The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-12-17 00:00:00

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'LONDON: THURSDAY, ezegsibka 17, 181% -4.0111.- the Extraordinary 6azefle of yesterday, contain ta the most interesting accounts of the glorious suc co of the Russia' unties against their hitherto for• m idahle enemy ;and, according to this intelligenoe, it seems evident, that *considerable part of tke li t rfteis g r nsy has beet% either killed .er taken evisosteritat , The great battle fought on the 17th titer iti *Mr BONAPARTE commanded, was a desperate 'effort oti i fie part of the Frenchoud the result appears to have been of the most disastrous nature for them. NAro. UDR', finding the fate of the day about to terminate in favour of his opponents, hastily quitted the field of battle, and sought his p..r%oual safety in Bight.— it is supposed that he had pi epared, in some degree, for the events of this memorable day, and stationed a certain portion of his cavalry on the road to Minsk, which reaching in safety, he has a new hazard to en counter, as TCIIICUAGOFF, with his detachment, had express orders to intercept t.im. Thus the whole r oute of loraroLtotr will be marked with hair-breadth escapes, sh^uld ha ever arrive at Wilms, the first town where he can be said to sleep in safety, since it is Impossible far him to rely upon meeting with AUOtREALN rtieforcetnent. The public interest will be less excited with regard to the future hostility el the adverse armies ie Russia, than with the fate of the personal leader of one of them—almost every tens considers his death like the opening of a new Hook of Fate, mid Is calling to mind what happened to the ait_couqueriug Greece on the death of the famed AMOUNT:IEL For our oon part we be be**, should this glaring sun set in premature aud sud den death, so much is the gloins excited in Pante, that a week would not pass before a new aspirant would raise Ms head, and elevate hie septa-. tations to some such towering distinctions as hispre decessor. Would, instead of such a character,•s Tails might rise up to distinguish the 19th century, by his respect and devotion to that most grateful of divine precepts, " Peace and GOODWILL AMONG • On taking a general view of the Dispatches and ulletins which have issued from Government. since the retreat of the French from Moscow, together with the French Papers, and various other sources of private information from the contending armies, we perceive such a train of accumulating disasters bear isig down, in every direction, upon the retreating ene eiy, as must have almost annihilated the body of the Grand Freuch Army, leaving only the scattered re mains aud fragments, which have escaped the vengeance and fury of their terrific assailants, to pursue their frantic flight towards Poland. Such, we say, is the conclusion we must draw from the copious details given by Lord CATHCART, of the movements and operations of the camr,mign ; and though the French and German Papers'which have been received, give a very different account of the retrograding Grand Array ; yet, putting aside the delusive veil which both Governments have thrown over their reverses and tlselr .lis a sters, and stripping the successes of their tarnished and exaggerated reports, it plainly appears that the tide of victory has completely flowed in fa ' your of the Russian arms, and carried their strug gliug enemy down the stream of sad reverse, towards a hospitable region, whither self-preservation, like a gravitating power, has impelled him to fly. And should he eventually escape, as it were by miracle s ;I the wreck of his army into such secure situation,' seas to again be able to collect his resources', and bring to a strong position or line of defence all the reinforce :lces which his Conquests have placed in his power ; t' , :s sanguinary eontcst, we feelingly regret to say, . - is , aot be considered as approaching towards a close awful suspension only awaits the fate of miriads of iaaoceut victims, whose repose will resemble that s! the *retches, shut up in the cave of the C)clops, who remained in the tranquil expectation of being de►oured ! We understand that the report of NEY being dead, and BEAUNARNOIS being wounded, was brought by DANIELS, the Messenger. Count Wonoszow, on his present embassy from Petersburgh, has brought with him his two sons, who are to be educated in England, and who, if profiting well of advantages certainly to be had here, may, in time to come, not telly have a cutup relive ascendancy in their own country, but deserve it doubly by the proper consideration and good offices to this country.. The Port letters still are silent as to any reinforce ments going to the fleet under Sir FRVICIS LAVOILEY in the West Indies ; and yet it is now six months since the Americans declared nor!