The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-10-29 00:00:00

i IF F;F LONDON: I_ J Air!vet% Mails. Doe. . Dublin .1 - 6ita I) (1 (1 -••••••••••••-•-• g . '.,, f -.UWE OF sTiIChS I'll IS DAY AT ON I.: O'CLOSCK. 5 per Cent. fled. 6.5C.:1 1 ;;per Cent. Cons. 66111 . Oinnium 5. dis. , THE STATESMAN. --••••••••-• ifONDAT, 'OCTOBER. 29, 1810. Vire .belicre that Government have not received any dispatches front Portugal, either yesterday or to-day. The opinions respecting the result of the present situation of the contending armies, arevari. eus in an ottusual degree. Many think that MASSEIA must retire, from waist of pravisiuns,'or eadeavour to beat the Allied Army withoutdelay. If htassmt canict engage the Allied Army with a great prq- pect of success, i►r his view of the subject, it is not likely he •should make the attack, because, if he is compelled to retreat at length, for want of food, he will certainly chuse to commence his re- treat, as touch as possible, with unbroken forces. But there is another conjecture, which appears to 10S full as probable as that of MASSENA'S retreat for want of provisions; and that is, my Lord WELLING• TON being compelled to quit Portugal,from his inc.apa_ city to feed Isis soldiers. It cannot be supposed, that leis Lordship will with.hold from theold and neze pa. pulation of Lisbon any. part of the food necessary for their existence. That must be put out of the question. Is it then probable, that Lisbon can de. rive the food it wants, and Lord WELLINGTON the food his allied army wants, from E►►gland, with sufficient regularity, in sufficient panties, during the winter ? But if MASSENA can get food to carry .on • protracted scheme of warfare, it does follow that Lord WELLINGTON may be driven out of Portugal by hunger. There is another cptestion, can wo spare the food for Lisbon and the armies from our population at home ? Will it be prudent (on their own behalves) for Ministers to make the attempt ? And this question is the more important, inasmuch as my Lord Wm.r.tsCiTON ►lid create half, and more than half of this difficulty himself. He shwa neither have sedueed the Portuguese to fly to Lisbon, nor have driven them there. When he himself Wended a protracted defenc... he should not have willingly shut up within his lines an immense extra populatiuti. However cruel it may be, it is usual, and the necessities of war authorise it, for a Commander to send every useless mouth out of a besieged town---and this is the first time we have heard of a Ga. peril driving, or enticing, the population of the country, through which be retreats from • the enemy, into his own linos, where he means to make aloud, and may be ion shut up, if he can resist. Lord WELLINGTON'S tactics seem, however, to be perfectly understood by his friends hare ; and verliaps we shall have some good and sufficient cx. I:l4uation of this new manceuvre iu eiiii tary affairs ! Wo have reoeived by the Hindostan, the Sydney anettes to the sth of May. Lieut.. Governor Cowles died at the Settlement of Hobart ) - on the slth of March, whilst sitting in 'his chair convert.. iug with his Surgeon, wholted attended him during a short illness of six days.: His fut.eral wee atteuded by all the Officers of tho Settlement s 1 4 lCUL LORD, of the Marines ) following Metier as Chief Mourner; upwards of six hundred • persons attended to pay the last duties of 'respect to ,their revered Commander. Tl►e ifercary schooner arrived at Sydney on the 4th of May, with agars° of pork Otaheite ; she brought *aunts of tho con. tinuancc of the civil wars -bctween•Possattass and subjects. Accounts had been received at .Spd... ney or the loss of the lifary w.lialer, Captain SINK WORDS, off the east end of NetiZealand, with 110 tuns of sperm oit. • The .orelirertilayed ky a ycl- Lei in company; suptiosed•. to be 'tlto • inspector, Captain Was.ata.:—Asersign..ptiars of article* in Sydney, May . 4 :—BretadBll.. nintkin l . fork, and • bat', H. ,6d. por 11,4•4sats,- 65., Maize,. 41. pots. tut s, 15s. G 4. par Cwt..; •fyWhr.. 