The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-08-23 00:00:00

•1 Marshal goyim, by whose Lord WILLINGTON iI pots opposed, W 0813411414 one of the best Officers I n the service of NAeouton. He is, (mill to be par. t i c ,,: a oy di:diminished • for greet pers'onal bravery sod 1110)1 , 1 Isdttl perseverance. To defeat such a man i s no small praise. The struggle with him, however, Is only just commenced, and its fierce onset threatens a to.irful and sanguinary contest. In the late eo glirroeuts, the English ajtd Portuguese have had oe •rly 7000 killed and wounded ; the Spanish loss is net given. Suppose it, however, to have equalled that of the Portuguese, and add to it the loss at St. Sebastiayes, the aggregate will certainly teach len thonsand !—There are generally two or three omissions in Lord WELLtstavon's Dias patches, which very much lessen the interest they naturally excite. He rarely states the force of the. enemy by whom he is opposed—the strength of Ms own army—and the probable amount of killed, wounded, and taken, on the side of the French.— These are matters of great importance ; for without a knowledge of them, it is hardly possible to fix the degree of merit due to each Commander and army. Marshal Sousir commanded at the close of last war the army that occupied the Neapolitan States. He an officer of great ability, and attached to the new dynasty. His appearance is majestic—he is tall and stout. with a grave and stern air. lie differs from ti.e generality of h;s conntrymen in being very t;:c turn, and in never laughing. his disposition, however, is mild, and he is much liked by his officers. lie married a German Lady, and at that time had no children. His Lady was a jolly roond rubicund dame, extremely good-natured and pleasant in her manner. NAPOLEON had at that time made himself First Consul, and the officers in Sour.v's army (lid not hesitate to talk very disrespectfully of him, though not in presence of the General. Sovur ex pressed the highest admiration of this country, and, in the hearing of the writer of this paragraph, anti cipated the pleasure he would derive from a visit to it. General REY, who now commands at St. Sebas-i tian. was a Monk before the Revolution. When that broke out, he threw off his Order, and enlisted as a c .mnrui soldier. Ile soon distinguished him- . s e lf t!s- his jacobinical orations at the clubs ; and in consespenre of his violent conduct, he was soon pro moted to the rank of General of Brigade. lie was employed in La Vendee, under TIIURREAU, and made himself conspicuous by wearing the Pars of the Royalists pinned to his coat, and in the loops of his hat, as may be seen in the account given in the Moniteur of THURNEACS trial. In 1795, he cams ; mantled the army on the coast near Brest; and his i cruelties there were of such a description, that even Home, under whose command he was, com plained of his conduct to the thee Goverment of, France. In 1796, he was appointed to a command in the army of Italy; in 1797, in that of the Rhine; and, on BONAPARTE'S return from Egyt, again in the army of Italy. After the general peace, in 1802, REY was sent to America as Consul General, and resided at New York, whilst General BEAU was sent to America as Ambassador. In 1808, Rew returned to Europe. and was appointed to a command in the army in Spain. In 1809, he was sent with the forces which acted against Austria; auditors hewn since 'hen constantly employed in tipain. DitEtDFUL ACCIDENT IN SWITZERLAND.—By the overiloe ing of the river Birse, at Dornach, canton of Soleure—attended by three strangely consecutive and correlative accidents—upwards of 150 persons pe rished last month. The following relation of this wielapclioly event is copied from the Aschuffenburgh Gazette:— 46 On the 13th of July, the river Birse, swelled by the rains, overflowed its channel, and undermined Vie foundation of a house, the proprietor of which called for assis'ance. The alarm bell was rung, and a num ber of persons ran to assist the inhabitants in saving their effects. While employed in this humane office, the house and an adjoining wall fell, and buried 12 persons in the ruins. •• Near this house and the bridge