The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-09-08 00:00:00

! 7' i rk g': ! ! I . f g'lll4, -STATERMAN. to her present hostile. patriotic Meeting ; and the decision of an upright which she has been im pelled . . ..... .. ... .. . gns of our and honest Jury will, we t rus t, g ive a death-blow to ties against Russia .- Is it then our best p o li cy Soldiers 401, horses 8 : prisoners, principal officers, Sento Goer to supported two Commission. three, o ffi cers 67, cadets eight, serjeants 102, Senor Pummels proposed— such cruel and infamous proceedings. Good GOD 1 further the desi soldiers 268 e, horses 10. Ile also give lei a state.enemy, even though p o t s iment of the positions occupied in Castella by Valencia 66 'W. That the Cortes order the Commission . o f the' !elle , name a Commission, wheel, joined . to are we in England, or Algiers? Have we law, to mode different from that which he projected? Is it enemy and our troops, and a copy r.f the bistruc e A the.aprtointel by the Regency, shall assist at the . tn. protect the innocent against thesi'hachination s of a not reasonable to imagine that BONA PARTE Is enter. time given by the General, with sue of the number vestigatinte as the mnst certain means of "luring cabal, and the hired information of one of those ing into this war, might antici p at e a d o uble of which the corps e• tisisesl, as atso tne (federation Hie confidence of the nation. 01 advano wn•telies called a spy, or have we not ? The thirty. tage—an a d vantage to result from 1 of an officer taken preemies wlin hed escaped, ibises i e . 44 e s t Thai the proceetlings he printed. success n the ex. WI ~ that there hail here but few dispersed, almost ... « .. 3e.. Teat Use t ietter ills, whose military conduct eight can answer these questions , -tribe Confusion of tension of th e con ti nen t a l system to Russia ---an ad. the „hole loss consisting in killed, wounded, a n d is dyeing eivelfigi'eds he not hull% Wats of the Court- some persons in authority. Thirty-eight respectable vantage to result from the struggle, independent either prisms.; a. • - . oils of War, and the Countrymen he also estatained as characters to be it / i leum ' th ree mon th s in a gloomy of its ultimate failure or in success— • tlie avoun f • tesoh. The Regency) s appointed Field Marshal Don to the facts." . dengeots, with the halter Rwti exeestrapended• Osier Wising system of Eits,dand ? Shall e w eagerly ran ee Xa • vier Elio, Cmm oonder in Chief of the second and • Sensor A Retteetirt—There' Is no erhilltteffee tn 'tee , Allied Remy, Mill ordered him to nominate an officer es sso y er neent. I entioely approveof every thine said their heads—themselves ranked as traitors, and treat- h i, hopes? Shall we •place him in a situation in • which 'saf e harneter to inquire into this motion. by senor Calatrava. Whet - eorifidence ran the tinssuch—their wives , their children and other ' a lan *tild'or vigorous ed as • - "lliarPsitetillerViiks," what deellnatien hat been 'eon hare ie a GaTenitifeit %lit t le& has hiser.edittd it? relatives and friends, hav i ng their inieds rent with equally favourable to his views? Shall we ourselves • .sgtiven to thaera I O'Donnell? , • - 1 The 'Ministers retired, and'the Report of the Com- the rope s painful anguish, and all this, too, on the assume a position in sr hich a protracted through sae. °'The hismiefea—" The orgenizetion of an ern . ) , ! mission was confirmed kti all its pests. - unsupported testimony of an hired spy ! Blush, Bri- cessf u l contest will b e m ore fet a l to us, than the m ost 'elf yeaerve ; tOsownerelieuz Alsounzenn, 'slid in his Setter Peewit:4'a 'propositions were then put to f the s t a t e to whic h - • pert "rea l l iber t y • or - termination to hostilities? These. - -absence to Senor toegete, -thecomtnane of the Isla. the vote, when the Ist and 3d were rejected,end the t ons s • '. - Seettr riA,Ewaritimi the attention of •the Cortes . 11 a pprevett.—[aiiicisee • :/fur; 1.9.] reduced -- a state which you justly merit, if you do are questions which ought, at an y ti me , t o b e d eli. . . &stint appliratiott . of theedepotition feels Valencia . net use the constitutional' means still remaining in berately weighed ; but when the syst e m o f our f oe i s . _ - . gri.thi r • ittlffley .of Spaity to avoid this catastrophe A re ' Melts. . . , . Due, ,i your heeds, oi petitioning the Throne for the resto. avowedly a system of ( fest ruc ti on to- our reseurces leifirl , they , enolhontarily-fearetl, and thought that this • t ' Detain ' ' 2 ! 