311. each ; eggs, 4s. Otl..pet dozen. '"! • There is a report, that, since the Negociation far tho return of Mr. CtsNixt; to the Cabinet eserturos have been made to Lord Slo. titUUTU I and his friends, to join the present Admi. nisiration ; and, certainly, a friendly it:tercuurse subsists betwee►► them. It it expected .that Lord Stmt , yin will take the plastc of President of the Conned, in the room of Parl CAUDUN—aiI that Mr. 13.txttuasr will succeed Mr. liyintt as Necrrtary for the Hume Department. The Earl of Lecgt,toetaisassaic n ill also, it is said,, he placed in a conspicuous situation. A letter from Madrid states, tint JOSEPH had re. tumid to the Capital ; that the inhatilifiitts were in frnstry ; that a contribution was *trial of 1100,Q06 risk per day, to supply the Court, the Treitaory bd. lug nithout inntiey ; and that the oe now Royal paper, were at 9 - 2 per cant.discount. The Nils of Sao P. re4h64, the former Goernmect paper, %vac at 83 NI cent. lisconot. • ;•;•;•'si. A letter has been received from Oporto, stating a very unpleasant fact, not mentioned in the db.. patches, or communicated through any other chats. nel. The French, to the number of 3000 cavalry, sudelenly'appearid, prior to the affair of Bunco, od the south brink of the Vouga. Colonel TRANT, With 5000 infantry, and a squadron of horse, was at that time on tile north shore of the same Jiver. On the approach of the foe, all his efforts to in. duce the Portuguese militia to maintain their ground were Ineffectual. The French had important duties to perform to the south of the \range, and the bag gage, as well as the troops, fortunately reached Oporto ; nor was any attempt made by the French to intercept them. A tiring on the French coast was hard on Satur day, supposed to be rejoicing for the victory which MASSENA claims with respect to the battle of Hu. saco. It m.•►y have been for the arrival of the Em. peror of AUSTRIA at Paris; or might be some shots exchanged het►recu the enemj's flotilla at Bunlogsaii and our croizevs. _ • An Order in Council appeared in Saturday's Gazelle, that, iu consequence of Ow yellow fever raging at the Havannah, all vessdls coming directly or circuitously from thence, or any other port in the island of Cuba, or that have taken on board any passenger or goods which may have comefrom thence, &e. be ordered to perform quarantine. Letters from Amsterdam to the 25th instant were received en Saturday, which state the arrival of in. telligesice from Paris to thel9th Inclusive ; at which time the account of the battle .of Busaco had not reached that city, or if It had, it was not suffered to transpire. Colonel BARCLAY, of the 511 regiment, was brought on shore at Portsmouth, from the Appallo, on Monday, and immediately attended by Dr. NPG 'tenon. He is wounded through the right thigh, and the left foot. lie is doing as well as can be expected. It is stated in letters from Holland, that no less than sixteen French Couriers were imprisoned at Bayonne for having refused to proceed to the armies in Spain and Portugal with dispatches. Hardly one messenger out of six, who takes the route of the Western Pyrenees,' is known to arrive at his dasti. nation. There is no security for their arrival ex cept in strong escorts of ca►alry, and even these are frequently attacked and deeroycxl. The lamentable consequences of the annexation of Holland to France ate not only felt . in the total stagnation of trade in that country, but in the ex traordinary decline of the public funds. The two and a half per cents. have fallen as tow so nine. A private letter has•been received from Portugal, which states, that, after the battle of Busaco, Lord I/Va.:Jr:atom finding it necessary to retreat, brime. diately dispatched orders to Figueras, at the mouth of the river . Mondego, where a magazine of impor. tance was established, to remove it with all possi ble speed to the other side of the river; but un. fortunately, and to the great astonishment of the bearer of the dispatch, on his arrival at Figueras he lettad the place already occupied by a large carps of the enemy. Some Native Officers stationed in Bengal, for the purpose of Suppressing the predatory bends in the Upper Province's, together with a Magistrate high in confideuce, have been 'accused of conniving at the depredations of the freebooters, if not of par. ticipating