The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-01-30 00:00:00

A NECESSARY APPENDAGE TO EVERY PARM• HOUSE. Jost published, P 4 1... in boards ; or ISs. bound and lettered ; the Eighth Edition. grontly enlarged and improves!, of ,TIIE FARM 6R`O CALENDAR,; containing the details nn.l artr ments of all the basinem necessary lobe performed on vatiitillUsits or farms, during every month or the Year, accortli4 tit the most at , and best modem practice, and formi a Pri.ctical 'Farmer's Complete Li brary. By A RTIIVR Yt)UNG, Esq. F.R.S. 1 .1 Ilaevetary . lo Inc Ilea of Arricultare, of Tara Member the Agricultural. Economical. and P.silosophical Sataeliesi la Europe and America. . A PishlOhetl, fur RICHARD PHILLIPS. bit, ,Yeles Pieter ? 14 Patent, st •r-row and to be had of nll Baoltitellers. • N. B. Country °enflames), dispmed to diArlbate this valni.l ble and iccomparahk book no ig their temintrv, may have 19 copies to the dozen t and a more poblic-spirliea and patriotic act could not well Ise performed, limn so give it, in that Way. . a npiversal and gratuitous circulation. There can be no doubt, • bat the general adopting of the improved prattiees del.:ilea in ' ITte ages of this volume, would, in a few years, double the value ()revery awe in the country, ns well to pdlord as to Tenant, and in an equal degree augment the resources, strength, and political consequences of the Empire. BATTLE OF BORODINO. The account of the battle of Borodino, of -which the following is an epitome, has been aim ' bated at St. Peteriburgh, *here it is ascribed to the pen of Sir Robert Wilson, and -it may, therefore, tie suppose, be deemed an authentic sketch of that important action :- 46 The Russian army having exchanged Common dee*, continued its retreat upoir the village of Bo rodino, between Mojaislc and frisk, on the high Moscow road. It was here reinforced by 13,000 effective men under General Miloradowitch, and 21,000 militia, chiefly armed with pikes, under Ge neral I .llarkow. The total number of the Russian army, exclusive of militia, amounted to 105,000 ef fective men ; the French army amounted to 130,000, reinforcements having been drawn to it from the mi litary posts occupied by the enemy. ‘' Bonaparte, contrary to all expectation, as he had omitted the favourable moment for attacking the Rus sians on their march from Smolensk, to repass the Dnieper, presented his army in order of battle on the '24th. It is possible that the appointment of Prince Kutusow had baffled: his hopes of peace: and that he felt himself now •bliged to effect that by force, which he was in hopes to have obtained by 1 the influence of fear on the Russian Cabinet. Cer- ; tain it is, that he himself regretted his former neglect I of opportunity, and that he said, I have lust one of the most brilliant occasions of my life " Prince Bagrathion's army sustained the Russian left ; but it was very much advanced in► front of the cent re and right. A battery of seven guns on a hill covered the advance of Prince Bagrathion's army, . • which I shall in future call the Second Army. 64 The action began about two o'clock in the af. ternoon of the 25th, and was furiously fought on both sides until near dusk, when the enemy possessed himself of the hill and battery, atid obliged the Se cond Amy to retire, and take up its position in alignment with the First Army, keeping some hills in its front, on which batteries were erected. On . the morning of the 26th, the French, with all their force, again fell upon Prince Bagrathion ; after a desperate resistance broke in upon him ; obliged his retreat in comp 4r46otder ; and the reserves of the First Army were under the necessity of moving to the left :tad front, to cover his works, and oppose the enemy ; which service was effectually executed, and the Second Army being rallied again, advanced in• to battle, and in its turn supported the troops that bad covered it. The Russian line was, however % obliged to throw back its left a little, so as to form an angle with a part of the centre and right.