1 - I o • Watersont s . ration of Peace, whits!), it is tOte hoped, would re. . when in the prosecution of thi; syst e m h e h as a l rea d y was a caseershtth required responsibility, wit from Ges i • ,., . Lisbon ~..... ... ...... .... •• I i move from the presence of the Sovereign those men made rapid strides t o w ar d s complete success; merle Ot Donnell; bet the Regency of Spain. He I u 'artitementroned the - ordee(which in his anterior dis. i 0 • • ,.. testienhargh - 1 0 whose councils have brought se many evils upon the surely no Government sal be so senseless as t o neg . • • cowrie - he - quoted) selative to Geri. Ballasteros , not- e Iletigotane - restrain us from entering upon ‘, s •. Zvi hstandiug which the Regency appointed D. Joseph PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT ttrk O'CLOCK. many of the topics connected with this subject; we O'Donnell, who came dying from Valencia, General Rank India Bends 75 6 dia, The system of .granting subsidieeto any state that ; havesaid nothing of the doubts which may select:. of the Iti end 3d Armies, which the nuthorkzation of • ci h er Cent. Cons. 600-0 - Exchequer Milo Std. par 1p can be prevailed on to make a show of resistance to the . sper Cent. .Led. Dino $Ol. 54 5 p . ably be entertained cf the fi delity of our Ally , er the Cortes atone gave to General Ballasteros. lie I er Cents. • • Onsnium Ise pr, painter of France, pursued as it has been, and as we read the applications made to the ' Regency and the 5 per Cent. Navy 9' 112 a . Consuls for. Arm. II 601 of the still greater doubts to which his firmness is Long. Ann. Lottery t ;skew . •• - fear it will continue to be , without discrimination • Cortes by the deputations from Valencia. They ► pre. • •.. • • espesed ; to these topics we may probably take some I . • • i and without limit, is one of the chief causes to whiche •ferred charges against O'Donnell, who was rewarded. ;-- --- . ••'future opportunity of callin the • g attention of our At present no complaint is preferred against O'Don- i THE STATE SIVIT:1 N. the present alarming and exhausted state of our Readers; at present we shall conclude with the re. roll, it is againit the Regency of Spain that charges' - _e_____ finances is to he ascribed. It is rerticularly erne- mark, that by whatever reason , a conviction is pro- I • .are preferred. The Government. is bound to bring - , dieut, therefore, at the present ntontent, candislty • (bleed, that to subsidize Russia in our precept cite . LONDON: . forward O'Donnell ;—the honour of his brother, the ! bet strictly to weigh the genernl argoments by widen TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1812. • - cumstances is unreasonable and impolitic: the same iflegent,. lit compromised. It is necessary that this I this pernicious system is defeuled, as well as those +— ; this will apply with still greater force to the case - inoestigatfois should be made by some individuals of 1 1 We have this day the pleasure to lay before our which are especially urged in fsvour of a recurrence 'the Cortes—among the Military men there are none of Sweden, a country entirely under the dominion who.can Investigate it—all are under the ianuence of , Readers, an account of the dinner given bya tic:Tiber to it, in the present circumennces if letrope. It is of a former dependant and minion of our implacable the Regency.—What will the astonished Cortes say iof respectable Gentlemen, at Liverpool, tot Mr. i said, that when several powers combine for the at- and artful foe. We address ourselves p'aiitly and to the contlu.l of the. Regency in employing O'Den- BROUGHAM, as an acknowledgment for the serivices I tainment of one common (sheet, to avert some cola. honestly to the candid minds of our readers—that nel, in oppo•itien to the judgment of the na ti on ? , which he has rendered the country b- his great -.tiny to which they aneequally enposiel. or to resist s s our observations will produce any practical effect, Lot the investigation take place in Alicare, a:ftl not ' In Cecile, as in the case of General Blake, and lit exertions in Parliament to procure a Repeal of the some enemy by whom they are equally menaced, we d espair ; from what has passed we can have little et 'late obnoxious Orders in Council. The modest and nothing can he sno race re sonable and just than that be made by Deputies from the Cortes. doubt, that immense MDR, wrung from the distresses Senor TeavEß supported the proposition, recom. unassuming manner in which Mr. BRouGuAst re- ± each should coutribet , its. share of the necessary , and misery of the English people, are already in the mended energy to the Cortes, and said, it was re-' ceived the high compliments paid him by tile intelligent means of war, in such manner and in such pro. hands of AttlesteEn s and when we consider the fre. spolisible to the nation. ! and patriotic Chairman, Mr. Roscoe, must haveraised portions as may feet suit their respective con- quent misapplication of our resources, by Ministers CADIZ, Ave.S.—The papers come down from . . . ll hither in the estimation of his 'and hest - . ore the suer of their him, if possible, sit Murcia to the 9th inst. bringing accounts of three action's fought by the Empecenado, in the last lie re- friends; and there is little doubt of his receiving the united enterprise ; sa • •in tr.