The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-08-20 00:00:00

`4l V.!4 4 , • *att. .1•;•‘- 'll I E I'ATUSNIAN. ' KILKENNY CATHOLIC MEETING. nieoent a asseerstructure has been reared. - I would . --smen-- ! .. . ' . fling such an intention with horror froin me. [The following eloquent Speech, which we co Who would not value those honours, that a Nelson, Majesty py a Wellington , and your own Hutchinson received as , day, Aug. 4, at nine in the morning. .He paned' ' .. trom the Kilkenny Chronicle, is the only one yet meet rewords for achievements so glorious, that they !through Wurtiburg, Bamberg,. fiareuth; Hoff, sod pliblished of those delivered on this occasion.] .., will be Teed of by a grateful posterity with such un- !Mopped at all points where there were troop., to 1r.. , Grottec Liowsee Esq. amidst a th under of ap. qualified admiration 9 that all the accompanying sir- ! view them. plause, rose and ad dressed the Chairman, as fol. cumstances will be overlooked in tke splendour of PAk/a; ARM 9.—llse Majesty the EmpretisQouta • 1- . loos :es- those actions whereby thqse, honqurs were woo?—. and Reek' to-day returned from her Joann)? to • Sie,—l shall not say one word on the subject ofe Who would net respect those possessions, which a Mayence at seven in the evening, to the Palau at your Petition. I would feel it to be an unnecessi- Devonshire disposes of, with such a prodigal gene- St. Clued. •ry trespass on your time, to offer even one observe. rosity, with such exemplary benevolence, that his Attune, Ave. 7.—His Majesty the Emperor lion, to impress the magnitude of the existing neces- conduct resembles more that of n trustee for all the and Kist has not gone out during the days of the pity, for those of your body assembletl here, to cons purposesof humanity, cheering industry, encouraging sth and 6th. tinue those firm and temperate efforts, which have ingenuity, rewarding integrity, and nearly effacing Ills Majesty has been very much occupied with the brunet your important question to the present poverty, wherever it before' existed within his reach, Duke of Bassano, with the Major-General Count stage of its progress. Still less would I be inclined than that of a modern proprietor of great estates ? Darey, and the principals of the different branches of ...• , :to urge those of my own persuasion, to persevere Who would not respect that rank, and that wealth, the Administration of the Army. •in that cordial co-operation with you, by which where the inheritor of both, by the sterling vir- His Majesty has been engaged with the Ordina they have hitherto been - so honourably distinguished. tue of his single conduct, nearly reconciles you tear Daure about provisions, with the Ordivateur No exertions of either kind are requisite at present, to the unequal dispensations of Providence in the Merchant respecting hospitals, and with the Ordi- The advantages that those of every religion shall distribution of property ? No, my contempt is nateur Lamartelliere concerning transports and do.. derive, by the happy termination of this struggle, only levelled at those who strut in honours they thing. arc too obvious to require any elucidation at this have never deserved, and who do not sustain As the armistice may he denounced before the period. Were k otherwise, you have friends, who, th e glory of those ancestors, by whose merits 15th of August, the troops are preparing to cele though not more settees, are far more competent to they were acquired.. Together with that great dif- brats the Fete of the Emperor ou the 10th of Au advise and to inform you ; and to those friends, for fusion of general: information, and the exposure of , gust. the present, I would resign the task of so doing. But political transgreuions that we derive from the free-I FRANKFORT, Atm. B.—lt is generally said that a circumstance has occurred within those few days, dom of the Press, we are also indebted to it for that the armistice is prolonged to the first of September, so connected with your cause, so affecting the in- knowledge of private character, by which the conduct , but nothing positive is known. on this subject. teresfs of every Irishman, and so bearing on that of each is as well understoad by the entire commu- ' Beetle, 'hest 24.—The King set out yeterday, best privilege of the Constitution, the Freedom of nity as it is known in those districts, which have at six in the morning, from Charlottenberg for head. the Peeve that if we de not take it into our most been the more immediate scenes of their vices and quarters. His Majesty, on the 22d, reviewed all the serious consideration, we could not atone for present I their virtues. At this day no one wants to be in- troops who. were in Berlin. The Duks of cal Ise 04.2. I supineness, by cur Most vigorous and eteenua . formed of the good a country derives from the free. - land has set out for Streik:. ous nudists, hereafter... T am certain 'you antic!. 