in this plunder. :The former have been dismissed the service, rodlike latter suspended. The 7'otonshend packet" le arrived at Falmouth, with a Mail from Jamaica. Letters from Buenos Ayres, via Madeira, to the 16th August, confirm the intelligence of Li alEit'S son having been arrested. He was, it ap. pears, hastening to join his father with a stun of money to pay the troops, when a detachment from Bueuos Ayres intercepted him at St. Nicholas. Notwithstanding the smallness of the force which LINIERS had to oppose to the designs of his cnc. :isles, such was the influence attached to his name, and so considerable were his resources, that he was conceived capable ()illumining the contest in which he was chtaged. The inhabitants of Monte Video, as well as those of Colonia, are stated to be greatly exaspe iated at the prompt and vigorous proceedings of the 'Junta, in sending away the late Viceroy and Au dencia. The Governor of the latter place was even considering the expediency of a public avowal of his sentiments, and the propriety of making some hostile movements, when his designs were frustrated by.tbe soilden,appearatice of a military force, and he was compelled waft& safety in flight. His par. 'tisans,.made some susistance,. and blood was spilt before tranquillity' was restored. The recent letters from Malaga state, that the vintage has failed ibis season. The few raisins ga. thered are of betrirtitalierss le lie :nearly use. less. The French who were in the vicinity of Ma laga during tlio Summer, devoured the entire crop of Jordan Abounds. Several vessels havo beet, ordered from Plymouth, to co-operate with the noliiary operations at San. tuna anJ it vicinity, on the North coast of Spain. A9ajur.Gencral NIMITINGALE goes out to Por tugal, to succeed Brigadier.Gcneral CATLIN CIIAU. PAID. A part of thn Ist battalion of the dOth Regiment (COO men), un Friday arrived at Cowes, to embark for Jersey. • The Ilussar brigade, and the 2d battalion of the 521-Regiment, will shortly embark fur Portugal. An Officer of high rank at Malta is reported to have fallen in lobo with the eldest daughter of Lu. CILNI Bo N ‘r.i RTE. A party of 221 recruit; for the 2d North West Militia, uu Ttiovstlif, marched into Nettingham, on, their way to jutit'the :..egitneut at Gosport. Mr. Daustmostrt, tbo hanker, has resigned the command of tiro Prince of Wale's Volunteer Corps. . • Three old men, belonging to a workhouse In' Edinburgh, labt week went out together to drink drams; in e,Uesequente of which ono of them died rho sonmeteiring l .another iu three days ; and the third withla Welatk. r ;- --; . NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, OCT. VS.—Yesterday arrived the Totenshe.nd packet, Western, with mails (rum la. maica, forty-nine days passage ; no news. She his brought over about 100,000 dollars on freight. Also the Adventure, Tilly, from Plymouth. Sailed, the Dart cutter, Lieutenant Crossman, with mails for Cadiz and Malta ; Marlborough packet, Buil, with mails for Lisbon ; Eliza, Rundle, and Friends' Adventure, Chapman, ,for Liverpool ; and Brothers, Mason, for Ports mouth. Arrived this day his Majesty's hired ship Ilum 7 her, 16 guns, Capt. England, from the eastward ; Ann, Bretton, from. London ; Young Henry, Cot ton, from Hayti, for Greenock, very leaky ; Ont. nium, Johnstone, from Quebec, la ith timber on government account ; and Shellelti, Hurly,• and Sawn, Evans, from IVaterford. His Majesty's ketch Gleaner, Lieutetrtnt Green,. is arrived here to take out Captain Burgh and an. other Officers to Portugal. The Queen Charlotte packet, which sailed from hence Oil the 15th instant, with mails fur America, met a heavy gale of wind on the :12d, in which she was. disnutsted, and Met other serious damage ; she fortatintely fell in with his Majesty's ship Pheasant, who took her in tow, Capt. Mudge arrived here this evening from . Mount's Bay• with the mails, which must be forwarded by another packet. The Mullet schooner, which sailed same day with the Queen Charlotte, • also returned to Ply. mouth, haling lost her guns, &c. &c. PORTSMOUTR, OCT. 48.