—and, alas! since, the British Merchants, Colonists, and others, have! endured lt! Admiral BENTINCIC is joined with Lord CATHCAST in the Councils of Russia, and if need be, is to have a command. We hear Mr. Want) has began Ids Soup Charity, twice in the week, assisted by one Lady of Fashion. The number of meals given away is said to be about three hundred, made on a very cheap plan, but is very nutritious and good. • In the present dearth of eons and high price of horses, tt may not be useless to know, that in Afritat, after the rains, the inhabitants used to plough with an ass and air old woman. In turning over . PLINY, this notable expedient was discovered, which is per- j haps new to Sir Jerre SrscLare, who may make something of it as an Appendix to his next Essay on . Mermaids. The passage is as follows "post imbres viii ascllo, et aparte altera Jugi eau vomerem tra- 1 hente, irridimus scindi." Monday se'nnight, Mr: HdLSET, of Hereford, for a considerable wager, undertook to ride 'his horse' from Worcester Bridge to Hereford Market-place in two hours. Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, and badness of the road, he completed his task in 16 minutes less than the time allowed, without in the least distressing the horse. The dis tance was 28 miles. A family at Bourdeaux, named' Manson, consist ing of seven persons, was poisoned' on the 15th of About three o'clock yesterda whilst tl y, . November, by eating champignens, which the father • had gathered in his owngartlett. The father, mo teats of the Metropolis were every where assembled ! ther and four children, died within three days, and congratulating each other on the glorious intelligence I the recovery of the Other infant was doubtful. from Russia, the Park and Tower guns were fired, I We are authorized to state, that Special Cemmiss and it was instantly believed that this was on ac- sions of Oye'r and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery, count of new victories, in which the British arms'had will be opened at the Castle of York, on a ts ver ort y participated. Soma it was said had been defeated , earl y da y in January, by Mr. Baron Teos by the Marquis and Sir S of xr.msoros ; IDNEY • and Mr. Justice LE Blase, for the trial of offences, counected with the disturbances lately existing Inc, Smut, it was added, had, by a coup-dr-main, taken ! part of the West Riding. It is not their Lorlships' Naples. Both these rumours were unfounded. They . purpose to try any primers on private prosecution, etiglueted probably' in that tide of success which --Leeds . Mercroy. • • , • • ) __. _ ~'"~o . _ V ... .wa►_J •-• - • , 6 ,-.---1.••••••-•-• thytrESMAN lowed in 'from another quarter, &id pre pkeiit tiers srszirsirlirThomet, 1,00 o'cLeick Epinds for the reception of every thing greet and i l itt is p o rn - en :m ei tw a tinfiliti & to o t e lg r og fen fortunate,--combined with the Unusual cirdelestinee teeeeHe was ordentd. of the guns being tired fur successei In which the fled Four Months British Atmy had no immediate share. We recol- in qwpttg; end peY a Pipe' Isf',/5000. - lect Only one occasion on which a•similar demonstra tiun of puhlic rejoicing took place in consequence ' NAVAL 1:1 4 11'g feLIGiINCE; a victory of our Allies—this was in 1799, for the battle of Novi, which was gained by SUWARROW; and, P Mai., Dec; s l6.—Stileff the detained ship O. we understand, that It was this precedent which de- mono, for Ramsgate 'th Pier, in the lois of an anchor sided Ministers . in favour of this departure from the and cable. general rule. The Free Briton transport. Cwt from two anchors • E had cables this morning; she has been supplied with C Tut ROYAL FasitsY.—The Dukes of YORE LARNCE, KENT, CustusathAND, and CANIRRIDoE,' others, and rides very well. • dined with the QUEEN and Paixcesses, at Carlton ! Remain in the Downs .his Majesty's ships Mon. House, on Tuesday : also a select party, were in- mouth, Chatham, Cornwall, Bedford, Duncan, riled, and dined with the thm, and spent the Gloucester, Plantagenet, La Hogue, Warrior, evening there. I Asia, Clarence, Rinaldo, Rosario, Cretan, Mos fuesday the Princess Coaektrrta of Wm. Es stop and Manly; Free Briton and Lady Cathcart pod at KenAngton Palace on her way to London, : q uite, and dined with the Princess of WALEN. In the transports. evening, between eight and nine o'clock, the Princess I PLYMOUTH, Disc. 15.