The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-07-01 00:00:00

reached _ pia" of futglinataroav tam. - Prussia, an 4 had published , be. commenetel. F __ :~~ ,~. . ' yipc Batermitr o Benevente l bleu LONDON: TUTIRSDAT, lOLT 1, 1113. In a Second Edition, last night, we gave the Bul letin circulated by Govertunent, containing the sub stance of the Dispatches received 'yesterday from Spain, relating to the operations of Lord WELLING.... The liellestone Election cannot be too much spoken toe, and which we insert again this day. We are always gratified to receive intelligence of the success of and known unless we would be thought a nation I composed of sharpers and fools, of,pgjelreged ,to of our arms is any part of the world, and are always Poston, and willing dopes. It is the ttiteirion of out ready to acknowledge the bravery of oar troops, o when an opportunity is afforded them to meet the over-excellent Representative System. fop a num. her of. grave Gentlemen, Senators to sit in rows on enemy. In the present Instance, however, we can not view the fall of Burgos, and the advance of our ; the benches of an ancient Chapel where truths only were supposed to be uttered, and not declare, after army across the Ebro, as any way decisive of the fate , r of the campaign. Indeed, the evacuat i on of Burgos inch an undenied and undeniable state of public and . by the French, is a measure which we anticipated long . private corruption, in the election of those who are siore, as well as a concentratien of the French army. ' to make laws affecting our property and our lives; is not to sit in solemn council on the affairs of a great. na. Where they may take op a defensive positiotl, lion, and not to declare to a man that the necessity of to be ascertained ; but it may. naturally be expected, as a great portion of their veteran troops have a Reform is urgent ; does, indeed, move our wonder, a bemewithdrawn from Spain. .It is even possible thatnd induces us to consider and exclaim—are we then a society of intellectual beings, or are we a gregarious Lord Wetetsteeore may, with the strong force under leis command, aim at driving the enemy beyond the i assemblage of assuming baboons, or ourang-outangs, Pyrennees, hut it is not probable he will venture to gifted with one sense more than those of which follow them, nor take up his winter quarters in that oar historians have spent so much time aster part taming the proportional size, capacity, and con. part of Spain. For our own part, we'apprehend the time is gone pry for the British Generalissimo to acrom. tents of their crania. The Marquis of. TAVISTOCR, descendant of the Rosseees, to whom the country posh any great object in the Peninsula, or to effect a diversion, so as to draw BONAPARTE'S attention owes much, has the honour of first blending this from his grand design in Germany ; and the only I foul transaction with the varied and growing impu. Consequence likely to result from the contest in rity, which can alone be washed away by the free Spain and Portugal, will be a further immense loss of and copious stream of Parliamentary Reform. In this wholesome view of the Noble Lord s a tried and men and treasure, which; at no distant period, may be u aided in defence of our own territories. able Patriot concurred ; and all we can say on it at present is, that the idea went forth and 'returttea The following Bulletin has been issued from the Admiralty ' whence it came, without any huffetings. The arch :-.