--Arrived the Plover, from Plymouth ; the Niobe frigate, Capt. Loring, from off Havre ;- Revenge, 71 guns, Capt. Nash ; the Donegal, 74 guns, 'Captain Malcolm'; and Coquette, 18 guns, Captain Forbes, from off Cher. bourgh ; the Firm and Linnet, front a cruise. Sailed the Belvidera, 36 guns, Admiral Sawyer, 'Captain Byron, for Halifax; the Spartan, 36 guns, Captain Brenton, for the Downs ; the 'The. ban, on a cruise ; and Podargus, 18 guns, with a convoy for the Drs. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 27.—A rrived the American ship Superior, John Luscombe, master, from Phi. ladelphia, put into this port to repair damages re. eeivcd in rigging. Sailed the Northumberland, of 71 guns, for Lisbon. Arrived the Naiad frigate from Portsmouth, hay. ing on board Admiral Laforey, who will hoist his flag on board the Dragon, of 74 guns, ociw laying in Cawsand Bay, fur the purpose of proceeding to the West Wits, to relieve Admiral Cochrane, who comes home on his arrival on the station. Went uir harbour to repair, the Neptune, of 98. grim Sailed the Asia, Spanish ship, of 64 guns, for Portsmouth, to be repaired., ' • Arrived the Seine frigate, from a cruise. - Sailed the American ship: Agenoria, Smart, for Liverpool. A rrrived the Britannia, Brown, from Quebec, with timber, &e. loft that place the 10th ult., with a fleet of 36 sail, but parted in a heavy gale of wind on the 11th instant; and on the 14th following, was captured by the Trfgrer French privateer, of 18 guns ; but having sixty Englishmen on board taken out of prizes, she was given up to the Captain and crew, after putting .on board the Captain, crew, and passengers of the Portuguese ship Intriga, from the Brazils, bound to London, with tobacco and hides, which she had previously captured; also the Standard, of 64 guns, from Portsmouth. Sailed the Naiad frigate on a cruise ; the Cheer/a, guu-brig, with a fleet for Liverpool ; also the llareke and Peacock brigs of war, on a cruise. Arrived the Romulus frigate, from the Downs. Sailed the Surveillante frigate fur the coast of Spain. Went op harbour to repair, the Seine frigate. The. Tonnunt, Mai-s, and Poicticrs, line of battle ships, which sailed from hence a few days since, are gone to Lisbon. Considerable agitation was experienced in the public mind on Saturday afternoon, and during yes terslay, hams report of the KING !Wing ill, and a currency was given to the rumour, In consequence of his MAJESTY not riding out on Saturday, nor att►'nding diiitie service yesterday at St. George's Chapel, which was his constant custom. We have been however, to learn whether there was any foundation for the report. No direct account could be obtained of the Prin. eess A MELT on Saturday, but the general answer was, that she was much the same as on Friday.— Yesterday it was said, that she had two hours sleep in the night, and was a little better.' Dr. Port and Mr. DUNDAS left IViittlsor on Saturday morning, leaving Sir HENRY HAL.ForeD and Dr. 13AIL►E in dose attendance:—the two former returned to Windsor again in the evening. The Isabella (Spanish schooner), from Tene.• rifle fur London, was lust 19th inst. near Tralce ; cargo expected to be saved. 'i•ho Princess Mary, NV Bassani!), is lost at Newfoundland. The Union, IVATSOS I from Jamaica to Charley. ton, was driven on shore on Tybee Sands, Aug. 31, and it is (cited she a ill be lost. The !Bram, SlitnElt, from London for Shields, is lotit off Flipokorough-head. The Ganynede takes convoy from Port mouth to lho West bulks, hinnct ) Samoa! I S. • Mir po It7'S _llO Ocr, Rear Admiral Iferbert Sawyer ni sti i ka r morning in the Belvidere, Captain teed Sir John W arren, at Halifax. The Olympia made a valuable eap twe passage from the Cape. On the 29th u! ,. with the French brig iftatente, deeply Eastern produce, which she captured set in with her. She was from the ( a t e bound to Bourdcaux. We understand, 'by letters from tl e Goad Hope, that th e estimated 'aloe of pert v taken at B our b on , i s between 3 led Lord Henry Percy, of the 14th drag .ther to Lord Louvainc), was taken p r . in Portugal. Ile had tho command of the .Lad his horse becoming rcstire at the app. French party, he was as consequence i ttl by them. Vac Friendilap sloop, Captain Willino a regular Loudon trader, was run