The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-11-07 00:00:00

'nit SrATESMAN ttcelleney as a proof of his admiration of the va• t ou r and constancy with which your Exceitencris fighting in favour of the inslependenco and liberty of your country. In remitting to your Excellency this proof of his Royal Highness's esteem, I beg you to I receive my sincere Wit;hes for the preservation of yoor life, that you tinny employ thii weapon to the ho. Dour and advantage of your country. WELLINGTON, Duke of Chided Redrlge.,i ' Ilead4eastws, Flores de ()Tele, July c.. 5.•• IMPLY. 46 EXcarzest Lono,-1 have received, Wilt ill the esteem I ought, the sword which your &eel way has sent me from his Royal Highness the Panne Reoznr of England and Ireland. I cannot find sufficient words to exprebs my gratitude for this goodness which his Royal Highness has deigned to ,hew me, and which will, if that is possible, augment those sentiments of gratitude, which in me, and all patriotic Spaniards, the generous efforts he has made, and continues to make, have excited. 46 For my part, it is the most gratifyiog satisfac tion, that this information was directed to me by the first General in Europe; the immortal hero to whom Spain and Portugal owe so many signal vic tories, and to w hom I most sincerely offer my most profound thanks, love, and admiration , . Toledo. Sept.?. 44 J. PALIMEA." MADSIO, OCT4IO.—We are every instant in ex. pectation of receiving orders to march. Sovves advanced parties are now very near ours. It is said that Sotto's forces, joined to Swan's, do not exceed 43,000 men. The corps commanded by General HILL do not tensist of less than 21,000 men, sad to those we must add the 3d awl 4th light dividons, which are at lost 0,000, making in all 36,000 valiant soldiers, without speaking of the Spanish troops who have joined ; or of Getters! BAt,Lasvaitos, who is acting in the rear of the enemy, with 20,000 men. The 4th division has marched to join Gen. Ilzu.'s army. When uur Ministers planned the present Raimisn war, and succeeded in alluring ALEstmeorn into the ambitious purpose of opposing his powerful adver sary, little did they expect to hear of the Heavens being darkened with volumes of smoke issuing from the devouring flames of Moscow—little did they eras, pest to have heard of the principal avenues of sup plies being shut against St. Pittershurgh—littte did they expect that NAPOLEON wonld have led on 400,000 men at a diAance of 1600 miles from his ••• r capital, in a s t mle of time scarcely sufficient for • lad' , idual‘e make a tour over such a vait com oars of territory—little did they expect to have heard i t a nation rising, like the fabled Phoenix, from its ! ,tes, an d the whole vengeance of its IR teneelierglesleo ft tfii cruel oppressors—they did not expr.A.: geese t . because they had not the ca pacity and foresight tocalculate justly upon causes and effects, and were ignorant of the powerful re sources, and extensive influence of the Flaxen EM PEROR. Such are among the train of ill-starred and ill-• devised plans of our Ministers, originating in habits which they have been brought into by the blandish. meats of post er and the corruptions of a majority— measures which have already proved destructiVi'ap t the British Empire, and may ultimately prove so to Ministers themselves. If they would cast their eyes inwardly, and appeal to their consciences, and east. Mine c'osely and unprejudicedly the real state to which their fatal Councils have brought this once happy land, they would discover a frightful rain of deserted prospe . rity —front an overhearing power, sow. rounded by scenes of calamity, which the unionism* keople of these realms are compelled to endure. We have often had occasion toadied, to the shames I ful prostitution of the pen and the press, iu *soon• tenaucing a system of palsy whkil ob►iousty and gradually tends to our atter rule. The approaching disastrous effects of this purse wetilotervlif bellevo as visible to its parasitical supporters es is oar. selves ; but as the asetsures we condoms ere prate tile to those who purses then, the seribbNus panders are contented to defelidihem by the rewsuPiliey ceive for their labour. It is u dissustkag, es It is afflicting, to the Mask Patriot, tts *ba►rs doom. miums in thr venal Prints, which 1 " *Teri dal 13- vished on the men -who are conducting sad **lending the war, as if it were to be perpetual, sad as though it were a privetiblo rather than a dent:yea* pursuit• lire are to send every man disciplined in amnaliste the Peninsula ; we are to seed every weapon we ale manu facture into Spatn and Portugal; and lastly, we are to send both specie and subsistence to the *Mies on the Continent ; and this we are to continue