The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-10-30 00:00:00

;~ , ; ~. q • 4 ,1 want of Generals : Kutusow is acknowledged to he a brave and courageous man, bat what can he do alone? Baron d'Arnifeldt, a Swede by birth, is much talked of ; but he is no farther employed than to be the Chief Governor of Finland, and one of the actipg Adjutant-Generals of the Russian army, and as such accompanies the Emperor Alexander, and thus has no active part in the war. It is a very remark e able circumstance that this very Baron d'Armfelilt : who was the first favourite of Gustaeus iii. Led who, after his death, or assassination, attempted to throw Swedeo into the hands of Russia, and on that accoutit was outlived, and his name placed on the gallows; and who, during Res reign of the late un fortunate Gustaeus Adolphus, was pardoned ; and who, soon after that time, was invited by the Emperor Alexander, through his Ambassador at Stockholm, Mr. Alopeus, to betray his country, bat then refused, should at last be induced to go over to the Russian party. The real cause has not been generally known, but the fact is this:--Baran d'Armfeldt, who was one of the first to sign the Act of abdicating Gustavus Adolphus, did, nevertheless, some time afterwards, and during the reign of Bernadotte, send n man to a printer in Stockholm, with a kind of advertise ment, calling upon the Swedes to arm in favour of Gustavus Adolphus. The Fruiter, having read the advertisement, and findicg it to contain a language contrary to the established Government, told the .person seat with the advertisement that he could not print ir, and that he found himself bound to detain him ; and he laid hold of the man. How. ever, as he was stronger than the printer, he. escaped. The printer sheaved the paper to the Lord Governor of Stockholm, Baron Skioldebrand, who immediately recognized the hand.writing of Eaton d'Arnifeldt in several places where the style of the advertisement was corrected and alter , ed, went to the Crown Prince and imparted the busi ness. &roe d'Arinfeldt having in the mean time been informed of the hail success of the person he had sent to the printer, went to the Russian Ambassador, General Selintelen, and took the oath of allegiance to the Emperor of Russia. The Swedish Govern ment, which could not therefore punish Mm as a traitor, ordered him to quit Sweden, and even sent an escort with him to Tornen, and Armfeldt thus got to Finland, and afterwards to Russia, where Le was immediately emp:eyed as aforesaid; end, to the great surprise of Bernadotte, war p.c.:oiled to him as a Russia • subject at the interriew Bernadotte had uith Alexander at A:m. There is a great talk of an overture of peace between Russia and France; and England, it is pc,iilivey asserted, has promised St. Lucie to Sweden. In the mean time we get subsidies from Great Britain, and the best Inulerstandiug exists between Great Britain and Sweden. LONDON: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1811 We mentioned yesterday that Governmeat had received dispatches from Lord CATHCART, which had not been made public, and the same report is given in the Morning Papers to-day, but no particulars have yet transpired. It is, however, understood, that the dispatches came by the Clio sloop of war s The Intelligence collected from private letters re. ; frotn WingoSound,whence she sailed on the 18th inst. ceived from Bengal by the Fleet lately arrived, is as i with the homeward-bound fleet, and parted the follow follows : I " faisturhances were reported in Cutcli: our troops : ing day off the Scan. She arrived at Leith on the 26th, had moved towards that quarter from Bombay ; the ; and the Captain reports that 50 of the convoy were cause of the dispute had not transpired. A scarcity' missing, and 12 of them were known to be lost. of grain was telt in Tennerelly, and in almost every i Letters have also been received by the same vessel, part of the Madras territory. Permission had been! i stating that preparations were making by the French granted to transport grain, free of duty, until this ! I and Russian armies to try their strength, not far dies niwith ( t. tuber ); great quantities of rice had been shipped (torn Malabar. The Jaoluali force that had taut from Moscow ; upon the event of which battle, moved to the northward, to protect Behar from. the it was thought, the fate of the Russian empire de iiivasion et tt.e Pendarries, continued in the field.