The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-07-31 00:00:00

F T. Dwe 0 Are, o - f.:%hon n I 1 PRICE or STOCKS THIS Nank 9 per Cent. Red. 5711 3 per Cent. Cate. S7ls 4 per Cents. 79$ 4 per Cent. Navy Nil Lang. Ann. 14 1.16$ IMT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Ittdia Doak I dip, pat /I:throne tillb Ditto 3 p p ar Ornithim Commis for Acct. 57ii Lottery Tlekeis THE STATESMAN. LONDON: A Gottenborgb Mail arrived kte list night, with accounts to the 'l2d instant, informing us that the Court of Stockholm, had been apprised by Major 511VRDAT, "UV! 31, 013. litter°, Aiii.do.Carep to the Crown Prince of swensit, that his Royal flightless was about to have se interview with the King of PRUSSIA sad the Ern .peror of Russia. The eatvacts of any iieportance we halo given. Onr yesterday's Paper confirmed an we bad pre thittely told our Readers, respecting the most lm porteut event which has occurred &Aug this long prAtvecteri war e We mean wkh maid to the Ar. inist4e, and its prolongation. We hero now to in. heathen' farther of what very much concerns the interest and the honour of the country, and that is the quality of the Ambassador, or Ambassadors, we :Roy employ in the ardoons task of advocating the tense of Great Britain in the coming Congress. By the quaky of the Ambassador, we do not mean his distinction from title, otherwise we might send thither one or two of our idle young Dakes, who are so much more expert in - driving a bareuche against time, ra ther than a bargain against the enemy. No; we mean quill.% or competency in managing his country's af. • tai in an intricate negotiation. Our Minister sent to Paris at the end of the American war, had no title (he was then plain Mr. EDEN), yet was he so well versed in the trading concerns of Great Britain, that he negnciated one of the most beneficial Com mercial Treaties with France that ever was entered into. We are told, however, by some, that this complicated task will be left to Lord C inicAtur and Mr. THORNTON ; the former admired most for the adjustment of a light infantry hat, and the lat ter for the gentlemanly, manner of taking oils his own. good It.avena ! and are the great and mighty concerns of the British empire to be trusted to such inesperieliced characters, whatever may be their zeal ! ! Others have assigned the difficult task of ad vocating nur rights in the contentious council, to the Earl of ABERDEEN ; and that as !Ministers were ap prised some time hack of the certainty that a Con gress would take place, they dispatched his Lordship on his errand, and add, that he is half way to Prague. Of the truth, or groondleuness of this report, we confess ourselves ignorant : if true, we are is sorry as we are surprised. The ftpststion of this pang peer t•landsfair is private life ;and if the mission referred to the engaging a wife for one of our Princes, or e consort for either of dawunowarried Princesses, we should think the choke proper and teeming.— in this enterprise dealer banner and the great trade of the coontry an to be fought far : the one to _ha preserved and the other to be recovered; and by whom Why, by atripplisim in the field of political warfare. our it be otherwise ? it may 10.4 ed. Will other higher Waded men serve ender second it third rate Statesmen f Perhaps net. This maybe a reason why they employ young politicians in their unpromising work. Tyros in the school of di pioraary, %base plastic dispositions will induce them to obey orders of every kind; anti, under that species of arrangement, their whale 'unworn are more securely defended, by secrecy, frOm strictures and investigation. Then, are such * the men his Royal Ilighness the PRINCE REGENT ought to retain as Ministers in the present iniricate . condition of the country ? Can better, can any gooci auspices arise out of such rulers? NO. •' Tx tinnvts Nino, non fit merourins." 1 ngliched—You cannot make a silken pan, out of a sow's 1111 r. There are those, however, those who are interest ed in those proseedings as much as ourselves, but who are also consulted in them and advise gke sendink no Minister at all to the Congress, an,. dor the assurance that his voice . would be stifled by the influence of a contrary , ietecest.— ALIOCANIDER More, however, whO pleised his PM- . ployers with what he did in :weclen, 'sag to be the bearer of a laconic question to one of the*c.hief par ties composing the distracting assembly at prove.