—Arrived his Majesty's CHAIAEoTTE went to Carlton House, and joined the ships Vengeur and Princess Caroline, from off Brest. Royal Party at supper. Yesterday morning the QUEEN and PaINCEssEs visited the Duchess of Baingswtoc. Yesterday the Qom and Pat:teases dined with the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House. The Countess of liannteciros, Mrs. Howe, and a select party were invited to meet them. la the evening there was a dress party. Many distinguished cha racters were invited to meet her MAJEATY. Yesterday the Estrl of Ltrattectoa bad an audience of the Patuce RE4ENT. We have had, as usual, a multiplicity of assertions, boldly pronouncing the death of BONAPARTE, but no such information has been obtained, although he has certainly been exposed to imminent danger. A letter was received from Stockholm yesterday, of the date of the 4th instant, which states, that a Courier had arrived at Berlin to command the immediate attend. ance of three skilful surgeons to assist in the cure of some wounds which had been received by a person of great distinction in the vicinity of Smolensk. — This person was, at the Swedish capital, conjectured to be BoNApARTE, but it is probably one of the Mar shals of his Empire. According to some letters whibh were received yesterday from Paris, very serious doubts were en tertained there of the safety or NAPOLEON. These were principally occasioned by the arrival of a Mes senger from the Grand Army, who had brought no Bulletin, and respecting whose dispatches the most guarded secrecy was preserved. Stocks rose rapidly on the news yesterday morning from Russia, and about one o'clock Omnium was done at ten per cent. securing, we understand, to one adventurer 40,0001. in return for 4000 guineas which he had given on the contingency of receiving 10001. for each hundred guineas, should Omnium reach ten per cent. premium, Rreviously . to the pay ,ment in January. We believe that premiums were liven to the amount of 16,0001. in all, which will require a payment of 160,0001. in return. Mr. DANtel,s, the King's Messenger, arrived at Lord CAsTLEREAGifs house, on Tuesday night, with flip dispatches from Viscount CATHCART. i'l..^lll CAirLEREAGH was gone to hed, having been indis posed for several days with a cold, his Lordship got up, and after perusing the dispatches went to Carl ton House, at a quarter past one o'clock, and had an audience of the PitiNcc ItEGENT to communicate their contents. - , . . . . , I 7 e , e• I e'"1 01 1°'!" -- ; g i ~.,,,,,,_ , ~ .istniteits • *heist. keret, /wall. eteetWitelirViti litii -- ~ . • e ! ltd. 4ltanose TROSISoNi , _ ' .• ...+00..0p rllB athiltAlts of :Bi.iGo. Op Court was ctowded it an early lindr yeet6f.6 6 4. 1 01 . 01 n,, tiiltdblernen and Gentlemen inxibui to hest the prodeediugs in this case: On the [knell' we , obierved the Duke of Clarence, bird Desert, Mr. Denis Brown, Colonel Dillon, &c. The Noble Defendant in sat amongst the Counsel i Mediately ) under the Bench. Before the indictment was read,. an, ipplieetititi was made to the Court by Messrs. Deirecair and Scentret, to permit the Defendant to plead guilty to tertain of the countsi and not to ptoteed tin the others. Lord ELLE.NRORDUGII said, it was the ddty fit thel Court to go on with those parts of the Indictment to which the Defendant pleaded not guilty. lie tile* of no case in law in which a Defentient had pleaded - guilty to one part of an indictment, end wile kit tried on the remaining counts. the Crown had I . ' right to do what it pleased with its own peoseCution. If the Attorney-General chose to ehter a non ie...e. the bgsiness was disposed of; othervvise the Court I must go on. has been theTahereiandd.ict.mrheentarsaticriacahactocmhparrigseedd the!fi c:itoutsttsk_ol±, A Report, founded upon actual sureeys, laid before his Royal Highness the Paine REGENT, . Bowe Peter Browne, Marquis of Sligo, &c. with a at Monday's Levee, for the establishment of British o misdemeanour, in having received on board his ship, Fisheries : we trust this important source of wealth the Pylades, lying at Malta, on the 13th of May ' and food will now be completely established on al 1810, one Wiliam Elden, a seaman belonging to national scale. All the Fisheries of Europe are de.. his Majesty's ship Montague, while in a state of in. stroyed, those of the United States of America sus. : toxication, whom he harboured and concealed. The pendeti, sad that of Newfoundland interrupted. The second count charged Defettlavit with int aWf Illy and precarious supplies of grain that may arrive train the disloyally enticing and inciting Pie said Wiliam El. Baltic or America, exclusive of the policy of Fishery don to desert from his Majesty" establishments, are all reasons why we should at . count set forth, that the said WUliain Elden, has home look for a supply of food from our own ing so deserted, was received on board Defendant's coasts, stocked with fish beyond any other quarter ship, he being cognisant of the fact of his deser. of the world. The poor may be employed in many lion. There were several counts alleging similar departments of the undertaking, and the addition of ficts, in reference to other seamen ! end the last the best sailors for our fleets, is amongst none of the , charged the Defendant with the cominis:,init of as. least objects, worthy of our consideration. i milt and false imprisonment on all the mariner* who EXTRAORDINARY PRIVATE DISTILLERY.