—At the salient point of this angle was a battery, which, if taken and- kept by the enemy, would lay commanded the wind,. Russian position, end oidifted a retreat. Bonaparte finding that the Rus,inns remained steady, notwithstanding his tre. en-nAnas cross-fire, resolved . to ,bave this work carried. Various attempts were made during the flly, ny cavilry and infantry, but they were Irk a, s roptilked. Towards nine o'clock in the we,rning, Gen..ral Bonarni had, however, lodged Lin•colf e hatt..ry, in front of the Russian left; but Genefll Golmoulotf, seizing the command of a ct,tvnt.. cos tie was a Staff Officer), rushed upon the battery, iv-carried it, put every man in it to the bay fret, except General lionami, who fairly escaped 'witn 1..0 wounds, one of which struck into his breast. Tonards dusk, the enemy's force retired, abandoning the battery, which he • had again carried about fouro'clock in - tile afternoon, anti - :iv - bleb bat- tery ;did been taken and re-taken three times during the day. He gradually withdrew upon some works in his rear, out of cannon-shot, and from thence fell back. about two worsts and a half, with his main body ; giving orders for his heavy guns, &c. to re tire upon Mojakk. The Russian army remained upon the field until the next evening, when Prince 11 6 .4vmsow fell back three worsts with his main body, and left General Platow, with his Cossacks, to oc cupy the ground in front of Borodino. Thus terminated, in the field, the memorable battle of Borodino ; and so far it resembled the bat- tie of Preuss Eylau, but not in its consequences : for Eytau preserved s Kopingsberg, whereas Borodino accelerated the lois of Moscow. I am, however, Inclined to think, that Borodino, theoretically, was in the field a more decisive victory . than Eylau, as the Russians/ there quitted the ground during the Fame night ; Whereas, at Borodino, it was tha enemy who withdrew. " It, however, greatly differed from 'Plylan in its progress ; for Borodino was a battle on points, —Eylau was a parade battle, general throughout the line, and covering every man in the field with its iron Canopy. The Russians bad snore than GOO guns in thr, I h but the >iire was sustained by about 1.68 pic;es. • 4 The !OS at Borodino to the Russian army wes t perhaps, severe • as it now appears that 25,000 ware or wounded (at least one-half killed), and above 1500 Qiticers, of whom three gegerals were kilted, and nine wounded. less of the enemy coisid not bat be tar greater; calculation se far could not NT; but it paw appears, from their own correspopdenee, that they eitimate their loss at 26 Gopersile hors de *tot; (j$ W llO Ol 4?Tft4 were killed)? ancl 403 0 99 !pm', TnE STATESMAN. r 1 1 t) 1 . • 11 . . , . , I 4 • 1 . • I•••• r , ' i . .1 -.,--_ - TO CORRESPONDENTS. ' ! It die writer of a Letter ea the Atlas's at the Fleet alltneY Re' 44seorer II nitre, elbil addreesell Os tholtiessStialis, lON call opoo us, he will II intonied soder whet gollikat4as his 7 whist ass be complied Stith. . etsn,' only of England, but of the world, ac isle thorned,aa en this treat occatien v •with - so• mach Credit to the character of their age and their country, sad honour to the memory of their departed kindred spitits l The hi* of the house of Z L.-tartan toq, with a congenial disposition to' the Royal Askiey(or . of reli. I gloo* ant political freedom, who brought blivaicesitor into this kingdom,:distinguisSd biaiielf in no small Aegis& Bet. whatever might be the effect 0(144 LAMIKAIN'S eloqiience upon the Adenine crowd, in inducing it.to conic E so wise so..e.oo4osiou $ hti reading the folk:l44MA had a tin& 4, chinned power" on * good many present, whose minds had been filled by hobgoblin fears on the subject of the secret reservation of Catholicism :--; • 44 1, A. B. do hereby declare, that 1 do prates. the Roman Catholic religion." " 1, A. B. A* swear, that 1 do abjure, condemn, and detest, as unchristiou and impious, the principle that it Is lawfssl to , murder, destroy, or any ways injure any person whatsoever, (or or under the pretence of being a heretic ; and 140 declare so. lamely before Goo, that believe, that no act in itself unjust, immoral, or wicked, can ever be justified or excused by or under pretence or colour that it was done either fee the good of the church, or in obedience to any ecclesiastical power whatsoever. I also dcelare,lbat it is not an article of the Catholic faith, net ' titer am 1 thereby required to believe or profcis that the Pope ii er that I am Wand to obey any order in its own na.. sure Immoral, ,though the Pope, or any ecclesiastical• power, should issue or direct such order ; bat, on the contrary, I hold that it would be sidul in 'me to pay any respect or obedience thereto ; I further declare, that 3do not believe that any sin I whatsoever committed by mean be forgiven at the'mere will • of any Pope, %Wei goy prieet;'•oref any person or persons white sor t er but that sincere sorrow for past sins, a firm and sincere resolution to avoid future guilt, and to Moots to Goo, are previ. ous and iodispensible requisites to establish a well-founded ex pectation of forgiveness; and that any person who receives ab.. solution without these previous requisites, so far from obtaining 'thereby any remission of his sins, incurs the additional guilt of violating a sacrament. And Ido swear' that I will defend, to the utmost of my power, the settlement and arrangement of pro perty in this country, as established by the laws now in being : I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any inten tion to subvert the present Church Establishment, for the pur pose of substituting a Catholic Establishment in its stead; and I do solemnly swear, that I will not exercise any'%privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb and weaken the Protestant religion and Protestant Government in this kingdom. " So hplp mg Goo." Upon reading the abote Oath what man of common reflection can entertain a doubt of the general prin ciples of the Catholics, rendering them good subjects of a State of which they fully partake in its protec tion and privileges. The Duke of &ism, from the pains he is taking la - the perusal of the Penal LIWs,. which aggrieved this numerous body of our -fellow subjects, we expect to see take that put in the coming debates in. Parliament, which his peculiar study, at this moment, must qualify him for. • --r-- . It will be discerned by our sagacious Readers, in perusing the following documents, that Government and the India Company have had their eye upon each other during the late altercations and discussions. These regulations, as far as they go, though they by no means come op to the sanguine expectations of many, will. calm the perturbed spirit of the mercan tile world. We shink. we already see the hitherto dead capital of many a• wealthy merchant exhibiting a vivifying appearance; by the docking and repairing certain large vessels formerly employed in the West, India or other Trade, in the view of soon lightening the weight of those manufactured goods which now., heavily press the doors of our warehouses. These laudable adventurers Count of bringing home a sea. sonable 'supply of that valuable article rice, at a time, too, when our. staple ingredient of subsistence,':, BREAD, is too dear for the poor to obtain in suf ficient quantity. Many persons will be afraid that the permission of the new shipping itts 4 sail from port to port in India, for the sale of its outward-bound cargo, may be productive of an illicit trade. Of this we see no thing to apprehend, at least for some time to come; ' in the meanwhile, regulations of other kinds most necessarily be adopted by the Legislature . and Com. PailY• TO TILE DIRECTORS, &c. • GESTLEYEN,—Having laid before the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, your report of the 811 r January, ISI9, •tragsmitting, according to the directions of this Board, - Supy of the rules aad regulations which seem to you expedient and well itelted to be sent to the principal Out•ports of the kingdom, for InfOrmation and guidance of such merchants us may be de. strum of embarking to a trade to the East ladies, with a view of importing rice from thence. • I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you, thist they approso of the said regulations, and do not consider It as neessary td. restrain the vessels in question, under all the cir cumstances of die case, from importing East India prohibited good% to be sold for exportation at the sales of the East India 1:611111MY t- and I stet tedesire.that !von wilt ClMUMeniesll6 tke shove rules and regulations to the merchants 'at the several Out