over the river, was situated an ancient tower, which served as a pri son, and in which were detained three men, who, perceiving the waters gushing out from the ground beneath their feet, entreated loudly to be released from their perilous state. The gaoler, who had been long deaf to their prayers, persuaded that this tower, which had stood so many ages, would resist yet the violence of the waters, resolved at last to go and assure them that their fears were groundless ; but found it no easy task to pacify them ; and he was still Plunged in conversation when the tower, with a tremendous crash, fell upon the bridge, and he was killed. along with one of the prisoners.—Thecalainity did not end here. " The alarm bell had attracted to the bridge a great number of persons of both sexes : the ruins of the tower fell upon the bridge, broke it in the centre, and all those upon it, were precipitated into the torrent, and many were drowned. The two prisoners with difficulty gained the bank r one or them, who had been committed on suspicion of robbery, gave a noble proof of humanity; perceiving a young female whose clothes kept her buoyant, struggling in the water, he threw himself again into the midst of danger, and succeeded in saving her. 64 The next day, on the 14th, upwards of 3000 persons went from Basle to Dornach. They found laid out in the church twenty-eight bodies, which bad been taken from the river between Dornach and Arlesheim. About six 4 ty persons from Basle, fifty from Dornach, and forty from its environs are still missing. It is known that they were upon the bridge at the time of the catastrophe, and it is believed that they have perished. " Among the sufferers are the two daughters of the Mayor of Dornach, the eldest only fifteen years of age; their bodies presented a singular and affect ing spectacle; they were locked in each other's arms; in the water each had affectionately attempted to save the other's life ; the effort proved fatal, and both perished—giving and receiving a last embrace! A mother and a daughter were found in the same posi tion —united even in the arms of death. A third daughter of the Mayor of Dornach owed her pre servation to the intrepidity of the porter of the con. %Pot at Dornach, who, after drawing four other per sons from the river, was desirous of saving a fifth ; but perished himself, the victim of hit generous endea yours! Ills last words were, I hare done my duty en. I di e happy.' 9 THE STAI Was put, the public clock struck three, after which hour the Articles of War do not allow Court-Martial to sit, and they, in consequence, adjurned to half. past nine in the morning, when the Defence will b 3 resumed. 'AN. NOV4L INTELLIGENCE. COURT MARTIAL. ---....--. PLYMOUTH, AtIOUsT V.—Arrived the kpecitlafor, enuasesr, AVO 10. . • On Thursday last, at ten o'clock ) the CoureMartiot I !Lieut. Bostock, with Mr. Williams, King's Messes). convened on the trial of Lieut.-Col. Maxwell, the ger, who has set off for London with dispatches, Paymaster of the Leeds District assembled in the SATORD•T, •OGVIT 21. .He left head-quarters on the lltkinst. and, it is re- large room of the White Horse linvern at this place. The Court being resumed, Capt. Jackson's ecami ported, that he brings an account of the surrender of The following Officers formed the Court : - nation was proceeded in t and the first question-pro thePRESID i NT, fort of Saragossa, with a garrison of 500 men, posed was— Mnjor-General CHENEY, tit net Guards. principally Italians, by capitulation, to General hit.MßLlti Do you think that time and assistance would - have Lieut.-Col. Robert Ross, 4th Dragoon Guards; liquidated the b a la nces d ue f rom t h e P r i soner to t h e Mina. Lord William Benlinck is said to have Majors George Smith, 4th Dragoo n Gua r ds; a n d J. Public, or any considerable part of thaw ?