— putted. If any reliance could be placed in the va- From Delhi we learn, that the Niece Merza Johan. I rious accounts which have been transmitted to this goer intended to set out for the lower provinces, i country from the Russian Government, some hopes where it was his wish to reside. The army IA Bundle might be cetertained of their success in another battle,as cunt! had bsol:e up, and the corps were returning to their respective cantonments. Colonel Roderick it is probable they will, from necessity, be the assailan ts. Fraser comman d ed in the Fort of Kaletighur, where IWe have, however, unfortunately been so often dc. a garrison would remain, consisting of the lit bat- I aired by the Russian statements, that it seems im talon of the I lth native inftweary, five comps. possible to place an reliance in the dispatches, either idea of the 2d bettalion of the 2,1, and a party of t from Lord CATHCART, or any other public source of artillery, KithKith two six-pounders, under Lieutenant I Fulton.—The Ist battalion of the 7th native intim- information from Russia. It must also be admitted, try, was to march for Muttra by the route of Cal. that the French accounts of a battle are frequently pee.—An earthquake had bees) felt which extended exaggerated; but the best criterion is, and always over a very large portion of tlindostan, but there 1 h as b een , to judge from the situation of the contend was ne reason to suppose it was any where produc. lag armies, after a battle has been fought, and it will time of serious coesequences.—The Pendarree Chief. i taili, Kurreem Khan and his fatuity, had certainly I ver y seldom or ever ha pp en, that a beaten and found refuge from their pursoors in Ilolkar ' s camp .— ! discomfited army can advance in an enemy's Runjeet Sing had returned to 1.-diOre, lifter his visit I country, and take possession of their large city and to Futtegurrab, to celebrate this nuptials of Gorug I fortified places. In addition to these circumstances, Sine with the danghter of Jummeel Sing.--Coltinei there generally are private letters from individuals, tichterlony hadelso been at the huplialt, and had re : containing information upon which reliance may be turned to Leotlchaunah, where Rtmjeet Sing had paid I him a visit. - Soojah ul Hulk, it appeared, was again in ; placed, or it li ould be next to an impossibility to some force; he is said to have crossed the Attack, and I draw any just inference, when the Courier, and encamped at Kliairabad, 'expecting aid from th 6 SooL other Ministerial Journals, are continually deceiving bah of Cashrtieer. Mahmend Shah, the reigning the public, by publishing accounts which they know to sultan, Was harassed by - ittrasiotis from the WOOS:. be false. It is so natural for iudividuals to believe reports tains, and continued stationed With his Vizier tit Cahif. Zeraan Shalcharl set out from 'Lahore to Mooltain. which correspond with their inclination, that it is Ameer Khan had again 'marched to the northward, with reluctance they suffer themselves to be unde he e as atts'lldett to Kotah by Lislartim Sut and Gut. ceived, and we have frequently incurred displeasure foor Khan, from whence he intended to proceed to by publishing the truth ) instead of following the ex- 1 Sheergurrah. Kurreem Khaii, the celebrated Pen. ample of our cotemporaries. We shall, however, darree Chieftain, had been' delivered. into the hands of the Bhae,lty • whem he wai pvit 'in Confinement; I will persevere with the most upright and honourable the Court of iPontiah had demaikled his person, as an I intentions in our former opinions, and take the iteliseensibie mandition'of tiny' favour which Male I liberty to repeat that in our general view of the Row might expect from the l'eshwa ; this was dis- eventful contest between NAPOLEON and ALEXAN• Veal:jog to Attlee!' Khan, who, with pargeen Saul, DER, it appears to us to be drat% ing towards a speedy had interceded for the Peedarre's liberty. - body of freebooters fr o m the Dean had eppeared 4 . ' gieat conclusion. and, i from the superior tactics of the in the neighhourhoocl of Merzapore and &glares ; they had plundered the village in the viel t ay of French aided by their powerful Allies, we do not hesitate to state, that it will mos t likely termi nate in the subjugation of Russia, which contest our the former city ; they entered the Company's prii. Government have been the chief cause of promot vinces thtough the great ties fru-n the Divan, ieg, as a PIVLRAION to the WA R in SPAIN. Which opens to Meranpore, and live since beet --wee-- their . course towards Shiihabed, coramittine . sad TO THE gurrog, de'ristattrits in' their .route ; ' ell irks alarm at Sive the days of Dean Sane: SO exquisite a piece Ghuya, Patna, and in Soulheru Behar. This herds• of ridicule Jaws not .appeared, as a letter which I read is' gopposed to have conle from the country o:, :he Nirbutldeh, towards the south-west, and lately at- ill the hurling Chrouicic some days ago, trying the 1 tidied to Nagpore, bin lia4ng hard . 