The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-10-27 00:00:00

THE STATEgMAN. - a year, pay in a doable proportion to him who has, only 1001., and so on in the same ratio. [Ap. pigsties.] Gentlemen, I shall now take my leave o f you for the present—confident of my ultimate success in the honour of representing the Co - unty of Lancaster. [Applanses.]. Gentlemen, I have now only to express my regret, that I have not been enabled to pay my respects to you individually, as I could have wished: But as 1 have slow expressed to you, collectively assembled, the principles which will guide me in my political conduct, that you will excuse me from canvassing the Cour.ty individually. Gentlemen, I once more repeat to you, my confi dence of general support on the day of election--till which time I bid ybu all respectfully farewel. EXTRACT OP A LETTER BROM IT. PETERSBURGII ) DA TED:THE 23D SEPTEMBER. g Bad news always spreads much faster than the good. The enemy has not omitted publishing his- t stry into Moscow, as a conquest, or a glorious victory ; I therefore hasten to correct that fact, and Inforan c you of it as it actually stands. Moscow was Pleven up, after holding a Council of War, at which only one General was of opinion that the capital ought to be defendld; all the others were unani mous, that it could not hold out. From the 13th to the 14th`September, the Prince KUTWSOW took his position four wersts behind Moscow, for the purpose of covering the roads to Riazan and Tula, and on the 15th the enemy mitered the city without any opposi• tion l and must have been astonished at finding it quite empty Ind deserted. Immediately after his entrance he hastened to state proposals of peace: . Prince Kterusow tepiied•i=" flitlierto_ithas beim your shale to vr-olitthaTcely, itis now come to our torn to do so." The enemy will find but few resources in Moscow, numbers of the inhabitants having left the city after the affair at Smolensk* ; and on the 9th, 10th, 11th, and -11th September, every thing was carried off and gone from thence. The provisions for the armed people in Moscow, were all is boats, ready to depart at the first signal. As the enemy will find no provisions there, he will in a very short time be forced to depart from thence, and engage an army, which has been, for some days past, drawn up in order of battle. The Courier, who brought this intelligence, met the Prince of SALANOTE'S corps on the 17th, about 30 wcrsts from Moscow ; it would conse quently already, on the 18th, have joined another large army. • Sereral other corps of troops either have joined, or arc on the way to join Prince Kure iow, who, instead of exposing his army in the de fence of a city, which is unfortified, and is 45 worsts in circumference, preferred taking an advantageous position, in which he is daily strengthening himself. His army is equal in strength to the enemy, with I regard to numbers, but much superior to him, con sidering the courage wherewith it is animated. The armed population of Moscow, 60,000 men strong, marched out of that city with Count Rog-mecum i —We may expect matters of the greatest cons,- quenec, as Mscnos.u.o was called in the greatest haste to the Grand Army. WITTGENSTEIN'S corps stu(l •Essen's, which will be replaced at Riga by' other corps, will depart to act by the way of Witepsk,. egaiust Smolensk° ; and from another side, TGWU.. sow and IFNIITSCIIAGOFF have orders to act against the same point ; whilst 30,000 men, under General Sm a ry. nmi 21,000 men of the reserve, with the risou of Bobrinsk, which is 26 battalions strong, e.e to form another army, destined to act against Moscow by the way of Smolensk°. Arr. Mails. , li ft O Dublin O O - Cadiz ' • .. O . Coterosey O 1 ••••••• Gove . tiburgh 1 _ Corunna r ßaek 204 OV STOCKS THIS 5 per Lese . Cons. 5 per Cent. Ned. MO 4 per Cents. 79ii 5 per Cent. Navy 90ii Lang. Ann. 11 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Bondi S I tits. ExcitCrpter ItillcSO. 