'dom. of the Press. It has beseitwell and amply de. 1 TimeefrOvia,Atto.9.—Privateletterafrouvrie'nnit Pate, that I allude to the recent trial and comic- ; scribed in one sentence by a distinguished orator.— ; confirm the account that the armistice has been prow tion of, the Proprietor of the Dublin Evening Pbst, • c Preserve but the liberty of the -Press (he said), longed to the Ist of September. Mr. Magee. I • consider this event so connected ' and though Rulers shall be forgetful of their sacred . PRAGUE, JULY 3l.—Hitherto nothing has pub • with • your emancipation—el look •on the persecu- defies--though Parliaments shall be profligate and tidy transpired relative to the state of proceedings lion of the individual,; as so interwoven with that' .. .venal, yet with this one weapon unimpaired, I will between the Plenipotentiaries at the Congress. We opposition youlinve experienced from the Irish . Ad- : atta s ik the aggressors in their stronk holds, and I ' only know that every thing is at present confined to miiiistration, in all your efforts to reinstate your-.I w ill thstdalipaii. of the liberty and prosperity of the the exchanging of notes. There is in the suite of selves in the enjoyment of those rights, which are „ m aw I the two French Plenipotentiaries a numerous denied' only by the bigoted and intolerant, that I ". . chancery. His Majesty often comes here from I "Every man must admit the justice and troth of this caunot resist the impulse I feel, to urge you to adopt , . be- Branders ;It is pretended, that his Majesty will admirable observation. But while lie feels the e'nee. measure suitable to the circumstance here ,: shortly establish his residence near this capital. nefits, he must make efforts to pre s erve the sources • alluded to. I call upon you to do it now; because Ave. 2.—The Archduke Maximilian arrived here from which he draws them. He must interpose with I you a rt. the first portion of the Catholic Body who . on the 28th July, from Vienna. have been assembled since the conviction of Mr. i'manlY/ energetic, and sympathizing language. He 1 to support those - I His Majesty arrived here from Branders on the Magee has taken place. I call upon you to adopt must extend a generous hand pa 30th of the same month. triotic,men, who, in your cause, are obliged to en- ; ... some measure that will sustain the individual, suf. • BREMEN, Ave. 3.—For some time there have counter the vindictive and expensive prosecutions of . ; feline iii your cause—some measure that will be ex . . passed through here large convoys of artillery and the Court, and may be doomed to -suffer, by the . pressive of your abhorrence at the efforts so cons ammunition of every description. rigorous severity of venal and prejudiced Judges, , stoutly made to put down the Liberty of the Press. ' •••41 urge you to adopt sonie, measure that will hold - and the servile pliancy of managed Juries. You have I now an opportunity, in the case of the Proprietor of eat en honourable-extunple to your Catholic Bre the Dublin Evening Post, which calls so loudly for three throughoutahe kingtiom N to use every effort to countefact. the resentment, which every man who your protection, that you cannot withhold it, with out being branded with the moot marked guilt of un has exerted himself in-your behalf blip not failed to quelifledingratititude. The Press has effected more experieaee since a Noble Mike,' to the misfortune - `!or your body than all your advocates within or of Ireland, yam pieced at the 'head of the govern went of this country. It you act a manly and without the doors of Parliament. Mr. Magee generous part en this occasion, and that your con- stands more conspictiously prominent amongst your benefactors than any other individual. No bribe duct shall be well followed up by your body at their respective meetings, the result will be glorious could allure him—no threat discourage him—no ex pence dishearten him, to you, and attendee with the most happy cense- nor disappointments slacken his efforts iu your service. He has proclaimed the quenceete all. It will not only tend to counteract importance .of your wealth and your numbers—he oppression, hut will go far to stem that deluge of has excited a feeling for yout sufferings and misfor corruption, which sweeps through every class, from the peer to the peasant, and confounds the Bench, tunes, not only throughout this Empire and Eu. but froia f of Niagara to the burn the Clergy, and the Magistracy, in one common, • "P e ' , the odious, and contemptible estimation." - I sands of Africa. Had alls he never contributed more l lo sustain your cause thanhe has dune by the exposure fibre the Patriot Orator 'cited many cases in • of those infamous machinations in the management point, to show that, of lite, honours have been ' of the Anti-Catholic Petition lately manufactured heaped on the worthless and the profligate, whilst ' i • n Dublin he would have an unquestionable claim they were studiously withheld from the g ood and , e on t he lasting gratitude of every Catholic in Ireland. virtuous. lie cited one in particular, which made ' But in my opinion, he is entitled to the warmest a deep impression on the minds of all present. H . support of every honest Irishman , from his unceas. said, that the ',nine of Major Bryan, whom li e e • . . it exposure of every wickeu attempt which has called " Kilkenny's pride and boast," " the people's been of late too successfully made to create divisions • Mend," eac. did not appear in the list of the Grand its this country. Yes ! divisions have been created— Jury of the County at the present Assizes.