-steal is has been situation would be pregnant with the most fatal com ceived a ball in his breast, which, according to the highest reward at the next Election , w h ich it is in the more convenient to Esiglawl, and better calcu- 4e‘iuenccs to the country. latest intelligence, will not prove mortal. ! power of the respectable inhabitants of Liver. In consequence of notice received from Cartha- pool to bestow upon him. The picture drawn by gems, dated the 28th tilt. of an individual having Mr. BROUGHAM, of the folly and wickedness of our died in Mazarron, six leagues from that city, of the Ministers in persevering with the Orders in Council, yellow fever, all communication between this garri son by lane avid the neighbourhood has been stopped, and the evil effects which they have produced all vessels proceeding from the East, the ports of throughout the country, was most affecting arid ins- Malta, Sicily, and Cerdetta excepted, are to perform . pressive. We cannot do so much justice to the sub quarantine fur 14 days. Those from the West, as far ject in any other way, as by quoting the animated as Ayamoute, including the Bay of Gibraltar, Ceuta o f the Hon. Gent. if lf • " The ' 9 language and the Straits, only 10 days. ! which we and the country have gained, is to he The Order of the Day to the French troops, dated Port St. Mary's (in the vicinity of Cadiz), the 18th of ascribed to you, Gentlemen of Liverpool, who be. August, was to the following effect:— ! gen the battle, and to Manchester, Birmingham, t " Soustana—lt is intespensilay necessary to march, in order She ffi eld Staffordshire, and the other great mate-- to revenr • the misfortune* whirls have befallen the imperial s Eagles in another Province, ruing rid of what can be vold,and facturing and commercial places, who supported you Caning in the persons attached to the army." in the contest. It is, indeed, the victory of truth, ' justice, and sound policy, over fraud, falsehood, and error. 'But whether this stairs of the national honour and disgrace of the illitils came has peen' abandoned rum a sense of its wickedness, or a fear of its conseqaences, whether it has perished by the hand of justice, or died by a natural decoy, it is at length defunct—and not all the daemons of mischief, assisted by conjurers far greater even than our pre sent Ministers, can ever restore it to life!" We cordially . agree with the sentiments of Mr. BROUGHAM, respecting the victory at Salamanca, that it should be employed by this country as the means of obtaining an honourable` Pil AC E ; without which all the sacrifices which we have made in blond and treasure, can produce verylittle benefit to this Country ; and it ought to be recollected, that the fate of war is, at best, uncertain. We have also given an account of a respectable body of Gentlemen meeting at Manchester, for the promotion of PARLIAMENTARY REFORM, at which the venerable Major CARTWRIGHT attended, and the staunch patriot THOMAS KERSHAW, Esq. was in the Chair. It is a truth rendered as clear as the "-sun at noon-day, that the first effective effort towards restitution, which the Government of this country can make to the people, is PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.— The accumulating mass of misery that, like a pesti lential cloud, surrounds the manufacturing towns, though not allowed to approach the atmosphere of St. James's, or,sentimentally speaking, comes not within the range of the preriotiefeetings of our Ministers, is still like a gravitating power, forcing its way to the heart of every friend to suffering humanity, and. the Constitutional Rights of the People. But while Lord CASTLEREAGH is permitted to wave the magic , wand of Ministerial' influence in the House of Com mons, and Lord LreEeeoor. to flourish with equal auCcess the talisman of his power in the House of * Lords, we confess we cannot entertain even a soli tary hope of obtaining that redress which our goaded and distracted country has so often and so justly de manded. If, indeed, the present system be obsti ' nately persevered in, we are fearful it will only tend to accelerate the period when oppression, arriving at its point of excess, mast produce,' by a destructive convulson, those changes which the Friends to Re. form are .humanely endeavouring to aceomplish by more seletery measures. - . We are happy to find that the case of the SS indi viduals who were committed to Lancaster Gaolebout ' three meneks its,o, %sou the evidence of a 10,74 ipy, 1 ilid not escape the attention of this respectable end lated to promote the ganeral sucress . that her , lnurt e i st l e o r si d g aY ii i i i t i :r i v i te ig iv ili s i v e i r t . h tl L e o p rd uk lV e lt o r. f at ß t ß zr at the contingent should he sopp!ieti in money, and *those articles which money can perch/is , . flat ti in men. To Admiralty . . this general reasoning we Mins:lke no OhiPetloll ; but It is *ha the most poignant grief weir:in), that the let us see how it is epprill-- Eagland has been long disturbances In the North art. renewed. The follow. at war with France, she has put frit di all her energies inis au extract of a letter from a party very nearly '— . In terested tt.