— Like Caro, we are lust in conjecture ; and a little time ago, like him also, we might have eaclaimed— " And is this world made for C csalt !" The work, however, is not yet ended. If we had an efficient telicci , try, and half a dozen able Plenipotentiaries at our disposal, to employ as the doctors say, pro re nata (as occasion might require), we might rest easy at the final result. EXTRACT or A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER 01 RARE. a " Dated hi Comp. rear Parnpelann. JIM, 23. " The Government account of the battle of the. 21st, will, no doubt, be before the ' public "ere this , reaches you. It was as brilliant, but as de‘petatp, .an affair as was ever known ;—'nellher Teleasi nor ] Salamanca could be comptred to it. 1 ilyieliAiereit i 11011 loss *as about 5000 men-killed-and etieigieilf-silia4 at ital. The whole ... * . `„"# (icily that number, Ti I E STATESMAN. the by.: less lay on Sir ROWLAND lines division, which was engaged from eight in tiseatorning until dark, which alone put an end to the action, and 1 saved King losv.en from being, taken* ind the re. mains of his army from destruction. Our loss in officers' is very , severe. Colonel cADOOAIf • • fell, gloriensly leading the, light brigade of Sir Lt. Thu.'s army into action—the regiments he com ' mended were his own, the 71st, the,soth, and the 92d, all distingai.hed corps; they sufered severely ; the 71st alone lost 300 killed and wounded. This is a victory in every sense of the word ; it has com pletely decided the fate of Spain. The enemy occupied, with about 35,000 men, the heights com manding the road from Puebta to Vittoria; Sir Row- LAND HILI.'S corps d'armee attacked them there, Idrove them from thence to a second position, about a mile nearer the latter town, where they took up a most formidable and imposing post ; here they were, a second time, attacked by that army, and by. _Generals COLE'S, PICTON'S and Avrem's ' divisions, and driven from thence by diiit of abso -1 lute hand-to-hand lighting. The French de fended, most bravely, every inch of ground. Jo ann, mounted on a white horse, was conspicuous in the hottest of the ire. A battery of several heavy pieces of cannon made great destruction among the ' British ; this battery, however, was carried, and the whole of the guns taken. Joszen Then took up a third position, about a league from Vittoria, from which he was beaten precisely in a similar manner.— ' And now the route commenced—the enemy fled io aU 1 directions—abandoning their killed, wounded, guns,. ammunition, baggage—every thing. We drove them I through Vittoria, where all Josarn's carriages were,' and his equipage of all sorts. They took up a fourth position about a league beyond Vittoria, from whence they were driven precisely as before. Night now came on, and the army could pursue no further; and now the plunder commenced—the whole mad was strewed Kith carriages of all sorts and of all countries—English, French, Spanish, Germane *c. ; several capital English barouches were soon torn to atoms by the men ; at least 2000 carriage., of all sorts, were completely destroyed—the loss is incal.l soluble—Josteu himself escaped with only the' clothes he wore. So unexpected was - our success, that not an article was removed from thence, or attempted to be, until it was too late; and so rapid was our advance, that nothing could be saved. The - Spanish Crown, worth near a lmillion, on which are several diamonds and jewels. of the most valuable sort, fell into our hinds ; It ' will be sold for the benefit of the army. The quan-1 tity of property that was destroyed is immense; the country, for miles, is literally strewed with It. Books; papers torn to pieces; carriages torn asunder to search them ; trunks broken open by one blow of a fireiock ; every article that can be con. ceived is involved in one common destruction, From 1 the impossibility of transport, nothing that was not e portable, such as money and jewellery, could be taken ; therefore clothes, of all sorts, were thrown • in all directions. This pillage commenced at night. fall. It rained incessantly in the heaviest manner. Judge what a condition every thing must be in at day-beak. Dead bodies, of all nations, lying I indiscriminately in the roads. Dying men in ttle last agonies ; others wounded, and unable , "to crawl from the spot where they fell, and of 1 which numbers are left to perish, from the ether impossibility of collecting them. Property of all