—I do crossed the Ebro, about the 251 b, near Tortola, with V. O'Dounaughe, 47th Regiment of Foot; Capts. not. 50,000 men l British and Spaniards. It is also re- H ame li n 'Frei§ wney, Royal Regiment of Artillery • , Inform the Court if it is your belief that time and po r t e d, th a t Sachet had fallen back en Barcelona ; Thomas Faunt, 34th Regi m e n t o f F o ot ; Patrick, assistance are alone necessary to close the accounts 'that Tarragona has been blown up; and that the one- Hamilton, 4th Dragoon Guards • Henry Towers, 2d , — I do, as far ae regards the making up of 64 ac my threaten to destroy Lerida, as well as Mar- Dra g oon Guards ; William Hinde, 65th Foot ;T. , counts. ... • quinenza, both which places are still in their posses- Bo S Dragoon Guards; yd, 4th Dragoon Guards; Dowbeggin, 19th Foot ; Charles Sibthorp , 4th Have you any reason t o su pp ose Oaten offer was made by Mr. Maxwell to liquidate the balance ?---I . Henryra t lion ; Tortosa, containing a garrison of 4000 in- 'l' ffo rd, 4 h Dragoon Guards ; Meroyn have understood from M r . M axwe ll t h a t h e h a d ma d e an offer to liquidate part o f th e b a l ances . ;Richardson, 4th Dragoon Guards; and William fanny and 130 dragoons, was invested, we under. stand, on the 25th, by the Duke del Parque and Bush, 2d Dragoon Guards. To what amount?--I do not know. Lord W. Bentinck. Several Officers came over in DEvUTY JUDGE ADVOCAtE. Acoof a letter from Col. Campbell ( now Gen. Major George Desbrisay, Royal Regiment of Ar- Campbell py ) to the Secretary at * War, dated the 12th the Speculator, one of whom is the bearer of poor t i liery. June, INS, and stating that upwards of 4001. had Joseph's sword which is very elegant ;it was found The Members being sworn, the following charge b e e n p a id i n t o hi s h an d s b y , Lieut-Col. Maxwell t on in Joe's carriage, when he ran away at the battle of was read :—. 44 For teals eitation in his office of Pay- , account of the public, was then put in and read. The master of the Leeds Recruiting District, in having : Vittoria. Pampeluna and St. Sebastian had not next questions were proposed by the Prose i embezzled or misapplied the sum of seven thousand cater, and related to the two bilk p id by the Pay- Sailer)fallen when the Speculator left the coast. $ nine hundred and ninety-eight-pounds six shillings, tnaster, which were not entered in it s aecounts o and - thereabouts of the public Mopei." _ the Challenger sloop of war, with two gun- I bows under her convoy, to reinforce Sir George ° Colonel i Saliin to g ....- " ' , whom , y lye appoinment or itappeared from . ‘,. took place white the Assistant Payriutiler. was on Collier, off St. Sebastian. The Revolutionaire Government, theconduct of the prosecution was con- duty with the Local Militia, and that cot having frigate, Captain Woolcombe, sailed from Lord flitted, submitted the different items in the account, been placed on the office file, they were overlooked. quantity of from which it appeared that the following bala n ces Keith's squadron on Sunday last, with aCapt. Jackson further stated, that on i final arrange shot and shells for the bombardment of St. Sebastian. From Jane 24.1810, to Dec. 21, 1810, - £877 It 4 ment of the accounts, he did not theik the balances would be materially different to the statement that DEAL, AUG. 22.- Came down from the River Front Dec. 250810, to Dec. 21, 1811, - 6655 6 6 his Majesty's ship Cumberland, and remnins with the Icr o o m m :Le : g, it t m, o I D ) ee.N, 11 8 31?, -. . 17,6 1 6 4 12 t had already been made out of the accounts—not more in the general balance either way than 1001. ex- King's ships as before.—Arrived the Archer sloop of i Deficient in the Clothin g Account ' - 499 14 6 war from Plymouth.—Sailed the Cretan for off ! Property Tax Account not made up, ! elusive of the bills of 1001. and 150!. which had been Flushing. Came down from the River the following I Against these deficiencies a number of items in fa. admitted, and which went to dimmish the balance your of the Paymaster, were to he placed w hich re - against Mr. Maxwell. merchantmen :—Neptune, for Minorca; John and Thomas, for Quebec; Union, for Nova Scotia ; Go- ; duced the balance t o the amount stated i n the c ha r ge. Had sou any means of knowing any thing respect. sentry, for ditto orunna. ; Caroline, for Quebec; and the i The only wit n e sse s called by the prosecuti on were leg t' e balances prior 'to the tim • you.and.csene_ral Ceres, for General Charles Campbell, late inspecti n g Field Campbell examined the accounts ?