2 Ditto VI 3 6 4 p Omoi:•nt 54 pr. Cnn•nl for Acct. MI II Lottery 'rickets THE STATESMAN, LONDON: TOZSDAT, OCTOSICR 27, lint By the Cottenimrgh Mail which arrived last night, letters and papers were received from St. Peters burgh to the 2d inst. statiug that Smolensk° had ben retaken by the Russians, with several other ittivan tages gained over the French. The 'various reports brought by they+ Mails on former occasions, having generally proved fallacious, we are inclined to heel. tate respecting their authenticity. The Emperor ALEXANDER has issued another spirited Proclants tion to the inhabitants of St. Petersbargh, who, being panic-struck at the unexpected progress of NAPOL£ON, were preparing to evacuate that city. It appears that the Autocrat is determined not to relax in his endea, yours to preserve the wreck of his territories, should St. Petersburgh fall iuto the hands of his enemy, which is evinced by the following emphatical passage Whatever may be the progress of the enemy, ra ther to drain the last drop of Lie cup of misery, than by a scandalous peace, to subject Russia to a foreign 1 yoke."--If such be the deterteit,ation of the Czar, and if his Nobles are resolved to s, Nand his energies, NA POLVON will still have to wade t rough fields of blood, and the populous part of thy Russian pire may be destined to suffer what hemauity must shudder to record. We have this morning received Gorman Papers to the 10th Inltant, and further extraCts froM the Got tenbargit Mail, of which the following are the moat important:— BEALJN, Ocr. 6.—Our official Gazette communi cates the following :—" According to the latest ac counts from Moscow, his Majesty the Emperor NA roLros occupied the Palace of Petrowitz, at three worsts from that capital. " The Grand Duke CONSTANTINE, it is said, has retired to the Princess, his sister, who is married in Russia." 3.—lt has been calculated that, from the 28th March up to the Ist September, there have been quartered and maintained in this city 240,000 men, as *ell military persons as other individuals, attach. ed t• the service of the Grand Army, and 130,000 horses. STUTGARD, Styr. 30.—We are busily employed here in taking preparatory measures for a new levy of Conscripts. The sons of the ci-decant Princes and Counts, who, by the establishment of the Confe deration of the Rhine, are become subjects of the King, fill form a part ofsthis subscription. POSEN, SEPT. 17.—Our Govertinr-General RlPrg, has to-day set out for the grand army—Colonel Memcwssi supplies his place. To-morrow, our whole garrison, formerly called the Legion of the Vistula, will march for Smolensko, under the corn matid of Major KOSINSKI. On the 10th instant, .a division of French gens d'armes; on the 11th, another of Saton dragoons and hussars; and on the 12th, a division of Austrian Rees d'armes, called elites, passed through this city in their way to the Grand Army. Wtrma, SEPT. 12.—This whole week the cavalry and infantry of the 9th corps of the Rench army, under the command of the Marshal Duke of 13v:tru -Iro, has been passing through this city. With the s e troops is the Polish corps which remained in Malag., for seven months. STOCKHOLM, OCT. S.—According to submissive Reports delivered to his Royal Majesty, the ships of the line Gustavus 111. and Manligheten, together with the armed transport Birger Jorl, arc arrived at Cariscrona en the Ist and 2d of this month, with the troops taken on board here and at Dalaro. The armed transport Frio Segersall, had likewise come to anchor off Calmar on the 29th of September, and was to proceed with the first fair wind tu Carl scrona. A letter from St. Petersburgh, of the 2/1 of Oc tober, contains as follows :—" The Emperor's Ma nifesto has had a magic influence on all classes; every one takes up their arms, and marches off, and this they do voluntarily; and although we bare the beat !lopes of a happy result, yet preparations are The Courier, since the dissolution of Parliament I was first announced, has been very assiduous in its endeavours to earn the wages of prostitution ; and the Ministers cannot complain of the quantity, if the quality of the matter be not teo gross for their deli cacy—" for they assuma a delicacy, if they have it not ;"—that they have it notovith regard to the feeling and understanding of the people, if the Courier be the echo of their sentiments—even the Proprietor him self of that venal Journal, we have no doubt, must be convinced. And while the present system con tinues, It appears to us unnecessary to urge any palliative or oppose their proceedings. Every sincere admirer of the Constitution mast regret that the distinguished few of its frie:►ds, ' made the late attempts in L.sndon, L'verpool, and Bristol, feeling convinzed that such insulated efforts will always be in rail'. The Reformers, they say, must console themselves under the certainty that the present corrupt overcharged system is not,as the dra- Marie poet says, 66 by its owe weighimade steed. fast," but must soon give way of itself, as well from the nature of