The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-10-24 00:00:00

LONDON: SATCRD4E, OCTOBER 21, ISM Paris Papers were received last night to the 18th inst. containing the TWENTY-SECONO BULLETIN of the French army, dated Moscow, the 27th ult. and there are also letters of the 30th, which will be found very interesting. In these accounts NAPO LEON has not transmitted any communicatiou respect ing his plan of condocting the campaign ; but is busi ly employed in organising the new form of Govern- inept for Moscow, and seemingly with as much com posure as he would regulate the affairs of Ms own fa mily. The French army are cantoned in that city, and huts are building for their accommodation—it appears they have p'enty of previ►ions of all kinds, and have discovered several magazines of sugar, furs, &e. as well as many ether valuable elfkts, in the cellars which had escaped the fury of the flames. The Rus sian army had retired upon the Kalouga and Toula ; the latter place is 112 miles south of Moscow, and contains the greatest manufactory of arms in Russia. The French advanced-guard is upon the I'ikra, which we suppose means Pocroo, about 60 miles from Moscow•. The Times and Post of this day, are quite elated •ith joy at the meagre Bulletin, and would have us believe that NAPOLZON is eau:4l in a trap at Mos cow, from which he cannot escape. The Post is ra ther the most sanguine of the two, and expresses Its joy in the following language :- 44 The intelligence from Russia which we yester day had the happiness to communicate to our Rea ders, was such as cannot have failed to elate every honest heart with joy and exultation. The EI4PEKOR firm to his patriotic and magnanimous purpose ; the unisemal Russian nation is in arms ; the merciless Invader la in the heart of their Ere. , .;-, assailed on all sides by unbroken and insinrit);e soldiers ; while the enemy are reduoed to a mere defensive position In the midst of the ruins of the desolated capital." We shall forbear to make any comments opts this paragraph, leaving it to our Readers to judge for thew• ! -3. The itussian peasantry in the province of Mos cow are beginning, even amidst scenes of carnage and desolation, to enjoy a temporary glimpse of hu man sympathy ; and after ages of more than brutal oppression, find themselves treated by their enemies like humau beings—the hereditary chains of their barbarous slaiery are, for a while, to be unrivettoti, and they will be permitted to taste, though in a qualified degree, some of the sweets of natural liberty. Nothing but an invasion of their ter ritory could effect any alteration in the political co.otitution of the ilussien Empire. The authority of Atrx %MIER is supported by force, and acknow ledged through fear; and had he been able to protect his arbitrary system, by a pacific policy with other nations, he would have had main to apprehend from any revolution or change taking place among the semi. barbarians within the boundaries of his vast empire. The very Constitution of his Government precludes almost the possibility ill such an event, which, in deed, could only happen with the Nobles, as the lower orders arc, like cattle ,transferred from owe eat of owners to another; they weer the same tom *lion of slavery, and remain content with here dit°TY oppression; flee tioveteign's pleasure is their law, and his combeds ire directed by the same autho rity. That law being established by precedent, perpetuates their slavery witheot affording them any prospect of change, or redress; and when one Ty rant is deposed, it is only to make way for another, who rules them with the same despotic power. Un der the dynasty of the Czars, no sigightened rule of thinking has been allowed to meads , or mend the °Woos defects of the Government; every skeet of ;onius and improvement being subservient to the ea pricious will of the Autocrat. In such a state of habi tual subordination, the subjects never attempt to in dulge in desires which Government does Dot thick pro- Per for them to gratify ; and it is probable thepotoold bare continued iu the same torpid state of animal silvery, and their chains have remained riveted for 'get, had not the pride, weakness, and folly of ALEXANDER ,brought into his territories the 'Wiwi eus Legions of the Enesatoa of FaAncz, who ap- Petrs to be a d est i ne d i nstrument in the han d s o f I? rovideuc e to chastise the nations of Europe. —.4.-- TLe Malta letters state, Chet tlie 7%esdosie schooner, Lieut. Yoomaxa, had destroyed s FrMid pritatter of 18 gnus, at or sow Scio. los v • an nobler nature ; and I dismiss the object, witti a feeling of " contemptuous mercy." Of .Mr. Baoeon ‘m I speak hereafter. His virtues are to be found In the hearts of his friends, avid his talents in the her• of his country. Ido not held you cheap ly in telling you, that I hold his understanding to be as much above your understanding, as year un derstanding is above the understanding N of AOYSIT.R. A -------------•----- Malls. Die Arr. 