—Yes I had. C FALMOUTH, AUG. .20.—Sailed the Lady Louisa Officer of this District, and Captain Jackson, the I In y-ur absence from the office, on duty, who ; Assistant Paymast er , w h o dep o sed that th e y had by ' transacted the business of the day ?—I suppose the packet, with a mail for Cadiz ; and the Queen Char-the direction of Government examined the Pay- Pas master. tulle packet, with a mail for Lisbon. • SHEERNESS, AUG. 22.—Sailed three sail of the master's accounts, and that the balance, as stated Lieutei s it-Colonel Bennet, of the 32d Regiment, line (Russian), two Russian frigates, and two Rus- above was, to the best of tbeir knowlege, c or re c t. and Capt. Priestley, late of the same regiment, de • slats corvettes, on their return to St. Petersburgh. This was the case of the Prosecutor, and at the posed that they had known Lieutenant-Colonel Max. I The fleet for the Baltic sailed from the Nore on Sa- . request of Lieut.-Col. Maxwell, the Court adjourned well intimately for many years, both when he was a turday, under convoy of his Majesty's ships Ag _ at one o'clock o n Thursday, to twelve o'clock on Field Officer in the 32d Regiment, and since he be gressor and Hasty. The next convoy will sail about the following day, a t w hi c h h our the C o l on el said came Paymaster of the Leeds district, and that they he should be prepared to enter upon his defence. had ever held hii character in the highest possible i the 31st inst. a, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20. estimation, both as an officer and as a gentleman. The reported arriv a l I of the ships from Jamaic The Court having assembled, at twelve o'clock, The evidence on the part of the defence having s bound to the Clyde and Bristol, is incorrect, only Lieutenant -Colonel Maxwell, after a few introduc- closed, Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell addressed him two of the convoy are arrived, viz. the Ardent, at tory observations to the effect, that the deficiehcy self to the Court in one of tie most affecting 1 Greenock and the Coriolanus at Portsmouth • the which had arisen, was ra the r to be imputed to the speeches that ever we heard deliiced, but of which , , termer parted company on the 3d inst. on the Bunks embarrassment of the accounts, than to any intention time will only allow us to give tie outline. of Newfoundland, and the latter on the Bth inst. in , on his part to " embezzle er misapply" the public ; In order to show that he had no intention to wo lat money, proceeded to call his witnesses. ' j bezzle the public money, he arp - saled to the whole puny, under protection of his Majesty's ships Bed '4B ' !Ong. 30. at which time 88 sail were in corn- General Camp b ell, his first witness, stated, that body of evidence to prove that he had not in any ford, Cyane, and Paton. Colonel Maxwell had represented to him, that owing single instance kept back any voucher or document ,to the inadequate assistance in the Paymaster's Office, that could furnish a shadow of suspicion against him, I the accounts had got considerably into arrears, and Rod that the way omission that had appeared was ~that it welt within his own knowledge, that the finan- 'Syr-his favour. That he had been guilty of misappli 'cial department of the depots created so much busi- calion of the public money, he did not deny ; but he tress in that office as to lend to much embarrassment hoped the Court would not visit the indiscreet tutti and delay in the accounts ; and that he, General cipation of resources which had unexpectedly failed Campbell, had repeatedly, at the instance of the him, with the penalties and disgrace of an abandoned Paymaster, submitted representations to the War- , swindler. Office to this effect. I He admitted that he had found himself incompe- In confirmation of these facts, two series of letters, tent to the intricate details of official affairs, and that the first from Lieut.