—We and is there a spot in the land, whereon I could snakethis regret much, that, through want of space, we can- .. assertion with les s danger of being contra , iite follow him in this interesting part of h dieted than that on which I stand ? Heretofore But, adverting again to the situation of the amiable ' , you weathered every storm—you were firm in duty, Magee, he says— I united in a ffe c ti on—your city was the Athens of ii You submit to a heavy taxation to support a . Ireland, to which the rank and fash i on , and libe ruinous war, that is wasting the treasure, and drain- . rainy and benevolence of the whole kingdom flocked ing the country of its best blood.—You submit to a annually for recreation. You were proclaimed more grievous taxation (and hard is your lot, that throughout the Empire and Europe as a happy, you should be compelled so to do) that your enemies united, benevolent people. But how are you now ? may be enabled thereby to fasten the chains, by . Why he most striking woof I could give of the dis which you are kept back from the Constitution, ' tractions occasioned by the odious policy of Admi mid are refused admission into that citadel, around ; 1 nistration, would be to describe the divisiens that which you form a rampart with your bodies,., now unhappily prevell amongseyou.' , and which you defend with your very lives. I say, 1 to this taxation you must submit. Will you 'then [The Orator here concluded his most excellent hesitate to lay a voluntary impost on yourselves, : speech in the following words, which he pronounced that you may discharge a sound duty, in cheering ; most impressively :—] . the mail, who prefers your interests and a prison, " Mr. Magee has long been an object of terror to to the favours of a misguided Court, and to a share ' the vile herd by which the Viceroy is surrounded.— of those contributions, that are wrung from the ill- I Joy sparkles in the eye of each jaundiced visage stored pockets of struggling industry, and levied . about the court, at the prospect of his punishment. from the squalid brow of a rugged peasantry ? ' II am certain, that y_bether Jon priazaaasaseelsas- en • There is no man whose heart beats warm lathe Caaile ' 'this eeclislon,. Gibe grateful and deserving of friends, - -- of hersonietry but will - lid himself elevated, nay ! or heartless and contemptible, that he will persevere enriched, in the truest sense of the word, by any i its that manly and virtuous course so congenial to privation he may suffer, or sacrifice he shall make, ; his feelings, and so consistent with his past conduct. on such an occasion. In addition to the conscious- But if ungrateful, you will be for ever lost. The mess you will feel, in fulfilling the most binding of days of chivalry are gone. Mari; and Decii will not nil obligations, that of standing by those who suffer 1 spring up to - rush unencoumged upon destruction ; for you, see what a rich remuneration shall await, and though one Giulio, shall plunge in the gulph, yet in the people's love. Let those laugh at this' unsupported by the great body of the people, the most precious of all rewards, who have never felt its example will be ineffectual !! !" delighting touch. Give me but the people's love, - and I will not envy the man who inherits titles, that • possibly were the recompense for meritorious con. duct, but have been much more frequently con ferred as the price of some actions, better deserving disgrace and punishment. Give me but the people's love, and an approving conscience, and I will look with indifference on the glossy badge, that glitters on the heartless breast of the gaudy coxcomb. Nor will I covet that wealth I see so frequently misap plied, which, instead of being a source of happiness to the individual, and of blessings to the community, fully tends to make the possessor avaricious and venal, and which often so debases the owner, Ant he becomes the scourge and oppressor of those lie is bunud by every tie to cherish and protect.