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Hand 3 4 di,. Examiner Bills so. per 3 II Ditto 90. 9.5 p Onntiton Nit pr. Consols for Acct. 5916 Lottery Tickets PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Mink per Cent. Com. 5P ver Cent. !tr.l. 37;i I pa Cmt.. 5 per Cent. Na'...` 90 1 i Low. Itm. 15 1.15 THE STATESMAN. 'l'llE STATI4SMAN. We hare received further extracts from the French Papers, from which we take the following:— At/rim:KG, OCT. B.—There art forming in Li thuania, five regiments of national isfantry, of 3000 men each, and four regiments of cavalry, of 1000 men each, without reckoning the battalions of chas seurs, and the corps of volunteers. A second army of reserve, commanded by Mar shal the Duke of CArt unisex; 60,000 strong, corers the coasts between the Niemen and the Oder.— Troops destined to complete the different corps, every day pass through Wilaa ; within the last ten, we have seen to the number of 19,000 pass through. Whilst the centre of the Grand Army, commanded by the Emexaoa in person, marched upon Moscow, and took possession of that Capital, the right wing advanced upon Kalouga, and the left upon Zwene-1 gord. The movements of these two wings appeared to threaten the towns of Towle and Twer, where the most important of the Russian manufactories for the fabrication of arms, are established. Six corps of the Grand Army, at this moment, act separately ; they are those of Marshals Macnov,me, 1 GOuvloN ST. CYR (who commands two of them), Vieroa, and Generals Scuwaierzeivarec and Rec. NIER. The 10th corps d'arasee, under Marshal MscroosiaLn (Duke of 'farentum), with which the Prussian auxiliary corps is joined, has already com menced the regular siege of the fortress of Riga.— The heavy artillery to be used in carrying on the siege, arrived on the 20th of September at Bouski (between Mitten and Riga). The 2d and 6th corps of the Grand Army, the first composed of French troops, and the second of Bavarians, both ender the orders of Marshal Count GOUYION ST. Cra, have kept in check, since the memorable battle of Polotsk, the Russian corps d'armee of Gen. WITTGENSTEIN, which was charged to defend, to the last extremity, the great road which leads from the Duna to St. Petersburgh.— Since the great battle of Moskva, on the 7th of September, this Rus•itn corps d'ar:nee has taken all manures to effect its retreat, which, under existing circumstances, - will be exposed to great difficulties. It will, at all events, be obliged to abandon Livo nia and Esthonia to the French army, in order to corer Ingria and St. Petersburgh. which had been adopted became genesil. His Ma festy the Emperor of Routs gave way to the repre sentations of the majority. General D 2 Pitts was sent• from the army. Gen. Di Toga.: proposed a new entirely offensive, by which the two armies were to , join to prevent the risk of being separately beaten. Smolensk° was pointed out as the place of render. vous, and there they were to resume the offensive : to Count WITTGENiTEIN'ti corps was left the care of covering the Petershurgh road. The first Army of the West abandoned all its intrenchments upon the Duna, and retired by forced marches to Smolensk°, where it effected its junction with Prince BAGRA. VON'S army. On the 9.41 of August, the Com mandants of the two armies dined together at Smo , lensko, in the midst of the acclamations of all the troops. But the manoeuvres of the Emperor of the. French spoiled this new plan. The corps d'armees, which had hitherto been under his immediate orders, ar rived on the 28th of July at Witepsk. The Russian Commanders still supposed him upon the Duna, having his army in quarters of refreshment, and were, according to some reports,in retreat, :v hen the Emperor, at the head of the right wing of his corps, appeared in person upon the left bank of the Dnieper, before Smolensko. The taking of Smolensk° brought about all the subsequent events. The offensive plan of the Russianr was then changed into a forced defence. Nis Majesty the Emperor ALexsonra, gave the command to General Kurusow, whom he raised to the rank of Prince. Be bad under his orders General &NIMES and Prince BAGHATION.--- . According to the intelligence from Moscow, there i are little hopes that the latter will recover from ' the wounds he received at the battle of Mosk wa.—What will now be the results of the plan which the French Emperor so profoundly consider ed, and executed with such boldness ?—What im pression will the taking of Moscow make upon the Russian nation ?