its materials, as the inexperienced and rash workmen employld about it. The sooner this happens, the better may it be for the new and skit. ful architects to raise another edifice on the venerable scite chalked, out by one of the most sagacious Constitutions ever devised for the government of man in society . : Till the decayed parts are' "effectually removed, it Will bo in vain to expect re. l 'turning prosperity, or accustomed safety to the State. Your frErus%s may rave, and your Veterans may fight, hut to little more 'than personal or temporary gratifications. Neither new men in place, nor new expedients in practice, will avail till the sine qua non of Reformation in the Legislature has taken place. MR IL POPlripki. Some strictures which we introduced lately, in which this Gentleman wsts noticed, were continued in the Chronicle ; and a reply, ever ready when Sir Hour is mentioned by the public Journals, followed, in a long and laboured defence of the scouring sys tem, at which he is the head. It is pronounced to be physically impossible, that Sir Hosts ran, himself, be a party to such letter. In reply to the Chronick, which merely echoed the spirit and substance of our I own remarks, the writer alludes to us, as " another iiiiiii • • 6: •-• '~..Ju~~~~. ,: erery where made to meet that my happen; paragraph writer"—tnaking it . out that wd said SUe' ,and I believe, that should Icaret.zets-g4gossession Bons had only taken one gun. We were, In fact, Poterstsurgh (which Gee prevent), he will not only instancing a single exertion ; and Sir SUB thereby be a greats, gainer than he war by the taking :kns written dispatches on these single ealdt4 of lloscow, where he found nothing but mere arti- Xmas, in some of which he lost more prisoners) des of household furniture ; all the inhabitants had than a park of such artillery was worth. This " ad left the piaea•—all merchant good* were long before vocate," or rather agent, "of the absent," is one sent away--- 4 , 0 4 there was nothing mote left him to of those proofs to which we alluded of the self take." • puffed exploits of Sir norm The press groans with his tedious communications. His letters from the coast equal, in prolixity, al ready the dispatches ofLord WELLINGTON himself. Indeed the principal object and subject of one of them was to echo a bye com pliment of Lord WELLINGTON—the accidental flou rish probably of a private letter. This adeocete has enumerated 100 guns, as taken by Sir HOME; with the prisoners wounded, &c. MAnMONT was half ' beaten by Sir HOME; fOrCAFFARELLI would have sent him 6000 men from Vittoria, had he net been so hard pushed by the force under Sir HOME. This is a very safe style of logic. Pray where did this advocate learn the exact number of men which CAPPARELLI Could or would spare ? It it not warranted by the letter from Lord IVact.tworox. The advocate fins, of course, his instructions—kis brief, from his client. This is clear from the whole tenor of his letter ; for the noble Captain's exploits are certaiply not of a nature to impress themselves so circumstantially on , a mere observer of passing events. The advocate has the detail of the Captain's progress, with the bye.play of all the other forces, whose operations could receive a colour from the motions of the floating force. This Letter of the advocate is the precise thing we aimed to establish; hut Sir Howa's friend's al ways over-played their parts. We knew that a re presentative of this Ministerial Captain was at his post. It is a part of the quack system by which Sir Home has made his way, from the practice of a smuggler at Dungeness, to the Captaincy of the fleet, which burst like a banditti upon the out s raged Danes. We cannot now follow Sir Holm through the whole of his dark and unlustrious pro gress. He made his most public debut in the cele brated surprise at Buenos Ayres. To effect this, he estmged the decorum of his commission, in the pur suit of booty : he pas!ed the boundaries and duties of a Military Officer, and wrote a " Circular," in his own name, to the principal towns of the Empire! in which was one addressed to the Mayor and Corpo ration of Birmingham !