kindsvuined by the rain and mud. This was the scene which the daybreak of yesterday, the 22d, presented to view. A shocking event occurred , in my own sight. Two poor French O ffi cers, se. ' verely wounded, had crawled together, and had been found at dusk by •some men who were collecting wounded. They had remained, as, indeed, thousands had, of necessity done, since the day before, with. out food, or their wounds dressed, exposed in that state to the inclemency of the weather,—it was too late to have them conveyed in last night, and this morning they were found, having stabbed each other with knives, thus putting an end to a miserable exist- ence, the agonies of which they were unable to bear. The loss, on the part of the French, is really.] Immense,—in artillery irremediable, for we have alt .they W f :-in trertue, valuables, &c. npwards ttiointiffn - i.. ' "" • General Faxes cavalry, the Royals, mei 3tl Dragoon Guards, eminently distinguished themselves. . 1 That o ffi cer had his horse shot under him. A strange perversion, or mixture of force, appealed. The heaviest and the lightest troops we possess were brigaded, or rather acted together; the Hussar Bri gade and the Household Brigade. The latter never got into action; of the former, the 18th regiment suf fered some loss, in being exposed on the advance from the Ist to the 2d position, to a severe fire from some 12 - pounders the enemy had got on a height they had to pass. The 88th regiment distinguished itself much ; as did the 28th and 30th, under Colonel O'CALLAGHAN % who fought them in a most masterly manner. ' The artillery did wonders., Captains Bass and Waiters Sntre's troops of horse ertillery were engaged from -morning tit night, and were of 'Whale use. In chart, every body acted as English men ire ammatomod to de in action. • , ' 'WS Ilialweleked ern the field of battle on the night .' lll,llO 1111 ;. ea' Us , SS we seinalnod near it, for the Wier , Cillibtait be ooltoot*4 froth plundering i and, ogli saiankhs'eorrenisentl iny, nothing Can egad the - .1. 4di wow. is *Ay * tiler tit tat ti Mire .1. • 7 4 0. • ^..*: : tierra ; sad to-morrow, of coarse, we shall pursue the flying enemy. Whether JOSEPH will reach France is yet a doubt. Sir Toom,a GRAHAM is after him with his division. It is uncertain what direction he has takes, whether Tolosa Ir Panipel ono. W. IWO *Ow Half way between both. :The enemy rumen- forisoth, and I soltpo - re the army will de cide and follow them to each of • those places.--- 1 Whether we shall then advance by St. Sebastian to Sayonne t or by Pompeian., southward, or Saragossa, sad annihilate SUCEIET and his corps, lg., of course, unknown ; the latter is, I think, probable. Judging from the events of the last month, and are they not incredible ? there can be little doobt but that this campaign will have finished before the end of July, of course the army will he sent home, for it cannot be supported without money, without rations, without , food, in arrest upwards of eight months : now the enemy is expelled, or about to be, no reason can exist for keeping us here. Of the want of money. and credit, 4be following anecdote will be tolerably illustrative :—At Valladolid, a Commissary purchased several loads of barley for the cavalry, he had no money to pay for it—the Spaniard would not part without--40. price was two drillers for a measure of aboat a bushel. One of those harpies, called Contractors, who follow the Army, was then found, Mho . purchased it, paid for it, and received bills on Lisbon, at the retest eight dollars for what he paid only Awe i This .tact, on the truth of which you may rely, speaks for Itself. It proves at once the state of our poverty and our miseries—how long as an Army of 160,000 be fed at this rate! si Thursday Mann's, Jane 24. " We have jest received positive information that . JosErm has succeeded in gaining the Pyrenees. if so, and there is no reason to doubt it, all idea of sar i penetrating into France must beat attend. The area informed believe, that the unexampled rapid mardats we have been making had no other object. .Levdl WiLLINGTOII 9 II ambition would nnqoastiowahly itwt been Much gratified at leading such an and kb' France as this. The motives I bait lips, WW I tioned, the difficulty of subsisting it mackiMsosel pewit in this country, were, of course, • argu ments with him. It is underatoolt ifisat • poems to Bayonne are so strong, that the ssimalos of Joszca's At my, which