—How will the Governments of the North, and particularly Petersburgh, do without all those objects of the first necessity, which the fertile provinces occupied Icy the enemy afforded them ? , What will happen a few months hence will give the solution of these different questions. A brigade of the Polish division, charged with ob serving the movements of the Russians who are at Bobruisk, has completely beaten them in two en ; gagemeuts, which took place on the 14th and 15th lof last month, so thnt the place is now entirely in ' vested, and the siege of it is to be commenced. Prince SCHWARTZENDERG'S corps d'arince, and the 7th corps d'armee, composed of Saxon troops, commanded by General Count REOMIER, act upon the extremity of the right wing of the allied army, against the Russian corps of Gen. TORMASOFF, and the wrecks of the ci-derant Russian army of the Dantlbe, under the orders of Gen. TSCIIITCHAILOFF, which is advancing towards Volhynia. These two corps &armee are flanked upon the left and right by two Polish corps, one of which, commanded by General Domanowszi, is posted near Bobruisk, and I at the same time observed a Russian corps, composed of recruits, under Gess.Eavm.; and the other, directed by General Kossasas, covers the frontiers of War , sew. Whilst the centre and both wings of the Grand Army have, by maoauvres, as rapid as well combined, of the Francis Mouirch, occupied the most important points of the Russian Empire, or still threaten them,. by every where forming an immense line ' which is in possession of an extent of terri tory; the 9th corps of the Grand Army, form. , ing the first reserve, under the orders of Mar . shat Vicvon (Duke of Belluno), advances upon Stoolensko. This corps, composed of a force of from 45 to 50,000 men, is ready to act on every point, and besides furnishes troops for the garrisons of the towns between the Borysthene and the Dunn. Per. sons who do not well understand the course of events, cannot explain how this active state of things could be brought about by the loss of the single battle of the 7th Sept. and in the short interval of three months; but it will appear less inexplicable If we consider the following facts:— At the commencement of the rupture between this country Ind [tussle, goods to a very serious amount, ' which had been exported by British Merchants, on ' their own account, were lying for sale in the hands of Merchants residing in the ports of Russia. These were sequestrated by the ILllllSiall Government, but not condemned. Thus situated, the innocent suf. ' ferers, by such unexpected and unjustifiable pro ! ceedings, have looked on patiently, and with eager solicitude, to the time when it might be expected a restitution of this property would be made. And when a Treaty of Peace between the two Govern. menu was announced, it was naturally anticipated, that the Ambassador from Great Britain would have orders from the Minister, to demand the restoration of property which had been silted in violation of . all laws, both human. and divine. A considerable period has now elapsed, without any appearance of the sufferers receiving redress. It is, therefore, sea. cessary to calf the atteotion of the Rulers of this Country to the circumstancef that they may see the propriety of demanding instant redress from the Res ' scan Government, before it be too late. By the Sir Alexander Ball, &deices were yesterday obtained from Malta, to the recent date of the 2.1 d ult. Information bad just only been received from Constantinople, of the Peace between the sublime Porte and the Cabinet of St. Petershurgh, hut in con : sequence of it, a full expectation was indulged, that the commerce of the Black Sea would be opened to j the Mediterranean. The plan adopted by the Russians for the present campaign was conceived by General Pi m, who was formerly in the Prussian service. It was defen sive; the Russian army was every where to avoid attacks without attempting battle, and to retire be. bind the Dana, without concerning itself about the loss of ground it should sustain ; Rip, Dunaborrg, and the intreuched camp at Drissa, were the points where it was to make a stand. It was consequently upon these points, that the Russian army, in reality, retired after the passage of the Niemen. Thus it was supposed. by the Russians, that the chief of the French army would direct his principal movements to the North-east upon Petersburgh. It was incon ceivable enough that after this first plan, apeman°. ously adopted, that from the opening of the cam. paign, the second army of the West, commanded by BAURATION, was separated from the first, corn mended by BARCLAY DE TOLLI. The first Rut slam Bulletins prove, that from the commencement of