to do s till, by the drainage of the precious metals, with the conco rilant evil, an inundation of paper-corresey, and .a pearzity of the necessaries of life, the bulk of ,the lower orders of the people are driven by distress and famine to madness. Mr. Pm: began tbe wasteful project, and yet we see loquacioes orators impudent enough to say, that "what that great Mao maid not achieve, inferior agents may complete?' doubt. less, the final overthrow of his country I The gar rulous Mr. CANNING throws out, in one of his rhe torical eructatious, in the face of his friends at Man chester, after a luxurious dinner, that he doubted not but his fellow-subjects would reward those who endeavoured to forward the plans and maintain the principles of that most extravagant of all Ministers. Fpr his part, he said, " he should walk in that track :ch his great pietetype had chalked out." Oh, tart 1, IA the same way we *NON dm prolix Vtrus tirtng the p o t uc t an t war. with Ida eternal my for another man, Is extravagant as the former, to be called to the helm of Government. A. man, who to enrich and ennoble his IMO kindred, would put the last stake of this onee great kingdosa to a single hazard. In the like view, though perhaps not in favour of the same individual (but In that of other men from whom • they are more sure to receive the reward of their Uses( labour), they harangue their hearers with the highly probable success of certain Ministers' wise Councils. In anothet ridiculous, or rather , shameful, scene, exhibited on an electioneering stage, we hear two Court Candidates bespattering each other with compliments, like Noodle and Doodle in T om Thumb the Great! ! When will this odious farce have an end ? And when will the People, with a powerful voice, call for a Grand Inquest on the at fairs of the Nation ? Till that is done, it is of little concern or avail, whether Lord WELLast.Ev, or Mr. SyboxuAst, his Secretary, are Prime Minister. STATESMAN OFFICE, TWO O'CLoCli. Orders have been dispatched to all the out-ports, to hasten the sailing of troops for the Peninsula, that may be detained there, the moment the wind be comes fair; and others are to follow iotoediately. It is indeed stated, on pretty good authority, that Mi nisters are in possession of very unpleasant accounts from Spain ; and od that Oceount are- hastening to afford every succour to Lord WELLINGTON, who is, by the last accounts, left in a very critical situation, with three large French armies menacing his commu nications, and threatening to interrupt his operations. Barges is stated to have been abandoned by the Al lies,who have, ere this, had mother severe brush with the enemy, with such fearful odds ; we confess we tremble for the result. A convoy for Bermuda and the adjacent Islands is how assembling at Spithead, and will sail in a few days, under the protection of a man of war. The Doris sailed last night from the Downs, with a convoy for Portsmouth. We are informed that the following Gentlemen have been appointed American Commissioners for the care of rrrperty captured under the flag of the States, prior to the commencement of the war the Republic :—BEESTON LONG, Esq.; As- DREW WEDDERsuas, Esq.; Row, Esq.; HasicocK, Esq.; and Dr. BoaxAnsr. expected that Mr. ABBOT will be in the forth coming hatch of Peers, and that Lord SIOMOUTII'S friend, Mr. B4IIItIRST, is to be proposed as the New Speaker. Loul *;IDMOUTH'S friends say, that whe ther Government has, upon the whole, gained or lost by the returns, his party at least is increased by the I addition of four or five votes, which have been gained by opposing person* attached to Govern ment, though not personally to the Home Secretary of State. A report has been in circulation, that Commodore Ronoxas is taken by one of the ships of war attached to the squadron which lately sailed under Sir J. B. WARREN. The matter has been thus explained to us. A trading vessel in the American service, named the Commodore Rodgers, has been captured, and this circumstance, by a very easy mistake, has given oc. casion to the rumour. We do• not vouch for the correctness of this representation. Two Cartels have been permitted, to come from Morlaix, notwithstanding the temporary embargo imposed on vessels in French ports within the range of the Channel. We are now told that the cause of theeenunotion in Paris, is the unprecedented seve rity with which the Conscription Law has been car ried lots effect. This strong impulse of discontent is wet likely to be moderated, as the same law con. dunes to be executed, notwithstanding the insurrec. dee, with unabated obderacy, both in the capital and in the provisoes of the empire. Nothing has yet transpired as to the proceedings against the in ,sergents. - - By