- old Secretary is for adhering to ancient prece denti; and this we do not wonder at, for it was a well kept up practice, by which that Gentleman, from a purser, with a few pounds, is now a purse-hearer with as many plums. REFORM however must come, if we are to be saved from the fate of extinguished nations. The tenid, who are now afraid to open the undefiled sluice for purifying the stagnant and corrupt exuvia, lest an overwhelm ing torrent should bear all away before it ; ought to restrain their unnecessary fears, and consider what has destroyed the reputed fre'est States in the world; and what has sometimes toned them when all appear. ed to be lost ! Sir FRANCIS BURDETT'S rising, last night, to pre sent a Petition from the suffering town of Notting. ham t • is intimately connected with the above im. portent topic. After congratulating the worthy Baronet, and the Public then, on his recovery, so as to attend his duty in Parliament, which he never neglected, we cannot but declare, that we never heard mo-e cogent reasons for the disuse of a precedent, (" a custom more honoured in the breach than the observance,") a precedent against political liberty, and expressly hostile to the spirit and letter of the Bill of Rights. .The division of the House is humiliating to the advocates for civil freedom ; but as Sir Faaects is resolved to bring the subject before Parliament early in next Session, we may offer the little consolation to the disappointed Petitioners, that their friends will be increased in number at that coming period of time. That part of the proceedings in Parliament liet night which related to East India Affairs, though short, is highly important, as it grew out of the clause in the Bill ss hich could confine the imports. lion of saltpetre to the ships of the India Company only. This circumstance proves the necessity of the Merchants having some friends in the House of Commons, conversant in the / India trade, to stand up in their behalf while the Bill is agitating. Salt. petre is the most cooveuieut, and almost the only, ballast for ships returning imme ; and to prevent the Merchant from possessing himself of it, is to deprive him of ;By thing like fair means of competition. This would be a piece of jockeyship in India ma.l nagement which, in the race of oriental trade, would throw the Merchants at once out of the course. The Captains cf Indiamen ought to be sorry should the monopoly of importing saltpetre be confined to their ships ; for in that case they would be compelled to bring more than is consistent with the ships' safety, as in the case of a leaky ship, the saltpetre is in part, or in the whole,dissolved, and it thereby ceases to be what it was intended, viz. a steady ballast: the vessel becoming cranky by leaking, its pumps are in a great de gree choked by the half-dissolved salt. A few years ago several homeward-bound Indiamen Were Jost near the Cape, acknowledgettly on this ground, and which gave rise to some useful experiumuts and sug gestions of a gentleman of chemical AtOorience.— The result was, we believe, -eommonbeated to a Di rector (a gallant Officer, returned fr s mitcjition and successful . Militery career in India), aucrire trust has produced the intended salutary be dist as it may, .the fatal accident owe liave nuked will: be less " ADIIIMALTY-OFFICE. JONI: 33, 1813. " Lord KEITH has transmitted letters from Capt. Sir Gioncr. COLLIER, dated Santander, on the 9.oth and tlst inst. announcing the advance of the Mar quis of WELLINGTON. Sir G. COLLIER had seen Mr. Commissary Oott,m, who had been sent with Lord WELLINGTON'S instructions relative to the supplies, Ar,c. 44 The inner walls of the castle and works of Bur. gos were blown up by the enemy, on the morning of the 13th, in cousequence of the rapid advance of the Allies-50 of the garrison perished in the explosion. " Sir THOMAS GRAHAM crossed the Ebro by the bridge of Oreno, on the 13th, ad was followed by the army on the 16th, at Quintana, when head.quar. tors were at Villa Cayo and Nudina Romar. ' 6 On the 17th, Lord IVELLltictox's head.quar. ters were at kincosa, and the next day at St. Mar tin's, about a league in advance. " 041 the 18th, a Conductor of Artillery left his losrdship in that neighbourhood. Ile reports to Sir GEORGE COLLIER, that Lord WELLINGTON was to fix his head-quarters on the 19th, within four leagues of Vittoria. _ _ _ " The enemy had destroyed the fortifications of Pancorvo and at Miranda. " Between t and 4000 men (probably PALO*. soit's corps) were cut off from the Bilboa road, on which they were obliged to retire, followed by some thousands of Spaniards, under General GIROS', with Bri(kh cavalry and artillery. 