their retreat they were uneasy about the junction of the two principal armies. The movements of the French army did not in any manner correspond with - the defensive plan of the Russians. In place of gaining the Duna and its io treuchnseats, the Empror marched with the greatest celerity, and, with immense forces, to the east, to wards the eourcee of the Duna and Dnieper. His progress menaced Itltiscow, and the most fertile pro vinces of the Russian empire. The intrenched roads front the Duna were useless, because no enemy &p -rod to attack them ; and their defenders marched -upon there *eta really menaced. The two princi pal armies were separated. DISC°WOW at the plan Dispatches have arrived from HeligelattJj but they Were not opened when Our Paper seas put to Press. Gen. HISLOP leaves town this iifternoon f to ern.: bark for the East Indies. Mr.CkOKEk has lost his election foe Dovitipatride f In spite of all the Goternment influence!! Admiral Hoek left town this day, for Seotlai u Dispatches were sent off last night, to be forward. ed to Governor raneuuAr., at the Isle of Pratt Ce. W. are sari) , to announce the Where of a larg mercantile house in the Swedish and Norway trale, which has occasioned some consternation among the foreign merchants. The undermentioned outward-bound ships, Which sailed from Madeira the 14th June last,. were on the lth July in lat. 3. 40. N. long. 15. 30. W. viz. turd Duncan, Thomas Grenville, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Drorbournelntry, Sir Godfrey Welisicr, Juliana, and Dlana. The medals ordered by his Royal flightless the PRINCE Rnalrer to the General and Field Officers, Who so gallantly distinguished theniselves in storming the lines of Cornelis, on the Island of Java, td be distributed equally among the Company's Oirxeis with those of his MAJESTY'S service. A Gentleman of New York writes to his father in Glasgow, that the present war is the net of an Impo litic and partial Administration. Hopes store enter• tamed that its projections would speedily give place to better men. Orders bare been given for ell the disposable ships of theline now in the different port:, to l:e fitted for sea without delay, and proceed inurtediately to the Accounts were receired yes•erday from Malta to the 24th of September, whicii bring the dates from Constantinople down to the 3d of the same month. We learn, with great concern, (*lac the plague rages most violently in the Turkish capital and suburbs ; if the accounts are accurate, thin 5 to GOO inhabitauts are carried off daily, including those on both sides of the canal. PLYMOUTH, OM 22.a-Arrived last eight, the Patent, letter of marque, Capt. Nl‘Mssycns, front the West Indies. On the 11th S;pt. a few league.; from Bermuda, she fell in with the American ship Hannibal, Capt. Hever, bound to America, besi g been out nearly four years on a very succes4..l trading voyage on the North West coast ; indeperie dant of a very valuable cargo, she had on board 500,000 dollars. On hailing the American, her Captain requested a supply of provisions, on which Capt. WMAiTERS desired her boat to be sent on board ; and immediately the American. Supercargo, Mate, and boat's crew came on board the Patent, and were instantly mule prisoner,. Capt. &MIAs - nag then sent his mate and a taoat's crew to take possession of the Hannibal, with directions to theme te to make a signal if he met with any resistauce, which was not done, and soon after he got on hoard the American. —lt is presumed the cheat was discovered, and the English boat's crew made prisoners in their turn.— As she iostautly filled her sails and put before the wind, and sailing better than the Patent, made her escape, carrying with her the English Mate and boat's crew. The Supercargo, Mate, and Moat's crew of the Hannibal have arrived here in the Payee. A private letter from the Breeds, dated Augest 14, states, that the Royal Family, at Rio Janeiro, were preparing to return to Europe, In consequence of the disturbed state of that quarter of the globe. A coml. ter-revolution, very extensive in its ramifications, was on the eve of breaking out there, and every thing indicated some very important political cheap, in the Government of those fertile provinees. . Mr. PETRIE, lately (lilt in Council at Madill, had accepted the Government of Prince of Wales Idea and its Dependencies, and ea* about to proceed to his station towards the middle of the motels of July.; The High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, in complian c e with a requisition signed by eighteen persons, his,or'.. dared a Meeting of the Freeholders to be convened on the 24th inst. at Oxford, for the unpopular put.