Nirs. Gaov E Alia, Mrs. Glen; and Lydia Languish, Mrs. EDININ. We do not recollect to have witnessed a performonce iu which the cast - of characters was more juilHosslv tirranged, or the exertions of • the t)erformers crowned _lvith greater approbation. The Romance of "Vaddeiv ; followed, in which Barsrow, as Kazrae, and Mrs. Gaoye s in the Widow Ching Mustapha, were 411.- 1 sistibly 'comic. The attraction of the evening pro : diked a bumper.