91.e%%e,1 f r o, , t hy event of the burning of the capital of Russia by the 'side of Hindman!), made thls• desperate iecursier in siesposed destruetio'n of wir own. • To commas goes' of silgenance; a "Oitierable force . of'eal ai vy readers it might, mid prehably di'd I ' appear as an in- bad rooted lift the4r tear from Pe:laulightir, Bandit '" ' discreet and useless levity, but to me the tperal was rand and Cawnpore, and precindions mere talten in ' not less conspicuous then the wit. itut, Si!, the eri every district to protect the Feiropeati and n a tiv e inhabitaiva, and tb cover the frbistier.' The country tical state of • this country demands i greyer investi of Jay pate was tedetably tranquil, the 'Rajah hay- pewit, and it is the duty of every man to subscribe rtg fulfilled his engieements to Amer Khan.— his quOta of information to the deliverance of the INDIA. e TIIE FiTATES f.iN. in d eow i tr e atiodato e a: t i l l e r:7l' d Lieutenant Locket had returned ,to Bussorah, after public f rol % that gross and iaspudent system of impo of and the ruins of Babylon ; Ise had Bidets, which, notwithstanding daily detecticn, cond. several volt/Mile Arabi: and Persian Ma- Titus it still noes' . to be daily practiscd tt;tl l ssr , s . ss . nuscripts. The operations of Scindia's detaelimpots parts of Hindustan had been attend- continues to be believed thst the affairs of Russia are " u t eusual success, which had coutribu:ed prosperons condition, aml that the destrucdon and sh a , erscuation of Moscow was sn unconition effort of zeal ' the ' dominions acid extend vo we l - of that Chieftain. From Rangoon ad, and patriotism in the support of National Indepene vice h a d been received of the Nuectss of the ltoyal eacc; but what is far worse than this unfounded be- Army aga i n st the insurgents of Arracan, who lief, little or no acceen: is taken of the calamities h a d sl e d to the Eastern llillt. Reperts from Chkts. and sufferings of that, or of any other people, so as gang state, that straggling parties of Burmalts had the machinery of th e i r G overnmen t, i n a lliance with committed depredations on this side the Nafa. The main Burnish force consisted of abonl 7000 men; its ours, are preserved ; although the itthebitants mey consequence, a detachment of the 12th Native In. have no share in their resolves, nor any interest in fantry, from Barrackpor&, pissed Luckipore, on its their preservation. My l ong res idence in Russia, route to Chittagong. The ship Hating was lauding Sir enables for Europe.. The ship Surrey had been sent to MA- me to estimate the real condition of that country at this tnement, which is but too truly de, dras with rice; the Dorer Castle was In dock, hay. itig grounded in the !fiver; the Marquis Wellesky scribed by Dr. CLARKE in his Travels. No man remained; and the Walthamgory and Lady Castle- who has lived only in England can possibly conceive reagh were gone to Prince of Wales Island ; the w hat wretched, degraded beings the ...lass of the popti. Warren Hastings and Lord L'astlereagh's dodoes tion was Chien. Ssreral extra ships were expected to load for Europa." lation is throughout the whole extent of that vast ens pire—a people who neither have nor can have any in terest whatsoever in the support of the Emperor's au thority, nor of that of the Nobles,whose more imme, diate slaves they are, as much indeed as the cattle in their stalls. What interest can such a people possi, bly have to resist the conquest of the French, or of any other civilised nation. Their only possible sup fering is in the resistance to conquest ; thy conquest itself, when completed, could not but be a gain to them. The Government of France, for its own sake, putting all morals, or humanity, or justice, out of the question, could not bet advance their condition ; yet the mass of the people of Moscow, the abject slaves of their superiors, are supposed to have SPONTANEOUSLY and unanimously tied to the deserts, with their miserable families, at the open ing of their tremendous winter, to preserve (0 monstrous delusion!) their NATIONAL INDEPEND ENCE. TO CORRESPON DENTS. We have received a very singular letter from a PATRIOT, at !Mandy Park, which shall be particularly noticed To-mor row•. We hat-z also received Casatuev f.svitar, and will pay early at tention to it. CumYJN SzNsa, from Birmingham, oil the High Price of Bread s shall appear Tu-mnrruw•, it possible. . A rr. Mails. Dye 2 O 0 O O 0 .. 6 0 PRICE STOCKS THIS Hank 9144 15 3 per Cent. Coin. 5 I 3 per Cent. lied. 57 ii per Cent. 732 5 per Cent. Navy 901 j Lerng. Ann. 15 I)AT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Indio Boo& I die. par Esc!wooer 2 3 • • , Ditto 3;4. 