- pose of taking into consideration the propriety or presenting a petition to Parliament against the claims of the Roman Catholics. The Earl of ATLeteroan died at his seat of Pack. iogton. His Lordship, we are informed, after * hearty supper, and the usual performance of his de. votions went to bed on Tuesday, and was in the course of the night attacked by goat in his stomach, which caused his death. Ile was born July 4,1751, and succeeded his father, the late Earl, May 9, 1777. His Lordship is succeeded iu his title and The Fox packet has arrived at Falmouth from Ca- I estates by his son, Lord GUERNSEY. diz, in 19 days. She brings an account of three Bri- 46 It was," as a Morning Paper Very happily ex• • tisk Of f icers (a Colonel and two Captains) having ! pressed it, " equally brave and generous in Dr. been destroyed by the explosion of a mine, at Seville, ; presenting himself in justification of the prefer^nce formed by the French previoas to their final era- of the Committee. But what must he think of the cutiou. other disappointed essayists—how mast not this It is* lamentable fact, not less extraordinary than Champion of Posey scorn the dastards, when, af. true s that uotwithstanding Providence bu blessed ter his so nobly and disinterestedly stepping forward us with a most abundant harvest, and finest weather j only to break the ice' for their productions, to save it, yet the price of corn still keeps up al- I not one of them has been roused by his energising most as high as during the time of the alleged 1 example i" scarcity. This surely cannot be right, but impe- The Severn overflowed its binka on Monday last. rlousty calls for legislative examination. Something The river, swollen with rain and increased by an must be radically bad in the system of the corn- , uncommonly high tide, broke iu frightful hounds market, when . jobbers, contactors , forestallers, or fl oe over its banks, and swept away 200 fine sheep regraters, by their interested manceuvres, are • en- • belonging to a gentleman farmer. The fences of *bled to raise the price at their pleasure.—lt is • F.arl Bakeley's estates wero also levelled; and the obvious that Mark-lane market is ti - ,e standard fields furrowed and channelled to the great di t ad. ny which most of the corns-markets iu the king-Ivantage of the hasbandmen. dem are more or less regulated; this market, the A curious circumstance took place not long ago, week before last, was looking down rather morel in the Peak of Derbyshire. A mAn ht that neigh. favourably to the consumer than it had been, : bourhood having formed a connection with his neigh. when behold a short supply (which the dealers in! hour's wife., at last eloped with her. The poor hes {corn know hew to manage well enough) raised the $ band being very fond of his spnuse, promised that if Ipsce' the week following, 10s. per quarter !—lt I she would return to him, and diarard her gallant, ell 61. the boast of this fns country, that every man past ()fences should he forgiven. She accordingly Apo speculate in trade in any manner be pleases, ' came back to her husband, and received the most provided he has the means of doing do. - But ought ; loving treatment; but her old paramour, regardless not a wise Legislature to provide some check to ra- !of all ties of honour, contrived to rea•vr his visits, Ipaciotte individuals in an article of the first im-lwhich the poor husband getting at length acquainted portance, the food of odd, in which all have an in- , with, roused . his , resentment to the highest pitch., !crest?—And ought not a stronger barrier to. be He being upon the watch one evening, surpris..4l his jalsed between the avarice of trade, and the noces. wife with her gallant, who made a very preciphate I sides of MAN ? In vain has Providence blessed this retreat, and was pursued by the husband ; having country with plenty, if the poor, with the utmost some fences to pass in his rettatat, he sprung over lodestry, cannot procure a sufficiency of bread; mid like a doe ; but the e.tranir husba n d being p ro . how can it be otherwise, whilst a host of weenie- vided with a loaded pistol, at Ay at him, and teak tors, mee whoneither grow the corn, nor prepare such good aim as tislitilict so severe a wound, as is k for the consumer, but are - in reality forestallers likely to make the lover remember daring life, the sod regruters, are allowed to eater your markets encroachments he hid long made Avast his neigh. I and creative artificial searcity. boar's property.—(Nottinghons Review.) F k • r * '•• ; I • ; • • • • 1' • I / ! •.. .1, • I ; .1 i 1 , 1 4 ••!)‘ '''' ,:, . .. • 1 •., t ' :',.,, '• 'r•' ' ' . •, t', .2 .*.• ,' , 4 y 1 ' 1, 1 ' 1 1„ 4 ); i' 1.. • , . 1 • :.• It i , ',.. 1 . o• il 1 , I , , t• . . 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