ports forthwith. , 1 - i • I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant, Treasury-Clunbers, Jan. 4+0,-181S. It. WIIARTON. Commissionen of Customs. • The regulations alluded to in the above letter are these : • RULES AND REGULATIONS Poi. ERVOURAGINO 11111 IMPORTATION OF RICE FROM TIM RAFT INDIF.I. Licences will be granted from the United Company of Mer chants trading to the East Indies for British ships of the hurdles' of 4410 tons nod upwards, to sail to India from any port of the United Kingdom, before the sth of April, 1819, to return to the port of,Loodon with rice, on or before the 15th or August, 1811. Soils ships to carry out to India, from any port dr the United Kingdom, cargoes of any articles of British manufaciures aid prodoce whatever, that may be lcgalty exported, except arms, and naval and warlike stores. Bat no foreign connooditiel, in- ; eluding wines and spirits, *relit be exported is these ships,. Ships pm their nitwit, voyage, to tales in their cargo/N, L soy port or place in lodisoibere there is a Custoat•hou►e, and to be Wen three parts in !bur with rice.: the rilaidailig part, which shall Dot exceed one.tourth part, according to the registered Oteltalresseat at the iddis tonnage, Day be Idled pp With cut tqo, kfolh *Mr. 'litotes:, and lodlao cotaatoditko; except Pia* SoOds, rah 1 1 011, Iltdigo, and wik-petre. Chita geode of any 410 may not be larleo, • . tripe my ssi! trial Pie Fri $4 actin/ ir► IL*, far Ike r • A /'. ' - • 111.0ka • -; • • . 1 ; _ .. ".'S. p p itrpoge ooe of de l a i he ver iag ing iatir the:r i - w czes tke sod er Britishindi prodgootained ileforpthero. piirtroas beforts.oieltiOaed (except sada articles as are before excepted), bat shall "not " engage to trade, or barter, from inn to port," not carry goods upon freight, by way of a coasti ng trade, from port to port, in India. Upon ships arriving from India at the port of London, t h e cargoes to be landed and sold by public auction, by the Unit e d Company Of Merchants trading to the East Indies a the rice to be charged with the actual disbursements of the Company for wharfage, labour, and, warehouse rent ; the aseueboadixe to h e landed aid sold ander the terms of the Act of the SIM of hi s Majesty. A list, containing the names and descriptions of the matter, supercargoes, deers, mates, and all persons composing th e ship's company, to be delivered by the Arians' of such ship, 1 „ the Collector and Comptroller, (mother principal °nicer . at a.e Port from whence path dips may sail for India previous to their sailing therefrom. • Bond to be given by the owners and masters of ships, nal al persons, rotoposieg the ship's company (casualties excepted) shall return to London in the same lips in which they sailed from *ay port of the United Kingdom. No passeager or pawn, gees to be curried ant to India, or brought from thence, 'vox any account whatever. Security to be given for the malateisaoce iu Nighod, and re. torn to J o di; or say midge seamen -olio may be employed is such ships, either to supply the place of British' seamen la. pressed into bla Majesty's nasal sdnice is ladle, or email. ties, or that may coon to England is those ap, COMMODORE RODGERS'S SQUADRON. Scir.tY, JAN. $6.--Arrived the Rying Captain FaoNn, from St. Michael's, boned to Lon. don; sailed the 10th inst. ; and on the 49th fell in with Commodore Bonasia's squadron,, consisting of three frigates and two brigs; seatwithip gue.ollot of one of the frigates, but being a good sailer, she escaped. On the 15th fell in with a British aqua. drop of three sail • of the line and two frigates, to whom Captain FROND gave the information of the Americans, and they immediately went in chase, and he has no doubt but our ships Weald fall in with them." • t . . Yesterday the Duke of YORE, the Earl of VERTOOI,, end Viscount CASTLERRAOII 9 trsusacted business with the PRINCE REGRET. Miss lINJGIIT is appointed Sub-Governess to the Princess CuAntorrEdf WALED, in the room of Mri. UDNEY, who retired with . Lady De CMTPDED. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House., when General the Eariof Moray was introduced,. and took the usual *Oil on being. appointed to the high offices of Governor-General Ind Commander-in-Chief in India. His Lordship afterwards partook of a grand dinner at the City of 'London Tavern, Letters have been received from the French coast, :merit= Park, dated the 21st instant, which state, that all the Bills drawn .on the Treasury at Paris by Prussians, Poles, and subjects of the• Confederacy of the Rhine; who have supplied the French army by contracts, have been refused payment, and are returned protested. It is said that Ministers have, within these few days, contracted for clothing for 50,000 Spaniards. —.."his corroborates the report which we noticed a few clays ego, of the Cones having agreed to rein force the army under Lord WELLINGTON with so many Spaniels troops. The'campaign in the Peoill. surA is expected to commence early in March. The House of Commons meet, •pureuent•to ad journment, on 'Tuesday next, the 94 of February, and the House of Lords on the following dad. The CIIANCELLOR Of the &CHEQUER, it is reported, will stand in need of a loan of Fort,. Millions, a tuoiety thereof to take up Exchequer Bills, and the re. utaiuder to be applied for the current serilcee of the year. I - The Scheldt fleet is ready to pot to sea, and its destination is, on good groande, believed to be an American port. The report of an immediate embargo biting in con templation in all the French ports is now contra dicted. BONAPARTE is supposed to be anxious fur enlarging the commercial intercourse with this coun try by licences, for the purpose of obtaining article( of width he stands in the greatest need, in copse queues of the defeat and entire destruction of the Grand Amy, and the loss of all its magazines, tag- Me, 84c. Fortunately the system of licences has ' been abandoned by our Government, never, we trust, to be revived. A supply of arms and equipment for 20,000 men, *e understand, is to be Immediatlely sent to Prussia. It h geld s that the Sth, 14th, and 13th regiments of horse, are coming home from Portugal immediate ly, in consequence of the losses which they have sustained. I. The remains of Lord 11E4THFIELD are to bo moied,on Tuesday next, from his : house in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, for interment, in the family vault in . Devonshire. New honours, or rather titles, are talked of, acid . in large lots—and new Peerages, as well as addi tions to the different orders ! We have heard that 'Mr. EI.LiSTOTI has become puschaser of the Pavillon Theatesfrons Mr. Astbs.a v, senior. • ELorzauwr EXTRAORDINARY.-The widow of a Field Officer, aged fifty-eight *years ellped from her two daughters in the neighbourhood of Baker-street last week, with a gallant son of Mare, a private of a light dragoon regiment, aged twenty Iwo, and ea . ' led to the hymeneal altar on Mouday last. The Lady I has eight hututred * year, besides a handsome prori t I don for her two daughters, providing there he nu ill, crease of family. The happy couple are spendiug honey-moon at Hounslow, where they have when cottage. Penesranslttst.—Another atfienpt to rival tht. Kentish man in his performance of s ten miles in one, hour, was .yesterday made by a Mr. Sumner, fur a . wager of 20 guineas. The. attempt was made on the Uxbridge-road, and the pedestrian did use miles in two minutes over the half hour, but he was after wards beat by time in every hundred yards, and the hour expired when he had done nine miles and a quar ter. The ground was favourable to the task. The revival of the Old Mode of Drawing the Lot tery has btktime exceeding popular, in eiNisequence. of the 'Publiu getting the whole rill the Capital Yrivs in the last Lottery, in Shares ; the Little Lovell is to be draw ti is the same manner On the 17th of next Month. 1 .~v~ . ". r y THE STATEWAN. LONDON: SATURDAY) JANUARY 30, 1813. In the momentary dearth of news from Russia and other parts of the Continent, we may be allowed to breathe calmer sentiments than those which are forced from us by the bloody scenes of war, and the cotes• trophe of thousands of our fellow-creatures daily slaughtered in the field of battle. War naturally tends to harden the heart of man, and to bring him back to sthe manners of that age which has been properly enough denominated the iron awc.