—Not- had been enticed from his Majesty's service on hoard withiltanding that illicit distillation has been carried : the Pylades. to a great extent in Ireland, and which has exhibited : The ADVOCATE-GENERAL steed the case. lle uncommon ingenuity in the arts of concealment, we l observed, hat it was a charge against the DA - , et!aet believe they are all eclipsed by the following. It ' for enticing from the public service 13 inailtiere bee reminds us of Captain Rolando's cave., described in longing to his Majesty's navy, for receiviee them out Gil Inas. On Saturday the 2Rth ult. a discovery was board his vessel, the Pylades, and Conti ut og them made of an illegal distillery, situated on the burn of , there, after search had been made for them. lie Shiech, which runs throagh the Grampian hills, in the then shortly stated the circumstances under whi It parish of Durris, in Kincardineshire, by M. Gillespie, : those persons had been enticed by the Defendant, Officer of Excise. The situation of the hut was so and afterwards abandoned by him in foreign perts.-- aptly chosen , and the hut itself so artfully built and The Defendant is a Nobleman of high rte.k and fo . covered with heath, that its roof appeared to compose tuue, and, while on his travel;, art iveci at Met a.— part of the surface of the hi t, and it could not have He was there introduced to Captain tipt;ittger, of been discovered by ac indifferent observer. It was his Majesty's ship Warrior, lied comma.idieg ollieer 20 feet long and 14 broad. The still made use of in that port. 'As he wished to make a so,. e l contained about 55 gallons, and the quantity of wash through the Mediterranean, he there pnrchastel a discovered amounted to 275; so that the weekly con- vessel, tile Pylndes, in fitting up which he was as• sumption of the distillery could not have averaged sisted by Captain Sprenger, and, far two or three less than 20 bolls of barley. Mr. Gillespie was aided weeks he was conveyed to and from the vessel ie in giving effect to the discovery. which he had made, • the Warrior's gig, which was manned by pielted by a party of the Kincardiueshire militia staff.— sailors, whose smartness the Defendant' particularly ( Aberdeen Journal.) . noticed, - and therefore he could not plied ignerniice It may be iuteresting to some of our Readers to of their persons whet, they were brought abcrod bit be informed that the oliau Chi4tain, Nome. whoiestsieb, e it e loppeneti spring the time the repairs has proved so serviceable in Canada, is the individual , were inakitig, that two of these men, 'who wets Or who was introduced at the meeting of the Bath and tried fidelity, prior to that period, were missing, West of Eogland.Agricultural Society, Dec. 11, 1804 Captain • Springer applied for them; having heard (by the name of reyoninhokerawen, which signifies that they were in the Defendant's vessel ; but as an open dour), and received from its President, Sir ; all knowledge of them was densed, he contented BENJAstIN Between, peculiar marks of attention; himself a ithcautioning the Defendant to beware of and respect. Under such direction the Indians are' the consequences of herbourisig any of his Majesty's doubtless no longer to be viewe d as mere barbarous seamen. It would, flowerer, be seen, that not arnhuscaders, nor their warfare as a system of sur- withstanding this caution, these two persons, and prise and assassination : on the contrary, we have : 13 others, who had deserted from different vessels, in reason to expect that their personal courage and ac- the port of Malta, were on board the Pylades; and tivity, their habits of enterprize, and endurance of for this purpose six of them would be called in erie toil and privation, will (under the guidance of a dence. With respect •to the fi r s t count it a p e Chief who has viewed European civilization; and is , peered, that on the 12th of May certain seamen be. grateful for European kindness) render them regu- ', longing to the Montague obtained leave of absence lar and powerful auxiliaries, and that they will be' f0x.21 hours at Malta; that while on shore they employed wit:. increased effect in our service. May.i were plied with liquor by the Defendant's servants, we not also indulge the hope, that, ceeverted by, and put on hoard his vessel, its a state of intoxice ' such a missionary, from subsidized eav ages they will . tipili,.end when they al terwards requested to be scut at no distant period become industitu u e cultis e turs, icetMr ship, it was refused. On the 13th of May tractable citizens, and useful allies' the Pylades sailed to Palermo, and from thence to ANECDOTE or Lone NottTli.