4 4 The French General Cctusces division had suffered a loss of 2500 men in their pursuit of MINA, which, however, had been assiduously followed up, and Mina had been a good deal pre4sed. " l'ALometrit!a loss in. the attack of and march fro:n Castro, was calculated to be equally severe. " IIV4A writes that Josten's head-quarters were transferred to Pampelutta, and that Sccurr's army vas its motion, apparently to cross the Ebro." Coip French troops ""''' themselves ~many: . . .„,, , _ lic rain. , Mr. . ' ' irtlitl i p4 *Apia _i x t , %. i ~.t : Istleisirt stance, as • 4 jam ' "7 . .;OR/iiillill• • 4 0 1 1 1 ::t Fa r synrpetbize with an opprAtiiiitpeopleitrOtte ifilsii grants, and in a peculiar maanec the ',act, 'spree,. tion, with the unpardonahlf iodilferfscs in : MAI- Iters in not availing themseleds of the proper 'temente for endeavouring to ohtain XX honourable Baace,-.- ' Bdt Peace with them Is xi - vittiehrittle4 lar tittly and i their predecessors have merle Barets( to tire isejoritT 1 of the Muse of Commons,, i. e. to Ostsegh4Segerss and we fear to too many Country -Gentlemen' not 1 dealers in boroughs. Alt this excellent Meinbee the Bedfordillia unenvied; 'keit' eriviiti# 'poliulat I link between the Democrat); mid Atlstotretyi6f a I well imagined State couirtdo, he did : he moved an Address, which recorded at ouce the two.forra,. of the enormity of the Vote of Credit, and of • the's - arise en , 1 tertained of the listlessness of Ministers* in its re -1 lilies application, by some of the toiletry's best Informed friends and patriots. We . cannot dismls the subject of this extravagant, this bnieful Vete r of Credit of Five Millions' "It without say- ing something more. A Vote, we might Safely say, and even swear, is sufficient of itself to,raise and fir like adamant, a half-fallen majority of any House in the Kingdom not quite honourable. This Vote' s 1 well and, emperately descanted on by Lords Hot , LAND tad' LAUDERDALE, in their Protest. But 1 Ministers here arrived at the acme of the art—not of governing, but of premiering, as it may be called. i They can deny and evade as they please;—they meet no question face to face, but in the grants of money, where they run no hazard of wanting support, since none of their friends can say some 'of it may not come into their own pockets —aye, and honestly too—that is, not in bribes, and such underhand Ivey', but in open and fair contracts !!! A brother to a Governor of the Bank of England may therefore condescend to turn tailor, and make great-coats for the whole army-- and thus honourably pierce the thick purse (we had almost said the thick skull) of infatuated Jolts BULL. In these preceedings lie the more than Cir ceonarts of long-practised British Ministers !!! Lord CMITLEREAGIi is at the head of the Ministerial cog nocenli, to whom it seems desirous to call in and class among them the confident pupil,. Mr. CANNING —once the pistol opponents, now the noodle and doodle of the farce. It is 1n vain for such men as Mr. WHITBREAD, and the Noble Lords we have just mentioned, to impugn Ministers of unnecessarily I protracting the war : they have an evasion and come off upon every occasion. The moment BONAPARTE shows a disposition to Peace, if the integrity of his dominions is agreed to, our knowing men, to keep up the ball, obtain a hundred persons to spread as many thousand manifestoes over France,. with pro posals from the banished Bovneorts. This proceed ing drives the French to a furious zeal in favour of their present heroic Ruler, and places him on a higher ground than ever ; and Ministers deny any part in the transaction. If our countrymen, in general, can bear this trickery, we cannot : they must be composed of different stuff from ourselves.. If they cannot discern there is no end, at least no good end, to this game, they most, indeedi be blind. PROTEST. th - • *tete the sea. unfortattate celebrated Yew HAFT First, Because the Amendment, if adopted, would have left his Majesty's Govermneot unfettered by any opinion of this Howes to the time, the terms, or the mode of treating fur per• kf ie d from nelsinglorgh, • wit 6 that laistiliqlthad ontrlncpc l VlooollpltnlFk and SysSilee agintercourse had,belm,prOhib4d ; hy the Danes, - between , 110 . 