an Officer lately returned from Flushing, we are informed that the fleet consists of 21 ships of the f Una, besides frigates and sloops, and is manned with one.tbird French, one-third Dutch, and one-third Dania, who by no means agree together. A boat with • Dutch quarter-muter (formerly muter of a I lmerchant ship) and 18 men, were lately picked up is the North Sea, who had escaped from the Chat hens, 3.decker. They say the Dutch are determined aoll to fight against the English, and take every op portunity of deserting. We understand that Mr. BROOKE, the Chief Clerk of the Alien branch of Lord Sown:nes Office, ar rived at the New Ship Inn, Brighton, on Wednesday evening, attended by a 'Messenger ; that an active inquiry was immediately set on foot, and several fo reigners were called before that Gentleman for exa mination, though at a late hour. Three of the prin cipal performers belonging to the Opera, had been residing at Brighton for some time without the sanc tion of Government, but they had quitted it about a week since. Mr. &moat was in private confer ence with the Magistrates, the next morning, at the Hall, for a considerable time. The &rag. extra ship, from Bengal, arrived off Portsmouth the 4th inst. in company with the Ba rone country ship, and were standing for the Downs. Sailed from Bengal 21st June ; arrived at Madras 7th July, and sailed from thence 13th July ; arrived at St. Helena 12th September, and sailed from thence 14th, in company with the oountry ship Barents ) which sailed from Bengal about 'ix weeks before the Daring, and arrived at St. Helena about ten days' before that ship. We are requested to dontradict the statement in- sertad in our Paper of yesterday, in the account of' the Coroner's Inquest, which sat OD the body of Greenwood, a tailor, at the Marquis of Granby, Villiers-street, in which it is said that the Corporal (Jenkins), who locked the deceased in the garret, was in the East India Company's service, such sot being the fact, as hi belongs to one Qf the regiments el the line. THE ARMY. , • —410.-. ~ Copy of a letter addressed by his Royal Highness the COmmander in Chief to General the Earl of Chat ham, K. G. cr General Officer commanding in the Eastern District, dated lcnrse Goads. MY . Lean,—Having laid before the Prince Regent' the proceedings of a General Court-Martial, held at Chelmsford' on the 18th October, 1811, and con tinued by adjournments to the 15th of November fol lowing, for the trial of Captain John Ford, of the First Royal Surrey Regiment of Militia, who was arraigned under the ander-mentioned charge, viz.:— " For having during the whole, or a great part, of theperiod between the Ist day orjamtarv, and the Itab of Sephiasher.lllll, neglected to pay hi s company liimself, in obedieporto his 144es ty s orders ;and for having allowed the wife,nr the reputed wife of Serjeoet.Majoi Allingham, to pay the men of his company, and provide them with necessaries, by which means thacomforts and interests of the soldiers were not attended to, the and charg ed more than they . ought to have Been for necessaries, and sub jected es various i mpositions; such conduct heirg higtdy detri mental to his Majest)'s service, and to the prejudice of good order and military discipline." Upon which charge the Court came to the follow ing decision : " The Court are of opinion, that the Prisoner, Captain John Ford, is guilty of the charge preferred against Mm, in breach of the Articles of War ; but taking into their roost serious consideration all the circumstances ,I, , tailed in evidence and the very high and honourable ,:haracter given him by his Colonel and other Officer:, do sentence hint to be reprimand. ed, in such a men:ler as his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of his Ma jesty, be pleased to direct ; and farther, to be suspended may from rank and pay for the space of one calendar month." I am to acquaint your Lordship, that under all the circumstances of the case, his Royal Highness was pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Ma jesty, to approve the finding of guilty, and to con. firm so much of the sentence of the Court as ad ; jadges the Prisoner Captain Ford, to be repri ' mended and suspended for one month, from rank and pay. I am, at the same time, to acquaint your Lord ship, that upon a careful consideration of the whole evidence, as detailed on the face of the proceedings, 'the guilt of the Prisoner, as found by the Court, appeared to the Blimp Regent to hare been so fully lestablished as to have demanded a sentence more ade quate to the nature of an offence, ievolting the first I and most important duties of every officer in the ser fvice, of the rank of Captain Ford ; and as no evi. deuce to general