—a town that had never neither one nor the other. This is all of a chain with the pamphleteering course of this Officer; who seems much more expert in writing, than he has ever proved himself in fighting. I. ' ~' ,~,~ • DITION. • SECCIII94O — rave ofccoar. O. the 91Ii s lystbefore the accounts came away from Riga, a Courier arrived from the Ens,Jeror of • , RUSSIA, at Peterbnrgh, bringing intelligence that BONAPARTE HAD QUITTED Moscow, D THAT A BATTLE WAS EXPECTED. I RuTusow had compktely cut of all communica tion with Poland--and the peasants were every where rising in a mass. Smolensk° was certainly in the hands of the Roy• sins, and WITTGENSTEIN has driven ST. Cva, late OUDINOT'S corps; frO/D Polotsk. In the expedition . from Riga, the retreating Prus sians were reinforaeil to 25,000 men by ATAGDO. NAIAD. The Russians lost DO prisoners. I NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. • DEAL. Oct. 26. Came down. from the River the Baron Nelson, Wanderer, Dorcas, !lope, and Mau, merchant• men, and remain with the outward-hound, cousist ing of nearly 300 sail. Arrived his Majesty's ship Indefatigable, from off the Teret. -•- Sailed the Stag frigate, for Portsmouth. FALMOUTH, Orr. 24. No arrivals. Sailed hi; Majesty's ship Ruk on a cruise; and Carteret packet, Davey,,with Mails for Cadiz. The Watringham packet, for the Leeward : Islands, and the Queen Charlotte packet, for Lisbon, ' are gone into the Roads. • . • r His Serene Highness the Duke of BiltrOWlClL'i corps now consists of nearly 9000 men ; the infantry are in service in Portugal, the cavalry are statioued at Cork. - Quilon, the principal station of the suhskliary force, was the place in Travancore at which the late mutiny was detected. The Ilth,, 14th, Mk, and 9th battalions were stationed there, but the latter was free from any participation in the plot. Two of the implicated battalions have been sent to a distant part of the country. The Americans begin to be dissatisfied with the inactivity of General DEAR.ORS, whose head.quar. tore have been removed from Albany and Greenbush, to Cumberland, without his undertaking any military operation of moment. ~; The punishment of the .conspirators at Buetios Ayres is said to have revived the animosity of the Government and inhabitants of Monte Video, against theJuuta of the former city; and active preparations were making for the recommencement Of hostilities. The 73d Regiment is not to be mov-11 from the Tower On the arrival• of the 55th ; but both batta. liona...lteing..xery.weak4 ore to-be employed on that duty,. under Col. Harlan. BR VAD.—Therebeing no Court of Aldermen this morning, the LORD MAYOR, after inspecting the meal weighers returns, ordered the Peck Loaf to he raised one-penny. The Quarters Loaf will be 11.6 d. ou Titursday next. ! I ced, Mercury has published, with perfect impartiality, Lists of the Freeholders who dined , with Lord Mtr.Tom and Mr. LUC! cr.r.s, after the Yorkshire election—and with the following re- I masks:—The Lists of the Gentlemen who honoured Lord Mirror; and Mr. Lascst.cts with their attend ance at York, which we give this week with all pos. fable impartiality, present a very correct criterion of the support enjoyed by our respective County Mem. .bers at the election which has just terminated. The former combines a g ratifying union of the landed, the commercial, and the manufanturiog interests : the other is meagre in every thing, except Leeds names ; "end Ike conclusion that every man must arrive at from an examination of these Lists is—that Lord Micron is the Representative of the County of York, sad that Mr. LAU WM is the Reprecottative of the Borough of Loads 1 Some irisa may be formed of the kind of company that dined with Mr. Lascruti at York, from the senseless, intolerant, pot-house toast The land we live in, and they that don't like it leave it," having been drank with three times three. The English of this is, that every man who tines not agree in political opinion with the wise, discreet, calm, learned and profound personage, who proposed this sentiment, is to be banished his country 1 THEArnicsa.s.---The adage tcmpora nauanfur, is illustrated at present in the crowd of play-going folks rushing to Drury-lane Theatre. Notwithstanding • LI , - I • hi , • I • 1 / C / II c 1, -.Or- ROBBERY OF 'NI E LEEDS MAIL. The City was this morning thrown into an alarm j by it bait* announced at the Post OMce that the Leeds Mail had been robbed on its load to London ; further than the simple fact of the robbery the Post Office will not suffer to transpire, and there is now, and has been all the morning, a correspondence and communication between the Mention House and the I'ost Office. Both City Marshals, we understand, are ;treacly actively etnployed. It is understood that 15 other Bags, independent of the Leeds, have been got clear off. PRINCE REGENT'S COURT.