now occupy them, can d*. fend them against the world. Nothing, therefore, remains but to heat Strefirf, and destroy the manias of the enemy in detail. Saragossa, Barcelona, &c. will, no doubt, •soon full. Funipelorta. it is sop. posed, is in no state of defence, fir such has haus the rapidity of our march, that It Is totally appro. vided.” Mr. D muss, a King's Messtogsr, etsirqd-tith morning at Lord amtlasesathee, In Downi ng.streef t with dispatches from the Marquis of Vissz.puTrow. He left the bead.quarters of the British Army on the 19th instant but the accounts brought by him had not transpired whoa our Paper went to press. A Bulletin is espeoted to be issued this afternoon, which we shall publish its a Second Edition, if pos. sible. SECOND Dispatches were this afternoon received from Fi eld. Marshal the Marquis of WELLttiorox, dated on the 19th inst. They were brought by Mr.,D ANtets, the Messenger; s Cabinet Cou nc il was i mmedialoy summoned to take them int* consideratio n , a n d the following Oilicial Bulletin was issued _OFFICIAL BULLETIN. 66 War Repialaiont, 415 21 . " Dispatches have been received from the Marquis Qf WELLINGTON, dated Lezeca, July 19. " A batiery of fous guns opened on the against a fortified Convent, which was st rongly pied by the enemy in front Of St. Sebastiao's; aid ;.on the morning of the 17th, this pest, and another strong stork which adjoined it, were carried iiy assault. • " Two columns, 'commanded by Mojor-Gettersi OSWALIII 3nd HAY, wee* employed •u this servirp.— They wore chiegy composed of Portuguese troops, supported by the 9th ngimes►t. . -44 'Gen. MIMi hart; been joined sear Zaragoza j byGeneral thiaax4fiey attacked General PARIS ON ' the Stb of July. Inlite skid of tie's*, the enemy retreated . towards /eta s *kiting ailitrinort. in a re. doubt which Genera) was maiiiireil to attack, white MINA and Diu .lustan tuninaved the RONTIIy% Column. Tioey had takes . aterry prisoners and mcci baggage; told en thel lei they ciptarad a convoy. " Lord WALL:MUM eddy ver; high!, the v. litity and gallantry digitated is these operations. ' Sumer evactra ted 'Vitiate's on the ith of July The patina of Sepik Walk withdrawn, and the Fiteachrooneral Stow had blown up the Fort (f. - AIM* and lad mooched Open 'Megninen;a." Disistehea have aloe )i s eett received from Lord II Bermes, dated Valencia, 13th July " 'rhoAllied Armies •ware collected in that neigh. limarhood, and were about to move towards the Ebro. The enemy tad left garrisons in Murviedro and Pea sicolat" •- NOWAVONAUPtION W THE LAST. vut or, time Right NOM GEORGE VXMAILLES, Lord Vaarroa, was proved yesterday, With ten codiclh.,The 7th codicil (rairabile dicta), is is the following words s—" I hereby declare this to be a codicil to my last will and testament, •nd I hereby ere to my dear son.in-lau, she iiirwsan H ta. "sat, one sant, not.exceeding Frits THQUs.tND Potpies, towards the,pnrehase of a seat in Parliament; Of Witlllllll my hand this 22d day of August, 1812. " VERNON This advancement in the art and practice of cor. roption ; would pot the (MOW* BU B 130DDivqrov, afterwirds Lord MELCCring agGIS, of Were°Ath notoriety, to the blush, were he living. Mobillts we hear his very spirit, oa the other side of the Styr, calling out to CIIAROSI to throw so stupid a fellow into the middle of that river, and not contatniusto the characters Of the treble dead with the body. of Man who hai so foolishly let the cat out of the bag. That time-serving, ConrtAnnting Peer, mast depre. cate the fit-Titter wound hit etearlry for ve..alitV a.. 4 corruption would receive in the barefaced di „play cf a practice whicit has brought Great l 3 ital.' to the very verge of des rilction. W.- Tonto not time at present to expatiate upon this bare-faced depratity, avowed by a man in his last breath (we think we smell its sti .king It mill be.,a curious question, if not in common law, at least in common sense, in common honour, and oer► in trinity, how the intendedly mischievous and butt ful fivc. thousand pounds are to be disposed ell; • On Wednesday evening, after the Cabinet Coun cil broke up, Captain CHARLES, Aid-de-Camp to Sir ROuERT WsLsos, was sent off with dispatches, from the Foreign Chace, to the North. Yesterday the Earl of LiVERPOOL had an audi t once of the Pats= REGENT. Ills Royal Highness afterwards give audiences to Viscounts CASTLEREAGH and MELVILLE. The Princess CisaaLorrE will leave town this evening, for Windsor, where