-Colonel Maxwell, and the se- the accumulated load of unsettled balances quite cond from General Campbell, to the Secretary at overpowered him. He was aware that the ruin of War, were put in and read, in one of which it was ' his fortunes must be the result, but he implored the stated, that the Paymaster's books were seven quer- honourable tribunal before which ate stood, to save ters in arrears, for want of sufficient clerks in the his honour, and if his character was not destroyed, office to make up the accounts. 1 • all would not be lost ; he begged this for his own ; General Campbell proceeded to state, in answer ' sake, but more especially on behalf of his uncon to questions proposed to him by Lieut.-Col. Max- scions wife and unoffending children. well, that he had at all times bad full access to his ; Lie then proceeded to offer some observations on accounts, and that he had reason to believe that the the evidence en which the charge rested, and said that Paymaster had not practised any fraud or kept back nothing but the clearest proof should be admitted to any vouchers, " and that he had always the highest substantiate such serious balances. He declared I opinion of him as an officer and as a Gentleman." so l emn ly that he was never till ver y recen tly aw a r e By the Court.—As you have had constant access of the magnitude of the balances against him ; and he to the Prisoner's public papers, have you any suppo- said it must be manifest from an examination of the sition how so large a suns as that stated in the charge accounts, that alt the deficiencies must have arisen became deficient ?—By an unfortunate indiscretion. before the 23d of March fast, when the Mutiny Act Did Mr. Maxwell exert himselfas much as possible, which made the offence with which he stood charged as far as came under your observation, to forward l BO highly penal, received the royal assent. . the business of the office?—l did not think Mr. After a number of other observations, he con- Maxwefl a man of business. eluded by saying —" If then the evidence which has By the Court, to Lieut.-Col. Maxwell—" Is Mr. been laid before you establishes beyond a question I Maxwell in possession of any document that can in ti se charge of misapplication, I ask you not to screen any way account for the large deficiency that remains me from the consequences which await my extrava due from him to the public ?"—ln my peculiar situ- gan&—but I conjure you, by the sympathy which ation I must decline to answer that question. honourable minds feel in the wounds of an injured Captain Jackson, the next witness called for the reputation, to protect me by your sentence trim the accused, stated, that on his entrance into that office accusation, or even the suspicion, of dishonest mo in Aprll, 1811, he found the accounts very much in tires." arrears ; that there were then six depots in the dis- Lieut.-Colonel Maxwell's defence being gone trict, and that the requisite atteation to their financial through, the Court atijourned till Monday, on which affair" introduced great confusion into the Pay- day the deliberations will close, but the sentence can master's accounts. He further stated that two bills, not be promulgated till it has received the sanction of one of them for 1001. and the other for 1501. had the Prince Regent." beeq paid by Colonel Maxwell, on account of the ' s i imblic service, without having been passed to his ccedit, and be thought it probable, that on a final Count Tamers, Royal Bailiff of Iceland, as stated, examination of the accounts, other sums might be in the Paris Papers, to have been arrested, on sus fiend in the same situation. During the time he had Picion of holding a dangerous intercourse with the been in'the office he never discovered the least listen- English. lion of fraud or dishonesty on the part of Mr. Max. The Royal Artillery is to be augmented, by the ad i well, who, he knows ha; paid 'Dewey oat of his dition of another battalion. dim pocket to clerks employed in the duties of the The gazette of Sataralay night contains a long list !office, to facilitate the progress of the accounts. of minor military PlOspotions v ift consequence of By Lieut. Col. Maxwell—Conversant as you are deaths in the iste battlesin SPaitti • ' in the accounts of the office, had you any reason to nSaturday a 0 001) ok oUltat owl completed suppose, till very lately, that thebehonees against me his 48th year. were so considerable No; I had not. NATIONAL DIBT.