6 . 406 re* nisd.Heisiegner, anti no person' Whatever .Was permitted - O land at the Miter (Attie frem`Swedea, The :last mail sent from s)teileicto Copeahaiew was refused'sglmission. Secondly, Hoonnse, inassr •proem, tfita of imperfect infor mation, a humble but Arm representation of our hopes, that no opportunity for'negociation might be improvidently neglected, appeared both prudent and necessary, When we were called upon to extend our confidence to persons, who, during a period of unexpected success, had given no public proofs of a disposi tion to restore the invaluable blessing.of Pence. The disastrous retreat of the French armies from Russia last Winter seemed to afford as opportunity of negociating with dig nity and success, and no overture made to the Emperor of //NAM at that period has been communicated to Parliameut, nor any reason publicly alleged for not resorting to welt a ' measure. It would then have been easy to devise. and honour able to propose such conditions of peace, at, without humiliating bills /de, or interfering with the internal Government of France, maid, If acceded to, hate retired the independence of all pawed directly or Indlreetlyallled with his "Majesty, and would, if rejected, have exposed to the indignation of Eorape the un just pretensloes of the enemy. Prudence and mageanimity em etic in recommending moderatim is the hour of surreys, and the truth of this maxim is painfolir proved in the present metals eboly coaseneesces u as epsomite system of conduct. The omission of all public overture, for Peace, and of all distinct atioitisodistosef . the ollit'a of Ibe war, has obviously enabled areaway to recruit his armies, Se animate hi+ people, and to retrieve 46 alters, by impede; to Great Urkain and her Allies designs 11441 itmei coovenieet to his purposes to slipper, Imil *debit was the interest and duty otitis Majesty's tieriamtint, by the inust public sad anospdvoad nett, to diteinine. -. '1 nou,A MD. •: • . The Addresi'toihe,kriocass,of WA LES from Foor Hundred I.adies, readout hi and' . neir Boston (a Copy of which was published in the STATas_ kt v, or (hi 13th goy); was presented 'yesterday by Mr. M ADO CSS End :the How. Mr. BURRELL ; to which her 'Loyal 'lliihness returned the following answer tisls4:' 44 I beg to Onfley my Sincere ocknowledg. merits to the spod Women of your respectable 80. rough. In a great part of their affectionate Address, I hare no doubt' they speak the feeling; •of their Countrywomen throughout England." .I..tUDEItDALE.. Last night the PIMCE REGENT gave a ball and supper to - a numerous and splendid party. By the heavy and incessant rain which fell during the day, considerable damage was done to the tents erected on the lawn at Carlton House, and it was feared they could not be used ; however, the preparations went on. The entrance to these temporary erections was from the supper-rooms, along a temporary passage about 60 yards in length, boarded, and covered in with canvass, fined with green glazed cotton, deco. rated with artificial flowers, and the -whole illu minated by chandelier's at proper intervals. 