— Let me not he misuuderstood. I do not deny those orders in society, that form so prominent a fee tore of the constitution. Let no MEN suppose I a ould touch a stone of that arch, on which so stag- ARMIES OF SPAIN. LETTER FRAM GENERAL RET, COMMANDING KT ST. SEBASTIAN, TO HIS EXCELLENCY TIM DUKE OF FELTRE, MININER AT WAR, DATED THE 26T11 JULY, 1813. " MoNsmorrzult,—An Officer, bearing a flag of truce, presented himself this afternoon, to request Information respecting several missing Officers. He appeared very Uneasy respecting the fate of the Colonel of the Royal Regiment, who was killed upon the breach. It is certain, that the assault the English lost a Colonel, four Lieutenant-Colonels or Majors, and 4 Officers; that the number of stab officers and soldiers is about 1000 killed, wounded, or prisoners, all English, and near 300 Portuguese. The English speak of their Allied with' contempt.— This Officer confirmed what their prisoners had be fore said, that their eight best companies of Grena-- diers were totally destroyed on the day the assaidt tool place. In the morning the enemy embarked 36 boats of wounded ; he fired during the day a great number of shells; he only directed some howitzers against the houses set on fire, which made me pre same be had commenced embarking his troops. The Officer bearing the flag of truce thanked us in the name of his General, for the care which he had seen us take of his wounded. 66 Half of the town is completely destroyed by fire, the greater part of the remaining houses are extreme ly damaged ; we have not yet succeeded in extinguish ing the fire; should the wind increase the remainder of the town would be lost. The quantity of ammu nition which the English with their 45 pieces of artil lery, constantly in action, consumed, is astonishing ; the proximity of the sea and fleet could alone have supplied this consumption. 66 I continue to cause the streets of the town to be barricadoed by traverses, which I reckon upon de fending foot by foot ; if at any time I shoyd be obliged to quit my first line, your Excellency may rely that the garrison of St. Sebastian will do its duty, and continue to give proofs of its, devotion for our august Emperor.—l pray, &c. (si g ned) " REY. " P. S. I forgot to mention to your Excellency respecting the ladders with which the enemy's troops' were furnished on their assault on the covered way ; we are in possession of them." • ~ ~ w+ ,61,1! I 1 LONDON: - FRIDAT **Vat* 20, Se It. IThough the' Piris Papers do not make the least mention of the battle of the Pyrenees, yet do they nevertheless possess considerable interest. The dif. I ficelty of adjusting the basis on which the proposed Congress should treat, is evident from the various and contradictory' reports concerning the Armisti e and its continuance. The Frankfort article,, of the date Aug. 9, asserts that private letters from VPlitia confirm the account of its being prolonged to the ht of September. We have no doubt of the fact, nor that the renewal of the Armistice rests with the Ca binet of Vienna. The Russians and Prussians would most certainly have tried the effect of another cam paign, if the Em...eror of Awsrera had mani fested a disposit;oe to countenance , uch a measure: but we have strong reason to feel convinced, that his Majesty has been prevailed upon to fa!! in with the great design of hi, son-in-law, in the assurance that he shall fiud an indemnincation for all his former losses by the war with him. hese p litical aberra tions from what might apaenr the strait road of Cabinets, ought to impress the Ministers of our own ' country, that while we are so ready to risk all in the defence of the people of the Peninsula, we can not be sure that we may not hereafter want that very force we now exhaust there, in protecting that which is of more consequence to us !Lan all the Rorie! .beside. In tbientiMemtion, and nominations of the personages at Prague, exchan,ing notes preparatory to their entering upon the proceedings of Congress, we hear nothing of the British Plenipotentiaries.— Can any circumstance exhibit in a more contemptible light the character of our Ministers abroad ? It is, we are afraid, net forgotten, that the Earl of Livra root threatened the French some time ago to march a British army to Paris ! ! Now, although it was thought necessary to give this Nobleman a new title (before he succeeded to his present one), that he might not be known from that grotesque Quixotism, yet is it remembered every where that he is the self. same hero oho proposed that heroic expedition. The French account of the failure of our attempt against St. Sebastian makes our hearts ach. We had previously believed it to be nearly as disastrous to our brave troops. Gen. REY signifies that half the town was completely destroyed by the fire from our howitzers, and that it was still burning: adding that should the wind increase, the remainder would be consumed. How pitiable must be the condition of the inhabitants. Is it not natural that these people would be contented with any master who should be able to put an end to their