4 6 p Omuium 51 5 pi. Consols fur Acct. 59e Eti Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAN. A FREE reorLe indeed, or a people having still the FEELINGS Or FREEMEN, though they nay have lost the most essential benefits of a Free .Govern- ment, WILL, or OUGHT, to resist a hostile invasion, on the sacred principles of FREEDOM ALONE, side. pendently of any evils to be encountered, or adran. tages to be lost by foreign conquest ; but THE Hug- 1 'TANS can have no such feelings; and are exposed to the extremity of human suffering, merely because: the Emperor ALEXANDER NOM' chuses to mist the ' , European system of BONAPARTE, after basing sub. scribed to its pristine ascendancy, by what I shall con tent myself with only lamenting as a mistaken policy, I but which was branded by all the suppwrters of the i l present Administration, with every epithet of con tempt and execration. HERE, Sag, THE smear. sr.- i GINS. We live in times in which it may be fit to re- ' flect upon the degrees of suffering which a moral and I enlightened people (who have the power in their own hands) ought to endure. Not for the preservation of I their country, nor of a free constitution of Govern meet, but for the support of corraption or arbitrary power. Were England invaded at this moment, much as her people may have suffered from mis-go- 1 vernmettt, I know and feel, with pride and exults. I title, that every nerve would be strained, and every breast be bared in her defence; but if the time should ever arrive, when, from the obstinate conti nuance of exhausting wars, and the system of taxa tion necessary for their support, Government should have attracted to itself so great a part of the pro• perty of the country, as that THEY ONLY could live in ease and comfort who were fed by Government out of this spoil of the people, and if from the un equal constitution of Parliament the People felt that they had no legitimate means of correcting these in tolerable evils, it is my firm opinion, that if England were under suety circumstances invaded the people of London would not, upon a mandate from the Trea sury (like that of the Tartar Governor of Moscow), set fire to that great and opulent city, only that the mere machinery of such a Government, as I have an ticipated (but which I pray God may never be realized), might be kept up in other parts of the kingdom, until the whole island was eaten up as with a cancer ; and all this, perhaps, not to prevent France from occupying our country (which at no time,' nor under any possible circumstances, will Britons ever submit to, nor I believe Frenchmen ever attempt), but to enforce some condition of peace, in the terms of which no man in England might have any interest whatsoever, but which had, become a eine qua, n noh in diploinacy, from the obsti ' oacy and folly of setne of the weakest men in the world, whom it might have become systematic to prefer, as Ministers to the most eminent persons, in the most perilous times. To avert such a possible condition of our country, which would most as suredly subvert our Monarchy, and entail upon the country the greatest calamities, ought to he the sole aim of every political writer, and of every public mall engaged in the administration of our Govern ment in this alarming crisis. Had the Ministers of this country been responsible to a Free Parliament, chosen .(not by universal sal frage) but by the mass of property and intelligence in this Island, the world could never have possibly been in its present unexampled state of disorder and ruin. lam not prepared to impute the system which I has hetat so long pursued, to vickedness in its au thors ; it is sufficient fur my purpose, that it has been man(festly erroneous ; and I desire nothing more for the deliverance of our affairs, that' that .THE PEOPLE might be enabled, according to the spirit. of the Constitution, iiis in judgmenrupon the present pOature of our atrairi. • .... . . - Foote there Ilad Parliament emanated from the N a p —7—'7' Frenelt under th e cou l d l i t t n i d m i ss ,o ib rt l u yLia l, ye w c rr ot i t i n o t t: e .r nan A c e : m t: LseE E - vi t ii tare in which we have beeu so long eas.e.o. exp en d'. It is no::, admit, quite impossible to aiti,d,aw Our troops from the Peninsula, leaving the laudable, Or 4 e l• a e r ( ri l .; s , t: o n u d . a e r v d er ; n b a u t, t ira h l n , fore ee engager! to perish, who have resisted the shl: i d r o p w r • 0 o t e f c o rt u o r n their invitation, we ought more cautt • • ously to II3V ( considered, whether their deliverante, through out means, was practicable ; and should .ash • e cont em , plated, besides, the dreadful Sufi' , • crt'lgs we 0..361( at all events expose thorn to, bv a 1 • 1,1 •.g, and nib than doubtful, resistance. Perhaps the .11s, • t ory 0: the world has not furnished such a lo:;g_l;,otracta scene of misery as Spain and Portugal I taf c endured and lam sorry to be obliged to ad,!. tin! hear be too little of this afflicling suyect. The s: hole drift of the argument in favour of this branch the wa r is, that it IS 3 71:a TO THU WIIALL— h t at it exhamt s the power and resources of Prance. That ou r a id to the Peninsula has