—Yejertlay Lis Royal Highness the Pnisce REGENT held a Privy Council at Carlton House, which way attended by the Arch- ' bishop of CANTERBURY the FiltiT LORD Of the TREASURY, the FIRST LORD Of the AMUR Writ, the SECRETARIES of STATE for the Home and War 1 Departments, and the CHANCELLOR of the Excuz- QUER. Mr. BULLER attended as Clerk of the Court eil.—Four Proclamations were directed to be issued : one respecting American prizes and prize-money ; another declaring English sailors traitors who are found on hoard American vessels ; the third re specting the distillation from grain and sugar ; and the fourth prohibiting the making starch from corn. His Royal Highness gave audiences to Viscount SID.. MOM!, Earl of Live/moot., Viscount MELrio.c, and Mr. VANSITTART. Lord MELBOURNE and Mr. C. BRADSHAW, were the Lord and Groom iu Wait , ing. It is ascertained, that an American privateer has made its appearance In the Channel. We presume That it has not crossed the Atlantic, but has been fit ted • Bourdeaux, - other of the harbours ' : ted out at liourdeaux, or some other of the harbours . 1 1 . 111 1 , . : the i good and discreet management of 'COvent-garden .! of France. . I i We had yesterday letters from Prince Fdward's : house, it obtains little more than the ) gleaniugs or I I island to the 19th ult. and from St. John's to the, overflowing, of the other. Bet as " new brooms" i lid inst. They mention no new captures ivy- the : I erect much Breve is expected, in a fetv days, to . • sweep its neglected boards to a profitable effect.— I ; ' imericans. The convoy was to sail on the sth of jn g , i d s Iht In the Tempest, You're's departure , ' I th is month. 1 i two Gentlemen * rho have just arrived from i i from KElll3Led new orthography and hew reading of ' , filling Caliban's bones with witches , was marked by i ': I lirance,state that seventy licences had been sent for the ! ' . i t s nature of B?NAPARTE, notwithstanding whose ab..' particular applause. • i our soils tithe to'ret• a twat authority let ap. .1 k e at the distance of WO miles from his capital, which - m . oer mound GOT sepremipower earl maintain. 1 trarrto the practice heretofore, there bad been ro and Arid the weight and charm,of this n.. ' • Prospe , nt relaxation of the severity in regard to trade, in 1 admirable productio n of the British Blvd, were well • which every thing was orgioized so as completely to 1 i represented in Mr. Yours and Miss KOLTON. sower his purposes in the enormous exactions on r atty.—Yesterday a Meeting of the Omni°. r . c .,' i' itiportell merchandise. There was abundance of . i men, intending to bid for the ensuing Lottery, was r s ie hi circulation, and seificient quantity of grain convened it the Office of Mr. Hesse, at Somerset- • , ; t answer all the demands on Agriculture, both do- e house, b y desire of the Cuswes.r.toit or . the F:xcee. stic and' foreign. . rause, for the purp,:se of discussing the ir:acticability 'he American colosrs taken. at Fort Detroit, have o f arranging a new Plan, whereby every „ 'W icket may • n hung up in Whitehall Chapel, near the Frensh - ..i hare - a separate and distirct fete , ivithoist,. being de. les and standards. _ . . de- termined bt• another, as iirthe'late mode of cl.Assix:; .. i • ' LECTietti.—No person shall bet apable to sit i: . 1 them. The determination of the 'Minister will he 11, a vote as a Member of the *loose of Commons, communicated by a notice, to IA sent to the Bank ; riw shall not have an • estate of Freehold or Copy- . , I 1 •' h for his one Life, or some greater estate, either and The day for receiving,the Biddings (which was intended to hnre been 010Fthilly next) it is expected . in wor aity, over and above what will satisfy will be fixed for Toesdanittiavenitier 3, to give an I . c an clear all i ncumbrances of the respective annual • opportunity far the oompfeiton of New Lists. We va e hereafter limited, vie: 6001. per annum for trust also, ' that rare :will ho taken that there shall ;1 vev Knight a the Shire, and 3001. per annum for , not be allowed more than three blanks to a prize; r ' e aqui s Citizen, Burgess, or Baron of the Cinque i and that all vocal out of the way modes of era.w . , i ~ I ✓ p o , wed persons not halal panned qf each estates in 1 g will be prevented. . , ..... r re dive'', their Election tpd Retard shall he east , ,:: • 1 , - ... • . s . - • ' if 1 ' . ... • . . • . i ,' . • - ,• - ........ • ........ _ ... . - --- . - . • . I • ' • • _ l -... • ; , ,:, • , . . • I 'I ■ ip.- - TI!