'rho tents were arranged oil each side of this passage or promenade, and their entrances were hung with cur tains, festooned with artilitial flowed. The tents were 18 in all, and supper was to he laid in i nch of them for 28 persons. At the extremity of the pro. menade was the Pitince REGENT'S tent, which was lined with - light printed cotton, and the centre pole ornamented with artificial flowers. About nine o'clock, the QUEEN and the Pa►yr. CESSES proceeded in their chairs from the Queen's Palace to Carlton House. The company began to arrive after this in !eat numbers. Yesterday were %sued cards of invitation to the breakfast to be given by the l'argtx REGENT on Sa turday. irt is not to be on so extensive a scale as the Hall Of I sni t tit ; and the number is not in tended to embed 400, in consequence of the unfa. vourable state of the weather. Lieut.-General Sir J.tasts LEITH, K. B. and Staff, as also Ensigns PniLumoat, NI:Loa, and LAs -1 CELLES, of the Ist Guards, sailed from Portsmouth on Monday last, on board his M.ijesty's ship Nytnphen, Captain liancocK, for the Peninsula. Dovta, Jute 30.—A very heavy firing was heard last night in the direction of Boulogne, which con• tinued till near eight o'clock.-:-This morning a large ship, supposed to 1 -e a 71, passed by for the Downs; also a large fleet of ships from the westward.—Came in the brig 'lnn and Jane, Captain Lewis, of Dover, from ‘ Chatharn, with sick French prisoners ) bound to Bourrleaux. IiAILWIcn, Juxt 30.--4'he Diana packet, Capt. M‘Donough, has come in this forenoon from (Int tenburgh, after a passage of a week : she does not bring any news of consequence. Trie CNedes, it is reported, were preparing to snack the Danish forces ) and the co-operation of the Bossier's was expected by the former, as Denmark was not included in . the armistice. The Otst, 51th, and 25th. Regiments em. barked here and at Latiodgnaed Fort this morning; they are expecting to sail with the 73d, which has been on board.ship some time, the moment the con. voy appears off this Port. The King George packet, Captain King, sails this afternoon for Heligoland.— The Lord Nelson, Deane, is detained for some par ticular purpose until to-morrow.—A large convoy passed here this morning, supposed bound to the Baltic. was a nice ccoceit 'of the IfortsehitldMitsister, that presentations to the QUEEN might be made at a Dejcune, as well as at a Druteini-roons, end by which the presence of 'all unFelcolue guests might be avoided ; but on enquiry among the Adepts in Ed quette, it :'as'' discovered that such presentations could ant be en retie ; and that a Fete could not be the Court. A Fete is necessarily a party, because the company assemble upon invilmints--atc Court i$ open to the Nobility and Gentry at large. The W. jeunc takes place, however, without the prese,rl - But it usty.he enquired why there is•tsot rr ()wed Q Her MAJESTY'S establishment was advain , il for the avowed purpose of holding Driming-i•oimis to recolve Ladies—and the season has passed over without one. In Conseptence of the depredations of the Ameri , can privateer Fut, on the coast of Ireland, Admiral Tnostututouuts has directed the Fortune. , frigate, and Pork sloop of war, to cruise from Acid, Head to, Cape Clear, on that coast. It is said, that upwards of 1000 re.mennt horses for the cavalry, have letely hem' imported into Si 411Yfrosn Kgypt; in consequent* Of this male of prOtering them being found lest ettpensire than if 'they were brought from this country. • On the 15th all. passed ley Carlskam a diet of Illif• ciaatmom from Woglattd. . . ,711. !•''''''"WA''''' • 7 7 lOur 7 --'---- ','‘' ,•- - -,--• ---, -- I • ---, . • - ... _ . . . ....... •,• . .. .• ~- - • • , 4• - ... ~ -. , , • ' _ . • , ~ • - • I . • . . TAB M .........___Ampoo....--....----ea---- " ••. : . .. , , —4*-----4 - rtiostsby ales, tbeAtaglish horse took 237 cavalry, ti *d I . 1 $ 11 !.., 1 0i.* 'alert if every be allowed to _Wog We thisdafgleit• soma further latelligencu by tl Beers, prisoners. In the morn i ng of thit eaest ojo gutteber as little , saltpetre as he plea" fur home- Gottenburgb Malt, and ;Ito some extracts a ob. Don Jeliati brought hi SO,more, taken f0ut . ;1 1 4 1 1a 41 4: The openly extending its cOaveyanoe to 1.