down 04 • day evening last, about eight mile; fro m Head, by A man of war brig ) and the err , , posed to have all perished. Si.c was 14 , 1 groceries, &c. for this town. The Assistance Navy transport, Ca;4.l Wood, sailed out of this haibi , ur nu Ti e se'naight ; and in the afternoon she tell in ta Phipps, Bel eastward ofsthe piers, from al learnt, there were 15 privateers in that p ant Channel. luau hour after ward the Attistal a. French lugger firing into a fillip. Tie pril perceiving the Assistance was coming up aiu stood to the Southward. The ...issistancca the ship, and chaced the privateer, but cot:i overtake her. The proited to be the JAI of Leith, with a cargo from Jamaica. T., sistance then collected 10 sail of merchant took them into the Dawns. John Crane, .Esq. first bruter-Attesdantsl Majesty's Dock-yard, at this port, is, as Li ll request superannuated. .He has Neu vice upwards of BO years. James Par appointed first Master-Attendant; The. son, Esq. second ; and Min. Payne, Lo it i The persons with whom Jeffery, them came ashore from the Thistle, were )11„ Lord Lake, and Mr. Thatches, his"Loali iii , torney. They all proceeded toLuilos, taa Eery has since made a very satisfi a ctory mane with the family of Captain Lake. Jeffery'bc tations were 10001.—ue have not beard the t sum he has received. • Lord and Lady Holland und family left Gui meat Howieltris morning, on their retum to Hu House, Kensington. CORN EXOII4INGE I Ocr. 29. 'the fresh arrives of Wheat to.day cot makes tolerable supply, but not much fon and sales thereof fully at Friday's prices; somewhat cheaper; Melt and Beans, of tie sorts, nearly at our last quotation; White! again dearer ; there are considerable Anita Oats, but being in demand, this article isautgt lower; Flour without Tanaka. Wheat, - - -68 s. 82.. 955. Tick Beam,, •; 15.9 Fine ditto - - 984.1024. Oats, Rye (new) - - - 40,. 454. Poland. - - Barley, , s4s. 474. Potatoe ditto -• • •s, Malt, - W. Peas (Boilers) 64 4. 70'. Fine Flour -•1% Grey Peas, -- - -48 s. b3e. Seconds - •.0 Beam, ---50..56. .1 I 1 LUCIEN BONAPARTS.--ThiS extraordinary sonage having retired, disgusted with kis In , having assumed the Imperial Purple, chose ► to place of his tranquillity, the beautiful snd chanting villa near Albano, about titiP from Rome, which be purchased at a tcry siderable expense from the Barbarini family few years ago. It lies In a sequestered called Nernori, and has been celebrated, I the earliest ages, for the residence of most distinguished of the Roman Sold The Lake of Neini, adjacent to it, lies ins deep valley, surrounded on every side socoall ly with weeds and groves, that its fUrfaCo iIM ruffled with a breath of wind, which, togetiell the nncommon transparency of its water, isi posed to have given rise to the appellation bate upon it by the Ancients, who called it, gm to Virgil, Speculunque Diane, Diana's Loot glass. - - The following dreadful occurrence is taitel an Edinburgh Paper, received on Saturtlip ' Gentleman walking along the South Bridge this morning ( Wednesday)wits alaimed by the . Of a pistol, and immediately calling thee of a watchman, proceeded towards the place whence the report seemed to come. On at the head of Infirmary.strLet, they parallel body of a man lying stretched on the growl) besides him an other man, who, immediately an coming up, presented a pistol to his head, 1 4 and I'ol to the ground. Assistance was pr procured, and they were carried to the Will I wary, the one perfectly lifeless, and the other( had fired the pistol when the gentleman and man came up) nearly so : he died in a few N after being brought into the Infirmary. la the the ball had enteral a little above the lett car, lodged in the brain ; in the other, it had Kt' little above the right ear, and passed ou t at the posit° tide of the head. We un d erst and ch it gentleman who was observed to fire the secant p was much intoxicated ; that he left his f a brace of loaded pistols in his hand , 101 l "Aiir, towed by the other g e ntleman, in orde r to him back. Irritated, probably, by hi, sulicitaa, • he committed the rash deed above-iecol, e 'na l interval between the tiring of the two p— is ois• De about three miuutes.