sufferings and apprehen sions. In the second letter of the above General to the French Secretary at War, he gives an af :letting account of the manner by which num bers of our men were surprised in the trenches tip a sortie the garrison. We trust this part of his dispatches is exaggerated : espechliy where he se; s that 140 English, who attempted to pass the river, were &owned ; and that in less than an hour we lost more than 1200 men !!! They expatiate largely on this affair, which they con sider throws so much honour on the garrison of St. Sebastian ; but the Papers are totally silent on the battle which so soon followed it. The !otter con cludes by observing, that the wind had increased, by which it may be understood that the contlagiation was carried to its utmost pitch of destruction. eta Cliii-IliteKE, svren. sure V. - 64 MONsMoNtUit,—This - morning at four o'clock; visiting the advanced posts'on the left with Colonel Sousson, who commands them, I perceived that se veral boats were leaving the sand batteries to join those cruising, and I was immediately convinced that the batteries which had been battering in breach had been disarmed. I went to the land advanced posts where the enemy had discontinued his works. The enemy no longer fired. I immediately decided upon reconnoitring his trenches, and by a brisk movement made him deploy and inform myself of what he was , doing. I therefore gave orders to two companies of Seery TAKEn's.—Every professed, inveterate, and I the mountain ehasseurs of the 3d battalion, to the incurable snuff taker, at a moderate computation, I voltigeurs of the 62d regiment, and to .the sappers I --- takes one pinch in 10 minutes; ever pinch, with 1 who were in the works, to rapidly advance to the, We this day insert the admirable speech of Geoece the agreeable ceremony of blowing and wiping the I trenches, and destroy or take all they encountered ; LtowEr.r., Esq. a Protestant Gentleman of the Coon nose, and other incidental ciriumstances, consumes the artillery at the same time received orders to pro- :ty of Kilkenny, delivered at a meeti 1g of the Catho one minute and a half; one minute and a half out tect the retreat of these detachments, and play upon ! lic I nhab itants of t` at County. The aesolutions is ill of every ten, allowing 16 hou r s to a snuff-taker's whatever the enemy should send to succour the day amounts to two hours and twenty-four minutes trenches . Thus, as I expected, the enemy did not ; also be found high's,- hinge / Sting. Wi.i:st the present I out of every natural day, and one day out of every expect to be attacked at this hour: the trenches unhappy disagreement esis's between the Irish peo ton. One day out of every ten amounts to 36 days were surprised, and all who were in them destroyed. ple and the Covernment which titles over th •,:,,, mid a half a year. Hence if we suppose the prac- I The column which took the direction of the suburb every t hi ng that comes troin Ireland, or that affer.' 4 , lice to be persisted in for 40 years, two entire years of St. Catharine, advanced to the burned bridge, an meeneoVestiventiir , of a snuff taker's life, *ill 'be dedicated to tickling 1 and the 24 to the burned houses i n St. M ar ti n . Th e y ' ~., .. :. country, must be deeply the nature or the feeling a his nose, and two more to blowing or It ! I P revalent in mat I And ! result of this' operntioh, which was conducted by • i; t Testing. if the expense of snuff, snuff-boxes, and handker- i the Chef de Battalion Blanchard with Undemanding That things are fast drawing to a crisis—that the chiefs were considered, it would be found that this and distinction, was cornplete; We look 381 E n _ reign of trawl and persecution, on the one hand, luxury encroaches as much on the income of the 'buff- {dish and Portuguese prisoners, Air whom nine are or the infinenco of hing-suffering al'egiance on the taker, as it does on his time. Officers ; "140 English, who ottopipted to pen the t other are on the point of ezllaction-4hai the do _Jr 4 a 14.4,_ Damns, Attu. 4.—Rh Modesty arrhtd here to V titer, weredrowneil; the artillery had a g ent ef. • 1 feet • the enemy in less th an an h our lost more thee' '"ltti men, that is to say, almost all that was in the •tl•Michft,' , 4 4 Vhis stair doei much honour to the garrison. The troops acted with the greatest vigour. Th e moviitaip ehasscurs, the fittl, and the sappers, merit .the highest praise. Lieutenant l)ugar, of the me en , tails chasseurs , particularly distinguished himself h e first entering the trenches ; he was a ounded, The enemy only fired with live pieces of artillery ; one from Mount Julien, orrefrom the old breaching hat. tery, one at St Bartholomew , and two in advance of St. Bartholomew. We have filled -his tretches. Th e enemy has began .re-embarking to raise the siegp, This town• merits a .better fate. 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