--The man who wishes to lose sight of Peace, a even in the most conflicting periods, ia disqualified for society and civilization. We are glad to tee one of our rivals soften his tone on this topic; and adopt t in a great measure, for once, our reasoning and our wishes. We also shall be glad to see the Cabinet of Great Britain f•et forth a wise and spirited declara tion of the policy it means to pursue, If th war h must be continued. But he is wrong in saying ere never has been such a thing set forth, ere" at the commencement of the contest.—Nowal. though the Treaty of Pilnitz was not openly' promulgated, but only communicated to. the several wise-heads concerned, showing them how the dismemberment of France was to take place, and how partitioned off among the contracting parties; yet did the Austrian and British CommaSders (no doubt authorised by their respective Governments), publish a Declaration at Antwerp, of what traa to be done when France should be conquered!! ! .. The Times urges the " propriety of disclaimingnow the most distadt wish of, or pretension toi 'the dig ' membermenti or subjugation of France, or any de• sign to diminish the true lustre and greatness of France herself!" This is a wonderful modenttion indeed! where did that Paper learn this new tessoli ? But no matter; the doctrine is wholesome. It goes as far as we would in that respect. But then follow reflections, and something in the nature of reasoning, which ill accords with that advice or admonition to 'Ministers;, for it imputes the changes France (with its lustre and greatness) has undergone to " a miserable revolution," an af .fiicting revolution if he pleases. Bat why slid not the writer bestow a few words on the causes of that revolution so calamitous to millions ? They might bare been of _use as a memento to the men of rate in 1 other countries, who connive at, or encourage vice . in power, and extravagance in office. A seasonable hint or two of the above kind, might save ourselves from a revolution like that which he is pleased to al- 1 lude to, and Which would be more appropriately supplied with any other epithet than the contemptible one of miserable. . . When we read these long details in the Ministerial Prints, we are ready to exclaim, and are the minds of Englishmen so degenerated as to regale on wordy food like this? It is really " vox et preterea nihil" —talking and nothing else—in the plain language of JOHN BULL, it is using the black-ball in one hand, and the white-roil s!& in the other. We rejoice, however, to know (and we have it on good authority), that it has been given out, front an important quarter, that it will be deemed wiser for the organs of our wise Ministry to play off those airs at the present juncture, which partake more of the piano than of the forte. Our own hopes rest on - seeing this driadful war drawing to its close. The wounds of Europe mast be healed. We had no doubt that the Emperor A7.IXANDEIeB hasty %WE to Vilna, had in it collateral views besides those of , encouraging his successful troops : weexpreued as + much at the time ; and we have been wrong tb no one conjecture of the kind. We have been earnestly expecting thesrvivalwf a Gottenburgh Mail, as every particle of intelligence from that quarter is highly valuable at this moment. We- know that there is an extraordinary, bustle at Vienna ; and as we have no accredited Minister at that Court, we feel anxious for the in. terest of our country in the measures which may be adopted by the Powers of the North.-z- . Private letters have been received from Paris to the. 20th inst. which show, that the report of an embargo on the ports of the Channel were groundless. By this communication very little political informationc is learned, the police ou this head Iniug_uow stricter than ever. -~r The . preeeedings of the Meeting at the Perites we have given at length in our Paper of this 'day ; and oar Readers, as far es they may be supposed to par. take of our sentiments, will bugled to Witness the philosophic and christian,like iendnients littered on the occasion by those anemias to bigotry, 40 Mends to universal freedom of conscheom, 1404 tows now*, 1104442 m, and Axiom. Pe" collar pleasure to observe tbe hp 4 .thgimost par 4n4 pepbiw qf *lag* pi** swab ..- t , , s • Arr. ..: ~1:~ ;~ i 9