-tters, which gives melincholy aceettrt of the vet ~ I, inhabitants of Hautburgh. The celebrated Vc p r i soners ma d e f ro tti ! . F.eittiut, will Ernest it made -the **ballast gestic., inflicted by the Freech upon the artforteee :es from hence; so that the ime we entered Salamanca op to this day,ameant l of At sit lilt' ;JO often been ,tenet ' pore than 16020, in'' addition to 400 liken ta an 1 oboOr'' A. . t welo g i g war. / life , AA Huss, and the distinguished patriots Hutt] hi to s o ih eo t o th e zelef tiltel.itali , . ; and Permits,- bare been outlikred : the form r. at Torrelabolim (il leagues from ' this plaii);l,,iobilr; 4 l l l , " ) troops had[ seed the Aver.. • ' •-• ' , sitaiaa 414 pellgio, a$ one *hi vitt* lutimill reached Streisand in safety, where be met with two latter are supposed to bare reached a place I hey wflte frt. Piiiadolids,..that On. the 'Ho the Mier rellltatop : . . - ..." Sphering reception - from the Cuowx Parsca: tl isive Joseph iniefed througiiitiirgoa with all ids Err/ proceeding' in Parliament weals itiores&P ..-'• shoos e'pect ev6ry day: . ' litotes of Credit for floe safety. The greatest part of the fugitivelarem• fiat 1114ffvffstro Juan B.—The to l d is already. in • oaf's* at a time, subsidies lye s Irian!, year,: to barilt-here-,44ea•shelterfe,....S.teeltuud, Prattle, at :mute, and other troops in Palence. t Billietin ail/fiat/and; Wilting that hostilities 'b a state, which, ` whether. It` ' 4,keiee ei.."t4 w is e , Meckienburgts: - - :Thet OMNI, PRIM* had peblith l •Des bafl 'lt'arty commend r e are assured that Boyer, . with his horse, has could net .under l?ttfirr well-gu id ed, po.. taken between Rioseletrad•Peleadia.. - Lubeck was still licy, ,graP:e ay soirrihromouti444 t p : th il mr t *am Russialidi DatittaA t JUN* i20414 1 44,,Wk Uri, the ; nest end- ',coil lot Eritteito o t.rienevocil te , picteie eau ,ibiewai - feench force ich evacuated Madrid, inti;.VAllits3l itme...ente of protusiiiOatid "iti4toimi •:610toppils 444 tit;sii i n about 4000 siietr./..,":! . :" Y. • .-; tOll '...::" ps'eutered that capital. .:- :‘I '‘; the Mreiloprh' bat'utlinen Catitstatif,'4ke,"4 .) enrick ~ 4 PostOriPt o r:O f f k ill ,r4 l :G 'd tte, _bnlilli • dat ..., __ • _ -- 7 0.-- _ . ;'y t. .. , ..,. ,. ~ c, themselves „ piori cl out it .: 4l447p i pmer .ii . A. , p/4 16. the 22d alt. states, that miring the night I couri _ ... : • .... . • .....r...A r........ tutZ,..finiAi_ w;il a.. 1.....nt_....... EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OPIUM!. " Pruastus, JuNE 28.-1 am this moment ar rived with the welc.,me intelligence that Lord Wm, DINGrox, having unexpectedly advanced on the French army, they retreated without making the least resistance, burning Burgos in their way, and his Lordship's head-quarters were at Vittoria, when last he was heard 4—the enemy retiring on Pampe lune, closely followed by Grt usAss's division.— GRAHAM will give a good account of them, I dare say. On the 26th, our ship was sent off with the above news, which was brought to Lord Kerns from Santander, by the Constant gun-brig, which bailed from thence on the 22d, and joined the fleet shunt half an hour before we left it. The loss of the Allies is very trilling, and I hear there are not, more than 300 sick in the army." A Comma Mail arrived this morning, bringing. rapers to the 16th ult. from which we have taken the following extracts Totto, Jove 3.—On the 2Rth ult. Madrid was free.—On the 3d instant, the Lord entered Toro, at eleven in the morning, from whence the French re. at seven, a leap. distant at a place Galled fired J• •-• - firAit. Due . _ . fieligolaud • * 0 0 • ll•iiihnn IP I r:: • :%, , 4 '„• • •Ii••• 444 ••••;,'.." - . . .. \ ilitl4:li (IF SYKKS TVIS DAV AT ONE O'CLOCA. Rank 214 i India Boa& I a • - . 9 per Cent. Red. 53j1 . liacheqner Ilith 91d. 9 per {:etc Cu.m.,. - [Hilo 30..2 4 par 4 per Centr.,'7lll . Onnainnt 4j p b per Cent. Nav . ef !IliOtS . for Acct. 'SS VAN:. Ann. 14 9-19 Luuery Tiakess THE . STATESMAN. \ ~> 1 , Morales, 3 officers, day, leagues the time to men affair, They intrusivi I 1