she will reside for about two months. The report of Mr. CANNING'S accession to office proses to be unfounded. THE MURDER, OF CLIFFORD. By the Lisbon packet letters have been received, - +- which state, that accounts had arrived at LlOson We are happy to state, that a Subscription hat from America, announcing that the United Stairs' been set on foot for the relief of the wretched widow and Macedonian frigates, with the Hornet sloop of and poor orphans of the unfortunate man who was war, came out for the purpose of attacking - *Hie of 1 so barbarously murdered on Monday last, for the our ships of war blockading, but on their coming ; sake of the small sum he had saved to take his out, the Ramillies hove in sight; on which they at.'i family to Ireland.. This poor woman, iii the last tempted to get back, but were prevented, snd•they state:. pregpancy, with five helpless children, were obliged to run into No London ; immediately 1-nettirtiett: from •the funeral of her , murdered hus after which they landed all Aeir guns, stores, .dcc. lbasid to • *the desolation• of a . miserable habita and got theM on the hills, to prevent outs shipant- 1 lion, Without a shilli ,ttjt to procure for herself tacking them in the harbour. • any of the comfort* her situation required, or t pro "rhe mine under the fortress of Borgne is mid to i vide for her fatherless elsildrett a morsel of ti:e have etiploded, several hours - sooner than it was in. coarsest food to tillay :thiL.crasiope of hoover and tooled by their-retch ; the consequence of which is I want. :She was destitute, bat shelves not deserted. stated to have been, that three companies of their , The statement of her teen as it was detailed in own soldiers were destroyed : this is some retribi- i the examinations that succeededt-the Murder, at. Hon for the bise device by which so many poor Spa- ; trecte4 that notice, and eatited that interest, which silents were blown up at St. Andero, by an omen. I the. British head end heart never , fail to* bestow pleded mine. Two thousand three hundred shells .ond to feel in Mid of unmerited *offering. Two or were also found in the mine of Burgos. three Geutlemen in the Qty set on foot a subscrip- We stated that Mr. KENNICIE was mentioned as the lion amongst their respective 'friends for the adorn!. intended Commiisioner under the new Insolvent Act; natefandly, each of *Margolis.' well ; w hilst the but, on consideration, we think it- impossible that, • officer of Mummify wee nobly and unostentationsiT even in these times, such an appointment can be me. attended to brseemakilmelles of rank inihe west end I ditated.—Mr. Remises, it is tine, has the Borough of therms% of Blechingly; but has he not been amply rewarded for his votes ? The late Mr. PEacirr AL gave him thol Miseder4sto fine ntittgesent wereeshibited in Mastership of the Judgeship, scarcely petite*: Liverpool lekstnerbot, me i Measuring about .cy meld of a Welch Judgeship, scarcely yet sins easty, ! feet in length. Thais t very unusual Elictontcl on him. Is be most qualified for this thltdandvecir •in that' town. One of -thew - sturgeons was otos 14 important appointment, by never isevifig hallany be. between titerlaltol and Itanlawn. sines: as a barrister;, er by MS taking an active post j- A moll& ,than has diseovtrod a method of con. amongst the Segieematta of the Quarter SONNINON of 110411111ININEttry t by the ski eta pneumatic machine 'Surrey ? . and the osenstration wf ,Mbar. The expo-intent was It is reported, that Sitrobiters have proposed to the vendetta small glees lobes. which being broken, the India Directors-, the appointment. at e. 11/* &LAOS, Wahil was taken from them M a solid Atop. of the Boardof Controul, at Governor of *Writs, i SpanTlSlG~ge C. Ibn/way has, it ientot, re- The Conttultedoisers . of Stamp pat* hi Ireland twitted oil starting the Commis horse Smotepesku for , have been the lasi week, at the Commission of Oyer . the Magna Charts Stakes, et F.ghttm MCP' • and Terminer, in prOsecuting persons oharged with 1 We have heard, but we cannot give credit to the forging and purloining stamps. it Is 'supposed that report, that a oertain &tight of Malta (the pnrchaser there hum been illicit stamps to the amount Of of a Dukedom) is attain ;Input to '~visit this c , motry. 179,0001. sold in Dublin within the last year—two of iu cur...essence of a presbing invitation from a Noble the Prsollt Waled have been acquitted ' • I man of high sack. , , •