-011 the Ist of August the By the Court :—Can you give any reason why the tot ' al of tbe National Debt eedeemed, was accounts of Mr. Maxwell have not been made oet 262418,4211. ; 94,777,1001. of thli Capital is to be since his suspension as Paymaster ! They have been cancelled purbsent to 53 Geo. (It. e. 311. The sum suede out for one quarter, and tendered to the Super. be intendant of Accounts, and there is anoth,er quarter to expended ht Ike ensuing Quarter is le as great forwardness as the means of the office will 3 ' , 48} $ OB7l. Is. 1t d. *flew. MICACILING ACOlinrell:-.-Friday afterneerc about . Inform the Court if you believe that time and as- ' four o'clock, Ehmsl3 *lust, a lad, 12 yens of age, felt from thetop of Mr. Martin's house, St. Mary 4 'Mance only are requisite to remove the embarrass- assents, in Mr. Maxwell's accounts ?—I do. Axe, Leadenhall-street, into the stone-yard, and • Anether question was handed to the Deputy Jadge was killed on the spot. He pitched on his forehead, Affroesteto traitscdbe late the minutes, but before it and literally drove his skull off his head. A copy of the following communication from Rear-Adm. Foote to Mr. CI - WREN was on Satan. day posted at LLO r D'S " Medway, at Spithend. Aug. sn, " SIR,—I be 4 to acquaint you, for the informa tion of the Lords Commiscioners of the Admiralty, that by the Cori°(anus merchant ship, which is ar rived at Spithead, 1 learn. that she left Jamaica on the 2d alt. with a convoy of 100 sail, in charge of his Majesty's ship Bedford, Captain WALKEit (Admiral STI RCA NG'd flag flying on board), Cone and Peron In company. The Goriolanns parted from them on the Bth inst. the convoy then consisting of 88 sail, in lat. 48. 25. long. 31. W. in a violent gale of wind.—l am, &c. " Enw..l. FOOTE, Rear.-Adm. '6 T o john WiNon Crotter, Esq." The Bedford, it is said, has on board a million of specie. It is said, that last week 40,000 stand of arms were shipped from the Tower for Prussia; and 10,000 were sent down to the Nore, without their destination being avowed. The inn and hotel keepers of Maidstone seemed resolved to profit by the attrattion which Nicholson created. A bed was not to be had at less than one guinea a night, and half a guinea for the use of a sitting-room. The latter was indeed demanded from lodgers, who were obliged to breakfast in their bed rooms. For board the charge was quite in propor tion to that for lodging. Posting was also charged at Is. ntl. per mile. The ‘s ife of a shopkeeper in Snmersetshire has lately taken, in the course of business, a Queen Anne farthing, which has been authenticated to be the very one coined in 1711, and for which she has been of fered a very considerable sum. AMERICAN BARRA arrv.— , Mr. Joni( LEWIS, a dealer in catth., who was passenger in the Dinah and Betty, has favoured us with the following statement : On the might of Wednesday last, about twelve o'clock, and about five leagues to the southward of the Smalls, he was taken by the Argus, in sight of two other ves sels, which were burning at the time. fie had on board 30 head of cattle, of which the enemy killed three for the use of his crew, and burnedtke rest wills the vessel !—(Waterford Mirror.) CORN-EXCHANGE.. AUG. 23. Wheat, in plentiful supply, at a reduction of from Rt. to 105. per quarter on last Monday's prices. New samples from 112 s. to 115 s. Barley and White Peas Ss. lower. Beam, dull sale. at a decline of ss. Oats 4s. lower, in consequence of great ar rivals. Wheat (English) B6 112 New ditto .00 (X 0 I)itto ( Foreign) B6 115 Beans ........6.1 66 Rye 4B 52 Tick do. 5B 61 Barley . , 38 43 Fine . . Fine ditto 44 46 Oats 3B 42 Malt White l'eas 7O 741 Yolanda°. .... ...... 30 38 Ditto (boilers) . (10 00 Feed ditto 24 26 New ditto .... .......78 SI Fine Flour ..... 95 100 Grey Peas SMITHFIELD MARKET.—Attri.22. To sink the Offal, per stone of Blb. 1 R ee f ... Si. 64. k , 6 4 . W. Head of Cattle this day t %loam ..5.. 10d. to 7s. 0. 1 . Bowls Veal ... 6.. Od. to 7s. 61. Sheep Pork ....6s. Od. to 7s. 4d. Calves Lamb ... 6.6 6d. to is. 6d. Psis II A Y-MARKF,T. Hay cl.,rer ,draw - r N' , i.fi