- " lIALIIAB, gars . b.— We are sorry to in the enntlicf,—t he - whole of her - ilititii.i . ahTiTerve ts say the Luddites get very active again, and very near employ ed, as she t hinks, in the way that is moat like, a* too.. • rimy have been seiziag arms all up the • . • .. ly to ensure a successful ituni.. to :i .1. atriktife iat th is tit' Mer Valles., and on Thursday night broke a glg motrunit Russia, who fen•me-ly deaerteti its. allindce •of Me. W.'s. They have plundered arms at Mr. P.'s, of Fialand, and has since been the All%. of France, at tireenroyd , an d we are in ni g htl y ex p ectation of a visit at the Milt. At Halifax there was a regiment of thinks proper, for some object puree Ilitssian, - to itti . Militia, a company -of which was at one of those to war wit h France: here then comes the applica . places half an hour before the &predations were corn' tints of the principle. Russia will probably hold witted." something like this langi i iege, "I am about to join , The accounts from every part of the kingdom you in the contest with France, our common object' Speak of the luxuriance of thc. Harvest, and in many %ill he her humiliation, let our exertions therefore be Flares it is completely housed, the eilect of which has I common, you cannot send men to join my armies, been felt at Sherborne, by a reduction of 4 d. in the : , peck loaf, this week, and a similar depression is c*, iastead of sending man send money, it will be at ; pected i u the beginni ng of the ensuing week, b • • once more convenient to you mid mere 'awful to me." i The wheat harvest in the neighbourhood of Susses Bit iu reply to this, ii it not sufficient for England i is nearly completed, and a more abundant crop was to say," The object of botli is indeed the humiliation I nver known by the oldest person living. of France, my efforts to attain that object have ' Wheat fell in Nottingham market, on Saturda7 never been remitted ; my contingent is now in actual I ; last .. ? ore guinea per quarter. ~ Ine oaciso of the 19th ult, says, that -LAVAL, operation against her, and has been in actual opera. !who was opposed to BALT-PoTTROs, his followed the Lion against her ever since the period of our last alli. , example of Gootscr, and shot himself, ance, which you so unexpectedly and so abruptly ' Five hundred prisoners have volunteered this week, abandoned. As well might I demaiid of you to from the prison ships at Portsmouth, to serve in his Majesty'a Navy. None are excluded but French. send me money to assist in maintaining the great i - and Italians. naval force by which I restrain her from all ma. ,men Yesterday the gilt battalion of the First Regi. ritime operations, either 4 Warfare or of corn- ment of Guards, destined for foreign service, were merce; as well might I expect you to send money inspected in Hyde Park, preparatory to their leas, to compensate for the total absence of Russian ing sewn this morning, to embark for Portugal. auxiliaries in the Peninsula, where lam making a SLAVE Titaer..—ln the Sixth Annual Report of powerful but gratuitous diversion in your favour."— . the Directors of the African Society, there is sent`! singular and important infoimation respecting the This answer seems fully to meet any argument instils.; Yet existing traffic in human beings. It will bi port of a subsidy to Russia, which can be grounded on sure* credited by the public, that dui imr, the yea; the principle of justice towards that Fewer. There [ 1810, not less than between 70 and 80,000 Negroes are, however, certain individuals, who probably e i ther 1 : of Africa to the opposite shores of the Atlantic feeling the pressure of taxation, so sensibly, not I,Wgre fargesported as Slaves from _the Western Coast This etiormous tra ffi c (says the Report) was chiCtif for themselves or others, as we are ready, and, in.. confined to that part of xhe African coast which lips deed, proud to confess that we do, contend that !aostween Cape Palmas and Bengulla. The !la sts. ' whatever may be the decision of justice en this sub. force statimied in that quarter had succeed e d in near. ject, the dictates of policy are clear and unequivocal ; Ilt destroying the trade to the northward of Cape that Russia being by no means a rich State, cannot maintain a contest with France with anyprospect of Palmas, and it wad' the °pillion of a late Eng iish commander (Captain Columbine) that it would ham . been in his power to have delivered the whole of that success,unless we brace and strengthen her with wealth 9 district from its ravages, had not the Portuguese sett the most essential sinew of war; that by multiplying _ Element o f ati mo j oterv e net l.and furnished the slave the enemies of Bostaraaaa, we increase the