good character can in propriety be I n:iered in extenuation of such dereliction of duty to the country. and to the service in particular, as ap pears err have attended the guilt of the Prisoner, whose adn ission of error In not paying his own coin patty, contrary to the standing orders of the army, by which a aystem of gross imposition was admitted on the part of Mrs. Allingham, to whom that duty is proved to have been most improperly entrusted, would appear of itself to have been sufficient to point nut to the Court, the ill-judged application of lenity to the nature of the case brought under their investi gation. • aatton. . . Under these circumstances, the Prince Regent coo sitieted '.: to be due to the disciplituotOliara.mMt in terests of the service, that the expression of lemoyal I Highness's marked displeasure should be conveyed I to the o ffi cers of the Court Martial for this very in sufficient sentence, upon their own finding of guilt I against the prisoner. I am further commanded to order, that until a ge- I neral investigation shall be instituted into the system I of a corps, under which such practices could be to lerated as those which appear on the face of the pro. cetdings, Captain Ford shall be prohibitgd from joining or doing duty with the First Royal Surrey Re , i giment of Militia. • l Your Lordship will acquaint me with the day upon 1 which the sentence is made known to the prisoner, I as from that day the suspension from rank and pay will take effect. I am, &c. (Signed) FREDERICK, Commander iii Chief, The Public Funds rose yesterday morning, princi pally from an accidental cause. Besides the 140,0001. as usual bought up by the Commissioners, an addi tional sum of 150,0301. was invested for Queen Anne's Bounty. The Right Hon. OrAlm Lotto, Joint Paymaster- General of the Forces, has appointed ItiellAßD NIATI, FAq. of Lincoln's Ina, to be his Deputy. A number of persons in the naval service of his MAJZSTY are not well aware, whether British sub jects eon be naturalized in America, from the year 1733 antil the period of their commencing war against us. A youth of respectable connections, Clerk to a wholesale house, in the neighbourhood of Ilolborn, abseseded a few days since with 30001. which loss falls ow his sureties, three in number. The Court of Exchequer has been furnished with a new clock, which makes a handsome appearance. Yesterday Colonel CONOREVE introduced at the Admiralty a gun, upon a new construction, :i 91- pounder, which was inspected by all the Lords of the Adutitelty, end highly approved of. The jLARD MAYOR. elect intends to bestow a good sdeal of novelty, as well as splendour, on the proces sten oflifonday next. In addition to some curious snits of - armour from the Tower, he has borrowed ELListow's two valuable nits nibrass and steel.— Those who ride in the Armour are to be preceded by Heralds, Banners, Trumpets, Esquires, and all "the pomp and circumstance" of chivalry • and they are to be attended by a retinue of armed men, in old English costume, so as to give an idea of the manner in which the Barons of feudal times rode forth with their followert and dependents. On Friday evening, as a Naval Officer was re turning from dining with a party of friends at Char ing-cross, he was stopped at the corner of Neweas tle-street, by three well-dressed men ; one of whom seized the gold chain of his watch, and gave it a pull; but the chain being pissed through a button hole, the attempt failed. The Officer then disen gaged himself from the ruffians, and gave one of them a severe blow with his left hand, which the fel low attempting to return,the Officer received his blow on the point of a dirk, which passed completely be tween the bones of the fore arm. His associates im mediately fled, and the man who was thus secured begging for nrcey, waa suffered to escape. • A PATRIOTI.; EFFUSION 0$ cEHIRING THE SUCEIIIMUL CINDIDATES WRITTEN BY A YOUNG LALIY, A deathly Odom and piece! dhattay, H'ettiomi the savage triumph Of this day* ; Fatal 16 lAvetpOof =her credit dead, Her honour tarnished, mid het tonsfiseke fled ! lola tholejoyelmakeett whicb relit the air, When 'tacos Erg his baste victtitidus chair; The reason', clear : each basest tette' fade, Theo pleated deathless honour on his name. Not so these libeling"; wars hate stricken low, Who measly hdst the Mood t h at deals the bibs,; A guilty thainaiteespreads each servile face, . That sold their freedom, sad eataird disgteen. Yet some ezerms for three poor I'd 'hew, Want's weave hand had fili'd their Warts with wet , Ap, roaebing whiter they Ronsass *kit dread, And barter'd honour fur immediate bread. tio, they, ye creatures of corruption's throne, Upheld by wild unfeeling pow'r alone I And, Mashie members, who