—lt is now a fa'ct : Messina, at both which places a sort of restraint of historical record, that the famous Col. BARRE! was imposed on the Eoglieh seamen, Italian eentinele and Lord NORTH were the strongest possible Par.i being placed over them. In proceeding up' the Me liamentars enemies, the former never lo s i n g a n op.! ditermisean, two Officers of the Active, who had portunity of most rancorously attacking " the received intelliimice of the deserters, boarded and able but unfortunate Minister," as Notten has keen searched Defendant's vessel, but ineffectually, as the emphaticdlly and truly termed. le may also be men were concealed in a place under Defendant's known that NORTH was 64 the best humoureti'man" cabin, who stated, on his word, that there were no breathing, and that nothing could disturb the even- 1 such persons on board. Defendant then sailed to ness of his temper • while Benne was petulant 1 Patmos, where a num ' eer o f the seamen went on and irritable to the last degree. While in the ful- ' sheik, having been informed that the vessel e•ould of senatorial glory they both became blind.— remain some days, but she sailed the same evening, . . a subsequent occasion, NoliTu made the hap- leaving ihem behind. Three of them were afterwards pieta use of this circumstance in the course of a' taken on board by the Defendant at Ceo; the re very irritable debate in the Commons. BARRE had mainder were sent by the British Consul to Smyrna ; . been attacking the Minister NORTH in a most . had been tried by Court-Martial • and from theta ) pointed, rancorous, and apparently success ful man- some of the witnesses were selected. ner, when the latter commenced his reply to this : captain Spraisger, of the Warrior, was the first etrect—" Mr. Speaker—l have been attack ed in the witness called, and corroborated part of Dr. Robert most virulent style by a Gentleman opposite, to sou's statement. whom the House always. listens with becomin g dee The witness stated, among other things, 'hat he Terence; and yet notwithstanding all the virulence went on board the, Pylades, his Lordship, the De ' of that speech, I will venture to say that there are fentlant's vessel, which was fitted out as a letter of .stot two men in his Majesty's domiuions who would marque, as well as a pleasure yacht, having fifteen be happier to sec one another than we should be!" guns, and a large complereent of men, but he never STEALING A DEAD Bouv.-- , The bOdy of Mrs. , searched her, because he took his Lordship's word Vilfing, the deceased wife of a tradesman in the Bo- of honour that no men belonging to the Wan for rough, who had died in childbed, was interred in St. were on board, nor yet any of the Montague, or of Thomas's Church-yard a few days ago with her child. ' any other. The husband suspected, the grave had been opened, A letter was put in. written by Lord Sligo, to *id on examining it he found such to be the case, Captain Sprenger, dated. Constantinople, 10th of and the corpse had been taken away. Ile traced the Nov. 0110, acknowledging that soma of the men body to a `surgeon's in Blenheim-Street, where he were on board his (Defendant'a) 'ship, but that they identified it, with two others, and It was again in, got on board without his kblenowle gde; that hbut e ade terred. . . m o tio n iiimelf - to be amena to the law, it Method of destroying . the Slug on Clover Ley conclueled with " thanking God that he could pay Wheats, communicated by an intelligent Essex any 6na which tbat law could indict without any ia. Farmer.—On a ten-acre piece of clover ley wheat, I coeivelqimee." ' had laid a small market cart load of Swedish turnip The witness underwent a tong MSc-examination, and cabbage leives singly, - Ind about five yards dis• by Mr. Dec ecf v, on behalf oT the Defendant, but tance, only one row to ethreeestep land: very early nothing i nportattt turned upon it. the next morning we took it large quantity of stop, William Elden, a seaman who was in the Navy of ail sizes, and after one repelitioir I hale the sa- .nearly 13 - -yeArs, and at the time mentioned was on 1011 01 belieriug my plant is steed. ' board the :Monmouth, off Malta, and bad a ticket • • - • . . . _ lI_.YJ' . l. . ... . ~ .y r . !~ - L 111 • 1: , - et , 1 .~ I