probability traders with a point from which they could carry of his downfall; that Russia can be made one of his: slaves without the risk of capture. It sill be recall effective enemies only by our pecuniary assistance; '. lacteal f and that for these reasons policy demands of tui that Brazil, the Portuguefe w by ith the the lOt c h ou A rt rt . i o c f le of the late Treaty c that assistance should not be withheld. That reason-i • like tit' * ing is trill make any impression on a people belonging to their Sovereign. Though the Portu ' w A e ni re ity restricted in carrying on this traffic to places geese take a share in this traffic, yet it appears that groaning under their burdens, we really do not 21 1)• • the greater proportion is tither British or American prebend ; but as it unfortunately happens, that the trade, conducted under the flag s of Sp ain and For. opinion of the people has not so much influence as it tuga l. A g reat number of the coasters are Americas! vessels and manned by the subjects of the United ought unquestionably to have in the decision of such - 1 States, who avail thrtiselves of the Spanish and questions, and as it is, for various reasons, desirable r n ertognese flags, An abstract has been trans mitte d 'that these delosio ns, palpable as they are, should not however, to the American Secretary of State, ot remain unexposed, we beg leave to . ask these po. the Captains' and vessels' names, tonnage, &c. in :filleal gentlemen a few plaimand simple questious,— order that . a Has it not been long • man • Vest that th e w er the offimows, The Directors say that they ha o v n is made fre q uent representations - to Governmen t which France wages . agalast this eointry proseeution may be instituted again!: Alder clear that to enforce a late" directed chiefly to .00r pal i ejarra o Is It ' no t • this siikjeet. . kto.a4p,—To-tiay there wOs no Court of our Amara for Ito object, Is this my . Motive by threes, cdcred the preseut prices to poutinue. P m, P *bleb bps , OP VIII of [meg. The Loan Maltase, after inspecting the Be' [VURTUER EXTRACTS RECEIVED THIS MORNING.] COIITE4, IRrH I) The Secretary of War presented himself and took his seat. 'fire Commission of War inculcated the neeessiiy of lort.stigating the Also-aro of the 341 Army, in Castella,aneording to the established remit. it (lid not approve of the propositions passed, and therefore proposed ; 4 t 0. Flint the Regency should immediately ap point a person of acknowledged impartiality, who should investigate and repwt upon this action within lb days. 66 id. That a copy of it should he transmitted to -the Cortes, who would examine its legality, and that when entirely conceded, it should he printed. " 3d. That it ril.aonroved of the Regency having appol•lted General O'D ,nnell General of an Ar:ny of Reierve. prior to his heiag tried and quitted." Sc for Gut \ L DO stiongly opposed the first of these popos:tions, glinting the succe-s of a similar Com unsion given to the Governor of Poili , cola, Garcia Na , :irro (who subsequently surrendered that for tre,,) :o investigate the excesses of the 3d Army in La .slanr!:a, a commission which no agent of Napo leon could have di•charged more to his sati'factiou; awl silted, that two of the Regents had two brothers in that army. •;en CAPM Y enti rely disapproved of every thing contsined in the report of the Commission of IVar, ur:zed that strong measures should be adopted, in such critical circumstances. What, he exclaimed, route upon rotate, no rare; excess upon excess, no justice; who has the power of remedying this? Your M akwy alone, who is the father of the country fortnosl to save the nation ; it is time to think of re. veining the country, badly defended in some pnrte. hat, said Luculo, vanquished by the Parthians, to his soldiers, who wished to disperse, in presenting to them the head of his son? " The grief is mine, the iresseeanee is your's." The Commission wishes th 6 investigation to be limited to the General's conduct, a , .<l I wish that it should extend to the time when he (nek the command. I wish the Ministers to inform us of the General's dipositions, whether he attacked, tor was .attaciterl, what were his forces, and what were those of his oppon.ws. • _ _ DP! .NliNtsrea raid, that the General's Report, see* yes'enlay, contained all the information de.. ora , teed. w hich coold again be read, if required. • Kemtr Mount Ft. disapproved the propositions of the Conts•.!ssiou of War. titsnor Car...toms* supported the Commission.— gg God I'm bid," ha said, " that the functions of Go. Neriwatoot till la be exercised by IRO persons ;if the IR.osory is blameable, render its responsibility ef. fertire. 4 • Senor Tueves.—Yes, if I offered to prove that the Rearivey liras culpable, I had &manumits in my h oo d s for this purpose. Year Majesty either has, or has• not, coolldeare is the Regeney ; if you hasp proceed; if not, act. I oppose the Commission, re' F ~' r N . ! • • •