given a more military charaver to our army, and raised up genius to command it— that it bus diverted the assault from Great Britain) and made us even fearless of the attempt. My objection to the whole of this argon, nt that it is F ALSE—and brutally selfish if it were TRUE. Lord Wettlnozorr would have been as great a Cm. ral PERE, if his own country had been invaded, • , s he has proved himself to be in Spain ; and our troops would have fought as gloriously under 11 I ' M---11:1)) possible, with greater enthusiasm, if they had been fighting for their independence upon thei r °v• sol • • •ia t and utterly deny, that for British o hj ec t o i t was ' ne cessary to thin British regiments i:tto skiifui soh. fliers, by such a ruinous uaste of our r • esaurces, is well as by the sacrifice of so many. brava men. But it seems that it showed them the French iq battler and thereby inspired confidence, and averted the panic which might have arisen, if the first coo. Ilia with them had been here. This reasoning, Sir, is equally (envious—the whole course of the cam. paigns in the Peninsula, gives the lie•to this man upon British soldiers. The battle of Salamanca, ex cept that it was on a larger scale, and its consequen. ces comparatively important, was not more brilliant, nor decisive of superiority, than all our former col lisions with the enemy in battle. They were all equally glorious to our Commander, and to the whole body of our officers and men. Would to Coo that Awe we have lost of both, and who are yet to perish at a distance from their country, had been preserved ; or might yet be saved, to protect her on the day of danger. But it will be said, no doubt, that although the arguments which I condem, have been used by the favourers of the war on the Peninsula, yet that they have only been employed more stronest to Instill our support of it ; but not as the principle which in duced our Government originally to bestow it, sit. to maintain the cause of freedom and independence. Sir, if we had adopted that principle in the outset the troubles in Europe, we might, indeed, have dc. livered a suffering world from unutterable calamities. Now—it is too late. To illustrate this melancholy truth, would be to write the history of our own times. To a future age such a history will be most instruc! tive—but useless to the present. There is not a man In the kingdom capable of reading and of reflecting on what he reads, who does not impute the par ! tentous power of France to a series of mistakes (to say the least), in the Government of this country. But supposing this great contlict on the Pitinsuln to have been originally advisable, as the only re• mining hope of restoring the balance of Europe ; is it not a reproach to the late Farliamput, and to this nation which suffer it, that such a momentous cont cern yet remains under the auspices of those who now conduct it ? If the contest &serves the chit• racter on which it can only be justified, surely ail the force and vigour of this country ought to karn been consecrated to its success; and next to the mightiest pressure of force —the earliest point of time was critical to the extreme. Wheit Lord Vist.- LINGTON shall return from Spain (as I pray Goo he may), to receive the reward of his glorious exertions, in the bosom of his family and his country, let him be asked this question in his place in the House of Lords, where his merit has so justly platted him. QUESTION TO LORD WELLINGTOV. , • th e disastrous Etipedition to W a lch e rrn been lauded in the Had that mighty army, my Lord, o Web was sent to perish in North of Spain, and placed under your com mand, not merely at the time when it left the coast of Englan d, but whit, with only ordinary dispatch, it might have left it; can you nor, from the experience you have had since in service on the Peais• sula, be able to say, that you believe, you could have loog 3 g ) delivered It from the invasion of France? time (lo t any thing I know , for I am not a law y er), may Le matiz . c, the If Lord WELLING 1 ' 07 ; , on hi s return, should an swer that question in the affir each at lost gone by for punishment, but no t for p ublic reps and execration. The season , however, may many cal*. P ar liameot jest returned, is not very lik el y when the people of this country will nit ,s b . mit to be governed by the au thors of so • ter to admin is ter w hich the a m r i r t i i v e e s ' ; but I am sorry to say that the tans redress ; and I seek no othe r than that law and constitution may administer. % ott which has not yet entered upon its fran chise, e hpo WO' You will not wonder, at my distr ust of R Parliament S brOgir are informed, that I am a Monet ; axr 0 1 distresses ll P 901. , well nigh ruined by the this great manufacturing community) I 1 r 1 II ( il a, 1:: i , ~ i , ), ; t , • F i',.l 1 I : .1.,. - e t