first promis'd aid In virtue's cause—yet virtue you betrafd ! BROUCIWAM'S traocendant talents blaaeafar, His motto " Peace"—bts dote tation " War I" Profaned his wisdom, his acquirements great, He form'd the *blest pillar Of our State. Tho' lust his cause, his mind soperiorro,:e. His magnanimity unnerv'd his f,.es : His pow'rful eloquence charm'd ev'ry ear; Silent they heard, then shed the heartfelt tear. 1113 gentle .soal would spare the rankling dart, From shedding blood from any human heart. His meow' eye explores each humble cot, Whose portion's fame—grief their da'!y lot. He'd break the chains that vile oppressions give; And bid owl ftuaislisi soil in plety live. ill. E. Iron bridge-street, Liverpo6l, • 17t6 Oct. when the weather was most tenipastanes, and the rain descended in torrents. NAVAL INTEL LIU ENCE. PORTSMOUTU, Nov. 6: Arrived his Majesty's ships Vidor", Zenobia, Daphne, Ind,fatigabk, and Tweed; also several Merchantmen, whose onmes We cannot learn. Sailed his Majesty's ship Nemesis, for Corunna ; Fervent, with a convoy, for the Downs ; and the Stork sloop of war, with a convoy for Cork. The following convoy still remains at Spithead : His Majesty's ship Java, for the Cape of Good Hope; Crocodile, for Gibraltar and the Mediterra= ueau ; Niemen, for Lisbon, &c. ; Coquette, for the West Indies ; Admits, Tor North America ; Ra coon, for the.figasils and South America ; and the Minerva, for ilermucit and the Bahama Islands. FALototrtn, Nov. 4.—Arrired the Lord Keith transport, Captain Hill, from Plymouth, hound to Lisbon ; and his Majesty's schooner Roj4d, from ditto. Sailed the Duke of Montrose packet for Coronna Marlborough ditto ; Queen Charlotte ditto, for Lisbon ; Carteret ditto, for Cadir ; Princess Mary ditto s for Gibraltai and Malta; Lord Chesterfield lays * _for,l Welsinghwn ditto, for Barba' doets. Thtt Scylla and Seatlamer sloops of war, with their Convoys, still remain, but they ail! ,no doubt sail to-morrow morning should the wind continue. SCILLY,. Nov. 3.—Came in the day before yester day his Majesty's ships Fothowtd and Helicon, front a cruise.—Yesterday a large schooner privateer hove in sight to the S. W. of the Island ; the Foxhound and Helicon instantly got under weigh, and are now in chime of her, but the wind is light, and we fexr the enemy will escape. PLYMOUTH, Nov. s.—Arrived the Spanish lugger El George, from Gijon, with nuts, for London. Sailed, the Royne of 98, Tigre 80, and Scerlin; Castle, 74, for off Brest; Phew frigate, pith a neW ship the Coventry, under convoy, for Portsmouth. DEAL, Nov. 6.—Arrived his Majeqty' ship In .on. i slant, Commodore Owen, from off Flushing; Barin: and Rarrosa East Indiamen, from India, Tart from Portsmouth, and remain with his Majesty's ships, victuallers, and transports. _ _ Arrived the Catharine and Caroline, Fishman, front Malaga, and sailed for the River. Came down from the River, the Peter, Watson, for the Riledla; and the Fortune, Walker, for Ne* South Wale.. Hanwros, Nov. 6.—The number of passengers en board the sari of Leicester paeket, Capt. Ham. mead, which wired yesterday, after &abort passage from Gottenlihrgh, is twenty. They state that the Russian affairs are, generally speaking, going on well. Wittgenstein has had another successful bat. tie, bet is represented as bating lost, in his eottli nued actions, since the commencement of the cant. paign, upwards of 17,000 men, which is more than the total amount of his reinforcements ; and es Ou. dinot and Macdonald are constantly receiving an ace cession of strength, it is much feared they may tilde mately succeed : Wittgenstein has been hitherto the saviour of St. Petersburgh. A sensible in. formant, who very lately left Riga, states his positite conviction , that should the French suffer themselves to be wintered at Moscow, they must be straitened and cut off in detail; that they will be in capacitated from attempting any thing as an army its the spring ; but adds, that Bonaparte, being aware of this, it is thought he will make a dash at SLY*. tersburgh before the snow falls, and although the progress of the enemy may be retarded between Twer and that capithf, by the blowing up of the numerous wooden brides and aqueducts ; yet it is appreaend ed (which God avert) that they may possihly reach Petersburgh ; and that then the ILissitnis, like tire Spthuiards, will have nothing. but their c on sta n cy left, to enable then( to drive the ruthless iovaeer from their soil, a *ask all the world acknowledges they are better calculated for than any other tation under the sun. The'Lard Msyor's Bulls are to cease with the present gay Magi,trate.• fa future those amore is are to be styled tie .Laid Miyer's ,; i~ ;: ; T‘ r kr' :1 { f t i~ ~~ 0 ~~ i ,~ s I • •